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Symantec Taps UCSB Student

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Security software vendor Symantec said this week that it has selected three students for a fellowship program, including one UC Santa Barbara graduate student. Cova's area of research focuses on analyzing malicious Web code targeting web browsers. Tags: fellowship security ucsb software symantec virus education.

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Talk of Broadcom Buyout of Symantec Puts Broader IT Focus Into View

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Broadcom is once, twice, three times a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker (well, basically) in the past year if it follows through on its reported talks to acquire Mountain View, CA-based cybersecurity giant Symantec. Though it is one of the largest cybersecurity software providers, Symantec is.

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Signal Sciences Bolsters Sales Team With Two VPs

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Venice, California-based Signal Sciences , a venture-backed firm developing Web application security software, announced this morning that it has named two sales veterans to its team. Gomann was most recently VP of Sales for North America at MobileIron, and also served at Vontu, Symantec, and Corio (acquired by IBM). READ MORE>>.

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TeleSign Names New CEO

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Miles was previously at Symantec, most recently serving as Senior Vice President for Symantec's Norton business, Latin America, Global Strategic Accounts, and IoT, Cloud & SaaS Partnerships. Miles also served at GM and ForgeRock.

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Interview with Frank Sinton, Mefeedia

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We recently ran into Frank Sinton, founder of Burbank-based Mefeedia (www.mefeedia.com), a popular online video search web site. Frank Sinton: Mefeedia is a new way to search and discover new video from all across the web, no matter where it's hosted. Tell me a little bit about what Mefeedia is about? What's your background?

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. We primarily use the telephone security method.

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CrowdStrike Hauls In $200M, Reports Valuation Over $3 Billion

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The Web-based system monitors the laptops, smartphones, and other mobile devices connected to its clients’ networks. CrowdStrike’s Series E financing round was led by General. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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