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  • WhiteHat Security Grows Channel Sales by 260 Percent

    WhiteHat’s channel is white hot. The security software company announced it grew its indirect business by over 250 percent in 2009. The company also recently hired an experienced team of channel executives, headed by Lucent veteran Bob Cariddi, to spearhead its sales and partner efforts. WhiteHat’s web site risk management service, based on its Sentinel…

  • PGP Enters Identity Management Space with Acquisition

    Encryption company PGP announced this week a deal to buy the German cloud-based identity management company TC TrustCenter and its U.S. parent company ChosenSecurity for an undisclosed amount. Known best for its encryption and key management applications, PGP will now have a new way for channel partners to offer managed trusted identities for encryption, authentication…

  • NitroSecurity Uses Channel, Integration to Target McAfee, Symantec

    After closing out a year of nearly twofold growth, dark horse security vendor NitroSecurity is looking to kick off another strong 12 months with an updated and more tightly integrated security information and event management (SIEM) and log management package that it hopes will further engage the channel and draw recognition for its integrated suite…

  • Companies Hit With Security Breaches More Frequently Than Revealed

    (Reuters) – Every second a critical infrastructure supplier has been a target of a cyberattack, a survey of security software firm McAfee showed on Thursday. Hackers frequently succeed in attacking businesses, security experts say, but companies rarely disclose the breaches because they are afraid of damaging their reputations and encouraging criminals. This made Google’s statement…

  • Facebook for Business? Most Workers Use Social Networking for Jobs

    As businesses look to technology to become more strategic in 2010, employees at those businesses are also latching onto technology—in the form of Web 2.0 and social networking at sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn—to help get the job done. That’s according to a new survey of 4,710 U.S. workers by research analyst firm…

  • Social Media Distracting from Real Security Issues

    As security pundits and analysts wrap up their annual round of yearly predictions, the headlines have been flush with forecasts about social media security threats eclipsing many other dangers on the to-do lists of IT security organizations. The theory is that unmanaged social media and Web 2.0 applications will be the root cause of this…

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