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Ericka Chickowski specializes in coverage of information technology and business innovation. An award-winning freelance writer, she regularly covers IT security and her perspectives on the industry have appeared in a number of trade and consumer magazines, including Entrepreneur, Channel Insider, InformationWeek and Dark Reading

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Will Post-Split Symantec Go More Direct With Managed Services?

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.

Cloud Security Concerns Dog Deployment, Survey Says

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.

Box CEO Aaron Levie

Box and IBM Partner To Up Ante on Security and Innovation

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.

Remediation Coaching Services Make All The Difference In Flaw Fixing

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.

Michael D Rich president and CEO RAND Corp

Security Product Half-Life Requires Strategic Investments To Stay Apace With Threats

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 new report says insider threats have become more prevalent in the past year

Cloud Increasing Risks From Insider Threats

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.

Jeremy Stieglitz vice president of products at Dataguise

Dataguise Tackles Security For Hadoop-in-the-Cloud

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.

Soha Systems snags former Walmart executive Mark Carrizosa

Q&A: Cloud Security Company Soha Snags Former Walmart Security Guru

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.

Payment Application Developers On Notice: SSL Won’t Cut It For PCI

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.

Larry Ponemon chairman and founder of Ponemon Institute

3 Reasons IT Security Breach Costs Keep Rising

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.

Threat Stack taps former Lockheed Martin exec as chairman and CEO

Cloud Monitoring Firm Threat Stack Hires New CEO

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.

CareFirst Breach of 1.1M Shows Security Opportunity in Healthcare

MSPs specializing in healthcare IT should take recent breaches to heart when approaching clients about security. Here are the details of the CareFirst breach.

Assaf Rappaport CEO of Adallom

Adallom And OPSWAT Team Up To Offer More Robust Cloud Access Control

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.

SAP Vulnerability Showcases Need for Managed Security

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 plans to open its enforcement API to all customers and partners of its Umbrella Platform

OpenDNS Opens Up To Threat Intelligence Through New Enforcement API

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 services now make up almost half of overall managed security revenue worldwide

Infonetics Analysts: Cloud Security Growth Will Be Driven By SDN, NFV

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.

Brad Anderson corporate vice president at Microsoft

Microsoft Ignite: Advanced Threat Analytics and How They Help MSPs

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.

RSA39s Amit Yoran delivers keynote address at recent RSA Conference 2015

RSA Conference Highlights Challenges in IT Security Arms Race

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.

David Canellos CEO of Perspecsys

Perspecsys Picks Up A Key Patent

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.

David Shearer executive director of ISCsup2

(ISC)², CSA Team Up To Develop New Cloud Security Cert

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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