Tag Archives: Cybersecurity

Performanta has acquired Identity Experts, a Microsoft Gold Security Partner and Identity & Access Management (IAM) specialist consultancy based in the UK. The move follows a significant investment round from Beech Tree Private Equity and will allow Performanta to extend important security capabilities further across the Microsoft portfolio. “This past …

Westcon-Comstor has entered a European distribution agreement with Anomali, a specialist in intelligence-driven cybersecurity solutions.  Anomali’s solutions – including ThreatStream, Match, and Lens – enhance threat visibility, automate threat processing and detection, and accelerate threat investigation, response, and remediation. Anomali’s offering enables businesses to operationalise all their threat intelligence under …

 Kaseya has unveiled several new product enhancements and workflow integrations to strengthen the Kaseya IT Complete platform, its comprehensive suite of integrated IT tools designed for the multi-functional IT professional. “From cybersecurity concerns to compliance guidelines, MSPs and SMBs are facing a growing set of complex challenges,” said Mike Puglia, Chief …

Denial-of-Service (DoS) and password login attacks such as brute force and credential stuffing are on the rise, according to new research from F5 Labs. The analysis of three years of incidents reported to the F5 Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) also found that Application Programming Interface (API) attacks are becoming …

ESET Research has uncovered a new banking trojan that has been targeting corporate users in Brazil since at least 2019 across many sectors, including engineering, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, finance, transportation, and governmental institutions. ESET dubbed the new threat Janeleiro. It attempts to deceive its victims with pop-up windows designed to …

By Alex Holmström, Global Sales & Marketing Director, ACRE International We’re now part of a cloud-enabled world. While information technology has moved rapidly and with a degree of unpredictability over the past year, the ability to move to a remote workforce — powered by technology — has enabled us all …

WatchGuard Technologies has appointed cybersecurity and service provider veteran, Miguel Carrero, as vice president of Strategic Accounts. In this role, Miguel is responsible for leading the growth and expansion of the company’s global effort to target, onboard and manage partnerships with strategic accounts including multi-national service providers and managed security service providers (MSSPs). “Miguel has had a long and successful career and is widely recognised for his security and technology expertise, sales and go-to-market experience, leadership acumen, and collaborative mentality,” …

e92plus is partnering with Cloudflare to grow Cloudflare’s channel community in the UK. “As customers have accelerated their transition to the cloud, the demand for solutions from Cloudflare has risen dramatically,” states Anwar Karzazi, Head of Cloudflare EMEA Channel Sales and Partnership. “e92plus have well-established expertise as a distributor in …

Jamie Pearce, Sales Director, e92plus discusses 6 key opportunities for MSPs to grow in 2021. The current outlook and market opportunities for MSPs is bright – it’s a competitive field, but it’s a sector expected to grow in 2021 above 11%, above most other areas and offers potential for strong margins …

One fifth of the UK public doesn’t know how to permanently erase data from a device, Kaspersky research has found. The cybersecurity expert also undertook a data retrieval experiment on second-hand devices and discovered that 90% contained traces of private and business data, including company emails and much more – demonstrating a risk to businesses when employees fail to wipe their devices before sale. Kaspersky set …