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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/13/13 -- Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) unveiled new updates to its Website Security Solutions portfolio with innovative and comprehensive capabilities to meet the increasing security and performance needs for connected businesses. The WSS strategy focuses on protecting companies, meeting compliance requirements, improving performance and reducing infrastructure costs. The end result is to deliver trusted shopping, trusted advertising and trusted applications for businesses and their customers. The company also announced the first available multi-algorithm SSL certificates with new ECC and DSA options. These offerings will help organizations protect their web eco-systems and strengthen the foundation of trust online.
Read more detailed blog post: Algorithm Agility ECC & DSA Blog
"As companies execute their web strategies, they face increased complexities in protecting their business in a world of Internet-connected things," said Fran Rosch, Vice President Identity and Authentication Services, Symantec. "Website Security Solutions can solve their unique challenges with first-to-market solutions, ECC- and DSA-powered certificates, to secure and accelerate their business."
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To stay ahead of new and sophisticated cyber threats, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommends all websites to migrate from RSA 1024-bit to 2048-bit certificates by January 1, 2014. Symantec began transitioning customers to its RSA 2048-bit SSL certificates last year. With today's announcement, the company broadens its SSL portfolio with new security algorithms to address this requirement with increased protection and performance.
ECC Algorithms Faster and Stronger
Symantec is the first CA to offer commercially available SSL certificates using Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA). ECC is currently scheduled to be available in Symantec Managed PKI for SSL first half of 2013. Based on internal testing(1), ECC advancements deliver the following advantages:
- Greater security as Symantec ECC will be 10,000 times harder to break than an RSA 2048-bit key based on industry computation methods. Symantec 256-bit ECC certificates offer the equivalent security of a 3072-bit RSA certificate.
- Improved server performance during peak loads with the ability to process more requests per second with lower CPU utilization, which becomes more important as mobile and tablet adoption place increasing demands on web infrastructure.
- Improved server-to-desktop performance and response time. Internal testing showed a server with an RSA certificate handled 450 requests per second with an average response time of 150 milliseconds to the desktop clients. The server with an ECC certificate under the same conditions netted an average response of just 75 milliseconds.
ECC delivers higher scalability to handle the demands of online interactions across billions of connected endpoints, enabling organizations to make greater gains in their online information sharing, cloud services and global ecommerce initiatives. For end users, improved computational performance and enhanced infrastructure utilization increase their overall productivity for a more favorable experience.
Industry-leading Companies Partner with Symantec to Accelerate ECC Adoption
Symantec has partnered with industry-leading web hosting companies, service providers and browsers to integrate ECC into their IT environments, including Akamai, Citrix, F5, Google, HID Global, Juniper Networks, Opera and Red Hat.
"The future is going to necessitate increasingly higher security cryptography and Akamai sees ECC as a technology that will allow cloud platforms to scale to meet those security demands without the crippling complexity of today's common algorithms," explained Stephen Ludin, chief architect, Akamai Technologies. "It is a significant step forward to better protect our data online in this hyper-connected world. As the Certificate Authority ecosystem for ECC gets ready, we will be building support into the Akamai Intelligent Platform."
"Juniper's SSL VPN solution, #1 in the world market, supports both ECC and DSA algorithms for added security and flexibility. The Junos Pulse SSL VPN client and gateway software are both FIPS compliant," said Michael Callahan, VP of product marketing, Juniper Networks. "We are fully committed to and continue to invest in standards-based security solutions, including the strictest of NIST Suite B standards for our customers, across federal, enterprise and service provider markets."
"F5 helps customers seamlessly combine industry-leading traffic management with security and access solutions, including VPN and SSL encryption capabilities," said Jason Needham, VP of Product Management and Product Marketing, F5 Networks. "One of the primary goals is to give organizations more choice and flexibility in deploying technologies to suit their business needs. F5 is proud to team up with leaders like Symantec to help enterprises and service providers enhance web and mobile security while scaling to better support cloud and BYOD initiatives."
DSA Algorithm Meets U. S. Government Security Requirements
Symantec adds another algorithm to its portfolio by introducing Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA), an additional 2048-bit encryption technology, which is now available in Symantec Managed PKI for SSL solution. DSA delivers the high security and performance to comply with U.S. government standards and allow market access. ECC and DSA are approved by the U.S. government and endorsed by the National Security Agency to meet their protection and compliance requirements.
Recover Costs and Eliminate Expensive Downtime with Powerful New SSL Management Services
The difficulties and complexities, in tracking SSL certificates and staying compliant, increase in tandem with the diversity of networks in large enterprises. A recent Symantec SSL global customer survey(2) of companies using more than 2,000 SSL certificates, reported an average loss of $222,000 last year due to unexpected certificate expiration, rogue certificates, misconfigured certificates, and in some instances lost millions of dollars due to downtime of critical business systems.
Symantec updates its Certificate Intelligence Center cloud service with new management and automation capabilities to manage the certificate lifecycle, from installations, renewals and upgrades to revocation. Other key features include a comprehensive view of a customer's entire SSL portfolio with integrated monitoring, reporting and rating functions. Automation capability is currently scheduled to be available first half of 2013.
Safe Delivery of Trusted Applications
Symantec Secure App Service delivers an industry first in offering a hosted code-signing service for companies and app stores to secure their third-party or company-owned applications. This new cloud-based service assures users the application they are using is trusted and authenticated and has not been maliciously tampered with. For the app developer, the Secure App Service provides full audit and reporting capabilities to track activity for better control and protection. Available today with a SOAP API for integration within the enterprise environment, Secure App Service is scheduled to be available this summer with a full management GUI.
Website Security Solutions Tackle Increased Malvertising Attacks
The increase in malvertisements or malicious ads threatens online businesses and ad networks serving up online ads. According to a recent survey of ad publishers(3), more than 50 percent have experienced at least one malvertising incident in the last twelve months and about 90 percent rate malvertising protection as very important.
Symantec's AdVantage is the company's first advertising and media service to protect web businesses and brand reputations. The secure cloud-based service delivers real-time monitoring, notification and detailed forensics of malvertisement incidents. Ad networks and publishers get immediate insights through visual tracing and comprehensive incident reporting to quickly remediate issues and reduce risk in display advertising.
Partner Quotes on ECC Adoption
"Citrix recognizes that ECC encryption represents the future of SSL encryption," said Steve Shah, Sr. Director, Citrix. "This shift in the cryptographic infrastructure is clearly a next generation approach to the security ecosystem, allowing for better scalability in cloud computing and the supporting infrastructure. Once the certification authority infrastructure is in place, the trend will be clear to follow for networking product groups to make remote datacenters more accessible quickly, even allowing for increasing key sizes and increasing security needs."
"We believe in constantly furthering web security, which is why Chrome supports Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) on all modern operating systems," said Adam Langley, software engineer at Google.
"HID Global specializes in security access solutions for the cloud, data and the door, with a comprehensive portfolio incorporating both physical and logical access solutions," said Julian Lovelock, VP of Product Marketing at HID Global. "We're very supportive of the new DSA and ECC algorithm options emerging in the marketplace, and we strongly feel that where the NIST Suite B has drawn up the future of security algorithms, the industry will follow."
"At Opera we are committed to both high quality and security, and we welcome the adoption of new and improved security standards on the web. Elliptic Curve Cryptography provides significant improvements over earlier algorithm standards, and we are delighted to see Symantec support it. Opera's Presto engine added support for ECC in version 395." Source: Security Manager at Opera
"Red Hat and Symantec have long collaborated to bring compelling, secure solutions to our customers," said Bryan Che, Sr. Director Product Management, Red Hat Cloud Business Unit. "We continue to be interested in providing the advantages of increased security and computational efficiency that elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) offers for key management and digital signature, and have been an active participant with Symantec in Project Beacon. Currently, our Red Hat Certificate System supports ECC public-key cryptographic systems and continues to enhance its web browser and operating system ECC support."
AdVantage Customer Quote
"As a leading digital media network in South East Asia, our business depends on protecting our customers, and network of over 10,000 websites, from increasing threats and malvertisements," said Eng Tat, Head of Technology Development, Innity. "Symantec AdVantage provides critical security against the malicious advertisements that can ruin display advertising, damage brand reputation and ultimately, hurt eCommerce businesses."
- Website Security Solutions and Algorithm Agility Press Kit
- SlideShare Presentation: Website Security Solutions
- FAQ: ECC and DSA Certificates Website Security Solutions
- Website Security Solutions
- Symantec Managed PKI for SSL
- Data Sheet: Symantec SSL Certification with the ECC Algorithm
- Data Sheet: Symantec SSL Certificates with the DSA Algorithm
- Algorithm Agility with RSA, ECC and DSA White Paper
- Educational Resources: www.staysecureonline.com
- Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center
- Symantec Secure App Service
- Symantec AdVantage
- Website Security Solutions Partner Program
- SSL Firsts video
- Why Symantec and SSL Overview Video
- Website Security Solutions Blog
- Algorithm Agility ECC & DSA Blog
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- View Symantec's SlideShare Channel
- Subscribe to Symantec News RSS Feed
- Visit Symantec Connect Business Community
About Symantec
Symantec protects the world's information, and is a global leader in security, backup and availability solutions. Our innovative products and services protect people and information in any environment - from the smallest mobile device, to the enterprise data center, to cloud-based systems. Our world-renowned expertise in protecting data, identities and interactions gives our customers confidence in a connected world. More information is available at www.symantec.com or by connecting with Symantec at: go.symantec.com/socialmedia.
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(1) Preliminary testing results conducted by Symantec research and development, January 2013
(2) Symantec SSL Management Global Customer Survey, February 2013
(3) Symantec AdVantage Malvertising Survey, September 2012
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During the storm, the Town of Ocean City will be posting storm related information on various websites, social media outlets, through the GovDelivery system and the television access channel. Citizens are asked to tune into Ocean City's Government Access Channel (4 & 15) for further detailed information or advisories. To subscribe to GovDelivery, visit the "City Wide Alerts" tab on the Town of Ocean City's website at http://oceancitymd.gov.
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PARIS - The Palestinian group Hamas's television channel was taken off the air in Europe less than 24 hours after it was added to a satellite network, industry officials said Friday.Hamas announced on Monday that Europeans would be able to see its Al-Aqsa service via the French firm Eutelsat's satellites.Al-Aqsa is Hamas' official mouthpiece, and its critics say that it has a show in which a man-sized pink rabbit named Assud urged children to embrace martyrdom and threatened to eat Jews ('Jews' is the name Israeli soldiers had used to identify themselves when communicating with Palestinian refugees, many of whom still in Gaza).Alerted by industry sources, the French broadcasting regulator CSA this week wrote to Eutelsat and warned that much of Hamas' programming contravenes laws against inciting hatred and violence, the government body said.A Eutelsat official said the company had never had a contract with Hamas but that it had rented space on one of its satellites to Noorsat, a Bahrein-based provider, which had in turn begun showing Al-Aqsa.Noorsat was warned to respect French law, and the broadcast has halted."Al-Aqsa TV is notorious for its incitement to anti-Semitism," the Simon Wiesenthal Centre claimed in a letter to French regulators.The Jewish human rights organisation alleged Al-Aqsa had last week carried a speech by Hamas official Mahmud al-Zahrar "who claimed that the Israeli operation in Gaza justifies Muslims murdering Jewish children worldwide."The group claimed that Arabic-speaking Europeans could "be exposed to Jihadist calls for attacks on their Jewish neighbours and to revulsion for European values of secularism, multiculturalism and tolerance."Critics say pro-Israel groups, which are influential in Europe, often exaggerate or even outright lie about the nature of Hamas discourse.Critics add that Israeli channels also include Islamophophic or racist content, and they frequently justify Israeli terror or killings of Palestinians without being ever cut off the air. In May 2005, France's highest judicial body the Council of State ordered Eutelsat to halt re-broadcasting of the Lebanese Hezbollah's Al-Manar station.However, facts on the ground suggest that Jewish extremism is inciting hatred, leading to more death and destruction. Israeli calls to annihilate all Arabs are not unheard of among top figures and symbols of the Jewish State. Among the many infamous instances, Rabbi Ovadia Yossef, founder of the Shas religious party, had said: "It is forbidden to be merciful to them (the Arabs). You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. May the Holy Name visit retribution on the heads of the Arabs and cause their seed to be lost."Recently, commenting on the war on Gaza, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu said that all civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam rockets, and thus deserve their punishment. Such views are seen to have led to the slaughtering of Palestinian civilians, where a third of the victims are children. According to Eliyahu's religious ruling, that there was absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during the massive Israeli military offensive on Gaza. However, extreme views do not pass through Hebrew media or Al-Aqsa TV alone. Christian extremists are also playing their part in the media game by justifying Israeli or US war crimes.But as long as double standards prevail, Al-Aqsa TV will continue to be singled out for what it is alleged to have aired.
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Greetings, /c/itizens!Just wanted to go over a couple of guidelines for posting on /c/ if you are new here and a friendly reminder for those who aren't. Try to avoid making single-image requests. Making a single image thread deletes a previous thread from the last page. Please include 4 to 5 similar images in your thread to get it going. Use resources like danbooru, gelbooru or even Google Image Search. Check the catalog to avoid making a duplicate thread. This way, we can share and contribute more images more effectively and efficiently. If bumping a thread, please include a picture instead of just writing 'bump' and please do not necrobump threads that have reached their image limit. This restricts the diversity and natural flow of the board. Threads are meant to come and go and sometimes they are even better the next time around.Finally, as much as /a/ is a discussion board, /c/ is a board for sharing images. Please respect the threads of other users and they will do the same to yours as well!
Previous Thread >>2705044.List of archived threads: http://pastebin.com/TXKE0xAT
>>2712460Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
>>2712464>Ritsu will never cling tightly to your arm during your first dateGod is making fun of us.
>>2712471>you will never live in a cyberpunk future with RitsuReally, it's not that I really want to live that badly in this boring world without her, it's that I don't want to traumatize bystanders if I leap off a highrise.
>>2712473I know that feel bro, I know that feel way too well.
>>2712066>taking care of a sick Ritsu because she used a skirt on winter.>implying it wasn't planned all along so she could take the day off and spend it with anon
Maka Thread #58I got a fever, and the only prescription, is more Maka!Previous Thread >>2681813
flat chest thread!
>>2709625>implying he posts that oftenhttp://desuarchive.org/c/search/text/%22gujs%22/So many flavors, and yet you chose salty.
Is "gujs" kind of a meme on /c/?
I have always been amazed by how many times I've been able to do this, and it gives me a warm feeling in my heart to know that we can yet again celebrate the birthday of our beloved, tea-drinking keyboard princess - Kotobuki Tsumugi!Mark your calendars /c/omrades, because June 2nd is our favorite day of the year! It's usually the time that some of our favorite artists put out some delightful tributes as well - something I think we'd all love to see after a substantial drought of new images.But on a lighter note, let's get the party started early, as we share some of our favorite images and memories from our one and only Mugi Threads!Grab some tea, grab some cake, and stay awhile!Continued from: >>2664404And remember! Our threads will celebrate their fifth birthday in August, so be sure to look forward to that as well!Spread the love!!
>>2711848He found Mugi irl
I hope Chopsticks is okay, I think he just has a lot of work.
Hello darkness my old friend
Hello friends, so sorry for the delay. I had a thirteen hour road trip back home and work the following morning, so I haven't had a free moment to do much of anything.I'm humbled that you guys have kept the thread alive - I will do everything I can to have the new one up tonight.
>>2712547No worries, BACTake your time, we're fine with waiting for you
Endless Chino Edition prev thread >>2667039
A thread devoted to the best grail, magus, and girl and the best servant. We love you Illya.3rei hype editionOld thread >>2651935
Previous thread >>2678542"Come with me!"How much does /c/ like K-On?>K-ON! Music History Box (aka the whole 13 disc soundtrack) + Disc 14 (all Instrumentals) in one rar file.https://mega.nz/#!YtUBECxT!SlqfUBQJmEcGIEq1PcFfi2RH1CQIhLE-wZLvBXO8PMg
Asia EditionPrevious Thread: >>2652969
Which kan would you call?Previous thread>>2692441
>>2711513got a translated version without the ifunny shit?
This is Hyuuga. Please love her.
>>2712174nah mate, maybe below me.
This is Akashi. Please love her.
Thread 157 is online! Thread Archive: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0buMbOlom0fdDZubEpXRlJUUm8&usp=sharingThread 156: >>2705592
Nuggets & Umaru~n
Change the color of this one is a difficult work for me I have to work on my editing skill for Umaru
>>2712528Lazy slug nug
Cirno thread?Cirno thread.
Bunny Cirno!
Hola bakas!
Let's celebrate the recent news with cute witches
>>2711759I would if I had more
>>2709457For you
>o<' daisuki Min.
Cristian no quiere que me acerque a Min por que trajo a su burro D: