Tag: Cybersecurity
Check Point will add 170 employees with the planned acquisition of external risk management firm Cyberint. Check Point Software Technologies aims to add more than 170 employees with the planned acquisition of external risk management firm Cyberint Technologies, the company said Tuesday. Check Point said it has reached an agreement to acquire the 14-year-old company…
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‘Our vision is to build technology that supports MSPs throughout the entire insurance process, from software consumption to policy acquisition,” says Cole Knuth, FifthWall CEO. ‘We want to maintain the MSPs’ role as technical advisors and provide them with tools that enhance their ability to manage cybersecurity for their clients.’ To prepare for its next…
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‘Bringing that kind of AI capability to that kind of enterprise environment – it’s really only something IBM can do,’ IBM VP Tina Tarquinio tells CRN. IBM unveiled its Telum II processor and Spyre accelerator chip during the annual Hot Chips conference, promising partners and solution providers new tools for bringing artificial intelligence use cases…
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The planned Sept. 10 event at Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters comes after the massive, unprecedented Windows outage in July caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update. Microsoft said Friday it has scheduled a Windows security event for September that will feature CrowdStrike, following the massive Windows outage in July caused by a faulty update from the cybersecurity…
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The new hires come as Microsoft continues to assert leadership in the growing AI space while furthering efforts to increase the security of its products. A Microsoft artificial intelligence CEO, a CTO of worldwide defense and intelligence, and a corporate vice president of core data services are among the most consequential hires at Microsoft so…
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Circana’s Mike Crosby sees several reasons for optimism when it comes to B2B spending now through the end of 2026. Below is a transcript of the above video. Jennifer Follett, vice president of U.S. content and executive editor, CRN: I am here with Mike Crosby of Circana. Mike, thank you so much for joining me.…
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The evolving threat environment and growing regulatory pressures are prompting more organizations to begin measuring their cyber risk from a financial perspective, according to Optiv’s James Turgal. Amid a convergence of factors including the intensification of both cyberthreats and regulatory pressures, more organizations are focusing on quantifying their cyber risk from a financial perspective, executives…
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CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy dives into Cortex AI and Iceberg customer momentum, the impact of Snowflake’s recent cyberattack and how AI will ‘c ontribute materially to revenue’ in 2025 . CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy was bullish about his company’s AI future during Snowflake’s Q2 earnings report on Wednesday, while also downplaying his company’s recent cyberattack and unveiling…
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‘Security continues to be our top priority,’ according to Microsoft. Microsoft will make the controversial “recall” feature for its artificial intelligence-powered Copilot+ PCs available to Windows Insiders users in October. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant added the new release date to a previous blog post about recall, which was billed as a way for users…
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Reported claims by Action1 that CrowdStrike was planning to acquire the patch management firm for nearly $1 billion are ‘outrageous,’ CrowdStrike’s Gur Talpaz says in a LinkedIn post. Reported claims that CrowdStrike sought to acquire patch management firm Action1 for nearly $1 billion have no basis in reality, according to a CrowdStrike executive. In a…
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