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Q&A: Blue Coat President On Why Cloud Security Is Very Crucial For Partners

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Michael Fey, Blue Coat

Blue Coat is investing more than it ever has in building out its cloud security portfolio. This week, the company took the next step in that investment, buying cloud security company Elastica for $280 million. The buy adds capabilities around threat scoring, use and endpoint behavior modeling, natural language-based DLP and cloud application SOC analysis. President and COO Michael Fey said these type of solutions are more important than ever for partners, as cloud security moves to the forefront.

Introducing the XG Firewall with Security Heartbeat – synchronizing network and endpoint security

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Sophos is a great place to work on any day but today is particularly exciting. It’s the day Sophos revolutionizes the IT security industry. Yes, that’s a big claim, and one many security vendors have made over the years.

Can we test APT defenses even if we can’t agree on how to define APTs?

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In the past few years, a lot of media outlets, and even some security vendors, have hyped up the threat of so-called advanced persistent threats (APTs), frequently associating them with nation-state attackers using unheard of zero-day exploits to break into high-profile targets.

How To Become A Successful Cloud Provider

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Many VARs can be fearful of creating their own cloud provider business because they're not entirely sure how to make it profitable. But in a world in which managed services and recurring revenues are driving channel profitability, more solution providers are eyeing the opportunity to jump into the rich money-making cloud opportunities as adoption rates begin to increase.

Next-Gen Partners Dish On How To Create Cloud-Savvy Businesses

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Partners must change their sales compensation models, create internal vendor management resources and hire more application architects to be successful in the cloud, according to a panel of leading solution providers that addressed the 2015 Best of Breed Conference.

The group of five sounded off Wednesday on the urgency of public cloud, M&A opportunities for born-in-the-cloud firms and the challenge of retrofitting legacy companies for a digital future.

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