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McAfee Launches SMB Specialization in SecurityAlliance Program
Security specialist McAfee announced it is making “significant investments” to enable partners to sell McAfee security solutions to small and midsize businesses. In response to a worldwide opportunity of more than $7 billion for SMB security solutions, McAfee is launching the SMB Specialization within the McAfee SecurityAlliance program to enable partners to improve profitability while…
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RSA SecurID Replacement: VARs Respond
RSA’s confirmation of the severity of its March data breach this week and announcement that it will replace 40 million SecurID authentication tokens as a result has left partners scrambling with many questioning the reputation of the vaunted security vendor. "Trust is the currency of business in information security," says Rick Moy, CEO of NSS…
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Businesses Face Rising Challenges to Keep Data Secure: Report
A report from Check Point Software and the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, revealed that 77 percent of organizations surveyed have experienced data loss in the last year. Key findings from the report, Understanding Security Complexity in 21st Century IT Environments, showed respondents cited customer information (52 percent) as the most…
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Cloud, Virtualized Environments Targeted by Cyber-Attackers
NEW YORK — Cyber-criminals are simultaneously taking advantage of the cloud’s benefits to launch attacks as well as targeting organizations’ cloud services, security experts said. As organizations increasingly virtualize their data centers and move their applications to the cloud, attackers are beginning to think, "Let’s attack here," Allen Vance, director of product management of the…
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RSA to Reissue SecurID Tokens
It took nearly three months and a major security incident at one of the nation’s most critical defense contractors to spur it on, but on Monday RSA, The Security Division of EMC, finally let the cat out of the bag about the severity of a March security breach against its SecurID authentication token infrastructure. The…
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Security Threat Intensifies: Lockheed, Google, DoD
Last week the threat of cyberwarfare and state-sponsored hacking activities flared up to show itself as more than just an imaginary boogeyman. The fleeting specter gained some tangibility with a number of incidents coming to light, including the details of a sophisticated attack against defense contractor Lockheed Martin, some of its subcontractors and potentially other…