It’s imperative for partners to address the cybersecurity skills gap – here’s how

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.

Sonrai Security extends enterprise identity platform with new Governance Automation Engine

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.

Commvault expands use cases in product portfolio refresh

The news involves reworking Commvault Data Protection and Commvault Backup & Recovery into separate products with a suite option, bringing Hedvig technology into HyperScale, expanding Hedvig support for Kubernetes, further encouraging subscription pricing, and positioning the Metallic SaaS offering to go upmarket and address the enterprise as well as the midmarket.

Cyberthreat landscape changes to meet new business normal of Work From Home: SonicWall

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.

Continuous Delivery as-a-Service provider Harness set to expand channel enablement resources

Harness formalized a multi-tier partner program a year ago, which now includes close to 40 partners. Over the next six months, they will implement a broader training and certification program, deploy additional technical and sales resources, and roll out a Partner Solutions Lead Program.