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Channel Partners Could Cost Customers More in Data Breach Incidents
Your security mistakes could cost your clients even more than those they make themselves, according to new results released today by the Ponemon Institute in its fifth annual Cost of Data Breach study. After surveying data breaches from around the world for its 2010 study, the research organization found that data breaches caused by third…
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Websense Releases First Real-Time Security App for Facebook
Websense rolled out the industry’s first real-time security application for Facebook pages today as a part of its Defensio 2.0 launch. The product gives channel partners a more robust way to help clients adapt to the Web 2.0 and social media environment without instituting draconian and backward-looking bans against applications such as Facebook. Able to…
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Consistency: McAfee’s Next Channel Goal
McAfee channel leaders Alex Thurber and Fernando Quintero spent much of this week rolling out strategic initiatives designed to increase partner sales and profitability. It’s been a week of communicating to partners what McAfee is putting behind what has been deemed “2010: The Year of the Channel.” None of these changes—incumbency protection, team sales, easier…
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High Anxiety What Fuels Internet Security Fears
High Anxiety What Fuels Internet Security Fears Phishing Nets 6x New Victims3 in 10 people fall prey to phishing attacks, a six-fold increase in just two years. Phishing accounts for one of the most serious concerns that organizations have with respect to identities and data. No Title Consumer Awareness DoublesConsumer awareness of phishing attacks has…
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SAIC Buys CloudShield Technologies
Science Applications and International Corporation (SAIC) last week bolstered its IT security play with the acquisition of the cybersecurity services-oriented CloudShield Technologies. Like SAIC, CloudShield specializes in public sector work, as well as in serving the security service provider market with tools to manage their own clients’ environments. CloudShield provides infrastructure security solutions and services…
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Websense Restructures, David Roberts Departing
David Roberts is leaving Websense as part of a corporate restructuring of sales. No effective date has been given for his departure, but the company says he will continue with the company through a transition period. Websense has appointed Matt Hynes as vice president of worldwide global channels, a new position for the company. Hynes will…
