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Guy March of Tenable lays out the channel angle on Security.

Development has Evolved and Security Must Too.

 If we go back to the turn of the century, IT would have needed to provision physical machines, loaded with a host of applications that were physically connected to the internet, to enable a remote employee. To introduce a new service would have taken, on average, between six and eight months in production. The next ‘phase’ saw us move to the age of Virtual Machines and, while this simplified the deployment, the architecture remained the same. This was still seen as a ‘win’ in terms of agility and speed of deployment. Today, and by harnessing the power of the Cloud, enabling a remote workforce is very different and can be done in a matter of days, if not hours. 

Guy March, Channel Director – EMEA, Tenable

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Lord of the Rings, World Password Day, and the keys to well-rounded data security

Lord of the Rings, World Password Day, and the keys to well-rounded data security  

On World Password Day, it’s important to reinforce strong password hygiene — a critical component to data security, but one that merely scratches the surface.  Justin Augat has an Elvish view on the first Thursday in May

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Arrow Electronics Enters into UK Distribution Agreement with Fortinet

Arrow Electronics Enters into UK Distribution Agreement with Fortinet

Arrow Electronics has entered into a UK distribution agreement with Fortinet, to provide Fortinet’s cybersecurity solutions to UK channel customers.

Fortinet, states its mission, is to deliver innovative, high-performing network security to secure and simplify IT infrastructure for organisations of all sizes.

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Channel Marketing Program of the Year first place F-Secure’s Global Partner Program

Helsinki, Finland – Forrester-owned SiriusDecisions has recognised cyber security provider F-Secure’s Global Partner Program as the Channel Marketing Program of the Year.

This distinction validates F-Secure’s achievements in providing industry-leading support for business-to-business (B2B) resellers’ efforts in developing the know-how and expertise needed to deliver more mature security capabilities, such as those offered by detection and response solutions, to organisations.

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How to Protect your Business from Malware

Secure your Network

It has been said many times before, but firewalls and anti-malware software are the first line of defence against cyberattacks. Your business will be connected to the internet through many different sources so your firewall will need to monitor all of these connections. Also, a single installation of an antivirus software is not enough, you should invest in multiple layers of security including; antivirus, anti-malware and anti-ransomware.

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Avast to buy AVG shares

Avast Software and AVG Technologies, two Anti virus companies have  announced that they have entered into a purchase agreement in which Avast will buy shares in AVG for $25.00 per share in cash, for a total  $1.3B

Avast is making this purchase to gain scale, technological depth and geographical breadth,  so that the new organisation can be in a position to take advantage of emerging growth opportunities in Internet Security as well as organisational efficiencies.

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New Offering from Imation in low cost BYOD

Imation a global provider of data storage and information security, have announced its IronKey Workspace W200 PC on a Stick USB flash drive.

This is a robust USB flash drive, with Microsoft Windows 10 certification, offering  a high-performance, low-expense option for cost-sensitive enterprises, which can save up to 95 percent compared to providing employees with company laptops.

This brings a new vision to bring your own devise, it could be supporting a mobile workforce, a contingency staff or a BYOD programme, the IronKey Workspace W200 allows enterprise IT administrators to provide a Windows 10 or 8.1 mobile corporate environment containing all the IT security tools and policies to protect these users, no matter where they work.

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Cost of Data Breaches will increase 4 fold

New Juniper Research, suggests that the cost of data breaches to will increase $2.1 trillion globally by the end of 2018, this is four times the estimated cost of breaches in 2015.

The document, entitled “The Future of Cybercrime & Security: Financial & Corporate Threats & Mitigation”, has predicted that the majority of these breaches will come from existing IT and network infrastructure. While new threats targeting mobile devices and the Internet of Things are being reported at an increasing rate, the number of infected devices is minimal in comparison to more traditional computing devices.

The Cybercrime Economy Driving Action

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