China’s Internet security provider Beijing Rising International Software Co Ltd on Tuesday released the nation’s first business-level anti-virus system based on private cloud technology in an effort to maintain its lead in the corporation anti-virus sector.

“Private cloud will help us provide more integrated services to our customers,” said Deng Sheng, sales director of the company.

Rising has yet to decide the prices of the new products but said they are likely to be revealed in the next two months.

Some of the country’s top security companies, such as Kingsoft Co Ltd and Qihoo 360 Technology Co, started to release free enterprise-level anti-virus products in 2011, a move that may eat up Rising’s market share.

The company’s senior executives said Rising had no plans to allow its clients to use its enterprise-level products free of charge.

“Unlike our competitors, Rising not only sells anti-virus software but also hardware. It is not possible for us to give away enterprise-level services,” said Julia Zhang, vice-president of the company.

Rising claims to have about 150,000 corporation clients in China, the largest number among local security companies. It plans to lure more clients from financial and new energy industries this year.

Source:http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2012-05/16/content_15309288.htm

Iran has started making its own anti- virus software, according to Assistant Professor Mohammad Hossein Sheikhi of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Shiraz, TREND news agency quoted local media as saying.

The software is being developed by Iranian experts from the Shiraz Computer Emergency Response Team of Academic Protection and Awareness (APA), a centre which provides service in the fields of network security and network disorders.

Mohammad Hossein said work on the locally-made antivirus, financed by the Iranian president’s special committee on information and communication technologies, was first begun in 2010 and since then had undergone successful tests.

In 2010, Iran’s industrial and nuclear computer systems were attacked by the Stuxnet worm, a malware designed to infect computers using Siemens Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) – a control system favoured by industries that manage water supplies, oil rigs and power plants.

Since then, Iranian officials had said the country would be working on strengthening the country’s online security.

Iran announced not long ago that it had prohibited import of foreign computer security software with the Information and Communications Technology Ministry saying Iran would rely on its own software made by local developers.

Sheikhi said that for the first time in Iran, a special virus-analysing lab has been set up along with a virus database.

He added that if the software is successful, a commercial version of it may be sold at a later stage.

Source:http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v6/newsindex.php?id=663559