Archive for January, 2010

Announcing the McAfee Data Protection Suite for Rights Management

Posted on January 28, 2010 by jcarione | Comments (0)

Today McAfee announced the availability of a new joint offering with Adobe called the McAfee Data Protection Suite for Rights Management. This joint solution combines the classification capabilities from McAfee’s Host Data Loss Prevention (DLP) product with persistent protection from LiveCycle Rights Management ES. The joint value proposition allows customers to discover and classify sensitive information on laptops or desktops and automatically and proactively protect it from a single, uniform policy. This will significantly reduce the cost, complexity, and risk associated with sensitive IP and compliance information located on endpoints throughout the enterprise.

This is the result of a global alliance partnership between Adobe and McAfee, previously announced September 28, 2009 aimed at offering more comprehensive security to our Enterprise customers.

Learn more about the new offering available now from McAfee here. Please contact your local McAfee or Adobe sales representative for more in depth information or to schedule a demo of the solution.

News from the Adobe Security Partner Community: 4Point Announces New Quick Start e-Invoicing Solution

Posted on January 19, 2010 by John B Harris | Comments (0)

Announced last week, and built using Adobe LiveCycle ES, Adobe Security Partner 4Point’s QuickStart e-invoicing solution is designed to offer customers a faster path to cost reduction and improved customer satisfaction by providing an out-of-the-box approach to implementing secure electronic invoicing and eliminating paper.

4Point’s solution leverages LiveCycle ES to provide a way for customers to quickly stand-up an e-invoicing solution with a limited scope that can generate a quick ROI and later serve as a foundation for a broader enterprise-wide capability.

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Update on reported attacks

Posted on January 16, 2010 by John Landwehr | Comments (0)

Here are some links to the latest statements by Adobe, McAfee, and iDefense concerning reports of cyberattacks this past week. Additional information will be available on these links should new information become available.

Adobe Secure Software Engineering (ASSET)

McAfee Security Insights Blog

Statement by iDefense

Adobe Secured Customer Showcase: Berliner Sparkasse

Posted on January 15, 2010 by John B Harris | Comments (0)

One of Germany’s most trusted savings banks, Berliner Sparkasse, recently rolled out a variety of digital workflow improvements intended to facilitate more efficient customer interaction with a combination of LiveCycle ES components and Adobe Security Partner SoftPRO‘s electronic signature products.

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PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures (PAdES): Your Questions Answered…

Posted on January 15, 2010 by John B Harris | Comments (0)

By now, you’ve surely heard the news about the new European standard for PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures (PAdES) which formalizes how digital signatures in PDF can comply with the European requirements for electronic signatures.

However, there are five parts to the standard, and they all deal with terminology that may not be familiar. Don’t worry….you’re not alone.  A new website has been set up to answer frequently asked questions on PAdES.

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Critical Acrobat and Reader Updates Available

Posted on January 12, 2010 by John Landwehr | Comments (0)

Adobe’s Winter quarterly release of Acrobat and Reader is now available for version 8 and 9 customers…

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Upcoming event will debate legal significance of digital signatures and electronic signatures

Posted on January 11, 2010 by John B Harris | Comments (0)

We’ve discussed the legal validity of electronic signatures and digital signatures in this blog in the past.  While a concurrence of laws worldwide point to general acceptance of electronic signatures as legally binding, there are a number of nuances that need to be taken into account when dealing with the identity and evidentiary elements of those electronic signatures, especially as it relates to how they’ll stand up longer term in court.

An event to be
held on March 1, the first day of the RSA 2010 Conference, will be dedicated to these questions. 

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