Cyberventure

Cyberventure Optio Labs (Allied Minds) is now represented in Nashville by Brian Dougherty, a VU School of Engineering Ph.D., who is Optio's project manager. Optio could be a portal to sophisticated software and electronic ventures. Story here.

Comdata adopts Cybera

Cybera, the locally based network security provider, announced Brentwood-based Comdata, the electronic-payments solutions company, has adopted its technology. Release here.

Terenine data protector

Terenine, the hosted-data and recovery provider in Chattanooga, is among tech companies benefiting in the wake of disruptive storms and floods, the TFP reports.

ORNL cyberthreat

Oak Ridge National Laboratory had to shut down Internet access last weekend to deal with an advanced persistent threat to information systems security. The KNS reports.

Cybera ONE tech offering

Cybera, the Franklin, Tenn.-based data security and payment-card systems security provider, announed today it's taking its Cybera ONE suite national. A recent release describes the suite. They said they've added Mapco as a client, also.

Patent to Capital Confirmation

Capital Confirmation, the Brentwood secure confirmation-audit Internet solutions provider, announced being awarded its second U.S. patent, expanding its intellectual property estate. The release is here.

Cybera extends security

Cybera®, the Franklin networking and security-services provider for distributed enterprises, today announced the national launch of SECURE|WAVE, its wireless intrusion detection service (SaaS) that identifies threats and vulnerabilities by analyzing wireless network traffic. Earlier this year, Cybera launched SECURE|Link, to help protect Cloud operations.

Nexus Group nets SAS70

Nashville-based The Nexus Group (formerly ISDN Net) announced today it has obtained SAS 70 Type II certification for its data facility here. Gray CPA Solutions PLLC of Murfreesboro performed the audit needed to verify that Nexus meets or exceeds security and management-process requirements to satisfy the AICPA-developed statement of auditing standards. Among Nexus peers in the Nashville area, Peak10 and SunGard say they also maintain SAS 70 Type II compliance.

GreenBank data security

Greeneville, Tenn.-based GreenBank won InfoWorld100 recognition for data security, after adopting ExaGrid data backup technology and services.

Prominent Infosecurity exec heads MainNerve here

Mark Burnette, the 35-year-old who has helped define the role of chief information security officer in Nashville during the past decade, is now an owner and president for the N'ville region of a tech-driven info-security firm from the Hill Country near San Antonio. Read about Mark's new gig, here.