Called AirGap and quietly added to the vendor’s X360 platform four months ago at no extra cost, the new system employs a variety of techniques to stop ransomware and other attacks from tampering with data that is often a company’s last line of defense.

So close, yet so far away! Both in sunny Southern California, Erick and Rich discuss the forthcoming unified Carbonite/Webroot partner program, why you should hire a forensic accountant before closing an acquisition, and the $60 million reasons an Irish drug dealer should have backed up his data.

In the completion of deals announced late last year and early this one, Sophos has been formally acquired by Thoma Bravo and Veeam has been bought by Insight Partners.

Live from Florida, our Joel Zaidspiner checks in with High Wire Networks, SALVAGEDATA, and WatchGuard for their latest and greatest news.

Frank Abagnale, of “Catch Me If You Can” fame, was one of many speakers at the IT membership group’s conference yesterday in Long Beach, Calif., to discuss challenges and opportunities in cybersecurity.

Not easy to get clients to read your emails, is it? Maybe referencing this week’s episode will do the trick.

Organizations need modern cyber protection capabilities to replace the legacy solutions that no longer meet modern IT challenges.

Priced at $4 per firewall per month, the new service feeds inbound and outbound data directly from Cisco Meraki, Fortinet, SonicWall, Sophos, and WatchGuard products to RocketCyber’s SOC, where analysts look for malware, spam, and other threats.

Called the Malwarebytes Premier Partner Program, it includes a track for MSPs offering monthly pricing and a consumption-based tiering structure aligned with recurring revenue business models, according to channel exec Mike LaPeters (pictured).

The new offering, which will include one set of tiers but different tracks for VARs and MSPs, will sell and support a unified portfolio of “cyber resilience” products covering security and data protection.