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Secure Islands Recognized by Info Security Products Guide and Red Herring For Making Data Theft and Loss Irrelevant

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Secure Islands announced today that it has been named as a finalist by Red Herring in its 2015 Hot 100 North America Awards and by Info Security Products Guide in its 11th Annual Global Excellence Awards. Recognized by Red Herring for being one of North Americas most promising private ventures and by Info Security Products Guide for delivering Tomorrows Technology Today, Secure Islands has quickly racked up industry accolades for its approach to Information Protection, called Data Immunization, which enables organizations to immunize data at the point of creation with protection that persists for the life of the data.

These honors add to a string of successes for Secure Islands, including the close of a $10 million dollar investment from one of its customers, Credit Suisse, which it made after an enterprise-wide deployment of Secure Islands flagship product, The IQProtector Suite, and the opening of its U.S. headquarters in New York City.

Since 1996, technology industry executives, investors, and strategists have valued the Red Herring 100 lists as an instrument for discovering and advocating the most promising private ventures from around the world. Info Security Products Guides prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with groundbreaking products and solutions that raise the bar for others in all areas of security. Both of these respected industry outlets recognized Secure Islands for its vision, product excellence and potential to disrupt the economics of cybercrime by making stolen data useless to cyber thieves.

With 2015 already tracking to displace 2014 as The Year of the Mega Breach, Secure Islands offers a much-needed alternative to network or perimeter based approaches that are not suited for todays corporate IT environments. Secure Islands policy-driven classification and protection ensures that only those intended to see it can view corporate data and by automatically protecting data upon creation, data remains private and intact at all times, regardless of where it is, how it is being accessed, or who is accessing it.

We are extremely proud to be recognized by Info Security Products Guide and Red Herring, for innovating data-centric security, said Yuval Eldar, Founder, Secure Islands. Data Immunization continues to exceed expectations with our customers and prospects, who have been looking for strong information protection that fits within their existing business and IT processes. We cant stop U.S. businesses from being attacked, but we can make sure that if they are, they maintain full control over the security, integrity and privacy of their data.

About Secure Islands Secure Islands provides advanced Information Protection and Control (IPC) solutions for the borderless enterprise. Offering policy-driven classification and protection for unstructured data, Secure Islands lays the foundation enterprises to shift from network or perimeter-based defenses to persistent data protection. Secure Islands redefines data security and assists companies in regaining control by identifying, classifying and protecting sensitive information throughout its lifecycle. Founded in 2006, Secure islands is a privately held company is experiencing tremendous growth, fueled by the accelerated adoption of its solution suite by leading global corporations including a number of Fortune 500 companies in the financial, manufacturing, government and telecommunication sectors. For more information, please visit. http://www.secureislands.com

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3 of 4 overseas islands up for auction sold to Chinese bidders

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PTI Mar 6, 2015, 01.10PM IST

(In an unusual auction, four)

BEIJING: In an unusual auction, four islands in Fiji, Greece, Britain and Canada were put up for sale on China's largest online shopping platform Taobao with three of them being sold within 12 hours.

Any Chinese citizen who put up a 1,000 yuan (USD 159) deposit was qualified to bid.

Starting at 10 am (local time) on Wednesday, at least 48 bidders took part in the auction. Except for the UK property, which had a starting price of 4 million yuan and was not sold, the other three islands had a starting price of only 1 yuan.

The island in Fiji was sold with 99-year rental property rights while the others were sold freehold, state-run reported.

When the auction ended at 10 pm on Wednesday, a construction magnate in Yunnan province had bought the islands in Greece and Canada for 4.8 million yuan and 1.7 million yuan, respectively.

A businessman in Zhejiang province bought the island in Fiji for 5 million yuan, according to Beijing-based Ilongterm, the real estate firm that held the auction.

"We chose to work with Taobao as a strategic partner, because it is undoubtedly the most influential online shopping platform in China right now. Our bidders in this auction were long-time users of Taobao who have spent about 10 million yuan on it" so far, Ilongterm said.

Ilongterm will take the winning bidders to their islands for on-site inspections and the completion of procedures such as paying taxes, commissions and legal expenses.

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Firefly – Trabol Sum + Taz feat. Prote-J – (US, PNG + Solomon Islands collab) – Video

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Music Video for Trabol Sum + Taz performing Firefly feat. Prote-J A CHM Music and Shefram Studios collaboration Filmed in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and Orlando, Florida CHM Music.

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Russian-held islands shrink by 33 sq. km

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The total area of the Russian-held islands off Hokkaido claimed by Japan has shrunk by about 33 sq. km thanks to more accurate mapping techniques by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI).

The annual survey by the GSI, released Friday, found that the area of the islands called the Northern Territories in Japan and Southern Kurils in Russia was 5,003.05 sq. km as of Oct. 1, compared with 5,036.14 sq. km a year ago.

The islands comprise Etorofu, Kunashiri and Shikotan and the Habomai group of islets.

The decrease can be attributed to the introduction of a new topographic map based on satellite images, which enabled the GSI to measure the area more accurately, according to an official of the institution attached to the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry.

Until the 2013 survey, the GSI had measured the islands using a 1:50,000 scale map created in 1922, Nobuyuki Watanabe, a section chief in the National Mapping Department, told The Japan Times on Tuesday.

Using images from the Japanese satellite Daichi, we completed creating a topographic map of the northern areas with a scale of 1:25,000 in February 2014, Watanabe said.

The GSI has utilized a topographic map with a scale of 1:25,000 for surveying areas in other parts of Japan.

The islands were seized by the former Soviet Union at the end of World War II. The institute has been unable to conduct an aerial survey.

The area of Etorofu, the largest of the disputed islands, is now registered as 3,166.64 sq. km, down from 3,182.65 sq. km, while that of Kunashiri was recalculated at 1,489.27 sq. km, down from 1,498.56 sq. km.

Shikotans area is calculated at 247.65 sq. km, reduced from 250.16 sq. km. The Habomai islets now total 94.84 sq. km, down from 99.94 sq. km.

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