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Verizon offers Black Friday deals to small and midsize businesses


BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Verizon Business is bringing back “Small Business Days” to give small and midsize businesses early access to Black Friday deals November 18-24. Businesses will have the opportunity to take advantage of up to $1,200 in savings in addition to waived fees and personalized tech assessments.

Verizon Small Business Days Offers

Initially launched earlier this year, Verizon Small Business Days is back by popular demand, kicking off November 18-24. Verizon will be rewarding small and midsize businesses with complimentary technology evaluations, waived fees and more. They also can receive up to $1,200 off a select new 5G phone with eligible trade-in and new line. Businesses can visit a participating Verizon store or book a virtual appointment with a small business expert to access special discounts and jumpstart areas of their business, including communications, connectivity, and security. These include:

Get Any of These Devices on Us: The following devices are eligible for the offer with any Business Unlimited plans, eligible trade and a new line with device payment agreement: Apple (iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Mini) and Android (GS21 / GS21+ / GS21 Ultra, Google Pixel 6/ Google Pixel 6 Pro, Moto Edge+, Galaxy Z Flip3).

Verizon’s commitment to small businesses is unwavering and extensive. The company launched the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready portal in September, an online learning curriculum designed to give business owners tools needed to succeed in today’s digital economy. Through a range of courses, live learning workshops, and one-on-one learning sessions, Verizon Small Business Digital Ready helps business owners prepare their businesses for the future.

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WatchGuard’s mid-range firewalls protect small and midsize businesses against encrypted malware


WatchGuard Technologies released new Firebox M290, M390, M590, and M690 unified threat management appliances for small and midsize businesses. These new firewalls deliver increased security and the fastest performance of any mid-range Firebox appliance, with the processing power to handle encrypted and HTTPS traffic.

In addition, new expandable ports and integration with WatchGuard Cloud enable these firewalls to offer the flexibility needed to accommodate changing networking and security needs for customers and service provider partners.

As the threat landscape evolves, performance and flexibility are both critical for organizations looking to secure their network. Our recent Q2 2021 Internet Security Report found that more than 91% of malware attacking networks is encrypted,” said Corey Nachreiner, CSO at WatchGuard.

“It’s therefore essential for small and midsized organisations, or the partners servicing them, to have security solutions capable of processing encrypted traffic without negatively impacting overall performance. Our new mid-range M Series appliances deliver this capability and provide tools to simplify the deployment and ongoing management of these solutions as part of our WatchGuard Unified Security Platform.”

In another example of WatchGuard’s commitment to cross-platform integration, it’s easy to deploy, manage and create policies for these new Fireboxes from WatchGuard Cloud. Service providers can share configurations across multiple appliances and clients via templates and deploy appliances remotely from the Cloud.

A cohesive 30-day view of log data, fast log search and automated reporting greatly increases visibility. In addition, the new Firebox appliances integrate seamlessly with other solutions across the WatchGuard portfolio – including AuthPoint multi-factor authentication, WatchGuard Wi-Fi Access Points, and ThreatSync endpoint-network telemetry – to greatly simplify traditionally complex security management.

The new Firebox M290, M390, M590 and M690 appliances offer several enhancements and benefits including:

  • Faster and more powerful. Each appliance has been designed to optimise HTTPS content inspection throughput, which…

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Cisco touts next-gen firewall gear for midsize installations

Cisco is coming out with four next-generation firewall boxes aimed at giving smaller organizations protection that is better sized to their needs and engineered to minimize performance hits as additional security services are turned on.

The devices make up a family called the Cisco Firepower 2100 series and are built around dual, multi-core processors. That architecture enables custom processing of traffic requiring threat inspection, and also supports tagging traffic that doesn’t need threat inspection so it flows through only the separate network processing unit.

These features combine to provide ample processing power for services such as IPS and also lighten the total load on that processor by diverting traffic that doesn’t require those services, Cisco says.

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Security Software Missing in Half of Android Devices – Midsize Insider


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Security Software Missing in Half of Android Devices
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While all device platforms require some sort of policy to be put into place, Android security is of particular concern. The open-source platform and third-party markets have made Android particularly susceptible to exploits. Popularity and

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