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SonicWall Earns Prestigious 2022 CRN Annual Report Card Award for Enterprise Network Security

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Solution providers score SonicWall highest as top-performing channel provider for enterprise network security

MILPITAS, Calif., Aug. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — SonicWall today announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, named the cybersecurity leader as one of the winners in the Enterprise Network Security category of the 2022 CRN Annual Report Card (ARC) Awards. This award honors the industry’s top technology vendors for success in providing high levels of satisfaction for channel partners through innovative products, services and partner programs.

“As a 100% channel company, we remain completely committed to delivering our partners and customers with the absolute best products and support to face today’s increasingly complicated security challenges,” said SonicWall President and CEO Bob VanKirk. “We’re excited to be recognized by CRN, especially knowing that they celebrate best-in-class vendors that are committed to driving partner growth and demonstrating outstanding channel performance. SonicWall is uniquely positioned to help partners, including MSSPs, evolve and help facilitate their growth.”

With 37 years of history, CRN’s ARC Awards recognize best-in-class vendors devoted to boosting IT channel growth through innovation in technology and partner strategy. Through the ARC Awards — known as one of the most prestigious honors in the IT industry — solution providers offer key feedback that commends technology manufacturers for designing channel-friendly product offerings, developing strong partner programs, and building long-term successful relationships with solution providers.

SonicWall’s SecureFirst Partner Program and its industry-leading security products help partners and MSSPs exceed customer demands. More than 17,000 active SonicWall partners help protect our customers every day, and because of them SonicWall is one of the unquestioned leaders in the cybersecurity space.

The ARC Awards are based on an invitation-only research survey conducted by The Channel Company. Responses from 3,000 solution providers across North America were evaluated in this year’s survey, rating 82 vendor partners across four criteria: product innovation, support, partnership, and…

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Corelight Co-founder Dr. Vern Paxson Receives Prominent USENIX Security Test of Time Award

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Paxson’s 1998 paper “Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time” honored for its profound impact on the field of security and privacy

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Corelight, the leader in open network detection and response (NDR), today announced company co-founder, and creator of Zeek®, Dr. Vern Paxson has received the distinguished USENIX “Test of Time” award for his work entitled “Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time” published in 1998. The paper marked the official launch of open source technology Bro (now known as Zeek), which has since become the de-facto standard for network security monitoring and network visibility.

“Dr. Paxson’s work in creating Bro marked a turning point in how organizations could get a handle on, and gain better access to, the traffic that was coming into their networks at a time when the Internet was still in its infancy,” said Dr. Kevin Fu, associate professor of EECS at the University of Michigan and USENIX steering committee member. “The committee felt strongly that this paper should stand as a ‘must read’ classic paper for any graduate computer security course.”

The USENIX “Test of Time” award is intended to recognize papers that have had a lasting impact on their respective fields and that were presented at its respective conference at least 10 years ago.

“In the late 1990s, effective ways to monitor and analyze traffic over the Internet were virtually nonexistent. That left sites unable to distinguish malicious traffic from harmless traffic,” said Paxson. “Bro/Zeek was designed as a means of identifying possible intrusions on a network right as they were happening, by analyzing in detail the traffic flying by on high-speed network links. By open sourcing the code, the hope was that it would both benefit the community and in turn benefit from community efforts to enhance it.

“More than 20 years later it is a thrill to see how not only how expansive the Bro/ Zeek, community has grown, but also to see how the thousands of contributions to it over the years have made it one of the most powerful and reliable network security offerings today,” he continued. “I have long had roots in the USENIX…

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Phonovation Picks Up Irish Innovation Award

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An Irish phone verification specialist has garnered some industry acclaim at this year’s Deloitte Financial Services Innovation Awards. The Awards are now in their third year, and are presented in collaboration with Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) and Financial Services Ireland (FSI).

Phonovation Picks Up Irish Innovation Award

Phonovation was the standout of the night after being selected as the overall winner. The company also took home the top prize in the most disruptive fintech category.

Both accolades were handed out in recognition of Phonovation’s Mobile ID identity verification service. Mobile ID leverages a user’s SIM card to bind a device to a mobile app, and to establish a trusted connection that can be used to send secure SMS codes in situations that require two-factor authentication. The service has already become popular with several financial institutions in Ireland, and is now providing coverage for more than six million customers.

The judges praised Phonovation for its simple onboarding process, which makes it easier to secure a bank account for a new or existing customer. Phonovation’s services are available in the UK in addition to Ireland, though the company itself is based in Dublin.

“Businesses should take pride in the resilience and innovation they have shown over the last few years, and as they look forward to new challenges, innovation will be central to adapting product lines and maximising customer experience and engagement,” said Deloitte Ireland Financial Services Head Donal Lehane. ““The companies both shortlisted and awarded this year showcase the breadth of innovation happening across the financial services sector in Ireland.”

Phonovation is not the only company leveraging SIM cards to increase mobile security. IPification looks at SIM information to guard against SIM swap fraud, and recently expanded its services to the UK. 1Kosmos’ BlockID offers a similar SIM binding feature that links an account to a single mobile number.

Sources: The Irish Times and Silicon Republic

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Celebrate the 2022 Cyber Defenders Award Winners! – MeriTalk

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The never-ending battle against cyber adversaries – and the Federal government’s aim for a quantum leap in improving cyber defenses around zero trust security concepts – has made cybersecurity the white-hot priority for both the public and private sector over the past 12 months.

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From threats that could cripple critical infrastructure and ransomware attacks that are victimizing institutions of all kinds, all the way through to the specter of open cyber warfare following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the stakes both on cyber defense and offense have never been higher.

In recognition of the many thousands of people who work every day to defeat those threats and to create next-generation improvements in security, MeriTalk is delighted to recognize 31 of those individuals in our 2022 class of Cyber Defenders!

Nominated for recognition by their peers in government and industry, the 2022 Cyber Defenders are:

From the Federal government:

  • Bo Berlas, Chief Information Security Officer, General Services Administration
  • Dawn Berry, Federal Lead, Security Architecture and Engineering, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  • Rob Brown, Chief Information Security Officer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Gerald Caron, Chief Information Officer, Office of the Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services
  • Sean Connelly, TIC Program Manager and Senior Cybersecurity Architect, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
  • Scott Engelson, Chief Information Security Officer, National Nuclear Security Administration
  • Richard Grabowski, Acting Program Manager, Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program, CISA
  • Micah Haan, IT Cybersecurity Specialist (DSCS Social Engineering Team Lead) Social Security Administration
  • Matt Harmon, Director of Web Communications, Department of Homeland Security
  • Matt Hartman, Deputy Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, CISA
  • Nnake Nweke, Director, Supply Chain Risk Management, GSA, Federal Acquisition Service, Office of IT Category
  • Renata Spinks, Assistant IT Director/Deputy CIO of Information, Command, Control, Communications, and Computers, U.S. Marine…

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