Mark Ballegeer of Barracuda MSP offers advice on how any managed service provider can add managed security services in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast
London, Ontario-based Media Sonar’s platform brings a unique perspective to threat intelligence, which is designed to be highly compatible with complementary vendor offerings.
Seemingly overnight, the pandemic changed the way we work, and infosec departments are still adjusting. What’s on the horizon for employees in the coming year?
Cobalt provides pentesting through a platform, which delivers results quickly because they have a very large team of pentesters, and in response to solution provider interest, they have created a channel program to support partners.
Barracuda rebrands an improved version of the Managed Workplace RMM product they acquired from Avast in 2019 as Barracuda RMM, and delivers the multi-tenanted version of CloudGen Access they promised when ZTNA vendor Fyde was acquired in November.
Fortinet’s big product news, the launch of FortOS 7.0, actually took place a month ago, although its importance meant it was strongly emphasized at the event, but their channel announcements, including new specializations and the expansion of consumption-based billing to new products, were new.
Some perpetrators of online crime and fraud don’t use advanced methods to profit at the expense of unsuspecting victims and to avoid getting caught, ESET’s Jake Moore explains
Vade Secure, which has over a billion mailboxes under management, mainly through ISP partnerships that also give them data for a very strong filter, came into the North American market last year, and is targeting SMB-focused MSPs.
James Chalmers, territory channel manager for Canada at Kaspersky Lab joins the podcast to take a look back at 2020 and preview what’s to come in 2021.
Infocyte adds a Microsoft 365 protection solution to their platform to fill what partners had said was the biggest gap in the need for a solution that was both effective and easy to use.
The big theme around this release is expanded protection against ransomware, which is the focus of the new Sophos integration, but the release also contains major expansions of partnerships with Nutanix and Oracle.
Appgate’s first partner program since their spinoff from Cyxtera last year is explicitly focused on empowering and rewarding solution architects and sales engineers, to make them advocates of the company’s SDP technology.
Benchmark’s strength in the Canadian market is in the Greater Toronto Area and Ottawa, and that dovetails nicely with Hunters’ expansion strategy, which is focused on building up business on the eastern side of the continent first.
Infoblox’s new program includes 30 picked partners who have already made a SaaS commitment, and will pair them with Infoblox experts and provide them with increased support to boost their SaaS business.
Remote work has forced many small businesses to accelerate cloud adoption; MSPs can help them stay secure.
Derek Manky of Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs details some of the emerging types of threats solution providers need to be ready for this year.
RocketCyber, the Dallas-based startup Kaseya has acquired, was custom-built for smaller MSPs serving the SMB market, and will be quickly integrated with the other Kaseya solutions on their platform.
What can municipalities do to better protect their water supply systems? Cameron Camp of ESET offers some insights.
BIO-key’s broadening of their offerings, from their initial biometric solutions to a broader range of IAM solutions delivered through a platform, has led them to remake their channel program, to help partners sell the platform.
Allen McNaughton of Infoblox offers some thoughts on how public sector entities are reforming their cybersecurity defenses in the face of a changing threat landscape.
