Trend Micro Deep Security 8.0, a product evolved from the acquisition of Canadian host intrusion-prevention system (HIPS) vendor Third Brigade in April 2009, is the company’s latest revision of its server security platform – comprising antimalware, firewall, IDS/IPS, Web application protection, integrity monitoring and log inspection in one integrated solution. Trend Micro has spent quite a bit of time on its endpoint portfolio and has updated the product with a handful of new capabilities aimed at increasing security for physical, virtual and cloud servers in addition to ensuring that Deep Security meets Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL 4+) certification.

Hewlett-Packard has announced that it has folded its disparate ArcSight, Fortify and TippingPoint product portfolios into a new business unit called HP Enterprise Security Products; it is combining assets from these entities into what it calls the HP Security Intelligence and Risk Management (SIRM) Platform.

Vendors are forever looking for new ways to peddle their wares. Often, a vendor will hitch the company’s product pitch to the latest and most prominent organizational breach exploited by the media, or will craft its messaging toward the latest revision of a particular industry-targeted regulatory standard or best practice. Sometimes, however, the security and compliance concerns held in such high regard by vendors (who happen to have products and services in hand that they feel will solve the world’s problems) fall on the deaf ears of the business decision makers.