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Ping Identity unveils first two cloud services in ‘land and expand’ customer acquisition strategy

October 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ping Identity unveils first two cloud services in ‘land and expand’ customer acquisition strategy
PingOne MFA and PingOne Risk Management are the first two services in an inventory of cloud services that Ping expects to hit double digits.

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Channel Programs

Unified BlackBerry partner program brings new reseller focus from Cylance

October 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Unified BlackBerry partner program brings new reseller focus from Cylance
BlackBerry introduced its new partner program at its BlackBerry Security Summit, while emphasizing the importance of partners to the Go-to-Market strategy going forward.

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Mobility

BlackBerry looks to displace signature-based solutions with new Cyber Suite

October 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on BlackBerry looks to displace signature-based solutions with new Cyber Suite
The BlackBerry Cyber Suite includes two brand new offerings, BlackBerry Protect Mobile and BlackBerry Persona Desktop, a UEBA solution. It also includes the existing BlackBerry Protect Desktop and BlackBerry Optics EDR.

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Security

Ping Identity lays out personal identity management vision with ShoCard acquisition

October 7, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ping Identity lays out personal identity management vision with ShoCard acquisition
ShoCard’s blockchain-based technology, which will be integrated into the Ping Intelligent Identity Platform, creates an identity wallet which gives the user more granular control over the identity information they surrender in digital transactions.

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data security
Security

Help your customers do their part to #BeCyberSmart

October 5, 2020 Barracuda MSP Guest Blog Comments Off on Help your customers do their part to #BeCyberSmart
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is the perfect time to educate clients about domain and brand impersonation scams, which are on the rise.

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Internet of Things

DH2i moves into IoT market with DxOdyssey for IoT

October 5, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on DH2i moves into IoT market with DxOdyssey for IoT
DH2i’s new initiative involves an expanded relationship with Microsoft around its new Azure SQL Edge data engine, and their offering will be available in the Azure marketplace.

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Channel Programs

WatchGuard further drives Panda integration with full cross-sell capability, new endpoint security specialization

October 1, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on WatchGuard further drives Panda integration with full cross-sell capability, new endpoint security specialization
WatchGuard is also announcing that Panda resellers can now join the WatchGuardONE program, with their status in the WatchGuard program grandfathered for six months.

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data security
Security

Small and medium‑sized businesses: Big targets for ransomware attacks

September 29, 2020 ESET Guest Blog Comments Off on Small and medium‑sized businesses: Big targets for ransomware attacks
Why are SMBs a target for ransomware-wielding gangs and what can they do to protect themselves against cyber-extortion? ESET offers some thoughts.

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Cloud

FireMon extends full platform functionality into the cloud in new platform release

September 24, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on FireMon extends full platform functionality into the cloud in new platform release
FireMon says that their increased cloud capabilities differentiate them enough in the NSPM market to justify them calling their platform the first agile one in the industry.

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Cloud

Barracuda upgrades CloudGen WAN with personal remote access, IoT capability

September 22, 2020 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda upgrades CloudGen WAN with personal remote access, IoT capability
Barracuda just rolled out its SD-WAN service built natively on Azure in July, and now has rolled out new enhancements to build on momentum they are seeing in the market.

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