Comodo has offered a free version, Comodo Dome Shield, which will continue as Comodo Dome Shield Gold, but they expect that most of their customers will upgrade to the paid Platinum version because it has more functionality and no monthly limits on DNS requests.
Proofpoint has elevated Americas Theater VP Blake Sallé to its worldwide sales lead. He stressed that while he sees no big issues with the company’s go-to-market strategy, improving channel productivity is one of his top priorities.
BlackBerry’s recent Partner Summit had clear objectives of articulating the company’s vision around their new Spark platform to partners, together with both the technology roadmap and the sales strategy around it. They also wanted to introduce the new sales leadership in Canada to partners.
ESET research reveals a successor to the infamous BlackEnergy APT group targeting critical infrastructure, quite possibly in preparation for damaging attacks
D3, which has been in business since 2002, has always had channel partners, but has decided to get more systematic about recruiting and training them. They have hired Peter Marini as their first channel leader, and launched their first channel program.
Blancco is looking Ingram Micro to help them put together a select channel of MSPs and VARs to offer their erasure-as-a-service offering. Softchoice has been announced as a Canadian channel partner.
Kaspersky Web Traffic Security is a complete rewrite of the code base of the prior application in the Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway, which adds additional security engines and the latest machine learning and deep learning technologies.
Trend Micro has opened its second Canadian research centre, a 22,000 square foot facility in Toronto’s Liberty Village. The space will be used to dissect threat, and to host partner and customer meetings and events.
Although Canadian businesses have lagged their counterparts south of the border in the move to the cloud, McAfee Canada head Bryan Rutledge says the company’s cloud-first Mvision shift is well-timed for Canadian partners.
Versive had been selling direct, so their technology is not well known in the channel, but eSentire thinks that it will further enhance their already strong threat hunting capabilities.
ESET global security evangelist Tony Anscombe talks about October’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, including advice for solution providers on making security a top throughout their customers’ organizations.
Okta has ramped up both its commitment to the Canadian market, and the staff and resources available. The enhanced focus should significantly benefit their Canadian channel business as well.
While SolarWinds’ IPO brought them less cash than planned, the company says that this was a minor part of going public again, and that SolarWinds is on track to execute its planned strategy going forward.
The partnership between Duo and Exabeam allows Duo’s zero-trust authentication technology to be used as a trigger by the Exabeam SIEM throughout the user session, and not just when the user logs in.
Identity management vendor Okta officially opened their new Toronto offices Wednesday, a four story facility where many of the employees are part of a large Toronto-based engineering team. Okta used the launch to highlight their commitment to Canada, and a Toronto non-profit that is receiving a grant from their Okta for Good program.
The security giant says the newly-discovered Oceansalt attack may be the first case of attackers from two nation-backed groups sharing code on an attack.
McAfee CEO Chris Young says the company’s new cloud-first strategy will create new types of services opportunities for the company’s channel partners.
Network security vendor Lastline has developed a new type of platform for them, around email management, and after a short period where they took it to market themselves, in case bugs which turned out to be non-existent turned up, they have now released it to their channel partners.
The Securonix partnership broadens Cylance’s deep roster of SIEM relationships, but the one with Thycotic around Privilege Account Management is a first for Cylance.
Nyotron, which makes a highly differentiated anti-malware solution that looks for changes in operating system behavior for evidence of threats, is different from other solutions on the market, and is designed to work with them in a multi-faceted defense strategy.
