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Quick Heal Launches North American Channel Program
An IT security vendor with millions of customers that most solution providers in North America probably never heard of today launched its first channel program for the region. Quick Heal Technologies, a Chelmsford, Mass.-based provider of the SEQRITE portfolio of IT security offerings that has already generated millions of dollars in annual revenue around the…
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Cyber-Attacks Prompt Security Pros to Take Action
Security Breaches Are Widespread 76% experienced a damaging security breach in the last year. Only 14% reported no “notable” security breaches. Top Security Risks Eight out of 10 said end users with malware and viruses are the biggest risk to security, followed by password compromise and cyber-attacks. Prevention Tops IT Issues 50% consider preventing cyber-attacks…
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10 Ways Businesses Fail at Insider Threat Detection
Cost of insider threats Bad Behavior 74% of respondents are primarily concerned about the threat from negligent or malicious employees, but 45% don’t know how much they plan to spend on insider threat technology in the next 12 months. Falling Short 47% of respondents do not have specific knowledge of their spending on insider threats.…
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Cisco, Elastica Forge Reseller Partnership
Elastica, a cloud access security provider, and Cisco signed a reseller agreement that adds Elastica’s cloud app security solution to Cisco’s threat-centric security portfolio. The deal bolsters Cisco’s security offering with a cloud access security broker (CASB) portfolio that addresses security and compliance risks associated with cloud application and services adoption. While Cisco gains access…
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Why Taking the Right Security Measures Matters
Security measures More Vulnerabilities Than Ever The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system reported about 9,400 new vulnerabilities, with two-thirds of them involving networks. More Unique Attacks Than Ever Of 1.7 trillion attacks made against intrusion prevention systems, 37 million of them were unique. That’s a 100% increase from 2013. Most Common Exploits The Nuclear,…
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How MSPs Can Help Medical Firms Protect Their Data
By Doug Truitt As the health care industry becomes increasingly technologically grounded, the oath taken by medical professionals to “do no harm” should extend to protecting patients’ personal data. For doctors’ offices, pharmacies and other medical facilities, taking precautions to safeguard the sensitive information under their care is not just ethically sound in that it…
