Tag: Cybersecurity
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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Microsoft seeks ‘to raise the bar on our operational excellence,’ CEO and Chairman Satya Nadella said in a statement. Microsoft has a new chief operating officer and executive vice president tasked with helping the vendor “drive continuous business process improvement across all our organizations and accelerate our company-wide AI transformation, increasing value to customers and…
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A threat actor accessed ‘a limited number of files stored on Fortinet’s instance of a third-party cloud-based shared file drive,’ the security vendor says. Fortinet confirmed Thursday that it suffered a breach of its cloud storage environment that impacted customer data. The cybersecurity vendor characterized the incident as having minimal impact, however, saying the number…
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In an Oracle CloudWorld keynote, the Oracle founder and CTO also held up the company’s new alliance with Amazon Web Services as the start of the “open multi-cloud era.” Oracle’s next-generation network security technology, which leverages AI and biometric authentication to thwart cyber threats, is now available in the Oracle Cloud, Oracle founder, chairman and…
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