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Cybersecurity partnerships help Ingram Micro handle ‘beautiful disaster’
When it comes to dealing with cybersecurity and building a network of partners to service its customers, Ingram Micro Inc. has been especially active over the past year. In the month of February alone, the company announced a deal with mobile software vendor Lookout Inc., sealed a new partnership with Kaspersky Lab Inc., and inked a ...
Security experts seek strength in numbers as hacking threats rise
The theme at Fortinet Inc.’s Accelerate conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week is “Strength in Numbers,” based on the need for a collaborative environment where partnerships can generate the solutions necessary to secure networks in the future. It’s an important task, especially since the numbers surrounding the current global threat environment are rising at ...
How AI is helping to defend against enterprise cyberattacks
The rapidly expanding threat landscape is testing the ability of enterprise security organizations to meet the speed and scale of attacks on the same terms. On Tuesday, Fortinet Inc. announced the release of a new product to help even the playing field. FortiGuard AI delivers automated threat analysis and detection as part of Fortinet’s Security ...
Evolution of security services crucial for protecting digital business
The notion of going faster is to accelerate, and it’s no accident that Fortinet Inc. chose to use that term in naming its annual gathering in Las Vegas, Nevada. The proliferation of attacks on information technology networks has created a sense of urgency not just in responding to threats, but in creating a security structure that ...
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It takes a tech village to tackle the world’s energy crisis at scale
It sounds like a fairly basic solution for today’s energy crisis. Take large amounts of organic waste, convert it to biogas, generate electricity and heat, and store the excess for later use, making life easier for millions of people without access to sources of reliable energy. Simple. Yet, behind this basic approach from a startup ...
Dell EMC beefs up IT training with four new certifications
After recently identifying inadequate skills and expertise as being among the top three causes of slow digital progress, Dell EMC took steps on Thursday to do something about it. The company announced that it would add four new certification tracks to validate the levels of expertise needed to manage today’s modern information technology infrastructure. “What ...
Unleashing the power of data analytics for African business
Like air or water, people tend to take data for granted. A gigabyte here or there generally doesn’t add up to a lot of money. But what if one gigabyte of data cost more than nine percent of a person’s average monthly income? That’s the scenario in Africa where data optimization becomes critical, and it is ...
Security an enabler for government adoption of AWS cloud
For years, U.S. government agencies were reluctant to follow the private sector and move information technology operations to the cloud. Concerns about security, legacy data, and the potential for vendor lock-in kept the federal government firmly planted in separate data centers. That picture has changed. Today, more than 2,000 government agencies are using Amazon Web Services ...
Expect a profound change in IT as businesses shift from products to services
It’s called a pivot. By definition, it can be a swivel, spin, rotation or turn. It’s a term commonly used in the tech industry to denote the shift of a business from one model to another, and it’s happening a lot, especially in the evolving world of cloud computing and information technology. The shift taking ...
AI tech combats cyberattack, cryptojacking
The global median time from when a computing network is compromised to discovery stands at 99 days, according to the Mandiant M-Trends 2017 report from FireEye Inc. The problem is that attackers are gaining access to domain administrator credentials (the keys to the kingdom) approximately three days after entry, based on data collected in the report. Come ...
