Recent Articles
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VSAs to Crush Security Appliances
As the virtualization market continues to mushroom, security is taking on a bigger role, with the virtualized security appliance (VSA) set to ‘deliver a strong left hook to traditional security appliances’, according to a new report from IDC. The research company says 72.4 percent of respondents are currently allocating funding for VSAs in their budgets…
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WatchGuard Launches Formal MSP Program
WatchGuard Technologies, a provider of firewalls and unified threat management appliances, today unveiled a formal managed services program for channel partners, providing support and incentives for solution providers that have been or want to use its equipment to deliver remote security services. Many security solution providers and managed service providers have used WatchGuard equipment to…
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Sophos: Position for Growth or Sale?
Sophos channel chief Chris Doggett is quite happy about the recent string of announcements by his larger competitors and near rivals. Symantec, McAfee and others have started offering incumbency protection on software license renewals, incentives for capturing net-new customers and margin protection. And he thinks Sophos deserves credit for conceiving those programs and bringing them…
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McAfee Announces New Appliances, Improved IPS
McAfee flexed its network security muscles with the announcement of a new set of internal network appliances, new intrusion prevention system (IPS) capabilities, and a reorganization of these and other network products into an across-the-board solution set it’s now marketing as McAfee Full Spectrum Network Defense. The new appliances, called Network Threat Behavior Analysis (NTBA),…
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GuardianEdge to Release Management Capabilities for Self-Encrypting Drives
Endpoint security firm GuardianEdge announced yesterday that it will evolve with the full disk encryption market by releasing a new encryption management product meant to work seamlessly with the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) hardware-based disk encryption specification, Opal. Released earlier this year by TCG, Opal was designed to offer the industry a standard for self-encrypting…
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Kace Patches Up Patch Tuesday
For hackers and cybercrooks, the twelve days of Christmas are also known as Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of every month when Microsoft provides the latest information on its security vulnerabilities, detailing how to take advantage of the world’s largest installed IT customer base. It’s a real headache for customers, says Ken Ross, senior product…