Cisco is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco has substantial commitment to protecting customers and the Internet infrastructure and has robust incident response and vulnerability handling procedures. Cisco’s Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is a dedicated, global team that manages the receipt, investigation, and public reporting of security vulnerability-related information, related to Cisco products and networks. The on-call PSIRT team works 24x7 with Cisco customers, independent security researchers, consultants, industry organizations, and other vendors to identify possible security issues with Cisco products and networks. Information about Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com/security. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com.

International Business Machines is the world’s largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM is dedicated to helping customers, business partners, and developers across a wide range of industries leverage the power of the Internet for e-business.

As the world's leading provider of risk and security solutions, clients around the world partner with IBM to help reduce the complexities of security and strategically manage risk. No other company can provide the experience and range of risk and security solutions as IBM—from dedicated research, software, hardware, services and global business partner value—to help clients secure their business operations and implement company-wide, integrated risk management programs. IBM’s security products and services are based on the proactive security intelligence of its X-Force research and development team—the unequivocal world authority in vulnerability and threat research.

More information on IBM’s security offerings is available at: http://www-03.ibm.com/security/.

Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Intel is also focused on ensuring the security of computing environments and committed to a rapid response while providing recommendations through security advisories and security notices. Intel’s Product Security Incident Response Team (iPSIRT) proactively searches for and responds to reported security vulnerabilities in Intel products. Working with members of the security community, customers and end users, iPSIRT ensures that security vulnerabilities are documented and clear solutions are released to customers in a timely, responsible fashion. Additional information about Intel is available at http://www.intel.com/pressroom, blogs.intel.com and http://www.intel.com/security.

Juniper Networks is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers innovative businesses a high-performance network infrastructure to help them create a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. The top 65 service providers, 96 of the Fortune 100, and large government agencies and institutions are among the many demanding businesses that rely on Juniper Networks to quickly meet their high-performance business requirements. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Juniper Networks is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol JNPR. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.

Microsoft is motivated and inspired every day by how its customers use its software to find creative solutions, develop ideas and stay connected to what is important to them. Just as the company constantly updates and improves its products, it wants to continually evolve to accelerate new, emerging technologies and to better serve its customers. However, as more people and businesses rely on computing every day, the threats that can undermine trust in computing are increasingly sophisticated and malicious.

Microsoft’s approach to the changing threat landscape is Trustworthy Computing, a long-term collaborative effort to create and deliver secure, private and reliable computing experiences for everyone. When a security issue threatens customers, the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), a global security response team created to protect people and organizations from vulnerabilities, quickly mobilizes teams across Microsoft and the world to evaluate the threat, develop mitigations and provide customers with guidance.