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Websense Releases First Real-Time Security App for Facebook
Websense rolled out the industry’s first real-time security application for Facebook pages today as a part of its Defensio 2.0 launch. The product gives channel partners a more robust way to help clients adapt to the Web 2.0 and social media environment without instituting draconian and backward-looking bans against applications such as Facebook. Able to…
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Consistency: McAfee’s Next Channel Goal
McAfee channel leaders Alex Thurber and Fernando Quintero spent much of this week rolling out strategic initiatives designed to increase partner sales and profitability. It’s been a week of communicating to partners what McAfee is putting behind what has been deemed “2010: The Year of the Channel.” None of these changes—incumbency protection, team sales, easier…
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High Anxiety What Fuels Internet Security Fears
High Anxiety What Fuels Internet Security Fears Phishing Nets 6x New Victims3 in 10 people fall prey to phishing attacks, a six-fold increase in just two years. Phishing accounts for one of the most serious concerns that organizations have with respect to identities and data. No Title Consumer Awareness DoublesConsumer awareness of phishing attacks has…
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SAIC Buys CloudShield Technologies
Science Applications and International Corporation (SAIC) last week bolstered its IT security play with the acquisition of the cybersecurity services-oriented CloudShield Technologies. Like SAIC, CloudShield specializes in public sector work, as well as in serving the security service provider market with tools to manage their own clients’ environments. CloudShield provides infrastructure security solutions and services…
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Websense Restructures, David Roberts Departing
David Roberts is leaving Websense as part of a corporate restructuring of sales. No effective date has been given for his departure, but the company says he will continue with the company through a transition period. Websense has appointed Matt Hynes as vice president of worldwide global channels, a new position for the company. Hynes will…
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Zscaler Poaches Blue Coat Services Exec
Zscaler announced yesterday that it lured the vice president of service providers from web content security rival Bluecoat to perform the same job under its own banner. The personnel move puts Craig Hicks-Frazer in charge of building relationships with service provider partners at Zscaler in the company’s bid to gain traction in the within the…
