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Symantec Reveals 2010 Channel Plan at Partner Engage Conference
Security and storage channel providers converged in Orlando, Fla., this week to meet up with representatives at Symantec for the company’s annual Partner Engage conference. The intensive day-and-a-half event is highlighted by several sneak peeks into Symantec’s channel plans for 2010, including a new demo platform and a newly adjusted renewal incentive plan tweaked to…
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ArcSight Introduces Log Manager with IT Operations and Security Capabilities
Security information and event management company ArcSight introduced a new log management product this week that it claims will help resellers and other channel partners better sell to both information security and IT operations stakeholders within client companies. The new ArcSight Logger 4 is designed to collect, search and analyze both unstructured and structured data…
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Physical Security: Beyond Guns, Guards and Gates
The warehouses of broad-line IT distributor Ingram Micro will soon stock fire control systems, automated door locks and products along since servers, switches and storage arrays that make up the core of its portfolio. Ingram Micro announced yesterday that it will now stock physical security technologies, providing solution providers with the products and support to…
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DLP Shortcomings Equals Security Services Opportunities
Just how good is contemporary data loss prevention (DLP) technology? Can it do more than identify and stop the release of Social Security and credit card numbers? On Friday, I wrote about how DLP “probably” couldn’t have prevented the security breach that resulted in the authorized disclosure of more than two dozen Congressional lawmakers under…
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NetWitness Updates NextGen IT Forensics Platform for Enterprise
The IT forensics gurus at NetWitness Nov. 4 announced a refresh for the company’s NextGen enterprise network forensics and advanced threat intelligence platform, which they say will improve its marketability in the enterprise market and could make it easier for channel partners to compete with a more complete security offering. "What we’ve done with Version…
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Symantec vs. McAfee: A Rivalry Renewed
When solution providers and enterprise customers arrived in Las Vegas last month for the McAfee Focus conference, they were greeted at McCarron Airport by a sea of yellow signs—from the gate to the door—extolling the superiority of Symantec products. It was a marketing coup that didn’t sit well with the McAfee execs, who didn’t appreciate…