Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced the beta release of Panda Cloud Office Protection (PCOP) 6.0, its cloud-based security service for PCs, servers and corporate laptops managed remotely through a web-based console. The beta software can be downloaded for free at http://www.pandasecurity.com/promotions/betatest/pcop

Panda Security today announced that Panda Global Protection 2012 has won the 2011 Best Security Software Award given by the prestigious PC World Latin America magazine. The award was received by Eduardo D’Antona, Panda Security’s General Manager for Latin America, in a gala held on November 3rd at the Conrad Hotel in Miami

Kaspersky Lab has hit the top spot at the V3.co.uk Technology Awards 2011, scooping the highly sought after Best Security Provider award in the Business Software category.

Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced that Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition, the world's fastest growing cloud-based antivirus, has been certified by the prestigious, independent testing lab AV-Test.org. This is the first time that Panda Cloud Antivirus Free Edition has participated in these tests, which replicate today's real-world threat scenarios.

AVG Technologies, a leading provider of Internet and mobile security, today announced the availability of AVG Internet Security 2012, a nimble, high-performance internet security suite that answers consumers’ call for simplicity, dependability and freedom of choice. Based on its connection-acceleration technology, light footprint and scanning speeds, AVG is at the forefront of security innovation and provides first-class protection without hampering today’s connected consumer.

Symantec Corp. and VMware announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to define and architect Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solutions with the goal to provide secure, pre-integrated and well-managed enterprise-quality virtual desktop computing environments for enterprises and IT service providers. This initiative will leverage VMware virtual desktop and cloud infrastructure solutions including VMware View™, VMware vShield™, VMware vCloud® Director 1.5 and VMware vSphere® 5 with Symantec Endpoint Protection and the Altiris Client Management Suite to deliver a secure, manageable and cost-effective DaaS solution.

Panda Security,The Cloud Security Company, today announced a new beta version of its popular Panda Cloud Antivirus [3], the first cloud-based antivirus solution. Panda Cloud Antivirus 1.9.1 Beta incorporates a smart community-based firewall to better respond to user needs and further maximize protection.

Symantec Corp. today announced the results of the August 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report, now combining the best research and analysis from the Symantec.cloud MessageLabs Intelligence Report and the Symantec State of Spam &Phishing Report. This month’s analysis reveals that once more spammers are seeking to benefit from fluctuations in the turbulent financial markets, most notably by sending large volumes of spam relating to certain “pink sheets” stocks in an attempt to “pump” the value of these stocks before “dumping” them at a profit.

Kaspersky Lab announces that Kaspersky Internet Security 2011, Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations and Kaspersky PURE have been awarded the prestigious VB100 accolade from Virus Bulletin.

McAfee today announced the McAfee Cloud Security Platform, an innovative new approach to helping organizations safely and efficiently take advantage of cloud computing. The new platform achieves this by securing all content and data traffic – including email, web and identity traffic – moving between an organization and the cloud.