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Retailers’ Interest in Managed Security Services Rises
Retailers’ Interest in Managed Security Services Rises Does Your Business Offer Wireless Access? More than half of those polled are vulnerable to some form of potential security threat targeting wireless networks. guests: 4%, employees: 29%, both: 48%, neither: 19% For Guest Access Do You Enforce Security Policies? The good news is that the majority have…
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Arrow Launches a Global Training Alliance
Arrow Electronics launched its Global Training Alliance with the announcement that Fast Lane, a provider of advanced IT training courses, is the first to join the global program. The alliance is designed to extend Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions education coverage and infrastructure with select partners. “When IBM decided to change their model with regard to…
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The Snowden Effect on the Channel
It’s pretty clear that Edward Snowden’s revelations concerning the extent to which the National Security Agency (NSA) is snooping on users of cloud and telecommunications services are weighing heavily on customers’ minds. We may never know how many customers in the United States, for example, will now opt to build private clouds on their own…
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Symantec Revamps Its Channel Strategy
As part of the Symantec 4.0 restructuring initiative launched last year by CEO Steve Bennett, the company is gearing up to revamp its channel program in 2014. Having consolidated more than 150 separate products into 10 sets of offerings around which Symantec is concentrating its sales and marketing efforts, John Eldh, vice president of North…
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Channel Could Help Spur Security Adoption in 2014
Security Focus on Security Increases The importance of security has grown considerably over the last two years. Significantly higher priority: 28%, moderately higher priority: 51%, no change: 18%, lower priority: 3% Top Five Security Threats A diverse number of types of threats need to be defended against. Malware: 91%, hacking: 86%, social engineering/phishing: 82%, data loss/leakage: 81%, security risks…
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Mimecast Forges New MSP Program
Mimecast’s new North America Managed Service Providers Program is aimed at making it easier for MSP partners to deliver its cloud-based email management services to its customers. Mimecast’s Unified Email Management services include security, archiving and continuity. Although Mimecast has worked with MSPs in North America for many years, it did not have a formal…
