Ericka Chickowski

IT Budgeting and Priorities What Your Customers Are Thinking   No Title The uncertainty in the market may be tough for those in the channel, but if a new survey of CIOs and executive IT leaders conducted by the Society for Information Management (SIM) is to be believed, spending will largely hold steady or even […]

VeriSign announced that it is teaming up with RSA to offer RSA SecurID hardware tokens as a means of second factor authentication in conjunction with the VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Authentication Service. Sold both through VeriSign channel partners and direct, VIP is a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that offers users managed, shared authentication to access […]

Trend Micro on Tuesday unveiled a services solution that it says will enable the channel to offer customers better visibility into dynamic malware threat vectors through a net new technology layer. Dubbed Trend Micro Threat Management Services (TMS), the new offering provides early warning, containment and remediation of data-stealing malware infiltrations already within the network. […]

Websense is hoping to get a shot in the arm of innovation with the appointment of a new research leader poached from the labs of antivirus vendor F-Secure. Just under a month ago the web security firm hired Patrik Runald as senior research manager for the Websense Security Labs. With 14 years of security research […]

More than half of companies worldwide report that they are planning to invest in DLP technology, according to a new report released yesterday.   Sponsored by Dimension Data and conducted by researchers by IDC, the survey of more than 400 IT security decision makers found that internal data leak concerns were more top of mind […]

Kaspersky Lab yesterday released an update to its security administration kit that it hopes will aid partners in selling Kaspersky into the enterprise. The company unwrapped Kaspersky Open Space Security (KOSS) Release 2, a suite of three applications that includes antivirus for workstations and for servers, plus the eighth iteration of its administration kit. The […]

Last week, Falls Church, Va.-based CSC officially snatched the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Information Technology Infrastructure Program (ITIP) services contract from incumbent Unisys by closing on a five-year deal potentially worth $493 million. So how’d CSC do it? That’s the burning question asked by many a channel provider gone a bit green over someone else […]

System integrators and VARs who help enterprises with their identity and access management (IAM) initiatives received just a little bit more market clarity about the interoperability of seven major vendors’ products yesterday. The Kantara Initiative and Liberty Alliance announced IAM products from Entrust, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Ping Identity, SAP and Siemens all passed the Liberty […]

As security and network managers lose sleep over how to gain control over increasingly virtualized data centers and IT infrastructures coming untethered at the cloud, channel partners are being called upon to help with the situation. The problem for partners: given the immaturity of today’s security tools, it is nigh impossible to offer customers good […]

Security Audits Do Customers Listen Of the survey participants, 76% have employed third-party experts to audit network security practices. However, only 35% conduct these audits every year. About 27% hire a third party to audit every two years and 14% do so every three years or more. No Title The key driver for bringing in […]

Specializing in data security within testing and QA environments, Fremont, Calif.-based Dataguise is amping up its efforts to appeal to compliance-minded business users with a new sales executive appointment that may also heat up its efforts to engage the channel. The company named Martyn Baker as vice president of sales earlier this month. With more […]

Just a few weeks after a name change and a little under 11 months after a merger between Marshal and 8e6 Technologies, M86 Security has high aspirations to take on major security players such as Websense and McAfee in the secure Web gateway market with the help of a new slate of products and a […]