In a not-unexpected reversal of one of the highest-value blockbuster tech acquisitions of all time, Symantec (SYMC) this week announced that it would be sell off its Veritas Info Management Business to private equity firm The Carlyle Group in an $8 billion deal. Here’s what it will mean to MSPs.
The rise of public, cloud and hybrid IT infrastructure environments mean conventional network security solutions are falling short. That’s according to a new survey of IT leaders. Here are the details.
Cloud storage and collaboration firm Box this week announced a landmark partnership with IBM designed to help integrate their products to create new service offerings and to further improve the quality assurance and security of Box’s offerings for business customers.
Insecure code continues to thwart IT departments, but a new study out this week shows how advisory services can help developers better understand secure coding practices and remediate vulnerabilities much more quickly than those who go it alone.
As managed service providers seek to embed better security value to customers within their services, they’d do well to be wary of the dreaded security product half-life.
A survey of more than 500 cybersecurity professionals shows that cloud environments can play a significant role in increasing the risks of insider threats. Conducted by the Information Security Community on LinkedIn with the help of a dozen different security vendors, the survey found that 62 percent of security professionals report that insider threats have become more prevalent in the past year.
Big data security firm Dataguise is scaling up its data discovery and protection platform into the cloud with the release this week of DgSecure 5.0. The platform is designed to help organizations scale discovery and data protection automation across both traditional data repositories and Big Data architectures on-premises and across cloud platforms.
This week cloud security upstart Soha Systems snagged a key new hire in Mark Carrizosa, formerly a security architect at Walmart, to lead as vice president of security. Backed by the likes of venture heavyweights like Andreessen-Horowitz and Menlo, Soha is hoping to reshape the way enterprise application access is granted in cloud environments.
The PA-DSS recent update continues the PCI Council’s work to upgrade the payment ecosystem to more secure TLS encryption protocol. Here’s what you need to know.
The 10th annual Ponemon Institute Cost of Data Breach Report shows breach costs increased by 23 percent over the last two years. Here’s why.
Continuous cloud security monitoring firm Threat Stack this week picked up former Lockheed Martin executive Brian M. Ahern as its new chief executive in a move that the firm hopes will amp up its growth. The Boston-based company hopes to make its mark on the cloud security market by helping its customers overcome the visibility gap that organizations large and small face when managing cloud environments, which don’t offer the kind of hardware-based controls and intrusion detection that on-premises systems would.
MSPs specializing in healthcare IT should take recent breaches to heart when approaching clients about security. Here are the details of the CareFirst breach.
This week cloud access security broker Adallom teamed up with OPSWAT, a provider of IT infrastructure management tools, to develop a new solution meant to help organizations bridge the gap between SaaS and endpoint compliance.
News of the first confirmed breach to originate from an SAP vulnerability exploitation demonstrates how years of warnings about SAP flaws need to be heeded.
OpenDNS is hoping to broaden the appeal of its cloud-delivered threat protection platform with a move this week to open its enforcement API to all customers and partners of its Umbrella Platform.
Cloud security offerings climbed up to 46 percent of security service revenue in 2014, reported Infonetics Research, which pegged the overall managed security revenue at $15.8 billion globally. Today the largest contributor to cloud-based security service revenue is content security, with managed firewall services and DDoS making up the top single-service categories.
Microsoft announced Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) at Ignite this week. MSPmentor spoke with Brad Anderson, corporate vice president at Microsoft, to get his take on some of the new capabilities and the potential they hold for MSPs to improve their security offerings.
The recent RSA Conference highlighted the failure of IT security organizations to keep up with attackers, a shortfall that service providers may play a critical role in overcoming. Here’s more from the conference.
CASB market is hot and Perspecsys is on a roll with new feature releases and a newly granted patent for tokenization in the cloud. Perspecsys got the ball rolling with the launch of new Cloud Control capabilities within its Approtex platform, giving organizations greater flexibility in how they grant approval status to cloud services.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced a new cloud security certification meant to demonstrate advanced skills in architecture, design and management of secure cloud environments. Dubbed the Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), the cert is meant to establish an international standard for proving the advanced skills necessary to secure the cloud.
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