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


Ryan Sherstobitoff
Chief Corporate Evangelist
Panda Security USA


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

 


















 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Friends of SecurityStockWatch.com,

“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.” These are among the comments and observations by Mr. Peter Evans, Vice President, Business Line Management, IBM Internet Security Systems. Please see the entire interview here: www.securitystockwatch.com/Interviews/in_Boardroom_IBM4.html.

And, Mr. Ryan Sherstobitoff, Chief Corporate Evangelist, Panda Security USA told us “ 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 taken 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.” The complete interview is available here: www.securitystockwatch.com/Interviews/in_Boardroom_Panda_Security.html.

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Sentry Technology (OTC Bulletin Board: SKVY.OB) recently announced the successful installation of its OperationalVideo(TM) security and business management solution in a total of 35 store locations for two large national retailers. The total value of systems installed is approximately $2.5 million." See our exclusive interview with Peter Murdoch here: www.securitystockwatch.com/Interviews/in_Boardroom_SKVY.html.

100 Index Tumbles in January

The SW 100 Index tumbled 6.7% from 240 to 224 as 2008 opened with a January that saw dramatic declines in the major indexes. The NASDAQ experienced the most significant decline: down an extraordinary 9.9% from 2,652 to 2,390 (199 to 179 on a comparable index basis). The S&P 500 was close to the SSW 100 Index, dropping 6.1% from 1,468 to 1,379 (167 to 157 on a comparable index basis). Surprisingly the Dow held up best by only being off by 4.6% as it declined from 13,265 to 12,650 (159 to 152 on a comparable index basis).

Decliners overwhelmed gainers by 78 to 22. As bad as the month was nine stocks posted better than 10% gains. However, on the down side an astounding thirty-nine stocks lost more than 10%. Twelve were off by more than 20%.

Up by more than 10% were:

    Applied Digital Solutions Inc. (DIGA) up 55% to $0.65
    AVANT Immunotherapeutics Inc. (AVAN) up 28% to $0.64
    Websense, Inc. (WBSN) up 21% to $20.50
    Allied Defense Group Inc. (ADG) up 20% to $6.95
    Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (HEPH) up 18% to $1.85
    Cepheid (CPHD) up 16% to $30.54
    Digital River Inc. (DRIV) up 13% to $37.50
    Magal Security Systems Ltd. (MAGS) up 13% to $7.17
    Symantec Corporation (SYMC) up 11% to $17.93

Off by more than 20% were:

    Mercury Computer Systems Inc. (MRCY) down 48% to $8.30
    EFJ Inc. (EFJI) down 39% to $1.68
    First Solar, Inc. (FSLR) down 32% to $181.77
    Cubic Corp. (CUB) down 30% to $27.56
    Evergreen Solar Inc. (ESLR) down 29% to $12.19
    Atmel Corp. (ATML) down 27% to $3.16
    Deluxe Corp. (DLX) down 26% to $24.34
    L-1 Identity Solutions Inc. (ID) down 24% to $13.56
    Bruker BioSciences Corp. (BRKR) down 23% to $10.25
    Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (SWHC) down 22% to $4.75
    ACI Worldwide, Inc. (ACIW) down 22% to $14.90
    Fair Isaac Corp. (FIC) down 21% to $25.50

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