Chris Crellin of Intronis MSP Solutions by Baracuda offers up five ways for MSPs to provide much-needed education to their clients on the topic of ransomware.
Security vendor ESET weighs in on the increasing frequency and sophistication of malware attacks on the Android platform
The channel integration plans are of particular interest given that Invincea had been featuring some innovative aspects in their channel program before Sophos acquired them
Palo Alto identifies five areas of innovation within a wide-ranging series of announcements, although the most exciting appear to be around the expansion of threat protection capabilities, including credential theft protection.
Comodo’s endpoint solution is relatively new to the market, but has posted strong adoption rates and has just been added to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.
Invincea’s next-gen machine learning-based X by Invincea has been on the market for seven months, and now they have designed an appropriately named Next-Gen Partner Program to help partners sell it.
Cisco revamps its endpoint security offering, bringing it into the AMP family and targeting the replacement of traditional antivirus for the first time.
Wedge has partnered with Cylance to bring its AI-based technology into Wedge’s new enterprise product, which also marks the first time Cylance’s technology will be used beyond the endpoint.
Sophos integrates innovative technologies it acquired from Dutch vendor SurfRight to add new capabilities, including ones around signatureless detection and cleanup.
Available previously to MSPs in Europe, this customization of Barracuda’s next-gen firewall for the MSP market is now being offered in North America as a best-in-class offering for Intronis’ SMB-focused MSPs.
Kaspersky Lab’s colourful CEO stated at the company’s 2016 North American Partner Conference that while cybersecurity is presently in the Dark Ages, a Golden Age is on the horizon for the commercial market, with a key new industrial control security solution coming from Kaspersky later this year.
Having exited the consumer market in Canada, Toshiba is beefing up their B2B offerings, and has partnered with Brampton managed services provider IT Weapons to provide what will be a growing package of services and support.
Lookout’s enterprise offering, which leverages the data set from its 70 million consumer customers, will be sold entirely through channel partners, and entirely through distribution, which in North America will be Ingram Micro.
iboss is well known in the education space, where it has a strong presence, but new SVP of Worldwide Sales Frank McLallen is looking to take advantage of their solutions’ scalability, and expand much more deeply into other markets.
Cisco believes security teams need to rethink strategy, to ensure that their principles assist users in resisting attacks – since the reverse is all too common now.
Cisco has followed up momentum from the acquisition of Sourcefire, adding new capabilities and services and greatly strengthening Cisco Canada’s security team.
With new venture funding to transition their business to the enterprise, Lookout has hired its first VP of Enterprise Product and its first channel chief, and is looking to the channel to drive its enterprise business
Despite efforts to curb it, ransomware is on the rise. Cloud backup is being used to thwart such attacks and could be a powerful selling proposition.
Symantec is preparing to unveil a security intelligence service to give businesses strategic insight into identifying and containing breaches.
Kaspersky outlines plans for new solutions for fraud prevention and protection of critical infrastructure, and will seek new partners to go to market.
