CRN Security News for VARs and Technology Integrators

Security Researcher Posts iPhone Exploit Code Online

A leading security researcher has posted exploit code for Apple's iPhone that can be used to gain complete control over the device.
SonicWall Targets Enterprises With New Appliance Line

SonicWall on Monday launched a new line of security appliances that protect enterprises from threats without sacrificing network traffic throughput.
SonicWall Targets Enterprises With New Appliances

SonicWall on Monday launched a new line of security appliances that protect enterprises from threats without sacrificing network traffic throughput
Symantec Mum On Vontu Acquisition Plans

Symantec isn't offering any comment on industry reports that it's about to acquire data leak prevention vendor Vontu.
Apple Partners Downplay Threat Of iPod Touch Hackers

Apple takes iJailBreak application offline as online community awaits others to follow in its footsteps.
Porn Spam Miscreants Get 5 Years In Prison

A U.S. court last week handed out prison sentences to a pair of men convicted of running a lucrative porn spam operation.
Automation To Achieve Better ROI On IT Governance, Risk And Compliance Solutions

Security remains the top predicted spend for companies of all sizes, and so the opportunties for VARs have to provide products and services continue to rise.
Phoenix Releases New BIOS For Laptop Security

New FailSafe product can't stop people from losing their laptops, but vendor is trying to make sure all is not lost when it happens.
The Two-Factor Factor

When PC maker Lenovo last year introduced fingerprint-based, biometric security to ThinkPads, it brought to mainstream technology the type of two-factor authentication that once seemed unobtainable for most businesses.
RSA Nudging Channel Partners Toward Data Security Solutions

Vendor outlines goals, assistance plans "to up the ante" for resellers at SecurWorld partner conference.
Dangerous Security Mistakes That Can Take Your Company Down

IT security experts from SonicWall, Microsoft, Symantec and others explain how to avoid catastrophic security mistakes.
With SafeBoot Buy, McAfee Takes Another Shot At Encryption

Five years after selling off the PGP product line, McAfee is taking another step into the encryption market.
Security Threat Survival Guide for VARs

Corporate IT managers are under pressure to maintain water-tight security measures as threats to infiltrate corporate data networks become more sophisticated and gain complexity. VARs who service corporate customers recognize this need to survive and say they are looking for solutions that solve the entire range of their customers' security needs.
Trend and Ingram Micro Hook Up On Licensing

Trend Micro will allow Ingram Micro resellers to sell its software through a pay-as-you-go subcription model that's attracting growing attention in the channel.
Juniper Links NAC, Intrusion Prevention

Juniper is strengthening ties between its security products with the latest iteration of its NAC technology.
Meteoric Rise To The Top

The rise of Juniper Networks in the Security Appliance product category of the VARBusiness Annual Report Card study over the past three years has been meteoric. Last year the vendor came in third behind former front-runner Sonic Wall and second-place Cisco Systems.
Channel Friendliness Counts

In this year's VARBusiness Annual Report Card survey, England-based vendor Sophos was something of a dark horse. But competing in the ARC awards for the first time, Sophos, with an overall score of 73, won the highest marks ever in the security software category. Sophos soundly beat second-place Cisco Systems, which had won or tied for first place the previous three years, but this year only managed an overall score of 67.
Fortinet Dumps Synnex And Westcon

Fortinet aligns with Ingram Micro and Tech Data to attract more VARs and better compete with Cisco, Checkpoint and others.
BitDefender Names Top 10 Malware Threats

Hackers are getting smarter than ever, creating steathly custom viruses designed to aviod early detection.
McAfee Lures Another EMC Sales Executive

Michael DeCesare becomes executive vice president of worldwide sales.

Slide Shows

	5 Major IoT Challenges Executives Are Grappling With A recent survey of more than 100 IoT executives found that many of them face issues when it comes to scalability, implementation, connectivity and security of IoT deployments, pointing to potential opportunities for solution providers.
	5 Things You Should Know About Cisco's Decision To Fold Spark Into Webex Cisco has announced that the former Spark platform will be known as Webex Teams, and it comes along with the launch of a new Webex Meetings application, as well as a new Webex Assistant and a Webex Share device.
	CRN Interview: Atos North America CEO On U.S. Expansion, M&A Strategy And Why Labor Arbitrage Is Dying "The world of offshoring everything to India or the Philippines is gone because customers want people next to them," said Atos North America CEO Patrick Adiba, in an interview with CRN.