Tag: Application and Platform Security
Solution provider silver and gold benefits “remain in effect for one year after your last purchase or renewal, but they will not undergo the January 2025 update,” Microsoft said. Microsoft revealed that it plans to no longer sell its Action Pack, Learning Action Pack or legacy silver and gold benefits starting Jan. 22 – and…
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From among more than 320 applicants, CRN staff evaluated and selected products spanning the IT industry – including AI and AI infrastructure, cloud management, data analytics, networking, security and storage categories – that offer ground-breaking functionality and new opportunities for partners. Tech Innovators 2024 The wave of development around artificial intelligence and generative AI in…
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Top cybersecurity vendors including SentinelOne, Check Point and Fortinet announced major new products and capabilities at the Black Hat USA conference. Black Hat 2024 This week in Las Vegas, hundreds of cybersecurity vendors are on hand for the Black Hat USA 2024 conference—many of them with new tools or product capabilities ready to unveil. At…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was named this week as CRN’s No. 1 Most Influential Executive of 2024. Microsoft executives came armed with data to show a growing artificial intelligence business and assurances that the vendor’s growing expenses to meet AI demand are done responsibly during the tech giant’s fiscal 2024 fourth quarter earnings call Tuesday.…
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Here’s a look at the tech industry companies that saw the biggest share price gains and losses in the first six months of 2024 including Nvidia, Dell Technologies, UIPath and Lumen Technologies. A Booming Year For Many Tech Stocks – So Far Fueled by anticipated growth from new AI technologies and products, many IT companies…
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CrowdStrike, AI and Copilot+ PCs are expected to come up during the quarterly earnings call Tuesday. The CrowdStrike update incident. Details on the cost and revenue from artificial intelligence. And updates on the rollout of AI PCs. Microsoft executives have a lot to cover Tuesday during the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant’s fourth fiscal quarter earnings…
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‘We are showing them how they can monetize and really be the trusted advisers around delivering managed attack surface capabilities, which are necessary to avoid problems,’ Liongard CEO Michelle Accardi tells CRN. Liongard this week unveiled its innovation road map and a build-out of its attack surface management platform to better equip MSPs to identify…
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New data from cloud insurance firm Parametrix sheds light on the financial cost of the massive CrowdStrike outage last week that affected millions of Microsoft devices. The massive CrowdStrike outage that affected millions of Microsoft devices is predicted to cost U.S. Fortune 500 companies $5.4 billion in total direct financial loss, with an average loss…
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‘We did send these to our teammates and partners who have been helping customers through this situation,’ according to a CrowdStrike spokesperson. CrowdStrike has confirmed to CRN that it sent partners Uber gift cards that stopped working – a gesture of appreciation mocked online as the cybersecurity vendor and solution providers deal with the fallout…
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‘It reinforced that [Desktop-as-a-Service] technology has its benefits to quickly recover from situations like this,’ says Nerdio co-founder and CEO Vadim Vladimirskiy. The recent faulty CrowdStrike update that downed about 8.5 million Microsoft Windows machines helped show the power of virtualization when it comes to recovering from cybersecurity incidents and outages, said Nerdio co-founder and…
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