ConnectWise announced a new reconciliation tool for ConnectWise Manage, and a simplified version of BrightGauge for analytics newbies. They also announced an extension of their partnership with SentinelOne, and provided a much anticipated update on the progress of their new universal platform.
While the effects of COVID on MSPs were mixed, coming out of COVID, competition has become the primary concern of MSPs, for the first time in the five year history of this survey.
Kaspersky MSP lead Trevor Serebro joins the podcast to discuss the company’s value prop for MSPs, the challenges of security in managed services and more.
N-able, the first company acquired by SolarWinds when they created their MSP division now formally re-emerges as a separate company, which is confident that it can go farther, faster, on its own.
The empow technology uses machine learning to correlate inputs from the entire cyber ecosystem, including endpoint, network, identity and application telemetry, to determine where an attacker has been, and where it is going.
Mark Ballegeer, systems engineer at Barracuda MSP, takes us through what Zero Trust security is, how it works, and what it means for solution providers in this edition of the podcast.
Enhancements in the new version include adding reducing the time it takes to protect against attacks, by providing more flexibility to automated security enforcement, by improving Intelligent Visibility and by adding new SuperClusters to scale up the number of supported workloads.
The new program is global, unlike its predecessors, has added a new classification for Referral Partners and beefed up another, Incident Response, as part of a move to broaden the partner base in that segment.
Midwestern MSP Aunalytics identifies the key trends they are seeing in managed services today, and what areas of their practice are increasing as a result.
LogMeIn’s LastPass password management product wasn’t even sold through MSPs a year ago, but since then they have redesigned it to fit that market’s needs, signed cloud distribution deals, and now inked PSA integrations as they expand their MSP presence.
Barracuda’s acquisition of SKOUT brings them both an XDR capability and a 24/7 SOC service, both of which are net new additions for the company.
Most of the changes require more partner investment in training in exchange for more rewards. The two new roles, Developer and Advisor, are still not quite ready, and are scheduled to go live in August.
As part of the effort to better understand cybersecurity and network infrastructure challenges across industries, Infoblox and CyberRisk Alliance recently released a report that examined the specific challenges faced by decision-makers in the healthcare industry.
Versa began as an SD-WAN vendor, but has been rapidly transitioning into the SASE market, will spend much of the fresh $86 million raised on sales and marketing, in a market in which many customers still don’t really know what SASE is.
The firewall refreshes are the highlight, but as is their custom, SonicWall also accompanied them with a flurry of software updates, as well as availability for free of all their security information through a single Capture Labs portal.
The new Threat Prevention capability, which comes through Webroot BrightCloud, is accompanied by a choice of packages with or without the capability, as well as deployment options which allows for data to be assessed at the edge.
Tony Anscombe, ESET’s global security evangelist, joins us on the podcast to discuss the challenging environment governments face on the cybersecurity front, and how solution providers can help.
Two of them, Safeguard Secure Remote Access and Safeguard for DevOps, are brand new, while the Endpoint Privilege Management solution has been enhanced with new capabilities.
The new CRU integrates existing ConnectWise assets drawn from multiple acquisitions in a more formal and comprehensive form than before, and includes a threat intelligence feed.
The third annual Vanson Bourne study prepared for ConnectWise finds that SMBs would pay a third more for an IT service provider who can offer the ‘right’ solution, but that many MSPs still find it hard to communicate what the SMB needs to hear.
