Tag: Cybersecurity
Part 6 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the data operations and data observability space. Upon Closer Observation Data teams within businesses and organizations strive to provide internal business users and external customers with analytical insights. But those efforts often fall short because the data…
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GenAI, Red Hat and potential acquisitions are expected to come up on the vendor’s earnings call Wednesday. Updates on generative artificial intelligence offerings. Growth in the Red Hat business. And the potential acquisition of HashiCorp. These are some of the big topics IBM executives are expected to weigh in on during the Armonk, N.Y.-based vendor’s…
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“A lot of backup companies are buying security companies. Our view is, we want to buy something in the prevention business, not in the ‘aftereffects’ business. If you suffer from an incident, what you do after the incident of course is hugely important. But whatever you can do prior to the incident is even more…
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The planned acquisition of 17-year-old Egress will bring together AI-driven capabilities such as anti-phishing with KnowBe4’s widely used security training platform, according to the company. KnowBe4 announced Wednesday it has reached an agreement to acquire Egress, a 17-year-old company focused on providing AI-powered email security. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Egress has 318…
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The data stolen from prescription processor Change Healthcare includes ‘files containing protected health information (PHI) or personally identifiable information (PII),’ UnitedHealth says. UnitedHealth Group said in a statement Monday it’s confirming that a potentially significant amount of data belonging to Americans may have been stolen in the Change Healthcare cyberattack earlier this year. The stolen…
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“These access points have a role in not only networking for AI, but also AI for networking,” said HPE Aruba’s VP of product and community marketing Larry Lunetta, in reference to HPE Aruba’s acquisition target Juniper Networks’ CEO Rami Rahim’s own take that the industry is just scratching the surface with AI networking. HPE Aruba…
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The new M-Trends report details how ransomware, zero-day attacks and other major cyber threats evolved last year. The discovery of compromised systems continues to accelerate thanks both to improved detection tools and increased ransomware activity, according to Mandiant’s M-Trends threat report for 2024 that was released Tuesday. The analysis is the 15th annual M-Trends report…
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The cybersecurity powerhouse has hired a number of new C-level executives, including a new CRO this month, as well as building out the leadership team at its federal business. Executive Moves At cybersecurity powerhouse Optiv, the push for growth continues to gain steam with a string of notable executive hires. The series of recent hires…
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Cisco’s Talos research team says it’s monitoring a ‘global increase in brute-force attacks’ against targets including VPN services, while an exploit has been released for a critical vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS firewall software. Hackers continue to escalate their targeting of network security devices and remote access services as a means of breaching customer…
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For the week ending April 12, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Google Cloud, Intel, Wiz, Zscaler, Lumen Technologies and startup solution provider Ensemble AI. The Week Ending April 12 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Google Cloud which used this week’s Google Next…
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