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Reflections on a decade in the channel

Ten years ago, IT veterans Ronnie Altit, Steven Boi and Izik Gur, banded together to launch a partner services company, Insentra, specifically for channel partners.

Cyber scammers hijack Office 365 brand

Telstra’s cyber security unit has warned of a phishing scam making use of a fake Microsoft Office 365 login page, targeting those working from home ...

Okta lowers technical training costs in partner program upgrade

Okta has put partner training and accreditation at the centre of its latest program revamp.

Global corporate tech spend could be cut by 4.1% in 2020 due to coronavirus

But the forecast drop in tech budgets may be less than initially feared as companies race to accelerate spending to support employees that now have ...

• Covid-19 offers unique opportunity to pilot zero trust, rapidly and at scale
• Dicker Data adds Heimdal to security stack
• 6 ways attackers are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis
• Here are some of the COVID-19 cyber scams to watch out for
• Microsoft to stop serving non-security monthly updates to Windows
• Stiff drink required after installing fake corona antivirus
• Infosec experts come together to fight wave of cyber threats
• FireEye saw surge in cyber spying as coronavirus emerged from China
• Confirming new dates for EDGE 2020
• How to leverage Australia’s stimulus package
• Cyber criminals capitalise on Covid-19
• MSP director banned in phoenix crack-down

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$50 rewards, and other great reasons to read up on Dynabook

The storied Toshiba laptop brand relaunched globally as Dynabook last year. Kickstarting 2020, the channel-centric vendor has been offering partners a $50 incentive per notebook sold.. Read more

Features

• Cisco: 13 IOS, IOS XE security flaws you should patch now

  Cisco says vulnerabilities in IOS/IOS XE could cause DOS situation; warns on Traceroute setting

• ICANN urges adopting DNSSEC - now

  Continuing attacks on directory name services have prompted ICANN to prompt enterprise DNS uses to push their suppliers for DNSSEC services to block some of ...

• Cisco patches serious SD-WAN software security holes

  The Cisco SD-WAN security problems were part of 23 security advisories Cisco announced on Jan. 23

• Start-up Devvio claims its blockchain can handle 8M transactions a second

  The new blockchain protocol, Devv, was demoed at CES; backers say it outperforms other distributed ledger technologies and traditional financial networks such as VisaNet. Analysts ...

• What to expect when the Internet gets a big security upgrade

  More secure keys protecting the directory name system (DNS) are ready to deploy, but for those using DNS servers that haven't been upgraded, it could ...

• Cisco pays cool US$2.3 billion for security company Duo

  Cisco says deal will help customers securely connect any user to any application on any network

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Round Table

• IN PICTURES: ARN Roundtable - Big Data, Big Opportunities (+21 images)

  The latest ARN Roundtable was held at Sydney's Cafe Del Mar, and was sponsored by Cloudera and Veritas. The guestlist saw a VIP group of ...

• Roundtable: Security Guide for the Cloud - right here, right now

  The cloud 'security strategy' involves adopting security solutions that seamlessly span physical, virtual and private/hybrid/public cloud environments while simplifying operational and management complexities. Roundtable attendees ...

• Selling security to SMBs

  ARN pulls together industry experts to discuss how to successful sell security solutions to SMBs in today's economic climate

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Opinions

• Easy mobile security the Faraday way

  Wireless attacks are unpredictable and complicated. Here’s an easy way to block everything.

• How blockchain makes self-sovereign identities possible

  Who are you? And who decides you’re really you and can be trusted? The answer, and the systems involved, differ in the real world and ...

• Step aside, Windows! Open source and Linux are IT’s new security headache

  The Equifax breach is the latest example of attackers targeting open-source software in the enterprise.

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Reviews

• Review: Norton Security -- simpler and still a winner

  Symantec has streamlined its Norton line of anti-malware suites and combined them into a single but still-efficient package.

• Review: McAfee LiveSafe offers top Windows, Android protection

  McAfee LiveSafe provides users with protection for an unlimited number of devices -- and for a reasonable price. However, Apple users don't get much beyond ...

• Hawkeye G battles malware so you don't have to

  New product from Hexis Cyber Solutions automates the detection, prevention and removal of malware.

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