Trellix has introduced their first set of sales plays to be used around their XDR capabilities, which will let partners do health checks and predictive analytics for customers.
Veeam has released a detailed ransomware report looking at companies that have been attacked, the likely reasons they got attacked, how they responded to the attack, and what strategies did and did not work.
Barracuda is also announcing a series of new integrations with OT vendors around industrial IoT, as well as new capabilities for its Barracuda Cloud Application offering.
Greg Lavender, who is Intel’s CTO, among other things, laid out the company’s technical road map on the second day of the Intel Vision event, highlighting the newly announced Project Amber, and emphasizing several times that the time to begin working on security around quantum computing, a futures project, is right now.
BalkanID will start out focused on the mid-market but plans to expand that, as they further develop their solution from automated IGA to fully automated telemetry.
Sunday, whose name refers to the fact that it also protects you when you are not at work, provides senior executives, and eventually their families, with Personal Cybersecurity to head off new types of attacks that go beyond traditional company emails.
A major theme running through the announcements is to make it easier for more types of partners to engage in higher level value-add activities with Fortinet.
ESET Inspect Cloud, a rebranding of their ESET Enterprise Inspector solution makes it available in the cloud for the first time as well as on-prem, as ESET’s customer base, which had a high on-prem bias until recently, is asking for more cloud options.
Ivanti Neurons Patch for Microsoft Endpoint Manager makes customers aware of the vulnerabilities in the Microsoft product, many of which Microsoft itself does not list, as well as how to reduce threats like ransomware through them. Ivanti Neurons for Risk-Based Vulnerability Management improves measurement, prioritization and control of cybersecurity risk, while the Digital Experience score is an important add that improves digital employee experiences.
Waterloo-based Cavelo makes a platform which assesses broad aspects of data management and regulatory reporting requirements, and, unusually for their space, is focused on the SMB and SME rather than the enterprise, and concentrates on going to market through partners.
Trend Micro’s unified new platform enables a risk management cycle around everything, and starts with nine third party vendors who are also on the platform.
While Barracuda’s acquisition in 2013 by Thoma Bravo helped the company a lot in transforming itself into a cloud-first company with a modern comprehensive portfolio, they think KKR is even better situated to Barracuda’s current stage of the growth cycle.
The new program, which replaces a traditional one, is a single tiered program which gives margin rather than discount, emphasizes partners bringing in the deal, and awards bonus Loyalty Points to add to margins for additional actions that show commitment to the company.
The certification program will eventually be a key component of the Hunters partner program, which is currently being designed.
Major enhancements include a new inline sandbox service that adds protection capabilities to detection, and enhancements to the company’s ZTNA, SD-WAN, SD-Branch, and 5G.
The ControlOne platform, available in Canada as well as the U.S., is designed for MSPs, and is intended to provide both state of the art security and UCaaS in an easy to use platform.
Gavin Osters, who designed SentinelOne’s original channel program, joined Randori as Head of Channel to drive the company to being 100% channel sales.
Aruba’s other big announcement on the first day of their Aruba Atmosphere event is the enhancement of their high-end APs with indoor location services through the introduction of GPS-based coordinates.
Orit Shilvock just joined Prevention-as-a-Service provider Perception Point as their VP of Channels and Strategic Alliances, and while the company has already begun its transition to a 100% channel model, her job is to take them there more quickly and efficiently.
Data protection vendors have widely adopted data immutability technologies to prevent ransomware attacks from encrypting it, a technique that has been successful and led some attackers to try stealing the data and hold its return for ransom instead. Titaniam is also designed to stop that.
