Tag: Cybersecurity
‘I compare AI to the New York subway,’ says Balancelogic CEO Bill Campbell. ‘It’s a great tool that’s quick and convenient, but you have to be cautious. Just like in the subway, there are precautions you need to take with AI, particularly concerning data security.’ Dawn Sizer and some of her clients have already seen…
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‘CloudImposer could have allowed attackers to conduct a massive supply chain attack by compromising the Google Cloud Platform’s Cloud Composer service for orchestrating software pipelines,’ says Tenable security researcher Liv Matan. Google has patched a critical security flaw inside its Google Cloud Platform Composer tool that could have enabled hackers to achieve remote execution on…
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“This deal is a big accelerant for the NWN platform which is consistent with the approach we have taken over the last five years that has allowed us to quadruple the company from less than $300 million to more than $1 billion,” said NWN Senior Vice President of Corporate Development Matt Curran. NWN Carousel has…
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Unisys, Fusion Connect, Impact Networking, Tenable, Confluent and Thales are among the vendors to list open positions for channel-related roles. This month, Unisys, Fusion Connect and Impact Networking are among the solution providers to list open positions while Tenable, Confluent and Thales are among the vendors to list open positions for channel-related roles. CRN has…
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The high-severity flaw in Ivanti’s Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) can be used to enable remote execution of code, the vendor says. Ivanti said Friday that a previously disclosed vulnerability in its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) gateway has now seen exploitation by threat actors. As of Ivanti’s disclosure Friday, attacks exploiting the high-severity flaw had only…
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Larocque is officially retiring as president of TD Synnex North America on November 30 and moving into a special advisor role. When Peter Larocque graduated with an economics degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1983 he bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco, ran out of money and ended up getting a job…
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In the wake of the global Windows outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update in July, ‘both our customers and ecosystem partners have called on Microsoft to provide additional security capabilities outside of kernel mode,’ Microsoft’s David Weston says. In the wake of the CrowdStrike-caused outage that led to widespread societal disruptions in July, Microsoft…
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The percentage equates to a potential 1,500 customers affected in the compromise of Fortinet’s cloud file-share environment. Fortinet disclosed that the breach of its cloud file-share environment impacted “less than 0.3 percent” of customers, while noting that it believes the incident isn’t likely to have a significant impact on its business. The cybersecurity vendor had…
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For the week ending Sept. 13, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including ConnectWise, Todyl, AWS, ServiceNow and Blue Mantis. The Week Ending Sept. 13 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is ConnectWise for its Axcient and SkyKick acquisitions that will boost its data protection…
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The credit card firm is getting into the threat intelligence business with the $2.65 billion acquisition. Credit card firm Mastercard announced Thursday it is getting into the threat intelligence business with the planned acquisition of Recorded Future. The acquisition price for the 15-year-old company is $2.65 billion, Mastercard disclosed. [Related: 5 Major Security Vendors That…
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