Fortinet Canada channel chief Sean Campbell offers some thoughts on what solution providers can do to make sure their staff have the security skills needed to succeed in the market today and provide the digital defences of tomorrow.
Okta’s partner report is a follow-up to an earlier one done with Okta customers, and the trends are essentially the same.
Sonrai uses workflow and role-based swimlanes to address identity and workload-related issues by automatically routing actions to cloud, security, audit or DevOps teams, or deploy remediation bots to address the issue, with the customer being able to determine how they want things handled.
The new Dynamic Edge Protection Suite consists of two solutions, which bundles long-standing offerings into converged ones which are delivered as a service that are easy to administer and easy for home users to set up securely.
Unsurprisingly, cybercriminals have evolved their tactics to better exploit the home-based work environments most organizations have moved to during the pandemic. The result has been changes like more (and more expensive) ransomware, increasing targeting of Microsoft Office files by cybercriminals, and increased use of non-standard ports for attacks.
LogMeIn makes two unrelated announcements, expanding MSP opportunities in their Identity and Access Management business, and adding new hardware bundles for GoToRoom in their UCC business.
StorMagic’s first SaaS offering turns the technology they recently acquired with KeyNexus into a cloud service, and the company says more SaaS offerings are on the way.
Ivanti Neurons uses what the company terms hyper-automation using AI and many types of bots to provide a secure, self-healing Autonomous Edge for remote workers.
Barracuda is touting the unique nature of its solution stemming from an exclusive partnership with Microsoft, which should last at least six months before Microsoft opens it up to other vendors.
VMware Carbon Black has released their third annual cybersecurity threat report, a global report, which has a separate Canadian component, and the results are a decidedly mixed bag.
Digital Defense has deepened the way they assess and score risk, with new machine learning capabilities, providing a GPA-style score that indicates defense posture and clearly demonstrates value
Vectra has also introduced more standardization of the programs in EMEA, APJ and the Americas, while still allowing for some local flexibility.
Kaspersky Integrated Endpoint Security relies more on automation than their more upmarket Kaspersky Threat Management and Defense, which is for customers with SOCs.
ESET channel chief Cam Leetham discusses the security vendor’s past, present and future with managed service providers on this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast, including a preview of some soon-to-launch enhancements to its offerings.
Webroot’s improvements to DoH [DNS-over-HTTPS] will provide MSPs with the ability to tell customers that this is something that can significantly improve their privacy on the Internet.
Splunk’s channel growth has been a logical complement to the company’s cloud-first focus, and has also helped them deal with the pandemic-related challenges and respond to its opportunities.
ESET researchers dissect an Android app that masquerades as an official COVID-19 contact-tracing app and encrypts files on the victim’s device
The new capability is a free addition to the EventTracker platform, and is designed to spot irregularities among dispersed Work From Home employees.
End users need to sign up by July 15. While the offer is targeted at them, it is a channel initiative, and enrollees who don’t have an MSP partner will be introduced to one as part of the program.
The new managed service is the direct result of the pandemic, with customers outside of AtHoc’s traditional large organization market asking BlackBerry to stand up a service for them.
