About
CJ Fairfield is an associate editor at CRN covering solution providers, MSPs and distributors. She holds a Master’s degree in International Journalism from Brunel University London. Prior to joining CRN, she worked at daily newspapers, including The Press of Atlantic City in New Jersey and The Frederick News-Post in Maryland. She lives in New Jersey with her shitzu-bichon mix, Kenley.
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WatchGuard CSO: ‘Hackers Don’t Break In, They Log In’
by C.J. Fairfield
‘Nowadays I’m so sick of talking about ransomware, but let’s face it, it’s the payload of choice if I’m a cybercriminal,’ says Corey Nachreiner, CSO for WatchGuard.
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Cloud, Security Top Midmarket IT Spending: Survey
by C.J. Fairfield
“I’m actually a little surprised that cybersecurity is in the No. 2 position. Typically every survey we’ve been doing recently, cybersecurity is No. 1 in terms of spend,” says Adam Dennison, vice president of Midsize Enterprise Services for CRN parent The Channel Company.
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These 33 Top Tech Companies Put Employees First: People Magazine
by C.J. Fairfield
In a people-first approach, tech companies have really homed in on helping others in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. People magazine’s 100 Companies That Care 2021 runs through many of those companies who are giving back and putting forward efforts to help their own and others in the community.
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IT By Design’s New Platform Emphasizes Employee Culture
by C.J. Fairfield
IT by Design CEO Sunny Kaila and his wife CRO Kam Kaila aim to solve MSPs’ talent issues with Team GPS, which will assist in engaging with employees and how to move forward in the new normal of hybrid work.
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Password Boss Makes Privileged Access Management Play With Acquisition
by C.J. Fairfield
‘Putting privilege management really starts connecting the dots for making the desktop more secure. That‘s probably the most insecure area in small business… user’s desktops,’ says Dave Bellini, CEO of Password Boss.
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NinjaRMM CEO: COVID Vaccines Required In New Texas HQ
by C.J. Fairfield
‘The No. 1 reason moving to Austin was right for Ninja is that’s where our employees wanted to go,’ says NinaRMM CEO Sal Sferlazza. ‘When the COVID-19 pandemic kicked off the work-from-home era, about half of Ninja’s employees were already working remotely and a handful of employees had planned to relocate from the Bay Area to Austin.’
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2021 IT Channel Sales On Tap To Exceed Last Year’s $93B: NPD Group
by C.J. Fairfield
Return-to-work environments, software deployment and a backlog in hardware orders are all contributing factors to an increase in enterprise channel sales in the first half of 2021, according to the market research firm.
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How One MSP Negotiated ‘In The Early Days Of Ransomware’
by C.J. Fairfield
“After some investigation and seeing what we could do, or decrypt, or get into or, or not… we just told them, ‘At this point, if this is your only copy of all of that stuff, you’ll have no other access to this data unless you pay the ransom,’” the executive at a New Mexico-based MSP tells CRN.
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LogMeIn: Poor Or Reused Passwords Responsible For 80 Percent Of Breaches
by C.J. Fairfield
‘Right now with COVID, most companies are sharing their passwords just in an email, and that is not secure. That can be hacked very easily,’ says Jason Lucero, MSP channel manager for LastPass by LogMeIn.
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ConnectWise Exec to MSPs: Look Past Threat Detection
by C.J. Fairfield
‘At some point prevention fails. At some point what we’re doing to stop something does not work anymore,’ says Wes Spencer, VP and external CISO for ConnectWise.
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Pax8’s Walsh: ‘Security Is Never Going To Leave The Conversation’
by C.J. Fairfield
Seventy-seven percent of Pax8’s partners expect to begin working with new additional security technology, with the top three being ransomware detection, threat hunting and endpoint protection, says Ryan Walsh, Pax8’s chief channel officer.
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Brother International: Print Management Is A $762M Market
by C.J. Fairfield
In addition to selling print hardware, solution providers can generate additional revenue by offering product infrastructure management and customizing workflow solutions for those devices, says Brother International’s David Fisher.
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N-able: Big Demand For ‘Anything To Do With Security’ After Kaseya Ransomware Attack
by C.J. Fairfield
‘While IT outsourcing has been around for decades, the complexity and sophistication of cyber threats that SME’s face everyday have reached record heights,’ says N-able President and CEO John Pagliuca.
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MSPs Witnessing ‘Turbocharged’ Sales In ‘Banner Year’ 2021
by C.J. Fairfield
“The pipeline we see is that the second half of the year will absolutely be off the charts,” said John Marler, president and CEO of Houston-based solution provider Set Solutions.
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