Security

CrowdStrike Eyes IPO In First Half Of 2019: Report

by Michael Novinson

‘We're to the size and scale where we could be a public company, and we're being courted pretty heavily in that arena,’ CrowdStrike Co-Founder and CEO George Kurtz told CRN in June.

McAfee Building Tool To Pinpoint Relevant Zero-Day Threat Campaigns

by Michael Novinson

McAfee CTO Steve Grobman says the Apollo research project will focus on the intersection between what's happening in a user's organization and the latest developments in the global threat landscape.

iCorps Hosts First Cybersecurity Summit As Attacks Towards SMBs Escalate

by Diana Blass

CRNtv explores how iCorps Technologies is helping its customers stay secure as they increasingly become the victims of sophisticated cyber attacks.

McAfee Debuts Endpoint Detection And Response, Unveils Other Tools

by Michael Novinson

McAfee can differentiate itself from emerging players in the EDR space through integrations with its endpoint protection and security tools, allowing for protection, detection and adoption to be more tightly aligned, Raja Patel said.

Alert Logic Debuts Inaugural Partner Program To Deepen Channel Ties

by Michael Novinson

Cybersecurity vendor Alert Logic hopes to grow its partner base from 350 today to between 450 and 500 a year from now and have between 80 percent and 85 percent of new bookings flowing through the channel.

Rapid7 Buys Web Application Security Startup tCell To Thwart Attacks

by Michael Novinson

tCell's ability to enforce web application security from the browser to the server should make it easier for organizations to identify and block attacks, Rapid7 said.

Palo Alto Networks Taps Former Google Exec Amit Singh As President

by Michael Novinson

Singh worked alongside Nikesh Arora at Google between May 2010 and December 2014. Arora took over as chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks in June.

CRN Exclusive: Former Ixia Channel Chief Lori Cornmesser Jumps To Network Identity Player Infoblox

by Michael Novinson

Cornmesser plans to develop profiles of Infoblox's 1,000 global partners so the company can bring different messages to them based on whether they're more security-focused or cloud-focused.

WATCH: SecureAuth Talks Partner Opportunities At INTERSECTION 2018

by Diana Blass

SecureAuth is on a mission to end identity-related breaches. Executives discussed the role channel partners can play to help with that during the cybersecurity company’s customer event, INTERSECTION 2018, held in Washington, D.C. this week. [Related: 2018 Security 100: 20 Coolest Identity Management And Data Protection Vendors] “The idea of just bu

Thoma Bravo To Buy Cybersecurity Vendor Imperva For $2.1B

by Michael Novinson

The agreement with Imperva comes just months after Thoma Bravo purchased cybersecurity vendors Barracuda Networks, LogRhythm and Centrify.

Carbon Black Debuts Threat Hunting On Endpoint Protection Platform

by Michael Novinson

Cb ThreatHunter continuously collects unfiltered data, making it easier for security teams to proactively hunt threats, uncover suspicious and stealthy behavior, and disrupt active attacks.

Centrify Names New CEO, To Spin Out Identity-as-a-Service Business

by Michael Novinson

CFO Tim Steinkopf will replace Tom Kemp, who co-founded Centrify in 2004 and has grown the company to nearly 500 employees during his almost 15 years as CEO

Cybersecurity Startup JASK Hires Jessica Couto As Channel Chief

by Michael Novinson

Couto plans to grow JASK’s North American partner base from 10 today to 40 by the first quarter of 2019 and boost the share of business flowing through the channel from 90 percent today to 100 percent by the end of 2018.

Symantec Enhances Managed Cloud, CASB To Protect Apps, Platforms

by Michael Novinson

‘We see huge demand from our customers,’ says Symantec’s Eric Andrews. ‘They're all flooding into the cloud at a fast pace, and they're trying to catch up on security.’

VMware's Pat Gelsinger: 'I Want To Disrupt Everything About The Security Market'

by Mark Haranas

"I think security [vendors have] failed our customers in the past," said VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger during his keynote at 2018 Best of Breed Conference on Monday.