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Lacework Lays Off 20 Percent Of Staff Six Months After Raising $1.3B
by Jay Fitzgerald
‘We have adjusted our plan to increase our cash runway through to profitability and significantly strengthened our balance sheet,’ said co-CEOs David Hatfield and Jay Parikh.
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WhiteSource Has New Security Directions, New Name: Meet ‘Mend’
by Jay Fitzgerald
‘We are embarking on a new journey. We’re taking all of this as an opportunity to reintroduce ourselves,’ co-founder and CEO Rami Sass tells CRN.
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Security Vendor Semperis Lands $200M Funding Round Led By KKR
by Jay Fitzgerald
The identity security vendor is pushing for eventual 100-percent channel sales, says CEO Mickey Bresman.
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New Rubrik Security Cloud Targets Data Resiliency, Observability, Recovery
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We’re looking to help customers solve enterprise resiliency issues across on-premises and the cloud. Every company in the world is vulnerable, especially with the current Ukraine war. We’re ensuring customers can continue to keep their businesses up and running and ultimately serving their end customers,’ says Anneka Gupta, Rubrik’s chief product officer.
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Free Trials Of RMMs Are Being Used By Bad Actors: Blackpoint Cyber CEO
by Steven Burke
‘What we are watching the bad guys do is they get free trials of an RMM, then they phish you, they log into your VPN with stolen creds [credentials], they put the RMM down and they use that to put the ransomware down,’ says Blackpoint Cyber founder and CEO Jon Murchison.
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ConnectWise Control Was Used By Bad Actors: Blackpoint Cyber
by Steven Burke
“We hate to see any software products used for malicious purposes, but unfortunately, remote control tools are used for this purpose all too frequently,” said ConnectWise Chief Product Officer Jeff Bishop in an email statement to CRN.
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Kaspersky Channel Chief Jumps Ship To Cyware
by Jay Fitzgerald
Matthew Courchesne’s departure is only the latest blow for Kaspersky amid concerns about its possible ties to the Russian government.
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CyberArk Launches New $30M Fund To Invest In Startups
by Jay Fitzgerald
Channel partners could benefit in the long-run with access to ‘disruptive’ technologies, company says.
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Government Agencies Warn MSPs To Prepare For More Attacks
by Steven Burke
'The United Kingdom, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and U.S. cybersecurity authorities expect malicious cyber actors—including state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) groups—to step up their targeting of MSPs in their efforts to exploit provider-customer network trust relationships,’ said the joint cybersecurity alert from the five countries.
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Proofpoint Expanding Channel And Sales Teams, Adds Two Specializations
by Jay Fitzgerald
The new Security Awareness Training and Information Protection specializations ‘give partners the ability to build a practice or managed service around our technology,’ says Joe Sykora, Proofpoint’s senior vice president of worldwide channels and partner sales.
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New Era Of ‘Organized Gangs’ Are Infiltrating Software To Take Down MSPs: ThreatLocker CEO Danny Jenkins
by Steven Burke
‘Today, we are not defending against schoolyard bullies,’ says ThreatLocker co-founder and CEO Danny Jenkins. ‘We are not defending against enthusiasts that just want to write malware for fun. We are trying to defend ourselves against organized gangs…We are fighting sophisticated businesses.’
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Why Accenture’s New Security Chief Aims To Hire More Non-IT Workers To Combat Cybercrime
by Jay Fitzgerald
‘This is not just about technical skills. It is more also about soft skills,’ says Paolo Dal Cin, head of Accenture Security.
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Traceable AI Raises An Additional $60M For Deployment Of API Security Product
by Jay Fitzgerald
CEO Jyoti Bansal vows ‘robust’ expansion of channel team. ‘The market is massive for a company like ours,’ he says.
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Ransomware Attacks Surged By 37 Percent In 2021: Sophos Survey
by Jay Fitzgerald
Ransom payments increased five-fold to an average $812,360 last year, the survey finds. ‘If I were a channel player, I would look at what is going wrong and worry. Some of these organizations clearly don’t understand the threat,’ says a Sophos research scientist.
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