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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.
• Accuvant Solutions Architect Talks Up McAfee's Free Threat Analysis Tools
  10:38 AM EST Thu. Oct. 03, 2013
  McAfee's appliances can help bolster an intrusion prevention system and aid threat analysts in detecting and investigating suspicious activity on the network, says a security solution provider architect.
• McAfee Partner Summit: 10 Ways McAfee Executives Engaged Channel Partners
  4:00 PM EST Wed. Oct. 02, 2013
  Partners were given an overview of McAfee's product road map, a review of challenges and achievements over the last year, and the goals expected of partners over the next year, at the 2013 McAfee SecurityAlliance Partner Summit.
• McAfee President On Competition And Changing Perceptions
  1:36 PM EST Wed. Oct. 02, 2013
  McAfee's Mike DeCesare tells partners which companies keep him up at night and what he's doing to make sure the company is known for more than its antivirus products.
• McAfee Emboldens Channel With 'Hot' Growth Opportunities, New Incentives
  5:00 PM EST Tue. Oct. 01, 2013
  McAfee channel executives tell partners that certain technology areas are prime for profitable growth, including security information event management, advanced threat detection and next-generation firewalls.
• New LogRhythm Channel Chief Nancy Reynolds On 'Embracing' Indirect Model
  11:05 AM EST Tue. Oct. 01, 2013
  Reynolds says she is talking to partners to determine 'where the shortcomings are and fix them' as LogRhythm hopes to attract solution providers with network security expertise.
• 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.
• Cisco, McAfee, Other Firms Addressing NSA-Linked Encryption Algorithm
  3:33 PM EST Fri. Sep. 27, 2013
  Security firms and network device makers that are validated to run a contentious encryption algorithm are addressing customer concerns and considering whether to follow RSA in issuing a formal advisory to customers.
• 5 Reasons FireEye Antimalware Technology Is Overvalued By Wall Street
  10:00 AM EST Tue. Sep. 24, 2013
  FireEye is one of the hottest appliance makers in the security industry, but other security vendors are reproducing its antimalware technology and the value of the protection it provides is unproven, experts tell CRN.
• 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.
• Verdasys Aims To Make FireEye Data Actionable With Automated Response
  5:25 PM EST Wed. Sep. 18, 2013
  The security vendor uses a new data connector to automate incident response activity by identifying infected systems and devices to take them offline.
• Zscaler's Cloud Security Platform Has Eye On Advanced Persistent Threats
  9:53 AM EST Tue. Sep. 17, 2013
  Zscaler adds suspicious file analysis to detect zero-day exploits and custom malware associated with advanced persistent threats.
• FireEye's New Channel Chief To Broaden Push For Partners
  5:58 PM EST Thu. Sep. 12, 2013
  Steve Pataky, the new channel chief at network security vendor FireEye, said he believes the company's malware protection system could be a boon to partners that have the expertise to get it deployed and maintained.
• 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.
• BitSight Technologies CTO Says Security Metrics Can Work
  1:10 PM EST Tue. Sep. 10, 2013
  A security startup that aims to provide timely ratings on the information security effectiveness of organizations, unveiled its new Partner SecurityRating service this week.
• Fortinet Readies Sandboxing Approach To Rival Competitors
  5:13 PM EST Mon. Sep. 09, 2013
  Fortinet executives say the company's forthcoming dual-layer FortiSandbox can do a better job identifying zero-day exploits and custom malware associated with targeted attacks.
• 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.
• Arbor Networks Acquires Australian Startup For Data Analytics
  2:05 PM EST Wed. Sep. 04, 2013
  Arbor said it plans to further invest in the analytics technology driven by Packetloop's Sydney, Australia-based operations.
• WatchGuard Bolsters Deal Registration, Offers 20 Percent Discount
  1:20 PM EST Wed. Sep. 04, 2013
  The maker of Unified Threat Management appliances said it is streamlining its deal registration process and increasing margins to help its professional- and expert-level resellers see through deals.
• 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.