Tag: Cybersecurity
‘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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While it may take time, CrowdStrike is likely to restore the confidence of customers, solution providers tell CRN. It won’t happen overnight, but CrowdStrike is ultimately poised to recover from the reputational damage wrought since the massive July 19 outage, solution provider executives told CRN. CrowdStrike’s acclaimed cybersecurity technology and strong response to the incident…
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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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Unless there’s a concerted effort by a lot more tech industry vendors than just CrowdStrike, it’s unlikely to be the last incident of this kind. Within the software industry, it has long been a cliche´ to point out the inevitability of bugs. As the thinking goes, the world of software is insanely complex, and the…
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The email security vendor will add 175 employees with the acquisition of 23-year-old Code42, the company says. Email security vendor Mimecast will add 175 employees with the acquisition of longtime cybersecurity vendor Code42, the company announced Wednesday. Mimecast did not disclose the terms of the acquisition. Joe Payne (pictured), Code42’s president and CEO since 2015,…
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If customers opt to forgo automatic security updates going forward to ensure greater testing, the ‘whole IT environment is exposed’ during that testing period, a CrowdStrike partner tells CRN. The massively disruptive CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage will undoubtedly lead more customers to forgo automatic updates to reduce the chances of a similar event occurring again. But this…
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The HashiCorp acquisition, GenAI and Red Hat taking on VMware are likely to come up. Updates on the HashiCorp acquisition. Details on IBM’s approach to the artificial intelligence gold rush. And IBM subsidiary Red Hat taking on VMware and legacy virtualization vendors. These are just some of the topics analysts will likely bring up Wednesday…
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A bug in CrowdStrike’s content approval system ‘passed validation despite containing problematic content data,’ leading to the outage that caused global disruptions. A bug in CrowdStrike’s validation process for security configuration updates resulted in the Microsoft Windows outage that led to global disruptions starting Friday, the company said Wednesday. The widely felt snafu involved what…
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VC investor Nadav Zafrir will replace Gil Shwed as Check Point CEO in December. Check Point Software Technologies said Wednesday that venture capitalist Nadav Zafrir will replace Gil Shwed as CEO of the cybersecurity vendor in December, in a major transition following Shwed’s three decades at the helm of the company. Shwed played a chief…
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