FortiGuard Labs Reports Tenfold Increase in Ransomware Fortinet, a Sunnyvale, California-based cybersecurity company, has released its semiannual FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report. The report demonstrates a significant increase in the volume and sophistication of attacks targeting individuals, organizations, and increasingly critical infrastructure. The data shows average weekly ransomware activity [...]
Fortinet, a Sunnyvale, California-based cybersecurity company, has released its semiannual FortiGuard Labs Global Threat Landscape Report. The report demonstrates a significant increase in the volume and sophistication of attacks targeting individuals, organizations, and increasingly critical infrastructure. The data shows average weekly ransomware activity in June 2021 was more than tenfold [...]
Comcast Business has signed an agreement to acquire Masergy, a Plano, Texas-based company that offers Managed SD WAN, Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS), Call Center as a Service (CCaaS) and Managed Security solutions. “Masergy provides a perfect complement to our portfolio of enterprise services and solutions and will allow [...]
Avaya has announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft for the integration of Avaya’s OneCloud CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service) with the voice, video, chat, and SMS capabilities of Microsoft Azure Communication Services. The two companies are globally expanding the availability of Avaya OneCloud CCaaS (Contact Center as a Service) [...]
IDC: More Than One-Third of Organizations Have Experienced Ransomware Attack A new survey by IDC has found that more than one third of organizations worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach that blocked access to systems or data in the previous 12 months. And for those that fell victim [...]
A new survey by IDC has found that more than one third of organizations worldwide have experienced a ransomware attack or breach that blocked access to systems or data in the previous 12 months. And for those that fell victim to ransomware, it is not uncommon to have experienced multiple [...]
In an effort to better serve the MSSP community, AT&T Cybersecurity has launched a simplified partner program intended to help MSSPs monetize security capabilities and achieve higher levels of growth and profits. Updated benefits include consistent pricing with competitive price books and flat renewals. Partners can sell the complete Unified [...]
Tigera, a San Francisco-based Kubernetes security and observability company, has launched a worldwide partner program aimed at solution provider resellers, systems integrators, consultants, and distributors that have competencies in AWS, Azure, GKE, Red Hat Openshift, and Suse Rancher Kubernetes, who also have practices related to DevOps, microservices, networking, and security. [...]
The unemployment rate for information technology reached a two-year low in July as tech sector companies increased their staffing, according to an analysis by CompTIA, a nonprofit IT industry association based in suburban Chicago. The unemployment rate for tech occupations dropped to 1.5% in July, according to the U.S. Bureau [...]
Mitel has rolled out two new cloud-centric partner programs which are jointly intended to help align cloud opportunities with preferred business models. “As businesses begin to come out of pandemic mode and turn their attention toward growth, demand for cloud communications has exploded and with it, created a huge opportunity [...]
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