A highlight is a new War Room module designed to facilitate crisis management by letting the SOC collaborate easily with other parts of the company, like PR, legal, and the CEO.
New biometric multi-factor authentication, and Dynamic Perimeter geofencing are the two new security capabilities.
New channel chief Eddie DeWolfe said that while Fidelis has not been consistent on channel policy in the past, the company’s new CEO and executive team is now firmly committed to being channel focused.
The MDR services Sophos acquired with Rook Security on Monday will be integrated with the DarkBytes platform acquired earlier, and Sophos’ own EDR offerings, and made available for MSPs without deep security experience and SOCs to resell.
The program, under the direction of industry veteran David Wagner, is aimed both at GSIs and resellers who already have a managed security service practice.
The early-stage Israeli startup just completed a seed funding round, and while they are still in proof-of-concept stage, the plan is to take it to MSSPs and MDR partners.
Pondurance is looking for mid-market focused MSPs, and while their specialized consulting services work on a referral model, partners can resell their MDR offerings.
Cyber Range is the most unique of the four platform offerings from Cyberbit, a spinoff from the Israeli defense giant Elbit Systems.
Prisma is basically a ‘Branding Plus’ exercise, where the big news is the rebranding of existing products into a new suite, but the products receive some enhancements – with more to come – to make them work more smoothly together.
This module joins existing ones for GDPR and HIPAA, and will be followed by others as RapidFire Tools adds additional functionality to the Audit Guru platform.
Barracuda enhances protection against bots in their WAF and WAF-as-a-Service platforms with new machine learning and AI abilities.
Both the new StorSecure Encryption and Key Management capability, which removes the need for third party key management products, and the KVM support significantly lower the total cost of a StorMagic deployment, an important consideration considering most of their deployments are small ones.
ESET researchers highlight a series of security holes in a device intended to make homes and offices more secure
Trend Micro both integrates and enhances its developer-focused and container-based protection, to give a fuller protection to DevOps environments.
Monday, Kaseya announced the acquisition of ID Agent, and consolidated all their security solutions in that business. Tuesday, they are rebooting their turnkey Powered Services offerings – with some major conceptual additions from ID Agent.
The theme for the Sophos partner kickoff this year was Evolve, and a key element of this will be how partners can best evolve themselves, with Sophos’ support, to meet evolving cybersecurity challenges.
SMB customers looking to learn more about security? ESET offers some new resources available to them from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The Dell Technologies Unified Workspace is a new client solution launched collaboratively with VMware, Dell Client Services and Secureworks, which brings multiple components together into what is effectively a single SKU for customers.
With Red Cloak Threat Detection and Response, Red Cloak becomes a brand for software delivered without a managed service component. The channel partner play out of the gate is limited, but is likely to develop somewhat over time.
SolarWinds immediately brings a suite to market incorporating Passportal’s password management and IT documentation technology, but has more ambitious plans as well.
