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  • ICF Makes Internet Safer, Easier for Consumers

    Microsoft, Oracle, Novell, PayPal and Google are among the IT industry luminaries that have joined together under the banner of the Information Card Foundation to make the Internet safer, more secure and at the same time more open for users. While the ICF isn’t calling itself a standards body, ICF Chairman Paul Trevithik and ICF…

  • Symantec Bundles New Data Center Suite

    Symantec has bundled a management software package that combines the Big Three requirements of data center management into one product: systems management, endpoint security and backup/recovery. Using in a single management console, Symantec said June 23 that it has packaged Altiris Client Management Suite 6, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0, and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 Desktop…

  • 5 Ways to Improve Your Customers’ Security

    Help Your Customers Make Smart Security Choices When it comes to security spending, IT organizations tend to take a reactive approach – spending on yesterday’s headlines – instead of spending on the things they believe to be the biggest threat. To counter that, resellers should help clients plan their security spend, in much the same…

  • IT Spending Ignores Biggest Security Threats

    While companies identify their biggest IT security problem as how users access the internet, they typically ignore that problem when spending their security budgets. That’s according to a new survey of more than 300 IT professionals conducted by CDW.  And the disconnect doesn’t stop there.  The study identified other crucial areas as well that were…

  • AlgoSec FireFlow Heats Up Firewall Market

    Network security VARs, take note: AlgoSec’s FireFlow network policy change workflow management software is the next hot-ticket item for customers. But VARs will have to wait until 2009 to get their hands on it. AFA (AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer) was a big hit with Lightwave Security’s customers, says Lightwave CEO Joseph Dell. But while AFA analyzes…

  • Survey: Alternative Vendors Offer Cutting-Edge Benefits

    It’s a matter of when, not if. Eventually a customer will ask for some feature, function or price point that just can’t be pulled off with the current vendors’ product set. At that point, a VAR can try to come up with a custom solution from the products it already sells. According to a new…

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