Recent News & Events

2012.1 - RSA Channel partner

We are pleased to announce that UDS Data Systems Ltd is accredited as a RSA Channel partner. We are pleased to offer to our clients security solution from RSA with particular focus in the solution evolve around RSA NetWitness.

RSA NetWitness is a unique solution that allows you to capture, store and analysis network data traffic and be able to see exactly what comes in and goes of the network, in real time and as they happen. In simple term, RSA offers to you a Network CCTV. Not only that, NetWitness allows you to see the traffic in action as it reconstructs the data that flow through the network into its original format according to its own type or application. So you can further strengthening your security measures by taking appropriate action. On top of that, since all traffic is captured and stored, you will be able to go back to a particular period of time and conduct historical data analysis. Nothing could escape undetected.

NetWitness, Knows Everything, Answers Anything!

RSA NetWitness Panorama delivers an innovative fusion of hundreds of log data sources with external threat intelligence to enterprises enabling extraordinarily broad and high-speed visibility into the critical information needed to help detect targeted, dynamic and stealthy attack techniques.

Panorama enables comprehensive security event collection as an integrated component of the award-winning NetWitness platform. Panorama offers correlation and analysis of the large volumes of network and system data needed for effective threat detection.

For more information how NetWitNess to help you to deal with the challenges, please feel free to contact us, our security consultants are more than happy to serve you.

2011.11 - "Novell Best of BrainShare" in Yangshuo.

On behalf of UDS Data Systems Ltd, Mr Frankie Leung (Business Manager, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC) was invited by Novell to their "Brainshare" event in Guilin, Guang Xi, China. On November 17, 2011, Novell hold the annual “Novell Best of BrainShare” in Yangshuo Resort Hotel known as a land of idyllic beauty. By then, Novell shared the most effective and stable Cloud architecture along with the latest cloud safety technology and its global cases . And Novell also shared the remarkable results of Novell in 2011, also the development tendency and new policies of channels in 2012 with us.

In this April, Novell, the leading enterprise software provider in the world, joined Attachmate Group. As one of the top ten software manufacturers, Attachmate devotes itself to continuous exploration and persistent development and innovation, and provides clients with high-performance, high-applicability and high-safety enterprise solutions, so as to expand, manage and guard the more complex IT environment. Being a member of Attachmate Group, Novell will start its new journey with the strong support of Attachmate. From now on, Novell will pay more attention to assisting the enterprises in safely providing and managing the computing services in physical, virtual and cloud environment. The clients can reduce their cost, complexity and risk of IT system through Novell’s solutions including identity authentication, system management, cooperation and service platform based on Linux. Also, Novell will place emphasis on the demands of clients and interest of partners and create more value for more enterprises with the win-win and multi-win principle.

2011.06 - Aerohive Cloud-Enabled, Distributed-Intelligence Wi-Fi.

UDS is proudly introducing  the next generation Wi-Fi Solution from US – the Aerohive Cloud-Enabled, Distributed-Intelligence Wi-Fi.
 
Aerohive Networks reduces the cost and complexity of today’s networks with cloud-enabled, distributed Wi-Fi and routing solutions for enterprises and medium sized companies including branch offices and teleworkers. Aerohive’s award-winning cooperative control Wi-Fi architecture, public or private cloud-enabled network management, routing and VPN solutions eliminate costly controllers and single points of failure. This gives its customers mission critical reliability with granular security and policy enforcement and the ability to start small and expand without limitations.

Enterprise Network Access Points and Cloud-enabled Management
Today’s enterprises are looking to increase productivity, reduce capital and operational costs, and streamline their wireless infrastructures. Aerohive helps simplify complex networking by reducing the cost and complexity of today’s networks with cloud-enabled, distributed intelligence-based, Wi-Fi solutions.

Access Points without requiring a Controller
Aerohive’s 802.11n enterprise wireless LAN access points, HiveAPs, are an innovative class of wireless infrastructure equipment with cooperative control technology that provides the benefits of a controller-based wireless LAN solution, without requiring a controller or an overlay network.

Software & Management
Aerohive’s HiveOS is the operating system that powers the Aerohive access points, while HiveManager is the wireless network management system for configuration and monitoring. Together, with Aerohive access points, these comprise a complete controller-less Wi-Fi solution.

2011.03 - LANDesk Greater China Channel Partner at Xiamen, China.

Mr. Frankie Leung represented UDS Data Systems Ltd to join this great event. More than 50 LANDesk ESP from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong attend this event.

Mr. Frankie Leung also meet the Mr. Andy Ruse, VP of Asia Operation, and senior management of LANDesk Greater China team to discuss the product development, marketing and technical support issues.

 

2011.01 - SafeNet APAC Channel Partners Conference 2011 in Macau.

Mr. Leo Fu (Security Consultant) and Mr. Keith Lam (Security Consultant) participated in the SafeNet APAC Channel Partners Conference 2011 in Macau.

In this conference, Safenet covered the state-of-art security solutions on Cloud computing, HSM, Tokenizatio, DataSecure platform. Also, the new renamed TMS, Safenet Authentication Manager 8.0 (SAM) and Safenet Authentication Client (SAC 8.0) were released. SAC is the current version certification base client software which can manage both Aladdin eToken Pro and Safenet iKey security devices. SAC combined the features of Aladdin PKI Client and Safenet boarderless Security software.

 

2011.01 - (ISC)2 Safe & Secure Online program - Infosec awareness seminar.

Mr. Frankie Leung (CISA, CISM, CRISC, CISSP) joined Volunteers for (ISC)2 Safe & Secure Online program - Infosec awareness seminar. This seminar was targeting to educate students in the primary and secondary schools how to use internet resources securely. The online safety tips were introduced Some Cyber-crime cases were introduced to those students to let them understand the serious of misusage of Internet and not to perform any hacking behavior.

On Jan 11 of 2011, more than 400 P3 to P6 students are attended this seminar at S.K.H. Ho Chak Wan Primary School (http://www.skhhcw.edu.hk/).

The Video of this event can be reviewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x8R4HdxWFY

 

2010.07 - “Data Leakage and Protection” at Information Security Seminar 2010.

Mr. Frankie Leung (Principal Consultant & Business Manger, USD Data Systems Ltd) made a public speech on the topic of “Data Leakage and Protection” at “Information Security Seminar 2010”. This seminar is join-organized by Hong Kong Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre (HKCERT), the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) and Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF).

Mr. Frankie Leung (CISA, CISM, CISSP) represented UDS to conduct this seminar to educate the public the importance of Data Protection and the common scenarios on Data Leakage at Tuen Mun Town Hall on May 28 of 2010. More than 200 general public (Schools, businesses and individuals) attended this event.

 

2010.07 - UDS carries ScriptLogic solutions for Hong Kong Region.

ScriptLogic Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT), is a recognized leader in the management, monitoring and support of desktops, servers and networks. ScriptLogic’s award winning solutions benefit 28,000 customers worldwide in the areas of desktop, help desk, active directory, server and network management. IT professionals and organizations of all sizes rely on ScriptLogic to streamline administrative tasks and improve productivity through “Point, Click, Done” solutions.

ScriptLogic provides software solutions to help organizations accomplish their strategic business goals by offering affordable, yet enterprise quality products that focus on these key areas of Windows Management: indows Desktop Management Solutions, Network Management Solutions, Server and Active Directory solutions, Help Desk Solutions .

 

2010.06 - UDS is appointed by Centrify (www.centrify.com) as their Regional Value Added Distributor for Hong Kong, China, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Macau and Taiwan.

Centrify offers Active Directory Solutions for Securing Heterogeneous Systems and Applications. It enables organizations to strengthen security, enhance compliance efforts, and reduce operational costs by centrally managing their heterogeneous systems and applications using Active Directory. More than 2000 enterprise customers, including over 40% of the Fortune 50, have selected the Centrify Suite for its quick-to-deploy and easy-to-manage approach for securing their heterogeneous computing environment.

Centrify's solutions address the needs of IT organizations for: IT Security & Compliance, UNIX & Linux Identity Management, Mac OS Desktop Management, SAP & Web Single Sign-On,

Centrify Suite of solutions enables organizations to reduce IT expense and complexity, improve end-user productivity through single sign-on, strengthen security and enhance regulatory compliance initiatives.

 

2010.04 - UDS is selected as FortiNet FortiDB database security solution partner

UDS Data Systems Limited, a gold solution partner of Fortinet, is pleased to announce that UDS is the selected solution provider of the mark leading database security system Fortinet FortiDB in Hong Kong and Macau region.

FortiDB is the most comprehensive solution to secure databases and applications such as ERP, CRM, SCM and custom applications. It supports varies database systems such as Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, DB2 and MySQL. FortiDB enhances database security by providing vulnerability assessment, database activity monitoring, auditing and compliance, attack alerting functions.

By providing FortiDB with other encryption, and database log analysis solution, UDS now offers the most completed database security solutions to address every aspect of database security such as database encryption, database vulnerability assessment, auditing and compliance, activity monitoring, log analysis and data leakage alerting and prevention.

FortiDB is a very cost-effective database security solution. The entry price for FortiDB 400B (for 10 databases) is starting from only HK$98,000 including installation service. To know more information about database security, please contact us at hotline (852) 28510271 or email info@udshk.com

 

2010.03 - UDS is selected as HID On The Desktop solution partner

HID Global, the trusted worldwide leader in providing solutions for the delivery of security identity, is pleased to announce that UDS Data Systems Ltd has been recognized as HID on the Desktop authorized resellers in Hong Kong since its launch in 2009. HID on the Desktop channel partners are customer-focused resellers who benefit from the exclusive sale of HID on the Desktop solutions and extensive HID Academy training, enabling them to enhance customer value by delivering quality Genuine HID solutions and superior end-user support to their customers.

HID on the Desktop™ makes log-in fully convenient for all users, and painless for IT to install and implement, by delivering the same afordable, user-friendly elements to logical access control that support our physical access control platforms. HID on the Desktop solutions are: Simple and convenient to use; Able to improve risk management; Easy to install and maintain; Reliable and secure.

 

2010.03 - UDS was invited to FortiNet APAC conference in Macau

Mr. Frankie Leung, Director of UDS Data Systems Ltd met Mr. Ken Xie (Founder, CEO and President) of Fortinet Inc in Fortinet International Conference at Macau on March 09 2010. More that 60 countries and 300 persons were in this 3 days conference.

A video was played to show the Fortinet being listed in NASDAQ which in 4 quarter of 2009. FortiDB, FortiMail and FortiOS 4.2 were heavily introduced in this conference. SIS International Ltd was awarded as the Best Support Distributor in the event

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). In Feb of 2010, Fortinet has shipped its consolidated network security appliances have surpassed 500,000 units.

 

2010.01 - UDS Data Systems Ltd enters SIEM (Security Incidents and Events Management) market with Splunk Software.

Splunk is software that provides unique visibility across your entire IT infrastructure from one place in real time. Only Splunk enables you to search, report, monitor and analyze all your real-time streaming and historical IT data from the same interface. Now you can troubleshoot application problems and investigate security incidents in minutes instead of hours or days, monitor to avoid service degradation or outages, deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights from your IT data.

Splunk indexes any kind of IT data from any source in real time. Point your servers’ or network devices’ syslog at Splunk, set up WMI polling, monitor live logfiles, enable change monitoring on your filesystem or the Windows registry, or schedule a script to grab system metrics. Splunk indexes all your IT data without the need for any specific parsers or adapters to purchase, write or maintain. Both the raw data and the rich index are stored in an efficient, compressed, filesystem-based datastore with optional data signing and auditing for data integrity. The more data you index, the more insight you'll gain from your IT infrastructure.

The attached figure are extracted from www.splunk.com

 

2009.12 - CMS (Confidential Mail System) seminar to Hong Kong Government

UDS and SecureAge’s Confidential SecureEmail was approved by OCCIO for as CMS plug-in solution

UDS and SecureAge co-developed Confidential SecureEmail for Lotus Notes 8.5 was approved by OGCIO as one of standard Confidential Email Systems (CMS) plug in solution in Dec of 2009.

OCGCO also arranged a seminar for Lotus Domino 8.5 and CMS plug-in on Dec 8 209 at OGCIO Training room at Level 5, CyberPort One, Cyberport. There are around 100 persons from various departments from LAN administrators and ITMU Officers attended this seminar.

Mr. Keith Lam, Consultant and CMS PM of UDS Data Systems demonstrated the new feature of SecureAge’s Confidential SecureEmail and Mr. Frankie Leung, Business Manager of UDS Data Systems also presented the current technology on Smartcard, security etoken and SmartCard Reader which are working with SecureAge’s Confidential SecureEmail and other CMS plug-in solutions.

 

2009.08 - Sophos APAC conference in Manila and UDS become Sophos platinum partner

It was the first partner event after Sophos completed the acquisition of Utimaco Safeware. This partner conference was called “One Sophos” at .Dusit Thani Hotel Metro Manila, Philippines

UDS Data Systems has carried Utimaco Safeware (now Sophos) encryption solutions since 2002. Started in 2008, UDS also helped Utimaco Hong Kong for both pre-sales and post-sales service in both government and commercial sector. Before the Sophos acquisition, UDS was very active in Sophos solution. UDS won the largest Anti-spam tender from a Hong Kong List Company using Sophos Pure Message solution to protecting over 20000 email user accounts from spam.

More, UDS is now the Sophos platinum partner to deliver both Sophos solutions and services in the region.

2009.06 - "RFID and Its Related Application" Seminar and Trial” at Government

UDS participated in the "RFID and Its Related Application" Seminar and Trial” at Government. There are more than 80 attendances from the multiple departments.

UDS was invited by by the IT Innovation Section of the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) to participate this seminar and show case at OGCIO office at Level 5, CyberPort One, CyberPort in June of 2009.

Mr Craig Sandness, Managing Director, HID Global, Asia Pacific, made an opening speech on the topic of “HID on the Desktop: RFID Cards that Open Doors and Windows”. Mr. Frankie Leung, Business Manager, UDS Data Systems Ltd, presented the HID HOTD solution with the Omnikey 5321 Contactless Reader, HID naviGo software, HID Crescendo contactless card to demonstrate how to use the same door access iClass contactless card to open the door and to authenticate the Windows OS.

2009.06 - UDS is awarded government contract on multi factors authentication system tender

UDS is awarded a government contract on multi factor authentication solution. In this project, UDS provide a unique approach to enhance the original window authentication to a multi factor authentication approach. The authentication factors include fingerprint, contact based smartcard, PIN and Digital Certificate. The authentication solution also provides single sign on function to automatically sign on the day to day use windows application.

2009.03 - UDS establish partnership with i-Sprint Innovation

UDS is partnered with i-Sprint Innovation to provide enterprise class unified authentication solution to our customers. i-Sprint Innovation’s integrated enterprise-class solutions provide centralize administration, authorization, authentication, single sign-on and provide audit trails of access to their business applications. I-Sprint unique Security Consolidation methodology helps organizations of all sizes to address their authentication management needs by using an incremental, evolutionary and strategic approach based on a common security infrastructure philosophy.

2008.10 - UDS upgraded to the first PGP® Silver Partner in Asia.

In Oct of 2008, UDS Data Systems Ltd is upgraded from PGP Brown Partner to first PGP Silver Partner in Asia. UDS has carried PGP Since 2002. Now UDS has one PGP Universal certification engineer and two PGP Universal certification technicians to support all PGP products including PGP Desktop Profession, PGP NetShare, PGP Whole Disk Encryption, PGP Email, PGP Command Line and PGP Universal Server.

The PGP® Silver Partner level is for integrators, solution providers, and resellers with experience in delivering PGP encryption solutions with a high level of customer satisfaction. PGP Silver Partners have the ability to sell and support PGP® encryption solutions. This partnership level enjoys an enhanced benefits portfolio plus access to PGP internal resources that complement sales and marketing tools and support.

The PGP® Global Partner Program delivers clarity, consistency, and focus for resellers and systems integrators to successfully sell and support PGP® solutions.

2008.03 - UDS attended Aladdin conference in Bangkok

UDS, the key partner of Aladdin in Hong Kong was invited by Aladdin to attend the Asia Pacific Partner Conference. The conference was held on March 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Mr Frankie Leung and Mr Frank Yip participated in this conference. During the conference we shared our Aladdin eToken business and technical experience, success storied with Aladdin and its other partners in APAC.

UDS has provided Aladdin eToken solution since 2005. In the past few years, Aladdin eToken solution has been successfully adopted by Hong Kong government, large enterprises and finance institutes.

 

 

2008.02 - UDS attended Fortinet APAC conference in Sanya

As the Fortinet Gold Partner in Hong Kong, UDS was invited by Mr. Ken Xie (CEO, Fortinet, Inc) for the Fortinet APAC Partner Conference. The conference was held on Feb 27 to 28th of 2008 at Sanya, Hainan Island, China.

Mr Vinton Yau (Sales Manager) and Mr Frankie Leung (Business Manager) took part in this event. They met Mr Ken Xie and the other senior management of Fortinet and shared the business experience on selling the UTM appliance in this region. UDS was the only Gold Partner being invited by Fortinet for this event. UDS has provided Fortinet solution since 2002. Our Major customers are Universities, Large Enterprise, Finance Institutes and Telecomm operators.