Michelle Drolet

"Those within cyber security circles know ransomware has become a lucrative billion dollar business for an army of cybercriminals…It’s time you learn about the tricks and trade of cybercriminals and how their threats are constantly evolving."- John Shaw, Vice President, Enduser Security Group, Sophos Please join Towerwall and Sophos for an exclusive lunch and learn. You'll find out about:

After the recent wave of WannaCry ransomware attacks, managed service providers said the key takeaway they are bringing to customers going forward is the importance of proactive security. "Our whole stance is around proactive security. When you have proactive [security], WannaCry is not going to have an impact," said Michelle Drolet, CEO of Framingham, Mass.-based Towerwall. Drolet said that proactive approach includes an integrated, layered approach to security to protect the different levelsfalse

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Everything you need to know to stop ransomware. Please join Towerwall and Sophos for an exclusive lunch and learn to learn how to stop ransomware cold. You’ll find out about:

BOSTON – May 15, 2017 – Towerwall (www.towerwall.com), a data security services provider for small to mid-size businesses, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Michelle Drolet, Towerwall founder and chief executive officer, to its list of 2017 Power 30 Solution Providers, an elite subset of its prestigious annual Women of the Channel list.

Channel partners can make arguments for the integrated security suite and the best-in-class point product method, but the decision ultimately rests on a customer's specific needs.

10. Freely hackable Free public Wi-Fi connections are treated like a public utility, but they can be making you vulnerable to hackers.

Michelle Drolet and the Towerwall team will be attending the 36th Annual New England Bank Technology + Retail Banking Conference and Exhibit, on Friday, May 19th at the DoubleTree in Danvers, MA. Stop by Booth 27 where we will be discussing:

User behavior analytics sniffs out anomalies in users' actions and alerts IT security teams of suspicious behavior The theft of unstructured data is extremely common. It can be very difficult to safeguard emails and files when a lot of people have access. Even the CIA is not immune, judging by the recent exposure of its hacking tools via WikiLeaks. It’s ironic that the CIA’s hacking guides have been hacked, but it just goes to show how difficult it can be to prevent. Carelessly handledfalse

AlienVault recently announced a new addition to the AlienVault training portfolio: Incident Response for USM Appliance Analysts, a two-day course that we will start delivering Live and Online in May. AlienVault has had *many* requests from customers and MSSPs for training focused on the analysis of threats identified by the USM Appliance. This course provides security analysts with the knowledge and skills to fully leverage the AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) Appliance to performfalse