CyberFOX combines what had been two different kinds of IAM companies, password management company Password Boss and PAM vendor AutoElevate – although the plan is to broaden out the platform further going forward.
Transparency and communication are critical when responding to cybersecurity incidents, writes Barracuda MSP’s Doris Au.
Augmentt, which makes a SaaS security and management platform for MSPs, has supported Microsoft 365 previously with alerts, but now has added remediation to its capabilities, which they see as differentiating themselves in the market.
Kaseya has historically kept acquired companies as independent entities within Kaseya, but Datto is now worth more than Kaseya, and is a direct competitor as opposed to a maker of complementary solutions. Nevertheless, the plan is for Kaseya to remain separately run, just like those past acquisitions.
N-able, which has a very strong cloud-first backup strategy, recently polled some of their more engaged resellers, and found that while a majority agreed that traditional on-prem backup had its limitations, many are still reluctant to switch.
StorPool has customized its software to make it easy for MSPs to build their own highly efficient Tier One storage platform, or to build private clouds for customers that can run mission-critical workloads.
Kaseya adds governance and risk features to take advantage of what they see as a great growth opportunity for GRC in the SMB space, which can ideally be taken to market through MSPs
NinjaOne is a relative latecomer to the Ticketing market, but they believe their high levels of automation in particular will make their customers prefer it over existing options.
CrowdStrike has integrated their standalone Falcon Identity Threat Protection into their Falcon Complete MDR offering, and expects that the combination of Falcon Complete’s market strength plus customer demand for an identity service no one else yet offers will drive their identity solution to a market leadership position.
Difenda is expanding its channel to bring their Difenda Shield powered by Microsoft in front of more customers, and so is looking to use the new program to selectively add quality partners.
Red Canary has typically worked with Incident Response partners in the past, but the new Red Canary Partner Connect Program also provides support, using a common framework, for MSPs, Solution Providers; Technology Partners, and Insurance and Risk partners.
Synthesize makes Gradient MSP a platform player, and is designed to reconcile everything-as-a-service faster and easier, beginning with Gradient’s existing Billing automated billing reconciliation service.
AppDirect is already strong in Canada, and in Quebec, which was ITCloud.ca’s original base before it established a national presence, but AppDirect plans to expand in Canada further, and wants to build ITCloud.ca, which will retain its brand, into Canada’s largest provider of cloud services.
Field Effect’s global channel leader shares the results of year one of its partner program and offers hints on what’s to come as it continues to grow this year.
While the ION and the ION+ small tower model are mainly aimed at MSPs, Unitrends also expects some VAR business aimed at specific customer use cases.
SaaS Alerts added Reporting functionality to its original Management focus in 2021, and plans to provide a new Remediation capability in 2022.
The SentinelOne integration is also now part of the Barracuda RMM, and SKOUTs existing email partnership with a competitor security vendor will remain available, because SKOUT is an open platform.
Nerdio also expands their U.K.-based sales organization and establishes their first in-country sales presence in the Australia/New Zealand [ANZ] region, as they continue to gear up for NerdioCon in Cancun next month, which will be a rare bird these days, a strictly on-prem annual conference.
Datto had some degree of both EDR and MDR available before, mainly through packages available through their RMM, but they believe that the integration of these technologies into their platform will take their security to another level.
Field Effect’s Toby Nangle discusses premium security services and why MSPs need to secure their own air masks before helping others in this edition of the podcast.
