Compliance/GRC Article Archive:

Tom Wheeler may be better known to wonky Beltway insiders than to those in technology, but his appointment Wednesday by Pres. Obama to head the FCC should be good news for the channel.

McAfee is making forays into the IAM space — or rather, the burgeoning cloud IAM space — with new single sign-on and one-time password authentication tools that take aim at legacy players.

A Ponemon Institute study finds the vast majority of users tiring of usernames and passwords as authentication solutions. Passwords are often forgettable and easily hacked, which leaves a wide-open playing field for the channel to introduce replacement solutions.

Few can deny the area of governance, risk and compliance has experienced a revival over the last year, indicated by a dearth of new start-ups and legacy players touting innovative offerings. One of the biggest catalysts driving GRCs growth is the cloud.

A McAfee study indicates the retail sector needs to address aging and outdated POS systems or face compliance penalties and security risks created by advanced threats. It might behoove the channel to revisit retail customers in order to rebuild security strategy from the ground up.

Policy management and access control firm HyTrust is making greater inroads in government markets by partnering with government IT solution provider Carahsoft Technology Corp., a move that will open channel doors to cultivate strategic relationships and build out services aimed an an expansive new customer base.

Governance risk compliance and management firm AvePoint is cultivating its own niche around the growing GRC market wit the launch of a solution geared for Microsoft Office 365 — SharePoint Online users. Among other things, the launch represents the mammoth revival of GRC that is now causing the once stagnant market to fragment into more specialized niches.

Dataguise is blending Big Data and compliance with the latest release of DG for Hadoop, a move that follows in the footsteps of IBM, HP and others looking to make a rejuvenated push into GRC markets by leveraging Big Data analytics capabilities.

Centrify has onboarded two new cloud security and privacy certifications to its list of accolades. For the channel, that means security is a little less of a barrier to entry when engaging customers to cloud identity services sales.

Virtual backup firm PHD Virtual just bolstered its capabilities with the acquisition of VirtualSharp Software, which now adds virtualized disaster recovery to channel portfolios as a relevant differentiator in a market experiencing explosive growth.