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  IN PICTURES: Rotary Club Charity Regatta Part 2 (+28 photos)

  ​In its twenty first year, the Rotary Club Charity Regatta was once again held at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Rushcutters Bay. Sponsored by Check Point, the event featured 48 yachts and was attended by partners and customers of the security vendor amongst others. The prospect of rain was not enough to dissuade attendees as they readied for an afternoon on Sydney Harbour in support of a good cause. Photos by Chris Player.

  IN PICTURES: Rotary Club Charity Regatta Part 2 (+28 photos)
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  IN PICTURES: Rotary Club Charity Regatta Part 1 (+36 photos)

  In its twenty first year, the Rotary Club Charity Regatta was once again held at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Rushcutters Bay. Sponsored by Check Point, the event featured 48 yachts and was attended by partners and customers of the security vendor amongst others. The prospect of rain was not enough to dissuade attendees as they readied for an afternoon on Sydney Harbour in support of a good cause. Photos by Chris Player.

  IN PICTURES: Rotary Club Charity Regatta Part 1 (+36 photos)
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  IN PICTURES: Check Point Cyber Security Symposium 2015 (+37 photos)

  Around 1000 attendees headed down to Sydney’s Luna Park for the 2015 Check Point Cyber Security Symposium. The morning’s keynotes included talks from Check Point head of security architects, Kellman Meghu; Telstra chief information officer, Mike Burgess; and head of cyber and information security at the Australian Signals Directorate, Major General Stephen Day. The mid-morning sessions featured a demonstration of the implementation of software defined protection by Check Point chief information officer, Jorge Steinfeld. The highlight of the day was undoubtedly the keynote address from former Washington Post journalist and author of Spam Nation and the award winning blog krebsonsecurity.com, Brian Krebs.

  IN PICTURES: Check Point Cyber Security Symposium 2015 (+37 photos)
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  IN PICTURES: Kickstart-ing 2013 with a boogie

  MediaConnect is hosting its Kickstart 2013 event at the Sunshine Coast from February 17 to 19. The three-day conference kicked off with an 80s-themed dinner.

  IN PICTURES: Kickstart-ing 2013 with a boogie

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• Arcserve's Leo Lynch joins Check Point as A/NZ channel lead

  Back-up and disaster recovery vendor channel boss leaps into the security sphere.

• Check Point bolsters email security prowess with Avanan acquisition

  Avanan provides a multi-layer security offering that claims full-suite protection for cloud collaboration solutions.

• Check Point’s Hamish Soper jumps to Tesserent to lead NZ expansion

  The move comes after Tesserent’s acquisition of New Zealand’s Lateral Security late last year.

• Check Point taps Big Switch’s Ian Raper as A/NZ MD

  Steps in two months after the role was vacated by Scott McKinnel

• Check Point backpedals on activity-led partner program plan

  Revenue-based tiering still on the table following partner confusion

• Channel veteran Nigel Spence joins Check Point

  Handed role as cloud security partner development manager for A/NZ

Interviews about check point

• The critical risk in infrastructure

  How Australia’s water, electricity, and gas industries pose a potential threat to citizens

Features about check point

• ​Cisco moves away from Check Point as security appliance market continues growth

  Both factory revenues and security appliance unit shipments continued to grow in the first half of 2015.

• “Sophisticated” cyber attacks trigger security market revenue rise

  "Today's threat environment is extremely dynamic and continues to change exponentially."

• Cisco edges Check Point as security appliance market continues double-digit shipment growth

  "2014 saw a record number of serious data breaches causing both government agencies and companies to realise how susceptible they are to cyber threats that ...

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