Enterprise News Spotlight: Public Sector Channel Insights, Modern Security Defenses, Hospitality Sector CyberRisk

This week’s enterprise news round-up features an assortment of insightful articles covering all corners of the technology world, including a one-on-one interview with Verizon’s Adam Famularo about the companies channel program expansion, the human element in cybersecurity, how the hospitality industry is handling hacking and a how-to on choosing the proper cloud service for your business.

Through the channel program, technology providers can offer Verizon's cloud, mobility, Internet of Things, advanced communications and intelligent networking solutions to their local, state, federal and education clients. (Channelnomics)

Monitoring of endpoint traffic is key to modern security defenses but a human element is also essential to make up for the deficiencies of outdated signature-based antivirus security solutions that haven't been effective for many years, a senior security consultant has warned. (CSO)

A new industry report by Verizon has found that the hospitality sector experienced more point-of-sale (PoS) intrusions and denial of service (DoS) incidents than the all-industry average, accounting for 89% of all incidents. (accomnews)

As more mission-critical workloads move to the cloud, the role of enterprise IT is evolving to that of a cloud broker that must collaborate with lines of business to ensure overall success of the organization. There are three practical steps that can help IT departments to work more closely with business units to score applications and design a purpose-built cloud strategy. (CCI)