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• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:15 AM EST Fri. Oct. 04, 2013
  For the week ending Oct. 4, CRN looks at IT companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• Palo Alto Networks Partners See Big Sales Gains For 2014
  12:31 PM EST Thu. Oct. 03, 2013
  Of the 150 top-tier Palo Alto Americas partners attending the company's fourth annual conference this week, 141 have doubled their sales in the past year and see only good times ahead.
• Experian Buys 41st Parameter For Web Fraud Detection
  11:35 AM EST Tue. Oct. 01, 2013
  Experian's purchase of 41st Parameter is a continuation of the rapid move by larger vendors to invest in technologies that can detect fraud without impacting customers, say analysts.
• Palo Alto Picks Up Partner Pace With Worldwide Channel Chief Appointment
  7:37 PM EST Mon. Sep. 30, 2013
  A 15-year channel veteran and former senior vice president of global channels for videoconferencing vendor Polycom is taking the worldwide channel job at fast-growing Palo Alto Networks.
• NSA Revelations Rattle The Cloud Market: What Are You Doing To Calm Customers' Fears?
  9:00 AM EST Mon. Sep. 30, 2013
  Companies are asking more questions about the security of their cloud-based data as the barrage of NSA-related news rains down. For solution providers, being a 'trusted adviser' has never been more important.
• HP Fires Solution Provider The Experts Following Navy Yard Shooting
  11:45 AM EST Thu. Sep. 26, 2013
  In a letter to The Experts, HP says it has lost confidence in the solution provider's ability to carry out its contract with the Navy.
• EMC Plans Layoffs at RSA Security Division
  10:43 AM EST Thu. Sep. 19, 2013
  Sales of RSA's SecurID hardware tokens have slowly declined in recent years, but the company has been building out its adaptive authentication strategy and is moving into other security areas, analysts say.
• F5 Networks Makes Security Move With Antifraud Versafe Acquisition
  5:56 PM EST Wed. Sep. 18, 2013
  F5 said it acquired Web antifraud detection vendor Versafe to add its behavioral pattern model to its Web application portfolio.
• Navy Yard Shooter Worked At Solution Provider 500 Company
  1:45 PM EST Tue. Sep. 17, 2013
  The man authorities say is responsible for killing 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard Monday was an employee of The Experts, No. 305 on CRN's Solution Provider 500 list this year.
• NSA Revelations Inciting Cloud Services Angst, Says LastPass CEO
  12:13 PM EST Fri. Sep. 13, 2013
  The chief executive of the popular password management tool is attempting to settle a growing concern among users that the government can access its encrypted password storage.
• For The Channel, NSA Spying Can No Longer Be Ignored
  5:08 PM EST Wed. Sep. 11, 2013
  The recent revelations that the NSA has cracked online encryption technologies and placed secret backdoors in security software should be a wake-up call for the channel.
• 10 Ways NSA Surveillance Revelations Could Impact The Channel
  4:00 PM EST Wed. Sep. 11, 2013
  From sales of encryption to a potential pushback against cloud services, revelations over NSA surveillance activities could be significant to the channel.
• Apple iPhone Fingerprint Scanner Could Lift Authentication Market
  3:50 PM EST Tue. Sep. 10, 2013
  Apple is including a fingerprint sensor on its high-end iPhone that could be used to gain access to the device and make purchases. An emerging number of security vendors believe biometrics could strengthen authentication.
• Former Blue Coat Exec Heads Centrify Channel For Single Sign-On
  3:36 PM EST Mon. Sep. 09, 2013
  Centrify's new North America channel chief sees opportunity for growth in sales of its SaaS-based single sign-on platform for cloud-based services.
• Channel Chief Roundtable: Security Is A Must (Video)
  12:00 PM EST Mon. Sep. 09, 2013
  CRN TV talks with some of the top channel executives in the industry about the importance of security skills and certifications for VARs today.
• Report: NSA Has Broken Most Internet Encryption Technologies
  3:16 PM EST Fri. Sep. 06, 2013
  According to documents obtained by The Guardian from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the government is secretly placing vulnerabilities into commercial security software to give the NSA backdoor access.
• Patch Tuesday Preview: Microsoft To Address Office Application Vulnerabilities
  5:11 PM EST Thu. Sep. 05, 2013
  Application-level vulnerabilities take center stage as Microsoft looks to patch holes in Office for next week's security update.
• 5 Ways To Avoid A New York Times-Style Website Attack
  4:00 PM EST Fri. Aug. 30, 2013
  A hacktivist group targeted the underlying domain name system infrastructure, but they used standard hacking techniques to carry out the attack, said experts. Basic security measures could have avoided the disruption.
• Reseller Blamed For NY Times DNS Hack Gives Industry Black Eye, Say Channel Execs
  6:11 PM EST Wed. Aug. 28, 2013
  Australian domain registrar Melbourne IT blames a reseller security lapse for the attack that briefly took out the New York Times, Twitter and other websites on Tuesday. Channel executives tell CRN they are constantly working to establish trust with clients following incidents.
• 10 Endpoint Security Technologies And Tips Proven To Deny Hackers
  4:00 PM EST Wed. Aug. 28, 2013
  Even though security experts say there is no silver bullet when it comes to IT security, vulnerability and configuration management, emerging file behavior technologies and security awareness training combine to help reduce the risk of being breached by custom malware and zero-day attacks.
• Facebook Gave Data On 38,000 Users To Government Authorities
  5:11 PM EST Tue. Aug. 27, 2013
  A new Facebook transparency report cited requests for user data from more than 70 countries and at least 11,000 requests from the U.S. government agents over the last six months.
• Cybersecurity Expert: Assume You're Being Attacked Right Now
  6:12 PM EST Wed. Aug. 21, 2013
  Roger Cressey, a former member of the U.S. National Security Council, told solution providers at XChange Public Sector 2013 they need to focus on more than just technology when dealing with cybersecurity.
• Novacoast Selling Its Intrusion Detection Software In Mac App Store
  10:10 AM EST Wed. Aug. 21, 2013
  By selling its 4Shadow product through the Mac App Store, the solution provider is finding a new route to market for its intellectual property.
• Cloud Security Broker Skyhigh Focuses On 'Deep' Auditing
  2:30 PM EST Mon. Aug. 19, 2013
  One Skyhigh channel partner says the company's risk discovery capabilities lets solution providers be part of the broader security conversation.
• Review: Kingston DataTraveler Vault Privacy
  10:25 AM EST Mon. Aug. 19, 2013
  Kingston's DataTraveler series of secure USB sticks keeps files safe from probing eyes and forgetful hands.