Security

Cloud

Pulse Secure looks to channel to lead creative disruption in growth of Virtual ADC business

August 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pulse Secure looks to channel to lead creative disruption in growth of Virtual ADC business
Pulse Secure is seeing strong momentum in its virtual ADC business this year, with the growth of cloud applications, and is looking to both cloud-focused partners and their traditional partners broadening out their business to continue the trend.

Security

Symantec fine-tuning of vendor TIPP program consistent with recent focus on go-to-market enhancements

August 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Symantec fine-tuning of vendor TIPP program consistent with recent focus on go-to-market enhancements
Symantec Canada country manager Ajay Sood discusses enhancements to Symantec’s strategic partner program, their relation to changes made in their channel go-to-market, and how it all relates to Symantec’s long-standing attempt to revitalize itself.

Security

Optiv introduces new Enemy Perspectives service with a new approach to improving defenses

August 7, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Optiv introduces new Enemy Perspectives service with a new approach to improving defenses
Optiv’s new Enemy Perspectives services offering is designed to help organizations understand the specific kinds of attacks likely to impact them, so that they can better prepare for them, and improve the speed and efficiency of responses to an incident.

Channel Communities

SolarWinds MSP gathers information to make MSPs successful at ChannelCon.

August 7, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SolarWinds MSP gathers information to make MSPs successful at ChannelCon.
Solarwinds MSP’s VP of Security emphasized that the CompTIA event was exceptional at enabling both the vendor and MSPs to learn from each other.

Managed Services

ID Agent seeing strong MSP response to Dark Web monitoring offering

August 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on ID Agent seeing strong MSP response to Dark Web monitoring offering
ID Agent offers a service that terrifies prospects by showing them their corporate data in circulation on the Dark Web, as well as a monitoring service to guard against it. They have Canadian MSP partners, and are in Toronto this week at a Datto show looking for more.

Managed Services

Soft launch of Managed Phishline builds on Barracuda MSP Momentum

August 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Soft launch of Managed Phishline builds on Barracuda MSP Momentum
Barracuda made Managed Phishline, an MSP-focused version of the technology they acquired from Phishline this year, available to MSPs in July.

Managed Services

ESET gears up in Managed Service Provider market

August 1, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on ESET gears up in Managed Service Provider market
ESET has been in the MSP space for a while, but is now making a push to increase their presence there. They also indicated that they will shortly be releasing their first offering specifically built for the cloud.

Managed Services

SOCSoter adds Breach Detection service for SMBs to their Vulnerability Monitoring Service

August 1, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on SOCSoter adds Breach Detection service for SMBs to their Vulnerability Monitoring Service
SOCSoter, which has over a hundred channel partners reselling their offering, doesn’t yet have any partners in Canada, but will be at the ASCII show in Toronto later this month looking to change that.

Security

Canada tackles malicious online advertising

July 31, 2018 Guest Poster Comments Off on Canada tackles malicious online advertising
Federal agency issues Notices of Violation for allegedly facilitating the installation of malware through online advertising

Security

FireEye adds machine learning as the fourth engine in Endpoint Security solution

July 31, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on FireEye adds machine learning as the fourth engine in Endpoint Security solution
FireEye has spent the last two years developing its own machine learning engine, which now complements signature, behaviour-based and intelligence-based engines in their endpoint offering.