ESET offes some advice on making sure your customers’ password game is on point and ready to face the challenges of today’s cybersecurity environment.
Interset’s technology managed to interest the venture capital fund of the U.S. Intel community, but until now their exposure to solution provider channel customers has been relatively limited. They expect the CrowdStrike partnership will change that.
vArmour raises another $44 million in a Series E funding round to address what they see as a massive opportunity, and are investing most of it in sales and marketing resources as a result, including hiring a resident person in Canada for the first time.
This is the first major ‘tweak’ of Palo Alto Networks’ partner program since its inception, and the changes are extremely significant, and multi-faceted.
Defender IoT, part of the Smart OmniEdge solution, is now generally available, providing customers with IoT protection that is simple for non technical people to use, and which can be deployed on any network.
CrowdStrike has also announced the CrowdStrike Store, which is very similar to the Salesforce AppExchange, and also extended to broaden their routes to market.
Siemplify has moved to a model that directs all new business through partners, and will support them with a new single tier program that has a high emphasis on partner enablement and a commitment to protect partner profitability through margin transparency as well as deal registration.
BranchSDO becomes Netsurion’s new flagship product, although the company emphasizes that it won’t lose focus on its managed firewall business and larger customers.
Barracuda will also resell Avast’s anti-virus solutions to their MSPs, which is a major extension of Avast’s go-to-market, and one they are looking to replicate with other RMMs. They are also planning a major solution announcement around RSA a month from now.
Dell has had an endpoint security partnership with Cylance, and that remains in effect, but this new one around Dell SafeGuard and Response solutions is considerably deeper and becomes the jewel in Dell’s endpoint security crown.
Barracuda and Avast announce a new partnership which adds the ability to resell Avast’s anti-virus solution to Barracuda’s own portfolio. Barracuda will actually acquire the Managed Workplace RMM business, which should be a better fit with their MSP business than it was at Avast. Barracuda also stated its commitment to retain the Managed Workplace presence in Ottawa, where it originally began as Level Platforms.
James Chalmers of ESET Canada discusses the company’s growth in 2018, the security threatscape, and its plans for 2019, in this edition of the ChannelBuzz.ca Podcast Series.
The company’s investments here include the appointment of Tammy Schuring as the first head of sales, and the development of a channel expansion strategy.
Kaspersky Lab says the market is moving decisively away from transactional sales, so they are changing their channel program to meet this new reality.
eSentire has been partnered with Carbon Black around managed detection and response since 2016, and the companies are now extending the partnership to cover next-gen endpoint protection.
The new channel program is much deeper and more fully built out than the original one designed when the company spun out of Juniper, as Pulse Secure wants its program to enable more committed and better trained partners – as well as reduced numbers of them.
The anti-ransomware components, which are built into the core Cohesity backup platform and not a separate line item, gives their partners the ability to come to customers’ rescue and provide peace of mind against a well-publicized problem.
Third-Party Risk integrates these external risks with cyberrisks assumed internally, allowing an organization to obtain an integrated analysis of their total risk profile, and providing Recorded Future’s channel partners with a differentiated offering.
Stephen Cobb of ESET shares the results of the company’s first research into how Canadians are feeling about cybersecurity-related issues and offers some thoughts on the biggest security challenges we’ll see in 2019.
Palo Alto Networks’ Canadian country manager talks about the challenges his company faces, how it has adapted its strategies to meet them, and what the channel needs to do to keep pace.
