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Business Email Compromise – time to act?
  • Posted on 22nd August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

John Wilson, Senior Fellow, Threat Research at Fortra, discusses the company’s recent 2023 report on Business Email Compromise (BEC) Trends, warning of the dangers of email impersonation, payment interception, phishing and hybrid vishing, before going on to explain how businesses can optimise their email security through considered use of technology, training and processes.

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SD-WAN – not all solutions are created equal (or fully integrated)!
  • Posted on 2nd August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Jon Selway, Aryaka’s Vice President of Channel Sales – EMEA, discusses the SD-WAN, and not unrelated SASE and ZTNA, opportunities, both for small and medium sized enterprises and, therefore, the Channel organisations which serve them. He explains the various SD-WAN solutions available, advising end users, VARs and MSPs to ensure that when they do evaluate both networking and security solutions, there are no hidden surprises – with native and fully integrated stack solutions offering perhaps the best way forward.

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Redefining risk
  • Posted on 2nd August 2023 in by Phil Alsop

David Tattam, Chief Research and Content Officer and Co-Founder, Protecht, discusses the company’s mission ‘to redefine the way the world thinks about risk’, with some engaging and informative insights as to how organisations can develop and grow an effective, dynamic risk management framework, with the people-related aspect – culture and conduct – at its core.

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Outsourcing opportunity for MSPs
  • Posted on 31st July 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Greg Jones, Vice President of Business Development EMEA, Kaseya, discusses the findings of the company’s recently published IT Operations Report. He shares some fascinating insights as to current end user challenges, including cybersecurity, automation, budgets, workloads and legacy infrastructure, suggesting that MSPs and the Channel more generally have a major opportunity to help their customers as they look for more outsourced technology solutions and expertise.

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How best to survive a ransomware attack

Dan Middleton, Vice President UK & Ireland, Veeam, discusses the company’s recent 2023 Ransomware Trends Report, which provides some fascinating insights into how companies deal with the inevitable attack. He covers the importance of backups that ‘must survive’ (not quite the same as immutable storage!), implementing wider risk management and cyber resilience strategies, and the need for increased collaboration within the enterprise – most obviously between the cybersecurity and storage teams. Digitalisation World

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Talking hybrid security

Dirk Schrader, Field CISO (EMEA) and VP of Security Research at Netwrix, discusses the company’s recent Hybrid Security Trends report, which compared and contrasted on-prem security with security in the cloud – with the findings covering such topics as: security challenges, investment plans, the role of cyber insurance and the emergence of cyber resilience as a focus.

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Active security assessment for Active Directory
  • Posted on 8th June 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Guido Grillenmeier , Principal Technologist EMEA at identity security pioneer, Semperis, discusses the reasons why Microsoft Active Directory can be particularly vulnerable to security breaches, and explains how its free Purple Knight AD Security Assessment tool helps end users to discover and understand these vulnerabilities, and helps with remediation, alongside other Semperis security solutions. For more information, please visit: <a href="https://www.purple-knight.com/?utm_medium=press&utm_source=digitalisation&utm_campaign=digitalisation-world" target="_blank">https://www.purple-knight.com/</a>

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SDC Channel Insights talking to Hornetsecurity
  • Posted on 31st May 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Irvin Shillingford, Regional Manager Northern Europe at Hornetsecurity, discusses the current backup landscape, with particular reference to the company’s recently launched VM Backup Version 9, featuring immutable cloud storage. For further information on VM Backup V9 visit <a href="https://bit.ly/3I3oLHw" target="_blank" style="color:#5a89b5;">https://bit.ly/3I3oLHw</a>

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SDC Channel Insights talks to Hornetsecurity
  • Posted on 23rd May 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Irvin Shillingford, Regional Manager Northern Europe at Hornetsecurity, discusses the current backup landscape, with particular reference to the company’s recently launched VM Backup Version 9, featuring immutable cloud storage.

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White label, managed IT services for MSPs
  • Posted on 3rd May 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Alkesh Soneji, Sales Director at Infrassist, discusses the company’s technology portfolio, which covers Professional Services – IT automation, security and RMM – and Support Services, such as NOCs and helpdesks. He shares some great example of how Infrassist has helped MSP customers address various technology challenges.

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Zero Trust Authentication (ZTA) promises a password-less future

Jasson Casey, CTO, Beyond Identity, discusses the company’s development of Zero Trust Authentication, which looks set to be a key component of a wider, truly optimised enterprise Zero Trust Security solution. He emphasises that, while detection and response has a role to play, there needs to be a renewed focus on the prevention part of any meaningful cybersecurity strategy.

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The golden pipeline for securing the software supply chain
  • Posted on 18th April 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Nurit Bielorai, Go-To-Market Manager, Supply Chain Security at Aqua Security, discusses the alarming rise in supply chain security attacks, some of the issues and challenges faced by businesses when it comes to secure software development, and explains the benefits of Aqua Security’s own Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP).

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Helping to secure the Channel cybersecurity opportunity
  • Posted on 4th April 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Dor Eisner, Guardz Co-Founder and CEO, explains how the ‘commoditisation’ of cyber attacks has left SMEs particularly vulnerable, and how MSPs, using Guardz all-in-one cybersecurity solution, can provide the necessary protection for these end users.

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Trust - From NASA to building a $2 billion company based on trust. The story so far.
  • Posted on 29th March 2023 in by Phil Alsop

In this interview, Adam Markowitz covers everything there is to know about ‘trust’. What trust means to Markowitz, how do you earn it, realise it and control it. And how trust has been a core value at Drata since its inception.

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Delivering certainty in uncertain times
  • Posted on 23rd March 2023 in by Phil Alsop

Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, discusses the Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear, Incomprehensible (BANI) challenges facing businesses at the present time, explaining how the company’s innovative storage solutions help to address many of these current cost, staffing and wider cybersecurity, data resilience and sustainability pain points.

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