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• Booming Mobile Industry Spawning Global Criminal Marketplace

  Added 17th May 2013

  Mobile devices have become enticing targets for criminals around the world, so much so that an underground industry has begun to grow to support malicious activity.

• Ex-Cisco Anil Bhasin is India Head for Palo Alto Networks

  Added 17th May 2013

  Bhasin will be responsible for accelerating Palo Alto's technology footprint across customer segments, creating strategic channel and go-to-market alliances

• McAfee LiveSafe Integrates Cloud and Intel chip Security in One Product

  Added 15th May 2013

  LiveSafe is a shrewd all-purpose security offering that does a bit of everything, including some new things that its adoption could conceivably help to become more mainstream.

• Payment Card Processors Hacked in $45 Million Fraud

  Added 13th May 2013

  U.S. federal prosecutors indicted eight people accused of running a vast carding scheme

• Survey: Risk to Organisational Data an Ongoing Cloud Security Concern

  Added 11th May 2013

  While companies have become more comfortable with the security of third-party cloud service providers, data security--particularly at the end user level--as well as concerns over meeting compliance requirements, remain top-of-mind among cloud adopters. This is the conclusion of a cloud security survey commissioned by NetIQ.

• AlgoSec Strengthens India Focus, Appoints iValue as VAD

  Added 9th May 2013

  AlgoSec’s offerings help manage security policies across firewalls, routers, VPNs and related devices.

• Fortinet Forms Partner Advisory Council, Revives Channel

  Added 8th May 2013

  PAC members will have significant contribution in forming the vendor’s channel roadmap and marketing vision.

• McAfee Splashes $389 Million For Stonesoft's Firewall Knowhow

  Added 8th May 2013

  With the pending addition of Stonesoft's products and services, McAfee is making a significant investment in next-generation firewall technology

• Proposed U.S. Law Aims to Counter Cybertheft With Import Bans

  Added 8th May 2013

  The bill would require the Director of National Intelligence to identify companies that benefit from stolen U.S. technologies

• Pentagon Accuses China Government, Military of Cyberattacks

  Added 7th May 2013

  The U.S. Department of Defense said in a new report that some attacks appear 'directly attributable' to China

• Winners of ChannelWorld Premier 100 Award 2013

  Added 6th May 2013

  The curtain fell on the most anticipated industry event in the channel space. Here we present the winners--the Bold 100--organizations that undertook bold moves for the sake of great reward.

• Experts Hope For Another Failure In Next Anonymous Attack

  Added 6th May 2013

  Anonymous plans to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on May 7 against nine government sites and more than 130 financial institutions in US

• Why Is Premier100 The Most-suitable Industry Platform For Solution Providers?

  Added 3rd May 2013

  This year's Premier 100 event and awards was held on May 3rd at the Hyatt Regency in Mumbai. Here are the highlights from the event

• Premier 100 2013: There are More than 5,000 New Ways for Hackers to Attack the Enterprise - Check Point

  Added 3rd May 2013

  Today’s enterprise infrastructure requires advanced security features to protect against highly sophisticated and targeted threats. Pratik Raj Sharma, Head–Systems Engineering, Check Point, spoke about how partners can help their clients make this possible.

• Aging Networking Protocols Abused in DDoS Attacks

  Added 1st May 2013

  Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

• Ingram Micro Worldwide Sales Up 19 Per Cent To $US10.26bn

  Added 29th Apr 2013

  Ingram Micro worldwide sales rose 19 per cent to $US10.26 billion, in the first quarter ended March 30, in part helped by the acquisitions of Brightpoint and Aptec Holdings.

• Cyberoam Empowers Channels To Capture Virtualized Security Segment By 2015

  Added 29th Apr 2013

  Cyberoam has announced that it is beginning a series of multi-city channel partner meets, with key focus on emerging opportunities in enterprise segment.

• Network Security Finds Increased Acceptance Among India Smbs

  Added 26th Apr 2013

  UTM market projected to grow more than 16% over the next two years, says AMI

• McAfee Delivers Enterprise Class Security To The Cloud

  Added 26th Apr 2013

  McAfee Identity and Access Management Solutions Enable IT to Regain Control of Cloud Applications

• Infosec 2013: There Is No Such Thing As Information Security Risk

  Added 25th Apr 2013

  There is no such thing as information security risk, according to a panel of security professionals speaking at the Infosecurity Europe 2013 conference in London