About
O’Ryan Johnson is a veteran news reporter. He covers the channel beat for CRN and hopes to hear from channel partners about how he can improve his coverage and write the stories they want to read. He can be reached at ojohnson@thechannelcompany.com.
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ServiceNow Partner ‘Fired Up’ For Changes Aimed At The C-Suite
by O’Ryan Johnson
“It’s hard to listen to these guys without getting fired up and have your mind racing about the potential of this,” Rob Rishel, executive director of the ServiceNow practice with CAI, Inc., tells CRN.
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Cognizant Contains Maze Ransomware Attack As Cleanup Costs Spiral
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘Nobody wants to be dealt with a ransomware attack. I personally don't believe anybody is truly impervious to it, but the difference is how you manage it. And we tried to manage it professionally and maturely,’ Cognizant CEO Brian Humphries says.
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Tech Data Offers RangeForce To Skill Up Security Professionals
by O’Ryan Johnson
The gamified training solutions lets users take on bad actors in virtual environments, as part of Tech Data’s push to expand its partner’s security practice.
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5 Things To Know Ahead Of Cognizant’s First Quarter Earnings Call
by O’Ryan Johnson
The company hit a milestone in February, topping $70 a share, but that soon tumbled as the coronavirus pandemic spread and the CEO warned of an impact throughout 2020.
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10 Questions With Tech Data Security Guru Alex Ryals On Security Trends And Training In Isolation
by O’Ryan Johnson
Learning about cybersecurity has never been more important, or easier to consume with a variety of styles and modules to select, Tech Data’s VP of Security Solutions Alex Ryals tells CRN.
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Xerox CEO: ‘This Isn't The Year We Planned For. This Is The One We Have’
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘It is hard to predict, but in all of our models, Q2 is worse than Q1,’ Xerox CFO Bill Osborn tells investors.
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Ingram Micro Doubles Down On IoT With New Center Of Excellence
by O’Ryan Johnson
“We don’t want to multiply the problems or the challenges that the reseller is trying to solve. We want to complement their effort and support them,” Sabine Howest, vice president of global partner engagement and IoT at Ingram Micro said.
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Cognizant: Some Employee Email Access Lost After Maze Attack
by O’Ryan Johnson
In a statement to CRN, the company said employees are maintaining contact with clients through ‘a number of communications channels.’
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Cognizant Left With ‘No Good Options’ After Maze Attack: Security Expert
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘If they do pay, all they’ll get is a pinky promise from the criminals that the data won’t be used, but why would a criminal enterprise ever delete data that they may be able to monetize?’ says Brett Callow, a threat analyst at Emsisoft.
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Managed Print Providers See More Locations, More Devices In ‘Recovery’
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘If we have a client with two offices now, with the things that we’re seeing, I could easily see that growing to 15 if a lot of the workers are working from home,’ says Josh Justice, president of Just Tech, a Xerox reseller, and IT services provider in La Plata, Md.
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Cognizant And Its Customers Hit By Maze Ransomware
by O’Ryan Johnson
“Our internal security teams, supplemented by leading cyber defense firms, are actively taking steps to contain this incident. Cognizant has also engaged with the appropriate law enforcement authorities,” the company said in a statement Saturday.
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HNA Group Says It Has ‘Reached The Point Of Life And Death’ Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
by O’Ryan Johnson
‘HNA’s problems accumulated over time and it is indeed difficult to solve the problems overnight,’ HNA wrote in an unsigned letter posted to its official Chinese social media account.
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HNA Group Woes Multiply As Notes Mature
by O’Ryan Johnson
The air carrier and parent company of Ingram Micro is facing enormous pressure as coronavirus travel restrictions have choked its core business.
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