Tag: Security operations

‘Our partnership with IBM reinforces our commitment to innovation and our conviction in the tremendous benefit of QRadar customers adopting Cortex XSIAM for a robust, data-driven security platform that offers transformative efficiency and effectiveness in defending against evolving cyberthreats,’ says Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora. Cybersecurity superstar Palo Alto Networks completed its $500 million…

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The departures do not appear to have harmed Microsoft’s own recruiting efforts, as seen by some especially consequential hires by the tech giant so far this year. A corporate vice president for experiences, devices and technology who left for an artificial intelligence upstart, a COO of business applications and platform who retired, and a chief…

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‘Bringing that kind of AI capability to that kind of enterprise environment – it’s really only something IBM can do,’ IBM VP Tina Tarquinio tells CRN. IBM unveiled its Telum II processor and Spyre accelerator chip during the annual Hot Chips conference, promising partners and solution providers new tools for bringing artificial intelligence use cases…

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The new hires come as Microsoft continues to assert leadership in the growing AI space while furthering efforts to increase the security of its products. A Microsoft artificial intelligence CEO, a CTO of worldwide defense and intelligence, and a corporate vice president of core data services are among the most consequential hires at Microsoft so…

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‘Security continues to be our top priority,’ according to Microsoft. Microsoft will make the controversial “recall” feature for its artificial intelligence-powered Copilot+ PCs available to Windows Insiders users in October. The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant added the new release date to a previous blog post about recall, which was billed as a way for users…

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‘Nothing is safe anymore. The more layers of protection we can have, the better I sleep,’ Randy Jorgensen, managing member of South Jordan, Utah-based RJNetworks, tells CRN. Microsoft will take a phased approach to its requirement that all Azure users adopt multi-factor authentication, starting with Azure portal, Microsoft Entra administration center and Intune admin center…

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‘These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors,’ CISA says in a post online. A government agency is warning about threat actors exploiting a Java deserialization remote code execution vulnerability in SolarWinds Web Help Desk. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added the exploit to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog under the code…

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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins cited ‘several $100 million-plus transactions in the quarter.’ Deep cuts at Cisco Systems appear aimed at readying the 40-year-old networking giant for increased customer demand to modernize technology for improved security and artificial intelligence growth – areas where Cisco partners can see business gains in the new fiscal year. These are…

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‘There is a certain amount of cloud repatriation that is happening, and that’s happening purely from a cost perspective,’ Cognizant’s Naveen Sharma tells CRN in an interview. Naveen Sharma compares the classic public cloud vendor business model to buying wine. The seller loves for a customer to try a glass, and then maybe drink another,…

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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins says his team is “shifting hundreds of millions of dollars into AI,” including AI networking for cloud, AI infrastructure, silicon and cybersecurity. Cisco Systems crossed $1 billion to date in AI orders with webscale customers and predicts another $1 billion in AI product orders this fiscal year. On the San Jose,…

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