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Symantec Defends Small Businesses
Symantec announced its continued commitment to defending small businesses from Internet threats and security risks...
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Date: 2005-04-28

Symantec CTO To Talk at TiECON East Conference
Symantec announced that Rob Clyde, Symantec's CTO, will participate in a panel discussion at the 2005 TiECON East conference.
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Date: 2005-04-28

Microsoft’s Palladium Features Reduced For Launch
Microsoft announced at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference that it would offer a scaled down version of its anticipated Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) in time for Longhorn's release in 2006.
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Date: 2005-04-28

State Department Keeps Report Under Wraps
On the same day that the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) released a report indicating that the number of terrorist attacks tripled in 2004, the US Dept. of State reported that global terrorism remained a "significant threat." .
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Date: 2005-04-28

Reflex Security Announced Availability of Reflex IPS 25
Reflex Security announced the availability of the Reflex IPS 25, extending the Reflex IPS suite of network intrusion prevention solutions to branch offices.
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Date: 2005-04-27

Checkpoint Acquires Asset Protection Solutions from Security Source
Checkpoint Systems has expanded its automated data collection capabilities with the acquisition of three asset protection solutions from Security Source.
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Date: 2005-04-27

Sunbelt Antispyware Product Recieves Laptop Magazine Editor's Choice
Sunbelt Software's antispyware product, CounterSpy, has received the Laptop Magazine Editors' Choice in the magazine's May issue.
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Date: 2005-04-27

Web Server Cracks And Defacements Increase
Crackers increasingly focus on web servers, and sites belonging to govenments or the military were not immune.
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Date: 2005-04-26

Los Alamos Hacker Sentenced
US District Court sentences Jerome Heckenkamp to eight months in prison and orders restitution paid to firms he compromised.
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Date: 2005-04-26

Juniper To Acquire Peribit and Redline
Juniper Networks has signed definitive agreements to acquire Peribit Networks and Redline Networks.
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Date: 2005-04-26

SupportSoft Signs OEM Agreement With Shavlik
SupportSoft announced that it has signed an OEM agreement with Shavlik Technologies.
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Date: 2005-04-25

Security Measures VS. Civil Liberties
Congress continues debating the merits and flaws of the USA Patriot Act as the law is due to expire this year. Recently on NPR, a story was done discussing some aspects of the Patriot Act, namely, the ability of law enforcement to access voice mails from phone companies and others.
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Date: 2005-04-25

HP Meets Microsoft Security Requirements
HP introduced the first business desktop system to meet future Microsoft security requirements and support for Microsoft Windows x64 Editions across platforms for business users.
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Date: 2005-04-25

Small Business Security from Microsoft and Chamber of Commerce
Microsoft and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this week produced a guide for small business to fight the horrors of the internet including viruses, Spyware, phishing and other possible dangers.
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Date: 2005-04-25

Frozen Computers Embarrassing Trend
Oops. Japanese antivirus company, Trend Micro, released a computer freezing update Friday afternoon for Windows XP Service Pack 2 users.
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Date: 2005-04-25

Forum Systems and Computer Associates Answer XML Risks
Attacks on XML applications are expected to increase, but never fear... Forum Systems and Computer Associates have created a device to protect them.
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Date: 2005-04-23

SEC Declares GVI Security Solutions Registration Statement Effective
GVI Security Solutions announced that a registration statement covering 34,648,410 previously unregistered shares of common stock held by stockholders of the Company...
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Date: 2005-04-23

Check Point Execs Impement Stock Trading Programs
Check Point Software Technologies announced today that two of its executives, Gil Shwed and Marius Nacht, have implemented stock trading programs in accordance with Rule 10b5-1 under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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Date: 2005-04-23

Cisco Vulnerable To ICMP DoS
Remote Denial of Service exploit poses threat to TCP/IP implementations of ICMP on Cisco and other vendor platforms.
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Date: 2005-04-22

P2P Provides Point of Entry for Spammers
You're jamming to the song you just downloaded. You're looking over some files you needed to complete so work. You put up some video of relatives for you mom to get. If you're using peer-to-peer technology, chances are you're getting jammed yourself.
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Date: 2005-04-22

Merchandisers Respond To Recent Data Thefts
High profile thefts from Polo Ralph Lauren and shoe merchant DSW prompt industry to implement better security measures.
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Date: 2005-04-22

Red Hat Reports Firefox Vulnerability
Multiple bugs affecting user security while using the Firefox browser have prompted the release of this update.
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Date: 2005-04-22

Microsoft To Open French Security Research Center
CEO Steve Ballmer to visit Paris next week, and the visit may include the formal announcement of the center.
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Date: 2005-04-22

Adware Adds Up to Cash
Webroot VP for Threat Research Richard Stiennon looked into adware profitability. He found billions of reasons why adware isn't going away.
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Date: 2005-04-22

SafeNet To Exhibit SafeEnterprise at DISA
SafeNet will be exhibiting their comprehensive SafeEnterprise Security Solutions at the upcoming Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Partnership Conference.
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Date: 2005-04-21

CyberGuard Selects DirectView For Video Conferencing Infrastructure
DirectView has been selected by CyberGuard to implement its global video conferencing infrastructure.
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Date: 2005-04-21

Secure Computing Reports 1Q Results
Secure Computing announced first quarter 2005 revenue of $25.6 million. This represents a 21% increase compared to $21.2 million in the same quarter last year, and is unchanged on a percentage basis, compared to revenues of $25.5 million in the prior quarter.
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Date: 2005-04-21

America Online Combats Phishing
AOL has partnered with Cyota to help identify and block access to suspected phishing sites through a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week monitoring process.
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Date: 2005-04-20

Symantec Gets $3.1 Million Judgment in Piracy Case
Symantec has been granted a default judgment of $3.1 million against Sam Jain for selling counterfeit Symantec software and violating Symantec's intellectual property rights.
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Date: 2005-04-20

Network Intelligence To Present at Security Leadership Conference
Network Intelligence announced that Michael Ghelli, director of professional services & education, will present "How to Create a Compliance-Ready Network & Security Infrastructure"...
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Date: 2005-04-20

Ziff Davis CIO Summit To Include Symantec CEO
Ziff Davis Media announced that it will hold its first annual CIO Summit from June 26 to 29, 2005 at the prestigious Inn at Spanish Bay, in Pebble Beach, California.
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Date: 2005-04-19

Guardium Makes Effort to Meet Database Security Demand
Guardium continued to expand its international reseller program in an effort to fulfill growing worldwide demand for its award-winning SQL Guard database security platform.
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Date: 2005-04-19

LaGarde Beefs Up Fraud Prevention
LaGarde announced today the integration of CardinalCommerce's payer authentication services, Cardinal Centinel, into the StoreFront 6 product, enabling greater credit card fraud prevention.
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Date: 2005-04-19

I/A Series Workstations for Windows To Include McAfee VirusScan Enterprise software
The Foxboro Automation unit of Invensys Process System today announces that all new I/A Series Workstations for Windows will come with McAfee VirusScan Enterprise software pre-installed at the factory.
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Date: 2005-04-19

Symantec's New Spyware and Adware Protection Beta
Symantec released the public beta version of its comprehensive, integrated Internet security solution that provides broad protection from spyware and adware to home users.
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Date: 2005-04-18

McAfee Announces Desktop Firewall 8.5
McAfee announced McAfee Desktop Firewall 8.5, an enhanced version of its distributed software firewall for small to large enterprises that need robust protection from today's sophisticated threats and targeted hacker attacks.
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Date: 2005-04-18

ACE USA Launches First Party Network Risk Insurance Product
ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, announced that its ACE USA International & Specialty Group, in conjunction with ACE Professional Risk, has launched a new first party network risk insurance product.
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Date: 2005-04-16

Akonix Raises Threat Level of Kelvir Worm
Akonix Systems' Security Center has received multiple reports from enterprises whose networks have been compromised by the Kelvir worm.
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Date: 2005-04-16

Enterasys Networks To Report Financial Results
Enterasys Networks, the Secure Networks Company, will announce financial results for the first quarter ended April 2, 2005, on Wednesday, April 27, 2005, after the close of the market.
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Date: 2005-04-16

New Mozilla Updates Address Security
To address security vulnerabilities, the Mozilla Foundation has put out new versions of Firefox and the Mozilla suite of programs.
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Date: 2005-04-16

TippingPoint IPSs Protect From DoS Attacks Aimed at Cisco and Juniper
TippingPoint announced its suite of Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) provided preemptive infrastructure protection for numerous Denial of Service (DoS) attacks disclosed Tuesday affecting several products including infrastructure products from Cisco and Juniper.
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Date: 2005-04-15

iMedica Awarded Patent For Data Security System
iMedica was awarded U.S. Patent No. 6,874,085B1 for the data security system used in its PhysicianSuite electronic medical record and the upcoming iMedica Patient Relationship Manager 2005.
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Date: 2005-04-15

Symantec To Webcast Conference Call On Quarterly Earnings
Symantec will webcast its quarterly earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 4, 2005, at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT to discuss the results of its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year 2005, ended April 1, 2005.
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Date: 2005-04-15

Karta To Adopt New Name for Security Training Product
Karta Technologies will be adopting a new name for its web-based security training product.
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Date: 2005-04-14

IMlogic Warns of Reuters Messaging Worm
IMlogic is warning customers that the W32/Kelvir-Re worm is spreading, leveraging Reuters Messaging to distribute malicious messages.
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Date: 2005-04-14

Top Layer Protects Against New Microsoft Vulnerabilities
Top Layer Networks announced that its Attack Mitigator IPS 5500 intrusion prevention system has already provided out-of-the-box protection for almost a year for customers for the top two critical vulnerabilities disclosed yesterday by Microsoft in their vulnerability advisory.
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Date: 2005-04-14

McAfee Announces Protection Against Microsoft Vulnerabilities
McAfee provides system protection for the MS05-016, MS05-017, MS05-018, MS05-019, MS05-020, MS05-021, MS05-022 and MS05-023 vulnerabilities as announced by Microsoft Corporation yesterday.
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Date: 2005-04-13

NetWolves Continues To Expand Into Higher Education
NetWolves has acquired certain assets, including the customers, of Resicom, headquartered in Doylestown, Pa., to significantly increase its customer base and access to students in the higher education market.
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Date: 2005-04-13

WatchGuard Announces Protection Against Microsoft Exchange Vulnerability
WatchGuard Technologies has announced that its Firebox X security appliances provide protection against the latest Microsoft Exchange vulnerability disclosed today.
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Date: 2005-04-13

LexisNexis Completes Extensive Review of Data Search Activity
LexisNexis has completed an extensive review of data search activity at its recently acquired Seisint unit, as well as across its other businesses.
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Date: 2005-04-12

Symantec Highlights Benefits of Its Hosted Mail Security
Symantec announced that it will host a webcast highlighting the benefits of Symantec Hosted Mail Security.
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Date: 2005-04-12

Net Optics Technology Achieves OPSEC Certification
Net Optics announced that its Tap and Regeneration Tap Technology has achieved OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) certification from Check Point Software Technologies.
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Date: 2005-04-12

I.D. Systems Awarded Grant From TSA
I.D. Systems has been awarded a grant from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to integrate RFID-based baggage tracking capability into the company's Wireless Asset Net vehicle security and tracking system.
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Date: 2005-04-11

McAfee Passes 1000 IPS Customer Mark
McAfee has surpassed its 1000th intrusion prevention customer, demonstrating exponential growth for the McAfee IPS solutions and continued market adoption in the area of proactive security solutions.
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Date: 2005-04-11

Symantec CEO To Present at Storage Networking World
Symantec announced that John W. Thompson, chairman and CEO, will deliver an Industry Leader Presentation at Storage Networking World on Wednesday, April 13, 2005, at 10:45 a.m.
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Date: 2005-04-11

McAfee's Foundstone Enterprise 4.0 Well Connected
McAfee's Foundstone Enterprise 4.0 vulnerability management solution has been named as a finalist for CMP Media LLC's Network Computing Well-Connected Awards in the security category.
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Date: 2005-04-09

Tumbleweed Announces 2 Patents for Proofpoint
Tumbleweed Communications announced the licensing of two technology patents to Proofpoint.
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Date: 2005-04-09

Fortinet Awarded in Network Computing Magazine
Fortinet's FortiGate-3600 integrated network security systems have been named a 2005 Well-Connected Award Finalist in the Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) category by CMP Media LLC Network Computing Magazine.
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Date: 2005-04-09

Virus Spreads From Fake Windows Update
There is an e-mail scam going around that appears to be a message from Microsoft warning Windows users of a security update which turns out to be a virus.
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Date: 2005-04-09

Microtech Recieves "Best-of-Breed" Honors
Microtech Information Systems announced yesterday that its team is the recipient of two best-of-breed honors: Best Overall Partner in New York and Best Overall Partner of 2004.
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Date: 2005-04-08

Wireless Security Updates WSC Guard Software
Wireless Security announced the release of an update to its WSC Guard(SM) software.
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Date: 2005-04-08

Preventsys CEO To Discuss Policy Management
Preventsys announced that chief executive officer Tom Rowley will participate in a panel discussion on distributed policy management...
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Date: 2005-04-08

BitDefender Launches ISA Server Antivirus
BitDefender announced today the launch of BitDefender v2 for MS ISA Servers, a full-featured antivirus for Microsoft ISA 2000 and 2004 Servers.
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Date: 2005-04-07

McAfee CEO Recognized As Software CEO of the Year
McAfee announced that the Software Council of Southern California has recognized George Kurtz, senior vice president of risk management, as the Software CEO of the Year...
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Date: 2005-04-07

Invitrogen and Agilent Technologies To Co-Market PathAlert Detection System
Invitrogen and Agilent Technologies announced a two-year agreement to co-market the PathAlert Detection System, a cost-effective screening and confirmatory detection system for infectious agents.
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Date: 2005-04-07

HP Expands Enterprise Software Security
HP announced it is accelerating its pursuit of National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) Common Criteria certification for its operating systems and enterprise management software.
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Date: 2005-04-07

McAfee Ranks At the Top For Intrusion Prevention Market Share
McAfee has reached yet another milestone in IPS by being named the worldwide in-line network intrusion prevention revenue market share leader for all of 2004.
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Date: 2005-04-06

Dyrand Systems Uses SonicWALL For Managed Security Business
Dyrand Systems is building a growing IT and managed security services business, using SonicWALL solutions to secure and remotely manage its clients' networks.
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Date: 2005-04-06

Juniper's IDP Products Receive Daily Signature Updates
Juniper Networks' Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDP) products are the first intrusion and prevention systems (IPS) to receive daily signature updates.
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Date: 2005-04-06

IMlogic Threat Center Issues Threat Report
The IMlogic Threat Center issued its first quarterly report on the rise of IM security threats in 2005 at the InfoSec World Conference & Expo 2005 in Orlando, Fla.
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Date: 2005-04-05

Symantec To Host Spyware Protection Webcast
Symantec announced that it will host a webcast on how to proactively protect against the increasing risk of spyware through robust client protection.
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Date: 2005-04-05

Tiny Releases 64-bit Firewall Beta
Tiny Software released public beta of its Tiny Firewall 64, network and system protection for 64-bit Windows operating systems.
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Date: 2005-04-05

Atempo's New Data Proctectin Solution
Atempo announced the availability of Time Navigator Version 4.0, a data protection solution delivering unified data management across all tiers of storage.
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Date: 2005-04-04

ANB Financial Turns to Enterasys For Security
ANB Financial has deployed Enterasys Secure Networks solutions to ensure information security and protect customer privacy on its highly advanced community banking communications infrastructure.
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Date: 2005-04-04

nCipher Enhances Databae Encryption Solution
nCipher announced that its next-generation database security solution, SecureDB, now provides support for IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server in addition to its previously announced support for Oracle.
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Date: 2005-04-04

Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2003 SP1
Microsoft released to manufacturing Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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Date: 2005-04-02

University in Jeonju, Korea Selects TippingPoint
3Com announced that Jeonju University in Jeonju, Korea has selected TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, to deliver secure networking solutions for its 58 colleges, graduate schools, institutes and laboratories.
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Date: 2005-04-02

Mozilla Foundation Awards Bug Bounties
The Mozilla Foundation demonstrated its commitment to preserving a safe and secure Internet experience by awarding "bug bounties"...
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Date: 2005-04-01

eLinear Wins $500,000 in New Projects
eLinear has won projects for communications infrastructure deployment for Prairie View A&M University, Channelview ISD, Clear Creek ISD, Galena Park ISD and Klein ISD.
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Date: 2005-04-01

WinsorTech Launches New Site
WindsorTech has launched its new Web site to provide an extensive resource for public, as well as private companies, on the increasing regulations relating to data security and compliance.
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Date: 2005-04-01

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