Hornetsecurity looks to entice MSPs looking to consolidate the number of tools they work with, offering a new suite to hep manage all of their Microsoft 365 subscribers.
StackTracker is the latest MSP Business Management offering from Calgary based Gradient MSP, building on their earlier solutions around Data Hygiene, Billing, and Alerts, and adding many new integrated tools to help MSPs better run their business.
The partnership is with MSP-focused cyber insurance provider FifthWall Solutions, to provide cyberinsurance for VARs and their customers.
Rapidly growing opportunities in AI are part of the reason for success in the last year and hope in the next, but more traditional areas like SMB and MSPs have also been doing well.
SonicWall had an EDR solution before, which is now part of the MDR solution, with the MDR coming primarily through the acquisition three months ago of MMSP solutions provider Solutions Granted Inc
The new program is the first IGEL has offered specifically for MSPs, and has features like partners having complete control of SLAs in any form that they want.
Trend Micro already has a strong distribution network, but they think the MSP part of it could use some beefing up, and think that Pax8 is the ideal partner to do that for them.
The number of SaaS applications that can be integrated is still limited however, because many apps lack the necessary security logs, so the company has also initiated an industry-wide “I want my SaaS alerts” campaign to encourage software vendors to include security log data in their APIs.
Lumu, which illuminates threats and isolates confirmed instances of compromise on the network, launched an MSP version of their platform in 2021, and now has introduced a free version supporting a limited number of customers and endpoints.
Moovila showed off their automated Perfect Project solution at the recent IT Nation Connect event, offering MSPs a project management solution that overcomes the traditional limitations of such solutions that require significant human intervention.
The DMARC email protocol, highly effective against spoofing, will be implemented by big service providers in February, and with very few MSPs using it today, EasyDMARC sees it as a great opportunity for MSPs, so much so that they are ramping up MSP presence in their Go-to-Market model.
This integration, the first of several Schneider Electric has planned, was soft launched in the spring, but the real push to get partners to see its value came at the recent IT Nation event.
ConnectWise thinks adding ConnectWise RPA to Asio will be a really big deal, although they also announced a new Asio workflow automation capability, and 18 new Asio services.
Sidekick is a bot that is currently available for ConnectWise PSA, although the number of solutions supported will expand over time, providing much stronger AI capabilities than ConnectWise was able to offer before.
ConnectWise also announced that the Automation Nation event will return to the ConnectWise calendar in early 2024.
IT by Design is a Master MSP that changed their focus to be around coaching and training, dealing with MSP-specific leadership issues and how to address them effectively for both transformational and transactional leaders.
Both companies see Cork’s focus on loss control when a cyberattack takes place as highly complementary to Liongard’s Configuration Change Detection and Response services, and they are offering a discount to MSPs who sell both solutions.
While cyber insurance policies offered by RMM/PSA providers or MSP-focused vendors have grown in number in the last several years, Cork believes the way their offering works is distinct and superior.
Canadian MSPs seeing growth of 8.3 percent this year, with demand for more cybersecurity managed services leading the demand charge.
Lenovo, which is in attendance at the Intel Innovation 2023 event here in San Jose, made a very significant announcement of their own, beefing up their AI portfolio on multiple fronts at an event where AI was centre stage.
