Softcat named ‘Partner of the Year UK & Ireland’ 2014 after year of booming Sophos revenues

Data security leader Sophos has awarded Softcat its prestigious ‘Partner of the Year UK & Ireland’ and ‘Mid-market Partner of the Year’ awards following a year of flourishing growth, which saw Softcat become Sophos’ largest revenue partner in the UK.

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50 per cent of security professionals fail to secure data

iStorage research finds that half of respondents at Infosec 2014 do not encrypt data on portable devices despite being aware of the potential damage to organisations. Research conducted at Europe's number one information security event Infosec 2014, has revealed that 50% of security professionals do not secure data on portable storage devices such as USBs and external hard drives. This finding comes despite 91% of respondents to the same survey expressing concerns about the potential...

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Vtesse launches enterprise service built on ADVA’s encryption technology

Vtesse is using the ADVA FSP 3000 with advanced encryption technology in a new enterprise service. Called Optical Secure, the new service is focused upon enterprises with specific needs to ensure the integrity and privacy of mission-critical data. Available throughout the U.K., Optical Secure supports multiple protocols, including Fibre Channel (FC), InfiniBand and Ethernet. It's this wide range of protocol support that is vital to Vtesse and its customers. ADVA Optical Networking is...

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IDC lowers IT spending forecasts

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Black Book, worldwide IT spending will increase by 4.1% in constant currency this year, down from IDC’s previous forecast of 4.6% and also down from last year’s growth of 4.5%. According to the new report, IT spending has been volatile since the beginning of the year, with macroeconomic wild cards including the crisis in Ukraine and the slowdown in China adding to the general sense of uncertainty which continues to...

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Cradlepoint has acquired Ericom Software and their advanced enterprise cloud security platform to...
Armor is enhancing its Global Partner Program with several new initiatives. These include...
HackerOne has revealed data that found 48% of security professionals believe AI is the most...
SecurityScorecard becomes a Tier 1 Strategic Partner for NTT DATA UK&I.
Nebulon has introduced two new zero-trust offerings: Two-Person Commit and Single Sign-on (SSO).
IBM Security has published the results of its annual study examining the financial impact of data...
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Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

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