Ryan Sherstobitoff
Chief Corporate Evangelist
Panda Security USA


Mr. Peter Evans
Director
IBM Internet Security Systems
www.IBM.com
NYSE: IBM


Mr. Peter L. Murdoch
President and CEO
Sentry Technology Corporation

 
















 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Friends of SecurityStockWatch.com,

“Currently the evolving threat landscape and the current protection model that is being used is not working as well as it should be. For example the traditional anti-malware model works off of the principle of analyzing malicious code manually and providing vaccines in the form of a signature file. However; because there is such an overwhelming rate of new threats (4000 new threats per day), a new approach must be aken to address this. Panda Security solutions, especially the technologies that take advantage of Collective Intelligence will allow Panda Security to address the more modern and sophisticated approach cyber-criminals are taking today.” These are among the comments and observations by Mr. Ryan Sherstobitoff, Chief Corporate Evangelist, Panda Security USA. The complete interview is available here: www.securitystockwatch.com/Interviews/in_Boardroom_Panda_Security.html.

And, Mr. Peter Evans, Vice President, Business Line Management, IBM Internet Security Systems, (NYSE: IBM) told us, “Security is broken, and the marketplace is crying out for a new approach to address a problem that is growing in both complexity and risk annually. Traditionally, the industry’s approach to security has been characterized by stand-alone security products designed to address the latest security concern. For viruses, the industry delivered anti-virus; for spyware the industry delivered anti-spyware, and so on. As a result, the average enterprise owns stand-alone security solutions from 32 different vendors. These solutions are not interlinked, do not scale, and do not adapt to the new forms of online threats or dynamic changes to the business environment. What we are seeing consequently is a situation where the spending on labor to manage security complexity is growing at three times the rate of the growth of the security budgets. Unfortunately, despite all this investment, in many cases the enterprises are no more secure than they were five or more years ago.” Please see the entire interview here: www.securitystockwatch.com/Interviews/in_Boardroom_IBM4.html.

Sentry Technology (OTC Bulletin Board: SKVY.OB) recently reported financial results for the Company's third quarter ended September 30, 2007. Revenues increased by 48% to $4,061,000, compared to revenues of $2,743,000 reported in the third quarter of the prior year. "We are very pleased with the third quarter revenue increase," said Peter L. Murdoch, President and CEO of Sentry Technology Corporation. "Except for the foreign exchange adjustment Sentry achieved a net profit. This result is a substantial improvement over previous periods. We anticipate that this is the beginning of a trend that will continue in the fourth quarter and throughout 2008." See our exclusive interview with Peter Murdoch here: www.securitystockwatch.com/Interviews/in_Boardroom_SKVY.html.

100 Index Up Slightly in December

The SSW 100 Index was slightly up, gaining three-tenths of a point (0.3%) in a month that saw all of the majors down by less than a full percent. It moved from 239 to 240. Of the majors, the NASDAQ experienced the slightest drop, which was 0.3% while moving from 2,661 to 2.652 (an unchanged 199 on a comparable index basis). The Dow was off 0.8% dropping from 13,372 to 13,255 (160 to 159 on a comparable index basis), while the S&P 500 experienced the largest loss of 0.9% moving from 1.481 to 1.468 (168 to 167 on a comparable index basis).

Decliners led gainers by a 3 to 2 margin, 58 down to 39 up with three even. In the battle that ended with the index almost even, an indication of the opposing pressures where that twelve stocks posted better than 10% gains while a similar eleven were off by more than 10%. Out of the twelve winners there were seven that jumped more than 20%. The losers also had major variants with five stocks off by more than 15%.

The gainers up by more than 20% were:

    Bruker BioSciences Corp. (BRKR) up 43% to $13.30
    Evergreen Solar Inc. (ESLR) up 31% to $17.27
    Tumbleweed Communications Corp. (TMWD) up 28% to $1.68
    Analogic Corporation (ALOG) up 26% to $67.72
    Napco Security Systems Inc. (NSSC) up 24% to $6.25
    Cepheid (CPHD) up 22% to $26.35
    CyberSource Corp. (CYBS) up 22% to $17.77

Declining by more than 15% were:

    Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (SWHC) down 39% to $6.10
    Applied Digital Solutions Inc. (DIGA) down 37% to $0.42
    Magal Security Systems Ltd. (MAGS) down 18% to $6.33
    Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (HEPH) down 17% to $1.57
    ACI Worldwide, Inc. (ACIW) down 17% to $19.04

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