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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Webroot takes 1st Place in 2023 PassMark® Software testing of security productsAWARDS

OpenText Cybersecurity product, Webroot Internet Security with Antivirus, outperformed competitors in its latest round of testing by the performance benchmarking firm PassMark for February, 2023 - taking the highest overall score in the test! Yet another year at the top 😎 For this report, the company conducted objective testing of nine security products, including Webroot SecureAnywhere Internet Security with Antivirus. Tests measured efficacy and performance in 15 categories including:Installation size Installation time Boot time CPU usage during idle and scan Memory usage during idle and scheduled scan File Copy, Move and Delete File Write, Open and Close File Compression and Decompression Chrome launch time and browse time Webroot stood out in several categories in addition to taking the overall best score awarded to any security products. Some categories were not just won, but won handily. Here are a few of our favorite wins. Installation Size - The following chart compares the to

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Hey did you notice anything different with the home page recently?Giveaway!

OpenText has some new branding with the new acquisition of Microfocus! All of the security products for OpenText are now going to be branded as OpenText Cybersecurity Here are all the OpenText brands in this Cybersecurity divisionNotice that Webroot still keeps the green 🤗 What this means is that we have a whole bunch of OLD BRANDED SWAG that we need to give away to make room for the newly minted SWAG that we’ll be ordering. Dang that cowbell just wont quitWe have a lovely bundle of gifts to giveaway. Included in this SWAG BAG is:Socks Light up Chat Bubble Cowbell Pens BBQ Tool Apple-Scented Notebook Lowball YETI mug The first 30 people reply to this thread with “OpenText is Cybersecurity” I will DM you and get this shipped to you! (US, UK, CA only) I’m all about that apple-scented notebook

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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OpenText is a G2 2023 Best Software Awards winner!Awards

OpenText is pleased to announce that out of thousands of contenders, G2 users have chosen our software as one of the top 50 in two categories. Easy, reliable server backup and recovery for virtual, physical and legacy systems.Carbonite Server — #6 in Best IT Management Products Top IT Cloud Management Product awards are earned by software products and companies that provide best-in-class IT Management products and experiences for their customers. To qualify for the best IT Management software list, products must be listed under one or more of the IT Management child categories. IT management software allows businesses to unify software projects, automate simple tasks, and manage project collaboration. These software tools perform specific functions to complete complex tasks like creating online help systems, building mobile applications, and developing multi-platform games.Check out @G2’s 2023 Best IT Management Awards List A revolutionary approach to malware protection.Webroot Busi

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Justin Gilbert and Ghassan Lababidi Recognized by CRNAwards

Congratulations to OpenText Cybersecurity’s Ghassan (Guss) Lababidi for being named to the CRN 2023 Channel Chiefs List and Justin Gilbert for being on the 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs list.The channel plays a major role in the go-to-market strategies and operations for many IT companies. And so it follows that channel chiefs play a significant role in the success of those companies. But some channel executives play an out-sized role in channel leadership—not just within their companies, but in the broader channel universe and the IT industry overall. Ghassan (Guss) LababidiVP, Global Partner Marketing & Enablement“The foundation of a successful partnership in SMB is all about the relationship and the trust you build with your partner community. I seek to both establish and maintain that trust by developing a true understanding of our partners' businesses and how we can help them both, transform and grow, so they are achieving their business and profitability goals. The best

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Nastiest Malware 2022Nastiest Malware

With 2023 around the corner, we’ve seen yet another eventful year for the threat landscape and malware continues to be center stage in the threats posed towards individuals, businesses, and governments. The infosec industry continues the struggle of the perpetual cat and mouse game tactics that haven’t really stopped since cybercriminals first started decades ago. This absolutely accelerated into overdrive the past 9 years with the mainstream adoption of ransomware payloads and cryptocurrency facilitating payments.If you’ve seen our writeup of Blackhat 2022, the keynote speakers noted that in 25 years of doing hacking conferences, we still don’t have a handle on what’s going on, and the surface area of attack is only growing so we all expect it to get worse.The ransomware double extortion tactic continues to be a match made in heaven for criminals and absolute hell for victims. Every major ransomware campaign has been utilizing a Tor leak site for data exfiltrated with the intention of

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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12 Days of Holiday Giveaways!GIVEAWAYS

It's the most wonderful time of the year—and we want to celebrate it with you as a way of saying thank you for being an active member on this community! 🥂 We are taking inspiration from the The Twelve Days of Christmas song and will be surprising you with mini contests with gifts for 12 business days. Starting December 1 and wrapping up December 16. So be sure to check back on this community every day! They will be on the homepage and featured so you can’t miss it 🎅 We will have 2 winners from each of the Holiday Giveaway contests...AND you can be a prize winner multiple days. Each day will have a contest where the rules AND prizes are clearly specified. Expect threads where you will have to make a comment or share a photo to be entered to win. The following day we will announce the winners of the previous day’s contest. The prizes will get progressively better so be sure to stick around! A single user can win multiple days of prizes and they will ship after Christmas (in one box)

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LLiddellRetired Webrooter

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New Beta group!

[img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/webroot-en/attachment/6a6be5a4-563b-49c2-9466-5b12982d878b.png[/img] Hello Webroot Community! Webroot is always looking to improve, test, and refine our products. As such, we need your help testing our products and programs to make sure they're ready to go. We here at Webroot have the beta group open to bring on more individuals to our beta team and hear your feedback. [h3][b]If you wish to join the beta group, f[/b]ill out the survey [url=https://wbrt.io/BetaEULA]here[/url] and we'll get you added in.[b] We look forward to seeing you there![/b][/h3]

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Storage Insider Reader’s Choice Awards - MailStore wins GOLDaward

We’re pleased to report that OpenText Security Solution’s, MailStore has been named the GOLD WINNER in the archiving category.Storage-Insider, one of the best known German online IT magazines, presents every year the “Reader's Choice Awards” for the best IT companies in different categories, voted by the readers. Check out the video of all the winnersCongratulations!

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4 months ago

freydrewRetired Webrooter

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[Infographic] MSPs benefit from Security Awareness Training

Webroot recently surveyed more than 200 MSPs around the world to gauge their phishing awareness and learn about their clicking habits. We thought this was important to do because of the pervasive misconception that endpoint security and a firewall are sufficient protection from online threats. But cyberattacks are increasingly interpersonal affairs, and hacking the human is often a more surefire path to success for cybercriminals.The results of our study show that, while there's still a need for awareness of that fact, many organizations are catching on. Here's what the data tell us about the problem and how it could be solved.Click on the attachment below to view the full infographic! Did anything surprise you? Let us know in the comments below.

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Webroot wins SE Labs AAA rating again for small business endpoint protectionAward

Webroot was once again recognized for efficacy in small business endpoint protection by the software testing firm SE Labs, this time for the July - September 2022 time period. Webroot Business Endpoint Protection received a 95 percent total accuracy score in the test. Based in the UK, SE Labs is one of the security industry’s most trusted providers of third-party efficacy testing, and it is an honor to receive their AAA For more info, you can go to SE Labs and read the report when it is released

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4 months ago

TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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OpenText wins Overall Web Security SolutionAward

We’re pleased to report that OpenText Security Solutions has been named the winner of CyberSecurity Breakthrough’s Overall Web Security Solution of the Year 2022 award. The OpenText Security Solutions portfolio was honored for its ability to help businesses overcome data protection issues caused by persistent creativity of cybercriminals with breakthrough advancements that include DNS Leak Prevention, new MDR Solutions, the release of BrightCloud® Cloud Service Intelligence, and more. Check out all 2022 Winners - CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Week 4 Winners & Final Standings: Halloween Community ContestWINNERS

Hey Everyone!HAPPY HALLOWEEN Here are Week 4 winners & FINAL STANDINGS for our contest! You guys went to town this week, holy crap Here are the previous weeks winners Final Standings of all Winners - remember if you placed in the same tier of prizes twice you will move down to the next prize you have not won and the person below you will move up if they have also not won that tier. @MajorHavoc - 1st, 8th@Jamesharris85 - 2nd, 3rd, 4th (moved down wk4)@Martin.1 - 1st, 2nd (moved up wk4), 5th@russell.harris - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th [very calculated]@tmcmullen - 3rd (moved up wk4), 4th, 5th (moved down wk3)@jhartnerd123 - 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th@Rodney18 - 7th@kleinmat4103 - 1st, 2nd, 7th, 8th@MT Native - 9th@quicks - 10th@DMR83tx - 3rd@W.A.Busse - 4th@MunkeyMan - 4th (moved up wk3), 6th, 8th@AsadP - 8th, 9th, 10th (moved down wk3)@tasystems - 10th@durantash - 9th (moved up wk3)@diverdown38 - 7th@What's Happened to Webroot - 6th@GuavaCa - 10th RANDOM COMMENT WINNERS@kokerakos - BLUE HOODIE fo

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4 months ago

TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Nastiest Malware Q&A + Vote for this year's Nastiest!Q&A

Welcome to another spooktacular Q&A! I’ve just returned from braving the darkest corners of the web to discover the nastiest malware of 2022. I’ll be available until Halloween to answer your questions on the worst infections featured in our latest Nastiest Malware. Add your questions in the comments below. As part of our ongoing community contest, we’ll be giving away a this keyboard to a random commenter (winner announced Halloween) If you don’t have any questions then we invite you to cast your vote for the malware that you think is the NASTIEST or just tell us a spooky tech story that you have 👀Make sure to take our Nastiest Malware Quiz to test your knowledge

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Spooktober Community Contest 2022Contest

To Kick off Nastiest Malware 2022 proper and to show our appreciation to this community over the many years we’re going to make this Halloween extra special. The next 4 weeks we’re giving away lots of PRIZES for just being an active member of the community and dominating the leaderboard… We’re also giving away raffle prizes to random commenters in certain topics (hint: one of them is this post). WEEKLY WINNERS ANNOUNCED Who’s ready to win some prizes? How do I win? You can win in a number of ways, but the most common is going to be points system on our leaderboardThe easiest way to top the leaderboard is being an active member on the community - make relevant posts, start discussions, answer questions that are posted by other members, and receiving likesWe have temporarily removed the ability to receive points for giving a like due to gaming of the system - only receiving likes will earn points Being a helpful member of our community will provide you with a chance to win our bigges

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Week 3 Winners: Halloween Community Contestwinners

Hey everyone!Here are Week 3 winners for our contest! CONGRATULATIONS TO @Martin.1 @Jamesharris85 @russell.harris @tmcmullen @jhartnerd123 @MunkeyMan @kleinmat4103 @MajorHavoc @AsadP @durantash For those that need a refresher on prizes in contest and how to win please see this postPREVIOUS WINNERS Remember I will reach out to you all after the contest ends for shipping as many of you will win multiple prizes.Please note that you can only win 1 prize of each tier. EXAMPLE: If you win 1st place twice then you will get one 1st place prize and one 2nd place prize and the second 1st place prize will go to the next qualifying contestant who also hasn’t won 1st place yet. The infosec news sharing is great and I’ve learned a lot more in the past few weeks than I would have normally. I know chit-chat threads have exploded and some are fun 😀, but please refrain from being extreme with the nonsensical print of meaningless comments in threads to pump points. One more week to go! Good luck every

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4 months ago

khumphreyCommunity Specialist

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Massive Awards Earned By OpenText and ZixNews

Zix has been named a Bronze Winner in the Cloud Security category This award recognizes and honors leading companies in the IT industry in all aspects of their work. Read more about this award HERE OpenText Security Solutions was announced Winner in the Data Protection Category This award identifies and rewards the world’s leading companies and products that are working to keep our data and electronic assets safe among a growing threat from hackers. Read more about this award HERE Zix named as winner in the Hot Company SMB Cybersecurity and Cutting Edge Email Security and Management categories This Global Infosec Award recognizes and honors leading companies in the IT industry in all aspects of their work. Awards top cybersecurity companies in the world for their new and innovative work towards enhancing data security. Read more about this award HERE OpenText Security Solutions named as 17th on the Cyber Top 20 List The Cyber Top 20 Award recognizes leading compan

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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OpenText winner in 2022 European MSP Innovation AwardsAWARD

OpenText is pleased to announce that OpenText Security Solutions have been named as the winner for 'Best Backup/Continuity Offering’ for Carbonite Backup for Microsoft 365 at the MSP Innovation Awards! These awards celebrate partners and their vendors on setting extraordinary examples of success and innovation in the market. Looking slick with fresh awardsCongratulations team!

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freydrewRetired Webrooter

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Webroot gets AAA rating in first official testing

As many of you know, because of Webroot's unique way of identifying threats, it has never officially been included in public tests. Previous test methodologies simply haven't been devised to test Webroot according to the way it works to detect and block threats.While still a work in progress, we’re happy to announce our first public testing in SE Labs Small Business Endpoint Protection Oct-Dec 2020. The result was a AAA rating for Webroot.It's important to note that these results are only achieved when the new Script protection component of the Webroot Evasion Shield is activated. If you have yet to enable this feature, you can find directions for how to do so here.

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freydrewRetired Webrooter

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PCMag Readers Rank Webroot Best Antivirus and Security Suites in 2021

Updated on March 15, 2021 with PCMag’s Best Security Suites of 2021 AwardReaders’ Choice Awards 2021: Antivirus Software and Security SuitesWebroot was voted a Security Suite for Home Winner, splitting the honor with Bitdefender. This is the second time in two years that Webroot has taken the top prize! Scoring high in many areas, Webroot specifically did well in the Ransomware, Ease of Use, and Performance categories. When summarizing Webroot’s win, PCMag commented, “It’s a security brand that PCMag readers truly rally around year after year.” Congratulations to all on the win! The Best Tech Brands for 2021Taken from Readers’ Choice survey responses, PCMag editors distinguished Webroot as the best Security Suite Software (Home Use). With an NPS sore of 87, editors noted that Webroot’s “is also the second best NPS number we saw all year across all categories.”Business Choice Awards 2021: Security Software and SuitesWebroot is listed positively among top competitors in the space, who in

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Colossal Universal Studios Giveaway!Contest

Webroot has colossal news...we want to send YOU to Universal Studios! As part of our partnership with Universal and Amblin Entertainment, we are offering you a few ways to enter our giveaway to win a trip to Universal Studios and a Jurassic World Dominion gift package!!! But that's not the only exciting news... for a limited time, we're offering a 40% saving on all Webroot antivirus products for your personal use. Check out the new Webroot homepage for more details.

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Week 4 Winners Announced!Contest Winners

Hey everyone!We still had some anomalies with the leaderboard again, but it wasn’t as bad or impactful as week 3 Here are this weeks winnersCongratulations to @kleinmat4103 @russell.harris @Jamesharris85 @deanosborne @MajorHavoc @MunkeyMan @stlshark @jhartnerd123 @philip.stanley @jkidd I will be messaging you all letting you know what you’ve won and for your addresses (Must be in US, CA, UK - Scotland has issues) I really appreciate the increase in engagement on here and look forward to more opportunities to give cool stuff away$%*#ing leaderboard

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Week 1 Winners: Halloween Community ContestWinners

Hey everyone!Here are last weeks winners for our contest! Big contgrats to @russell.harris @kleinmat4103 @DMR83tx @jhartnerd123 @W.A.Busse @What's Happened to Webroot @diverdown38 @MunkeyMan @AsadP @GuavaCa For those that need a refresher on prizes in contest and how to win please see this post Remember I will reach out to you all after the contest ends for shipping as many of you will win multiple prizes Always good to see the engagement and I look forward to seeing the more winners end of this week :)

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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Week 2 Winners: Halloween Community ContestWINNERS

Hey everyone!Here are Week 2 winners for our contest! CONGRATULATIONS TO @kleinmat4103 @russell.harris @Jamesharris85 @tmcmullen @Martin.1 @MunkeyMan @jhartnerd123 @AsadP @MajorHavoc @tasystems For those that need a refresher on prizes in contest and how to win please see this postPREVIOUS WINNERSRemember I will reach out to you all after the contest ends for shipping as many of you will win multiple prizes Looks like everyone woke up this week and the points are like 4x higher 🤓

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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The Hidden Threats Lurking on Illegal Streaming sitesREPORT

Illegal streaming of sporting events is being marketed to consumers as an alternative to legitimate streaming services, but potential users must understand the risk to which they expose themselves when they choose to watch content illegally.As this timely report from OpenText Security Solutions makes clear, illegal streams open up a gateway for criminals to access bank accounts, commit fraud, and install malicious software. In addition, the operators and sellers of illegal streams ignore the perils relating to child safety by offering unfiltered access to explicit content.To protect your personal and financial details, and your family’s safety, the secure and safe way to watch content is through legitimate providers.Check out the full report attached below! Introduction With the return of the Premier League and with big showcase events hitting our screens, we wanted to better understand the risks faced by sports fans when venturing onto illegal streaming sites.So, we examined some of t

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TylerMSr. Security Analyst & Community Manager

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BrightCloud® Threat Report Mid-Year UpdateReport

Every year at BlackHat USA we debut the mid-year update to our yearly flagship Threat Report. Our mid-year update provides contextual insights from the 2022 BrightCloud® Threat Report. These updates highlight the most recent trends in malware and phishing within the first six months of 2022.If you haven’t already, check out our 2022 BrightCloud Threat Report The Manufacturing vertical continues to experience the highest above-average infection rate, rising just over 12% since 2021 to 66.5%. The Information and Public Administration verticals also saw spikes in above-average infection rates, 47.4% and 42.7%, respectively. Windows 11 adoption remains stagnant, only rising 4% for businesses and 15% for consumers within the first nine months of the release. Since the adoption of Windows 11 has been slow, these results highlight the importance of incorporating a layered security approach that includes DNS protection which helps reduce infection rates.Protective DNS services are essential co

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