Channel Scoop – October 7, 2016

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• Traps v3.4 Achieves PCI DDS & HIPAA Compliance: With Traps v3.4, you can help your retail, financial services and healthcare customers remain compliant with federal law and industry standards. As Mark McLaughlin highlighted back on September 1, 2016, in a CRN article, “Traps is at an inflection point with partners,” making this an exciting time to be one of our first 50 NextWave Traps Specialized partners in the world.

• Deal Registration Boost for Traps Specialized Partners: Details to be unveiled in the October 2016, New Traps Times e-newsletter. Sign up today. Or you can follow NextWavePartner on Twitter to get real-time channel news and information. 

• Watch CEO Mark McLaughlin on CNBC’s Mad Money: In this interview Mark discusses how cyberattacks are not going away anytime soon and the benefits of a Next-Generation Security Platform.

• CIO & CISO: Strategic Sales Weapons: Get first-hand insights on how to sell to today’s CIOs and CISOs by attending one of these two upcoming webinars:
  • Register here for October 10, 2016 at 8AM PST / 4PM BST / 5PM CEST
  • Register here for October 10, 2016 at 6PM PST / 9AM SGT / 10AM JST

• Breach Prevention Week: This is a week-long series of informative webinars focused on a specific topic or theme. Our Q1 FY17 Breach Prevention Week is October 17-21, and will focus on industries, banking/finance, local state and government and healthcare, to name a few. Register today.

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