Year: 2016
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Distinguishing ‘True’ Malicious Security Threats
Categories: SecuritySecurity threats Distinguishing ‘True’ Malicious Security Threats One of the biggest challenges companies face with thousands of suspicious or unusual activities per month is determining which ones pose the biggest threats. Suspicious Activities These activities fall into three areas: abnormal behavior, log-in activity (such as log-in challenges, log-in failures and log-in circumvention) and admin actions… Read more
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Intel Security Ups Its Game With Platform Strategy
Categories: SecurityIntel Security officials have a new strategy that involves pivoting away from selling point products to a platform-based solution that offers a broad range of integrated offerings. Now, the company is looking to its partners to fall in line with the strategy and start bringing it to their customers. At this month’s Ascend 2016 Partner… Read more
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How Security and Regulatory Compliance Differ
Categories: SecurityRegulatory legislation was never written specifically to address network or data security. Guideline documentation for legislation, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, barely mentions security. Yet many executives, whether guided by their IT management or their own misperceptions, continue to believe that achieving one automatically assures the other. This is not the… Read more
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Playing Nice Within the Hadoop Ecosystem
Categories: News and TrendsAlthough interest in all things relating to Hadoop is running high, there’s a lot of contention these days behind the scenes between Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR Technologies concerning when and where they can add value to the open-source platform. To mitigate some of that contention, a large number of independent software vendors banded together to… Read more
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API Economy Brings Demand for Managed Services
Categories: Managed ServicesAPIs API Economy Brings Demand for Managed Services Enthusiasm is picking up for digital business projects based on APIs. Also beginning to build is interest in managed services surrounding API projects. APIs at the Heart of Digital Business 50% of respondents use APIs; 46% of respondents currently have a digital business initiative that requires use… Read more
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Lenovo Hones Channel Strategy to Grow Market Share
Categories: Tech CompaniesORLANDO, Fla.—At the Lenovo Accelerate 2016 partner conference here, the company revealed that it is adding 2,000 sales people dedicated to selling data center products and services that the channel will fulfill. Lenovo also launched a small-business initiative aimed at drumming up new business for channel partners. Lenovo Channel Chief Sammy Kinlaw said the company… Read more