Security

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Titaniam brings full anti-ransomware suite to market with ability to stop data exfiltration as well as prevent attacker encryption

March 24, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Titaniam brings full anti-ransomware suite to market with ability to stop data exfiltration as well as prevent attacker encryption
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.

Security

Netwrix rolls out unified partner portal to make it easier to work with solutions from four recently acquired companies

March 22, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Netwrix rolls out unified partner portal to make it easier to work with solutions from four recently acquired companies
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.

Security

Enterprise cloud security provider Sonrai Security deepens its platform with addition of Cloud Workload Protection

March 22, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Enterprise cloud security provider Sonrai Security deepens its platform with addition of Cloud Workload Protection
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.

Cloud

Skyhigh Security becomes second ex-McAfee property spun out of Symphony Technology Group

March 22, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Skyhigh Security becomes second ex-McAfee property spun out of Symphony Technology Group
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.

Security

Governments not up to date on effective means of data erasure on SSDs

March 17, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Governments not up to date on effective means of data erasure on SSDs
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.

Security

Average small business employee gets 3.5x as many social engineering attacks as those at larger firms

March 16, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Average small business employee gets 3.5x as many social engineering attacks as those at larger firms
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

Security

IAM market strengthening with password authentication on the rise

March 15, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on IAM market strengthening with password authentication on the rise
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.

Security

Anti-phishing vendor SlashNext goes after Microsoft market with SlashNext Email Protection for Microsoft 365

March 14, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Anti-phishing vendor SlashNext goes after Microsoft market with SlashNext Email Protection for Microsoft 365
SlashNext sees a major void in the Microsoft 365 anti-phishing market, as neither Microsoft nor general purpose email-protection solution are current with the state of today’s phishing threats.

Distribution

Expansion of Ingram Micro-Okta relationship means green fields for Canadian distribution

March 11, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Expansion of Ingram Micro-Okta relationship means green fields for Canadian distribution
Okta has not worked through distribution in Canada at all before, and the new relationship with Ingram should expand the Canadian partner base significantly, although Ingram, like Okta itself, will be choosy in bringing new partners on board

Cloud

Armorblox fully integrates its Natural Language Understanding within its DLP in major upgrade

March 10, 2022 Mark Cox Comments Off on Armorblox fully integrates its Natural Language Understanding within its DLP in major upgrade
Armorblox has expanded its use of Natural Language Understanding from the solution’s core engine to specific business workflows, like preventing data loss in Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Exchange and Google Workspace.