On today’s news round-up, Lumidigm has announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Shermetaro as CEO after serving two years as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. Also in corporate news, Gallagher North America has announced two significant appointments: Scott Bryan, RCDD, PSP has been appointed as Vice President for Sales for Access Systems based in Atlanta, Georgia and John Cronkite as the Eastern US Regional Manager to help the company expand in the US and continue its rapid growth. The increase in popularity of hosted, cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has given rise to several security challenges for developers according to SANS Technology Institute.

In application news, Connexion2′s award-winning identity badge Identicom will be deployed to secure staff at over 500 Travelodge hotels.  Pilgrims Group will be providing safety training to British government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) employees working in politically unstable and often highly dangerous parts of the world. Read more security news…