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.
In 2021, Netwrix acquired four companies, including Stealthbits, which was approximately the same size as themselves. Since then, they have used three different portals, with products from two of the acquired companies not available through any of them. Now everything is available through a single portal, along with new training and tracking capabilities.
Cloud Workload Protection joins existing Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management, Cloud Security Posture Management and data security platform functionality to identify and remove risks across every part of an enterprise’s public cloud presence.
Skyhigh Security will be deeply focused on the Security Service Edge [SSE] while Trellix, spun out of Symphony earlier this year will be focused on the EDR [Extended Detection and Response] business. Gee Rittenhouse, who was previously the Senior Vice President/GM of Cisco’s Security Business Group, becomes Skyhigh’s CEO.
The new report, from data erasure vendor Blancco, says this should be an opportunity for channel partners, who can show public sector customers how save money while also managing their security concerns.
Other findings of the new Barracuda report indicate that Microsoft 365 attacks continue to grow exponentially, while most than half of brand impersonations now involve Microsoft
A new report sponsored by IAM vendor SecureAuth validates its strategy of moving towards passwordless as the first stage in an IAM strategy, to be backed up by other technologies like MFA, 2FA and SSO.
