Ericka Chickowski

Last year midsized companies spent a total of $17.2 billion fixing IT security incidents according to new research out this week from McAfee. McAfee recently had MSI International surveyed 900 companies with between 51 and 1,000 employees to find that in the past year a single midsized organization lost $43,000 on average due to security […]

Asigra introduced a new channel program Oct. 27 that it says will provide partners with more flexibility in the way they offer cloud-based backup and recovery services and products and will level the playing field for all solution providers. The Toronto-based software vendor rolled out enhancements to its Hybrid Partner Program in order to give […]

Top Reasons SMB Security Still Sags Most channel partners tasked with securing small businesses likely will not be surprised by the latest Zogby poll co-sponsored by the National Cyber Security Alliance and Symantec in honor of October’s designation as National Cyber Security Awareness Month. The results confirmed plenty of solution provider’s anecdotal conclusions that the […]

Symantec announced this week the latest iteration of its data loss prevention suite, Symantec DLP 10, which it will release to the channel starting in December. The new features within DLP 10 primarily focus on better integration within the IT and security infrastructure, more automated remediation options, and improved interaction with other products in the […]

The federal government’s IT security spending growth will outstrip total federal IT spending growth over the next five years, according to a new report from the analysts with INPUT. The government business analyst firm predicts compound annual growth in IT security spending within the U.S. government of 8.1 percent through 2014. That should mean a […]

As more organizations seek to fill their security compliance gaps these days, many of them are finding the most glaring holes are in the database. As the prime repositories of all of that sensitive data that regulations such as SOX, HIPAA and PCI DSS were designed to protect in the first place, databases continue to […]

A new set of survey results released this week by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found that as organizations have held steady or increased IT security budgets in the face of other IT cuts, they’ve been under more pressure than ever to offer greater value through security spend. Unveiled by PwC on Wednesday, the 2009 Global State of […]

RSA announced this week that it will tap TrendMicro technology to add a higher level of real-time threat intelligence to the RSA FraudAction Service, which is operated by RSA’s ’round-the-clock Anti-Fraud Command Center. The new partnership links FraudAction with TrendMicro Smart Protection Network to leverage threat intelligence gathered by TrendMicro and bolster RSA’s ability to […]

As more enterprises lean toward the iterative development techniques of the agile and lean development movements, more and more of them will depend upon channel partners to not only provide the tools necessary to reengineer their workflows, but also the expertise and advice needed to help shift development paradigms. “Agile really requires a shift in […]

Even though some channel partners remain skeptical about the bounce they expect Windows 7 to provide to their sales numbers in the next year, a new study out by ITIC and Sunbelt Software shows that 60 percent of companies worldwide have made plans to deploy the new operating system, and 49 percent will do it […]

On the Go Workers More Mobile Than Ever Heads-up sales by mobile-savvy channel partners may yield better benefits now than even just two years ago, given the way that telecommuting is trending. According to a recent survey completed by Harris Interactive on behalf of Riverbed Technology, American workers are working off-site more often these days […]

Ingram Micro announced late last week that it is joining forces with VAR Resources to offer a new end-user leasing program that it hopes will enable the IT channel to close more deals through a wider selection of financing options. In addition to providing a range of leasing offerings through the new program, the distributor […]