Nclose is proud to announce that it has won this years VeloCITI competition. VeloCITI is a program where Western Cape based IT companies are mentored on aspects of running a successful business. Out of the 15 participants Nclose was the winner based on business growth and various other aspects. The VeloCITI program assisted Nclose with the outstanding success that has been achieved this year.

David Murry and Tony Malam from CVP, who mentored Nclose on all the aspects of running a successful business have many years experience working along side successful South African based IT companies.

We are proud to announce that Gartner has released the latest version of the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection, which positions Utimaco in the Leaders Quadrant for the fourth year in a row. According to Gartner, "Leaders have products that work well for Gartner clients in small and large deployments. They have long-term road maps that follow and/or influence Gartner's vision of the developing needs of buyers in the market. Leaders make their competitors' sales staffs nervous and force competitors' technical staffs to follow their lead. Their MDP products are well-known to clients, and they encounter little resistance in selling their products."   For more information on Mobile Data Protection and other Utimaco solutions Contact Us    

The Kaspersky Lab breakfast was a great success and we had a great attendance rate. Butha Van Der Merwe from Waltons was the lucky winner of the Ipod Nano for the lucky draw.

There were some requests for the presentation slides. These are available for download in pdf format by clicking on the links below:

• "Anti-Virus is a Commodity"
• "Kaspersky"

Gartner recently released the 2008 Magic Quadrant results for content monitoring and filtering and Data Loss Prevention. Websense are noted as leaders based on their ability to execute and their completeness of vision.

This report is a valuable research tool for companies with comprehensive data protection requirements who are considering data leak prevention solutions. Download the full report for more details.

Websenes Security Labs have released their latest report on Internet Security. Whats interesting in the report is that 75 percent of malicious sites are from legitimate, trusted sources with "good" reputation scores. Websense Security Labs issued the State of Internet Security research and trends report for the first half of 2008.

To read this informative report download the pdf file.