Tag Archive for Encryption

Proofpoint emphasizes usability, visibility enhancements in SMB-focused Essentials solution

Proofpoint’s historical focus has been higher upmarket, but Essentials, which came originally from a 2013 acquisition, and has been substantially rebuilt from the ground up with an SMB focus, is a key part of their strategy as well.

Pivot3 bakes policy-based data-at-rest encryption into its HCI intelligence engine

Pivot3 enhances its security capabilities to provide the same native policy-based management for data at-rest that it has already been providing for performance and for data protection.

Pulse Secure adds Industrial IoT capabilities to Pulse Policy Secure

Pulse Secure’s NAC solution has addressed the IoT market before, but for the first time they have added functionality specifically designed for Industrial IoT environments.

MapR announces platform breakthroughs to deliver paradigm shift in automated analytics time-to-value

MapR says these changes will let customers fundamentally reshape their use of analytics, which will also open up new opportunities for their channel partners.

Sennheiser fills gap in unified collaboration headsets with high-end SDW 5000 Series

Sennheiser is looking to their first unified communication and collaboration headset to further stimulate their Canadian business, which has already been showing strong momentum.

Asigra adds cybersecurity protection to 14th generation of their backup platform

The Asigra Cloud Backup Evolved platform targets ransomware Attack Loops, which corrupt backup data in order to prevent successful restores and force organizations to pay ransoms. It also adds a new management interface, GDPR compliance certification, and container support.

Jabra launches new Engage wireless headset franchise for dense contact centre environments

The Engage franchise, available in models which connect to two and five devices respectively, and in mono, stereo and lightweight convertible models, is designed for dense contact centre environments, and allows for connection of three times as many wireless headsets with no loss of quality.

AppRiver expands Canadian customer, partner base by acquiring Ottawa’s Roaring Penguin

The Canadian acquisition is the first step in an AppRiver strategy to expand its presence further beyond the U.S, but it’s not purely about acquiring customers, as some of Roaring Penguin’s anti-spam technology will be integrated into AppRiver’s own offering.

Strong channel opportunity in BlackBerry BRIDGE native integration of Microsoft apps within BlackBerry Dynamics

BlackBerry BRIDGE integrates Microsoft Office 365 apps with BlackBerry Dynamics, bridging the two separate containers and encryption models, to provide enterprise security for Office 365.

Aryaka unveils security-focused PASSPORT SD-WAN platform

PASSPORT integrates Aryaka’s traditional enterprise-grade private connectivity with expanded security functionality, including technology from Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler and Radware.

New Catalyst hyper-customization platform in Zoho CRM release likely to interest partners

Zoho CRM also enhances its Zia conversational AI for sales teams, with a voice capability, as well as other improvements its predictive AI and lead enrichment.

Scram Software launches with cloud-based encryption for midmarket and SMBs

The ScramFS encryption system provides client-side encryption that does not require developers to be able to encrypt. Out of the gate, the channel resell opportunity is limited, but that will change with the introduction of user-facing business apps later this year.

Expanded partnerships, vendor certification program key parts of IGEL 2018 roadmap

Among the changes coming to IGEL’s own hardware and software roadmaps, one of their thin clients about to be refreshed will see a switch from an Intel to an AMD processor.

Runtime encryption vendor Fortanix launches both partner program and channel-friendly appliance

Fortanix provides a Self-Defending Key Management Service solution that can be sold either as a service or as an appliance, and is designed to overcome traditional problems with key management.

Gigamon unveils first 100Gb decryption through a visibility platform

Gigamon introduced inline 1Gb and 10Gb encryption on their security platform earlier this year. Now they have upgraded this to support faster 40Gb and 100 Gb networks, which they also think will encourage 100 Gb adoption.

DigiCert sees enterprise channel expansion with closing of Symantec Website Security deal

DigiCert, which inherited Symantec’s problems with Google and its potential impact on brand credibility, says it is ahead of the December 1 schedule for the reissuance of Symantec certifications.

Scale Computing partners with WinMagic to add encryption and intelligent key management

The new partnership is the logical effect of both the initiative by Scale to deepen its enterprise penetration and their recent partnership with Google.