Tag: Cybersecurity
A ServiceNow veteran who joins Zscaler as of Monday, Torsiello tells CRN that the cybersecurity vendor’s growth strategy ‘starts with having a highly capable ecosystem of partners.’ Anthony Torsiello, a former longtime channel business leader at ServiceNow, has been hired by Zscaler as its new global channel chief, he said in an interview with CRN.…
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The telecom giant said the records—but not the content—of phone and text messages for seven months of 2022 was exposed. AT&T said Friday that records of phone and text messages for “nearly all” customers was exposed in a significant data breach. The records date from a seven-month period of 2022—from May 1, 2022, to Oct.…
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The IT systems outage for car dealerships caused by a mid-June ransomware attack still lasted two weeks. CDK Global reportedly paid $25 million to cybercriminals after a mid-June ransomware attack disrupted business for thousands of car dealerships. According to a report from CNN citing multiple sources, software maker CDK paid the ransom to accelerate the…
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An AT&T spokesperson reportedly disclosed the theft of customer records was part of the recent wave of data theft attacks targeting Snowflake customers. An AT&T spokesperson reportedly disclosed that the massive theft of customer records was part of the recent wave of data theft attacks targeting Snowflake customers. The disclosure came as the telecom giant…
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For the week ending July 12, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including AMD, K3 Technology, Microsoft, Orca Security and Nasuni. The Week Ending July 12 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is chip designer AMD for a strategic acquisition in the AI technology space.…
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‘Everyone wants to get off of VMware and get into the cloud,’ Microsoft Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff says. Microsoft’s new fiscal year has kicked off with hundreds of millions of dollars in partner incentives around security, Copilot and more – and one Microsoft executive took time to thank virtualization and desktop-as-a-service rival VMware for…
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‘Microsoft achieves reach, scale and success because of you,’ says Nicole Dezen, Microsoft chief partner officer. Microsoft plans more than $150 million in pre-sales and post-sales investments for its Azure Innovate offering, an incremental $90 million “to accelerate security growth” with partners and a tenfold increase to its Copilot partner investment as part of a…
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Advance Auto Parts disclosed that data belonging to 2.3 million customers was exposed in an April attack targeting its Snowflake deployment. More details have emerged on what appears to have been another serious data breach linked to a campaign targeting Snowflake customers, with Advance Auto Parts disclosing that data belonging to more than 2 million…
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K3 Technology is rapidly evolving with the adoption of AI and is doing ‘almost everything’ differently than two years ago, Kelly Kercher, founder and CEO of K3, tells CRN. K3 Technology has acquired Dallas-based MSP OG2 Network Services, creating more opportunities for it to expand in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Kelly Kercher, founder and CEO…
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Gartner recognized nine vendors in the latest edition of its Magic Quadrant ranking for single-vendor SASE. SASE Magic Quadrant As organizations continue to prioritize providing remote access to distributed teams in 2024, demand for security and networking capabilities to enable hybrid teams continues to surge. And increasingly, customers are looking for a unified technology platform—and…
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