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CompTIA Targets Security, Open Source, Small Business with Member Communities
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) is hoping to better serve the IT industry with the rollout of seven new collaborative communities designed to gather input from a range of industry segments for a deeper dive into the concerns of IT’s most important niches. Announced last week, the communities will be a way for CompTIA’s…
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Eight Trends to Follow at RSA
Eight Trends to Follow at RSA No Title The Cloud ConundrumSecurity has been one of the major inhibitors to cloud adoption within the enterprise to date. When the experts convene this year, expect cloud security discussions to revolve around security enablement technologies, as well as new frameworks to measure and audit the security of…
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Alert Logic Restructures for Better Channel Support
In a move to drive sales through the channel and build up a more consistent recurring revenue model for its partners, the log management and IDS company Alert Logic unveiled a joint announcement yesterday that it would be introducing a new program and a new set of cloud-based log management tools designed to be sold…
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IT Security Woes Can Mean Opportunity for Resellers
A new survey of enterprise IT managers released today showed that as large organizations struggle with insufficient IT security staffs, cyber-security threats increasing in complexity and frequency, higher costs incurred by data breaches and a greater amount of work thrown up by security regulations, channel partners with distinct security services practices should be able to…
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Virus Breach Thousands of Computers Globally
(Reuters) – A new type of computer virus is known to have breached almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of popular social network websites, according Internet security firm NetWitness. The latest virus — known as "Kneber botnet" — gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and…
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Top Threats of 2010 Social Networking Web 20
Top Threats of 2010 Social Networking Web 20 A study released this week showing survey results among more than 800 IT professionals from small to medium businesses (SMBs) with between 100 to 5,000 employees showed that while SMBs are well aware of the security threats they face, they’re still tackling problems ineffectively. Sponsored by Webroot,…
