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Aaron Colwell


Aaron Colwell is manager of strategic software sales. In the past, he's worked as an inside solution architect specializing in networking and security for CDW. With more than nine years of experience in IT and six years of experience in IT security, he works with organizations to help them refine their security policies and practices and maintain compliance with industry and government regulations. He works with more than 40 CDW partners in the data security industry, including Cisco, Symantec, McAfee, Websense and Trend Micro, covering everything from firewalls and endpoint security to mobile device management and data loss prevention. He often speaks at conferences and has been quoted in many industry publications.

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Reducing the Risks of Advanced Persistent Threats

By Aaron Colwell
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May 20, 2014
Security

What makes advanced persistent threats (APTs) particularly dangerous? The name says it all. According to Symantec, “APTs are often highly sophisticated and more insidious than traditional attacks, relying on highly customized intrusion techniques.” While APTs differ from traditional threats, they leverage some of the same threat vectors. For example, they take advantage of today’s most…

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Another Week, Another Major Vulnerability Discovered

By Aaron Colwell
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April 30, 2014
Security

Even before everyone was able to fully digest the impact of the massive Heartbleed virus, another large-scale vulnerability was announced. On April 26, Microsoft announced a major vulnerability in their Internet Explorer web browser affecting versions 6-11. This vulnerability could allow the remote execution of code due to the way IE accesses an object in…

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What Your Company Can Learn from the Target Breach

By Aaron Colwell
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January 3, 2014
Security

On December 19th, Target confirmed that there was unauthorized access to payment card data of about 40 million credit and debit cards used in Target stores between November 27th and December 15th. On December 27th, the company confirmed reports that encrypted data containing debit card PIN numbers was also obtained but they maintain that this…

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Spear Phishing Attacks Are Coming For You

By Aaron Colwell
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July 19, 2013
Security

How many times have you gotten an email that had a strange looking link in it? We are all taught not to click on these. However, sometimes they seem legitimate and from what you would consider a trusted source. With so much happening in the cloud, of course there is a link you need to…

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Data Loss Prevention: It’s Not a Question of “If” but “When”

By Aaron Colwell
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May 3, 2013
Security

50 million customer records were stolen from LivingSocial. Were you one of them? If you’re one of the millions of people that like to look at their daily deals, then you likely were. Learn about CDW's most up-to-date security services. While credit card information was not stolen or accessed, other personally identifiable information (PII) was.…

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