Recent Articles
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RSA Shows Partners the Security Ropes
With the annual RSA security conference set to kick off next week, much of the attention in the channel community naturally turns to security. With demand for IT security expertise at an all-time high, more organizations than ever are looking for external services to help secure their IT environments. The challenge is that creating a…
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Why IT Channel Firms Need to Bolster Their Security Offerings
Mobile security Security Headaches Malware and hacking are the top areas of concern for 50% and 49% of business executive and technology professional survey respondents, respectively. Other top areas of concern are privacy (45%), data loss/leakage (40%) and social engineering/phishing (38%). Higher Priority 74% of companies said security is a higher priority today than it…
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More Firms Meeting PCI DSS, but Only Temporarily
PCI DSS PCI DSS Compliance Trends Over the past three years, overall average compliance grew from 53% to 94%, an increase of 77%. Over the same period, full compliance increased from less than 8% to 20%, a 167% change. PCI DSS Compliance Improves Somewhat in 2014 The number of organizations that achieved full compliance grew…
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Why Service Providers Should Rethink Their DDoS Strategies
DDoS attacks Business Threat 61% of service providers reported DDoS as a threat to their businesses. Taking Responsibility 45% of service providers believe they are solely responsible for the viability of their infrastructures during an attack. Attack Frequency 35% of service providers said they are hit with one or more attacks weekly. Only 16% said…
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Kaspersky Lab Revamps Its Channel Partner Program
With Kaspersky Lab North America celebrating its tenth year of doing business on the continent it would seem like there is no better time to revamp the channel programs of the security software provider. Kaspersky Lab North America is now giving partners the ability to achieve up to 50 percent margins and will be rewarded…
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AVG Turns Identity Management Into a Service
Looking to imbue managed services with single sign-on capabilities, AVG Technologies has forged an alliance with Centrify. Under the terms of the deal, AVG will give managed service providers that make use of its platform the ability to control access to both cloud applications and what mobile devices access to network. “We’re making it possible…
