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Westcon-Comstor appoints Patrick Aronson as Chief Marketing Officer

Move signals renewed focus on Partner Success for the security, networking and hybrid cloud distributor

LONDON, UK: Westcon-Comstor has announced it has appointed Patrick Aronson as Chief Marketing Officer. In this position, Patrick will be responsible for driving growth, and building a modern marketing organisation that will ensure Westcon-Comstor’s continued leadership in a world increasingly driven by subscription and as-a-service business models. He takes on this new role, in addition to his current role as Executive Vice President in Asia Pacific, which sees him responsible for business performance across Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Appointments, Promotions & Personality Profile; Posted On Wednesday, 09 February 2022 11:01

AdaptiveMobile Security Discloses New Research on Mobile Network-Enabled Attacks in Hybrid Warfare

Company publishes research outlining emerging mobile network attack strategies in Hybrid Warfare including newly revealed HiddenArt mobile threat actor

Dublin, Ireland, and Stockholm, Sweden: AdaptiveMobile Security has published new research titled; Spectrum of Violence: Mobile Network-enabled Attacks in Hybrid Warfare. The paper highlights how vulnerabilities in mobile network infrastructure could be weaponized in offensive military operations. Setting out how the combination of military and mobile telecom-enabled targeting capabilities can create a battlefield advantage; the paper illustrates the consistency of such a model with the concept of hybrid warfare.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Case Studies; Posted On Wednesday, 09 February 2022 10:56

IOPC REPORT ON CHARING CROSS POLICE STATION SPARKS GROANS OF DESPAIR ACROSS LONDON AND WITHIN THE FORCES

BY CHRIS HOBBS

Photos Credit: Chris Hobbs

As the news of the IOPC report into Charing Cross Police Station began to circulate, it was not difficult to imagine the collective dropping of heads and the groans of despair echoing, not just across London but throughout each force as officers quickly realised the implications for themselves and their colleagues.

I can only imagine the thoughts of officers about to report for duty as they discovered that the IOPC, had rendered them even more vulnerable to abuse and attack. Their findings were doubtless to the delight of those many sections of the media who have long conducted a vendetta against the Met in particular and UK policing in general.

: Chris Hobbs; Intelligence and Policing; Posted On Tuesday, 08 February 2022 15:36

ConnectWise forms four innovation Business Units

ConnectWise has announced the formation of four Innovation Business Units led by general managers and the appointment of a new chief information security officer to speed innovation and improve partner experience.

Historically, engineering and product management have been performed by coordinated but independent teams. With this news, ConnectWise announces four new Innovation Business Units: Unified Monitoring and Management, Business Management, Cybersecurity, and Asio™ Platform. Each business unit will be led by a general manager who reports to ConnectWise CEO Jason Magee, each with its own dedicated product management and other resources. These leaders will be accountable for engineering effectiveness for their respective product lines. They will be responsible for innovative roadmaps and on-time delivery, as well as driving a positive experience for partners across sales, product support, services, partner success and the broader ConnectWise system.