Tag: Cybersecurity
The company said the acquisition of Noname Security will allow Akamai to ‘extend protection across all API traffic locations.’ Akamai Technologies on Tuesday announced a deal to acquire API security firm Noname Security for $450 million. The company said the acquisition of Noname will allow Akamai to “extend protection across all API traffic locations.” [Related:…
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‘By leveraging a low-cost talent market, they can be more cost efficient,’ says Sunny Kaila, CEO of IT By Design. IT By Design has opened a new headquarters in the Philippines to further expand operations and offer cost-efficient talent to MSPs. The new office will create more than 250 new roles within the master MSP…
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Abacus Group, NexusTek, Astrica, Wipro, HP, Microsoft and Saviynt were among the tech companies making key executive hires and moves during April 2024. New CEOs at Abacus Group, NexusTek, Astrica and Wipro were some of the biggest executive moves last month. Anthony D’Ambrosi, formerly of ATSG; Hamilton Yu; Vicky Papa, formerly of NTT Data; and…
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‘I think of it as an entrepreneurial way to be in a global market as a leader on day one with one of the biggest partners in the world. We really want to be that hub in the security industry [for] providing really advanced cyber solutions,’ LevelBlue’s CEO Bob McCullen tells CRN on the company’s…
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Cisco Systems is announcing a number of security product updates, including a major advancement related to its acquisition of Splunk. Cisco Systems on Monday announced a number of major security product updates at the RSA Conference 2024, including an XDR advancement stemming from its acquisition of Splunk and an expansion of capabilities for its recently…
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Launched at RSAC 2024, the new Google Threat Intelligence offering provides faster protection against threats by combining insights from Mandiant, VirusTotal and Google with GenAI-powered capabilities, the company says. Google Cloud announced a new cybersecurity offering Monday that represents a major advancement by making threat intelligence more automated and “more actionable,” an executive told CRN.…
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Major vendors including Cisco, Splunk, Google Cloud and IBM unveiled new security products Monday to kick off RSA Conference 2024. RSAC Hot Products RSA Conference 2024 is just getting underway in San Francisco and, already, an array of new cybersecurity products have been unveiled by major vendors. We’re featuring 10 of the new security tools…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says in a memo sent to staff that ‘if you’re faced with the tradeoff between security and another priority, your answer is clear: Do security.’ In a memo sent to employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella responded to a recent scathing federal report on the company’s security practices by urging staff to…
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“I’ve been trying to take everything that’s been negative about this and … turn it into some sort of positive,” Robert Cioffi said in an interview. Robert Cioffi, chief technology officer and co-founder of Progressive Computing, one of the MSPs hit in the 2021 Kaseya ransomware attack, traveled about 1,500 miles from his home in…
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‘We talk internally a lot about being a $300 billion market cap company by the 2040s, and we don’t think that’s far-fetched,’ said John Street, Pax8 founder and former CEO. ‘We really are in good shape, the star of this show is the total addressable market.’ Scott Chasin taking over the helm as Pax8’s newest…
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