Pulse Secure is seeing strong momentum in its virtual ADC business this year, with the growth of cloud applications, and is looking to both cloud-focused partners and their traditional partners broadening out their business to continue the trend.
Symantec Canada country manager Ajay Sood discusses enhancements to Symantec’s strategic partner program, their relation to changes made in their channel go-to-market, and how it all relates to Symantec’s long-standing attempt to revitalize itself.
Optiv’s new Enemy Perspectives services offering is designed to help organizations understand the specific kinds of attacks likely to impact them, so that they can better prepare for them, and improve the speed and efficiency of responses to an incident.
ID Agent offers a service that terrifies prospects by showing them their corporate data in circulation on the Dark Web, as well as a monitoring service to guard against it. They have Canadian MSP partners, and are in Toronto this week at a Datto show looking for more.
ESET has been in the MSP space for a while, but is now making a push to increase their presence there. They also indicated that they will shortly be releasing their first offering specifically built for the cloud.
SOCSoter, which has over a hundred channel partners reselling their offering, doesn’t yet have any partners in Canada, but will be at the ASCII show in Toronto later this month looking to change that.
FireEye has spent the last two years developing its own machine learning engine, which now complements signature, behaviour-based and intelligence-based engines in their endpoint offering.
Hornetsecurity is targeting the SMB space in North America, emphasizing their ability to build and maintain strong relationships with these smaller customers. They have signed Contronex to handle their distribution in both the U.S. and Canada.
OneLogin, which has been focused more on cloud identity management for SMBs, has gotten more aggressive in the enterprise with the differentiating hybrid capabilities from its introduction of OneLogic Access earlier this year.
Barrie, Ont.-based Positive E Solutions was ESET’s key partner more than a decade before the security vendor came to Canada. And even as ESET’s channel grows, it remains a tight and strong partnership.
SandBlast Mobile 3.0 extends the parameters of smartphone protection by adding the ability to prevent threats as well as detect them, while the new 23900 security gateway adds a new very high end data centre appliance for Check Point customers who don’t need the scalability of a chassis.
While anti-ransomware measures to date have largely focused on trying to keep it out, Radar focuses on quickly assessing the damage and then recovering from it as quickly as possible.
ICEBERG, a startup, was still in the direct selling stage and selling to larger companies, but Gigamon will fully open the SaaS offering up to partners, including MSP partners to take this lower in the market.
Allot, an Israeli-based veteran of the network intelligence and security space, is much stronger in EMEA than in North America, but is looking to change that, and have expanded their distribution here, bringing on Lifeboat to take their SSG unified solution to channel partners.
RapidFire Tools has refocused and rebranded their Detector software appliance to better leverage its strengths for MSPs, which involve their being able to use it as the foundation of a higher-margin security practice.
The partnership, which will deeply integrate the Digital Defense Frontline Vulnerability Manager platform with the ForeScout device visibility platform, has a go-to-market component, and the joint solution will be able to be sold by both vendors’ channels.