For the week ending July 13, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel. Source: www.crn.com

Technology titans, private equity goliaths, and pure-play security mainstays spent at least $3 billion on the year’s most significant deals, placing major bets to gain more expertise around the cloud, endpoint and applications. Source: www.crn.com

AT&T is buying threat intelligence provider AlienVault for an undisclosed sum to make enterprise-grade security solutions more accessible to small and midsized businesses, according to the carrier. Source: www.crn.com

Mimecast CEO Peter Bauer says Mimecast’s cyber-resilience for email capabilities paired with Ataata’s employee training and risk scoring is a ‘powerful combination.’ Source: www.crn.com

The 10 top cybersecurity startups include companies solving challenges around blockchain, IoT and OT, protecting embedded processors, and lateral threats against servers and workstations. Source: www.crn.com

Israeli firm Safe-T plans to use the proceeds from the IPO to scale up product marketing and sales, as well as for research and development into new technologies to expand the company’s business. Source: www.crn.com

Numerous cybersecurity companies were among the startups that hauled in venture capital rounds in June. Source: www.crn.com

“Our partner ecosystem provides us with a number of advantages, including increased in-bound registered sales leads, broader geographic reach and greater deal velocity,” Tenable wrote in its filing. Source: www.crn.com

“John Chambers is a special individual,” Balbix CEO Guarav Banga told CRN. “He’s one of the world’s most accomplished CEOs.” Source: www.crn.com

World’s largest identity industry event takes to Boston. Source: www.crn.com