Tag: Application and Platform Security
‘Over the weekend, we saw about 50 new email domains that were purchased by cybercriminals to impersonate CrowdStrike,’ HacWare CEO Tiffany Ricks tells CRN. Phishing emails have been circulating around inboxes after news of the CrowdStrike IT outage with scammers impersonating support teams to remediate the issue, and HacWare CEO Tiffany Ricks said the messages…
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‘As a follow-up to the CrowdStrike Falcon agent issue impacting Windows clients and servers, Microsoft has released an updated recovery tool with two repair options to help IT admins expedite the repair process,’ Microsoft says. Following the faulty CrowdStrike update that caused chaos for millions of Microsoft customers and businesses, the software giant has now…
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‘We’re helping by offering community support, helping with recovery plans, offering up our staff to augment the MSSPs and helping wherever we can,’ says Marc Menzies, president and CTO of Overview Technology Solutions. ‘We’re saying, “Hey, I know that everyone’s morning is messed up, ours is now messed up too but we’re here to help…
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The massive Microsoft Azure and CrowdStrike outage reportedly was caused by a recent update to CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor software. Here’s where everything stands as of Friday morning. From emergency 911 call centers to national health-care services to the largest airlines, the Microsoft Azure and CrowdStrike outage is causing chaos around the world. As of Friday…
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‘The company has carefully examined and evaluated the impact of the U.S. legal requirements and made this sad and difficult decision as business opportunities in the country are no longer viable,’ says the Moscow-based antivirus software company. Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky confirmed Tuesday that it will be exiting the U.S. market and ceasing operations in…
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New functionality in the Druva platform helps incident response teams and security analysts identify cyber threats across data landscapes and more quickly recover from data security incidents. Data protection and security provider Druva is expanding its platform with new threat hunting capabilities that will help IT and security teams identify threats throughout their data environments…
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‘For Google, this would be a shot across the bow at Microsoft and Amazon, making a major bet on the cybersecurity space to complement its flagship GCP offering in the cloud,’ says Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives. Here are five key things to know about Google’s potential $23 billion bid for red-hot security startup Wiz.…
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As part of the annual Tech Innovator Awards evaluation process CRN selects a number of the applicants as finalists. Here’s a look at the innovative products that have made the first round of the judging. Innovation Surge The wave of development around artificial intelligence and generative AI in the last two years has shaken up…
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‘Everyone wants to get off of VMware and get into the cloud,’ Microsoft Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff says. Microsoft’s new fiscal year has kicked off with hundreds of millions of dollars in partner incentives around security, Copilot and more – and one Microsoft executive took time to thank virtualization and desktop-as-a-service rival VMware for…
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‘Microsoft achieves reach, scale and success because of you,’ says Nicole Dezen, Microsoft chief partner officer. Microsoft plans more than $150 million in pre-sales and post-sales investments for its Azure Innovate offering, an incremental $90 million “to accelerate security growth” with partners and a tenfold increase to its Copilot partner investment as part of a…
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