Tag: Cybersecurity
“The MSP market is a great place for a private equity company like EQT to put their money,” said David Stinner, president of US itek, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based MSP. “Once you have an MSP beholden to a backup/cybersecurity solution like Acronis they don’t leave.” MSP cybersecurity and backup provider Acronis is being acquired in a…
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From among more than 320 applicants, CRN staff evaluated and selected products spanning the IT industry – including AI and AI infrastructure, cloud management, data analytics, networking, security and storage categories – that offer ground-breaking functionality and new opportunities for partners. Tech Innovators 2024 The wave of development around artificial intelligence and generative AI in…
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In a letter sent to Delta, Microsoft echoes claims by CrowdStrike that Delta ignored offers to help with recovery from the July 19 outage. Microsoft has accused Delta of ignoring offers to help with recovery from the massive Windows outage last month in part because its IT systems were allegedly outdated. The criticism of Delta…
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The cybersecurity vendor released its technical root cause analysis for the faulty July 19 update that caused a massive Windows outage. CrowdStrike has released further analysis of the faulty July 19 update that caused a massive global IT outage, detailing how testing and staged rollouts of updates should help to prevent such issues in the…
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Top cybersecurity vendors including SentinelOne, Check Point and Fortinet announced major new products and capabilities at the Black Hat USA conference. Black Hat 2024 This week in Las Vegas, hundreds of cybersecurity vendors are on hand for the Black Hat USA 2024 conference—many of them with new tools or product capabilities ready to unveil. At…
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The cybersecurity vendor says the move will bolster its Unified SASE platform. Fortinet on Tuesday announced it’s looking to bolster its SASE platform with the acquisition of data security startup Next DLP. Terms of the acquisition, which was completed as of Monday, were not disclosed. [Related: Fortinet Completes Acquisition Of Former Cloud Security Unicorn Lacework]…
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The vendor’s expansion into SIEM provides a new option that is less complicated and more affordable than competing platforms, while still providing a major improvement to security outcomes, Huntress CTO Chris Bisnett tells CRN. Huntress unveiled its new managed SIEM offering that aims to be a less-complicated and more-affordable alternative focused on the unique needs…
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The AI-powered cybersecurity vendor is aiming for a 2025 IPO after achieving a $5.1 billion valuation, Abnormal Security CEO Evan Reiser tells CRN. Abnormal Security plans to use its newly announced funding infusion of $250 million to advance its cybersecurity platform powered by behavioral AI technologies and work toward going public late next year, Co-founder…
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Here are the top 25 companies on this year’s CRN Fast Growth 150 list, which ranks solution providers with gross annual sales of at least $1 million by their two-year growth rate. Overachievers These are challenging times for solution providers as they navigate both ongoing economic uncertainty and a rapidly changing technology landscape as artificial…
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Overall, this year’s Fast Growth 150 recorded an average two-year growth rate of 135 percent. That’s down a bit from the 145 percent average for the 2023 Fast Growth 150 class, but up from the 93 percent growth recorded by the 2022 Fast Growth 150. These are challenging times for solution providers as they navigate…
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