Cisco’s first Global Cybersecurity Readiness Index finds Canadian businesses less mature than global averages in many key metrics, pointing to the need for education and more security services.
Intel also emphasized major performance increases over the last version of the platform, and how it far exceeds the capabilities of older machines, to provide a strong case for refresh.
While Code42 shifted their Insider Risk Management solution to a 100% channel model two years ago, Guglielmi thinks that there is room for considerably more growth in the accelerating market in which they play.
The TrueFort Trust Global Channel Partner Program is designed to support a broad range of partner types, but the company is being choosy about the specific partners it wants to work with.
Stellar Cyber has had a strong cadre of MSPs using their Open XDR platform, but resellers have been underrepresented among their partner base, so the new partner program was designed specifically to strengthen them with this part of the partner ecosystem.
OT is already a significant part of the company’s business, but the new tool, available now in Canada for the first time, will give end users the ability to see weaknesses and lead to channel opportunities to address them.
Dell’s exclusive deal will see it make CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform available to customers though multiple routes to market, and has led CrowdStrike to conclude that even a well-established company like themselves has much to gain from the partnership.
The new partner program uses a point system to not only reward for the usual things like sales and certifications, but for doing high value work with customers like ransomware assessments, even if they do not immediately lead to a sale.
The old program was designed for TeamViewer’s legacy remote connectivity business, and while that business and the partners who sell it are still important to the company, they are increasing the emphasis on the higher value-add OT part of the business.
Acronis’ only Canadian data centre until now has been in Vancouver, and in a business where physical proximity to the data centre impacts efficiency, they expect having one in Toronto will boost their Canadian business.
The acquisition will let HPE rejig their Aruba SASE offering so that all the components are made by HPE, instead of several of them coming from strategic partnerships, which is the case now.
The program being announced today is for resellers, while a second program for MSSPs is planned for next quarter.
The new program is more of an introduction to Salt for partners, some of whom are not that familiar with AI security, but the plan is to deepen the program with more technical offerings later on.
Entitle, which works with CIEM vendors rather than competing with them, is already working with channel partners as well.
Acquista, who has had channel leadership roles at a variety of companies in the security space, comes in with a fresh perspective, for while Gigamon already has a channel-first strategy, they see considerable room to grow further.
Two years ago, only 5% of ReliaQuest’s deals went through a partner, a number which rose to 70% last quarter, and led to the company pledging that all deals will now go through a partner unless a customer objects.
The new changes to KACE Cloud reflects what Quest believes to be a completely modernized approach to patch management, where customers select the patches they want and use KACE’s catalogue rather than Windows to schedule and maintain them.
Oligo’s efficient use of run time monitoring lets users much more easily identify and remedy open source code vulnerabilities.
The new portfolio comes in three versions, with the Foundation Edition consisting of Veeam Backup and Replication v.12, the Advanced Edition adding Veeam ONE to this, and the Premium Edition adding both VeeamONE and Veeam Recovery Orchestrator.
Trellix’s new channel program is designed to be more channel friendly and effective than the McAfee and FireEye programs of the companies which became Trellix, with an emphasis on co-operating with partners rather than competing with them.
