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• The top 10 channel themes of 2023

  What were the main areas of interest in the past 12 months? This handy list of the top 10 should jog memories, stir debate and garner some agreement across the channel  Continue Reading

• Five-minute interview: Simon Godfrey, Secureworks

  The latest to share some personal insights is the sales and partner go-to-market lead across Europe at Secureworks  Continue Reading

• How has 2023 gone so far?

  Before we all gear up for the busy end of the year, some of the great and the good across the channel review the progress made so far in 2023  Continue Reading

• Five-minute interview: Ken Tripp, Netwrix

  Ken Tripp, director of cyber security player Netwrix’s managed services programme, is the latest to share some personal details  Continue Reading

• Could simpler language improve security?

  Vendors and partners can be guilty of making data protection complicated, but Nick Booth wonders if life could be easier if explanations were more straightforward. He talks to Chris Meidinger, technical director for EMEA for Beyond Identity, about ...  Continue Reading

• Five-minute interview: Steve Nurton, WithSecure

  We get the chance to find out a bit more about Steve Nurton, WithSecure's head of channel sales  Continue Reading

• The channel is key to plugging cyber skills gap

  If there is going to be one theme that continues from year to year, it is the desire by customers to work with channel partners to help solve security problems  Continue Reading

• Goodbye 2022, hello 2023: experts weigh in with channel expectations

  The year is just a few days old, so it’s a good moment to look back and ponder on what lies ahead given the experiences of the past 12 months  Continue Reading

• May the fourth be with you as you enter the final quarter with cautious optimism

  The last three months of the year represent the busiest time for the channel as targets are aimed for and the year goes down as a success or failure  Continue Reading

• Can MSPs get cyber security ‘right’ for SMEs?

  The pressure is on for managed service providers to protect SMEs from cyber attack  Continue Reading

• The channel: Four decades of change

  To celebrate MicroScope’s 40th anniversary, we ask channel leaders to reflect on the changes seen over the past four decades – a shift to software, and the emergence of the managed service provider and the cloud are among the highlights  Continue Reading

• Increased risks mean SMEs must spend on security

  Facing growing threats and becoming even more frequent targets for criminals, the channel’s key customer base needs to improve its level of protection if it is to thrive  Continue Reading

• How to reconfigure the IT industry

  Nick Booth catches up with Ciara Campbell, senior security engineer at Tenable. , to get her take on the changing world of the security industry  Continue Reading

• Five-minute interview: Matt Halsey, Cyren

  The senior director of sales for EMEA and APAC at Cyren gives us a bit more of an insight into his life  Continue Reading

• Balancing the risks as an MSP

  There is a growing trend among partners in converting into managed service providers – but are there risks to this approach that the channel needs to be aware of?  Continue Reading

• What’s on the security radar?

  A selection of vendors share their thoughts about which technologies will be in demand this year  Continue Reading

• What’s in store for the channel in 2022?

  In the first part of a two-part look at what lies ahead this year, Billy MacInnes reveals what many expect will be the areas of interest in the next 12 months  Continue Reading

• How can the channel help fend off the ransomware threat?

  It's the security problem that keeps users awake at night and scares MSPs that might be targets, but there are things the channel can do to deal with the issue of ransomware  Continue Reading

• Five-minute interview: Toby Jones, WatchGuard

  This time around, Toby Jones, senior marketing manager for Northern Europe at WatchGuard, takes on questions of what motivates him and about the future of the channel  Continue Reading

• Five-minute interview: Matt Nicholson, Trustwave

  Matt Nicholson, EMEA channel manager at Trustwave, tells MicroScope about his early start in the channel but reveals he’s not a natural early riser  Continue Reading

• Five-minute interview: Dean Porter, F-Secure

  Dean Porter, UK and Ireland country sales manager for corporate sales at F-Secure, reveals his passion for Chelsea FC and his appreciation for hip hop  Continue Reading

• 2021: Security market predictions

  Home workers remain vulnerable, IoT devices need to be better protected, ransomware will remain a problem and customers want help to consolidate security tools  Continue Reading

• Coronavirus puts security at the heart of the agenda

  Securing mobile workers has been key to getting through recent months and the security channel is far from finished when it comes to protecting people in the emerging ‘new normal’  Continue Reading

• Five-minute interview: Remco Postma, Tufin

  Remco Postma, director, channel sales EMEA at Tufin, takes the questions and reveals what gets him up in the morning and shares his ice-skating credentials  Continue Reading

• Five-minute interview: Ian Ashworth, Netwrix

  MicroScope puts its questions to Ian Ashworth, channel director for EMEA and APAC at Netwrix  Continue Reading

• Cloud tops the menu in 2020, with helpings of HCI, security and 5G

  We ask the channel what technologies and trends they see dominating in 2020 – cloud tops the list, with hyper-convergence, security and 5G also featuring  Continue Reading

• What to expect in Q4

  AI, contact centres and security are among the areas where the channel might gain in this quarter, according to industry figures  Continue Reading

• Cyber security and the channel

  Leading lights in the industry give their assessment of where the cyber security market is headed in the second half of 2019  Continue Reading

• Control or shift – channel’s role in the move to business-led IT

  What impact could the shift to business-led IT have on channel partners’ role with customers and the relationships they have grown and developed within customer organisations?  Continue Reading

• Brexit crisis: How are businesses coping?

  Theresa May’s impending departure has only deepened the confusion surrounding Brexit – so what does the business community make of it all?  Continue Reading

• Five minute interview: Matt Bruun, regional vice president at Forcepoint

  We catch up with Matt Bruun, regional vice president at Forcepoint, to find out more about what makes him tick  Continue Reading

• Nuvias moving to the next stage

  Before he moves into the executive chairman role Paul Eccleston the CEO of the distributor talks about the journey the firm has been on  Continue Reading

• The IT security skills crisis and the Boniface Dike Test

  The security skills gap is well known but as Nick Booth finds out it is not as easy as getting people trained to fill those vacancies  Continue Reading

• Plugging the security skills gap

  Government is doing its bit to raise the profile of the need for more cyber security skills but the IT industry is also picking up the baton and working hard to improve the situation  Continue Reading

• What's to come? Plenty of cloud and security

  The year is still young enough for the great and the good to be making predictions about just what technologies will make a difference in the months ahead  Continue Reading