Opinion

Opinion

Antivirus Solutions and Services

• IT security is broken: Six ways partners can help fix it

  Many organisations have numerous non-integrated security point products installed across their enterprise, the management of which is a huge challenge. Here, we discuss how partners can help their customers to adopt a more holistic approach to ...  Continue Reading

• What makes a great managed security service provider?

  With an increasingly challenging threat landscape, being a successful MSSP can be a struggle. Making sure customers stay safe is critical to the success of your business, which is why understanding what makes a great MSSP is crucial for you to be ...  Continue Reading

• Friction between management and employees exacerbates insider threat

  Research revealing disparity between workers’ and bosses’ views on data security could shed more light on insider threat  Continue Reading

• How resellers can cash in by making their clients Siccura

  Security should be the most exciting sector in IT, yet the marketing is dull and unimaginative. We need stories of cops and robbers, not another set of meaningless statistics  Continue Reading

• Botnets and machine learning: A story of hide and seek

  As security practitioners develop new ways to keep cyber threats at bay, so malware authors continue to update their software and evolve their techniques to take advantage of new technologies and bypass security measures. Machine learning has proved...  Continue Reading

• Security is too complex

  Nick Booth is all ears as Sophos explains to its partners that simplicity is key in the security market  Continue Reading

• No surprises in SME attitude to mobility

  Bill MacInnes finds little to provoke surprise in the findings of Symantec research that reveals SMEs are lagging behind enterprise customers in their response to security.  Continue Reading

• Planning your channel IT security strategy for 2013

  Some IT security experts share their predictions of what 2013 may have to offer to help plan your security strategy  Continue Reading

• Whitman, Rometty and Emma Watson prove women have come a long way in IT

  For many years, the IT industry was notorious for being a male-dominated business but as Billy MacInnes discovers women are making it big in quite a few areas  Continue Reading

• Dedicated followers of fashion

  It’s hard for a CIO to say no to users who’ve been whipped into a frenzy by the style magazines. When all the other CEOs got iPad 3s for Christmas, how do you explain why they can't have one?  Continue Reading