Tag: Cybersecurity
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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Judge Paul Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismisses nearly all claims made by the SEC related to the late 2020 SolarWinds Orion cyberattack, also known as Sunburst. The judge overseeing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against SolarWinds and CISO Tim Brown Thursday ruled to grant…
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Dozens of cybersecurity vendors showcased their latest product offerings at XChange Security 2024. Here are the key details on 10 of them. While there’s no shortage of cybersecurity products aimed at securing businesses in 2024, some are more MSP-friendly than others. During this week’s XChange Security 2024 conference, MSPs heard from dozens of vendors that…
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‘Cork 2.0 is about making further investments for the MSP to help all of our collective SMB clients be more successful,’ says Dan Candee, Cork’s new CEO. ‘We’re taking an MSP-first approach to adding value, helping them make sense of their stack and their risk profile to provide the right integrations, insight and introductions around…
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‘After a four-year adventure at AWS and about eight years at some of the big companies, I needed to get back to my roots,’ says Dan Candee, new CEO of Cork. ‘I needed to be back in the startup and entrepreneurial mindset. I needed to be working with partners day in day out. I needed…
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Consolidated Communications, Incedo, Cerium Networks, Comcast, Nvidia and Logitech are among the companies to list open positions for channel-related roles in July. This month, Consolidated Communications, Incedo and Cerium Networks are among the solution providers to list open positions while Comcast, Nvidia and Logitech are among the vendors to list open positions for channel-related roles.…
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The reported effort by Google to beef up its cloud and AI security offerings by potentially acquiring Wiz shows how central cybersecurity has become in the tech industry, solution provider executives tell CRN. Whether or not the Google’s reported efforts to acquire cloud security unicorn Wiz pan out, the apparent willingness by the tech giant…
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AWS, UiPath, Microsoft, Nvidia, SAP and SoftwareOne were among the tech companies making key executive hires and moves in June 2024. New CEOs at Amazon Web Services and UiPath plus a chief artificial intelligence officer at Microsoft. Matt Garman, an 18-year AWS veteran; Daniel Dines, UiPath’s co-founder; and Vassili Patrikis, previously with Amazon, were some…
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Cloud networking standout Aviatrix hires Google Cloud’s director of Anthos and Google Kubernetes Enterprise as its new CTO. Cloud networking standout Aviatrix has hired former Google Kubernetes and VMware NSX all-star engineer Anirban Sengupta as its new CTO and senior vice president of engineering. Sengupta was previously Google Cloud’s senior director for Anthos and Google…
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In the current geopolitical environment, it ’makes it incumbent on us to make sure that we’re choosing the right partners,’ one MSP executive tells CRN. In the current geopolitical environment, the planned exit of Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky from the U.S. market is a reminder of why it’s more important than ever for service providers…
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