Phishing

Backup

Datto Channel Ransomware Report for Canada has some warning signs for MSPs

March 14, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datto Channel Ransomware Report for Canada has some warning signs for MSPs
Canada leads the countries surveyed in both the average ransom paid to ransomware creators and the amount of money lost to downtime from ransomware, which is hardly ideal, and something that Canadian MSPs need to work smarter to prevent.

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Managed Services

Webroot enhances Security Awareness training offerings

March 13, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Webroot enhances Security Awareness training offerings
While Webroot has updated their course content and made it easier for MSPs to construct phishing lure pages, the major attraction here is likely a new Client Breach Report that the MSP can use as a pre-sales tool.

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Channel Programs

DNS intelligence provider Farsight Security unveils first channel program for VARs

February 27, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on DNS intelligence provider Farsight Security unveils first channel program for VARs
Farsight has had an OEM program to go to market with strategic vendor partners, but now is supplementing that with a new program to expand their reach further through the VAR channel. It formalizes a route to market that has been there before, but on an ad hoc and opportunistic basis.

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Security

Barracuda beefs up Total Email Protection bundle with new Forensics and Incident Response capability

January 17, 2019 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda beefs up Total Email Protection bundle with new Forensics and Incident Response capability
This is the first new capability Barracuda has added to the Total Email Security bundle since they created it last fall, and they say that others are on the way.

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Partnerships

Untangle strengthens security suite with Malwarebytes partnership, looking to drive channel growth in 2019

December 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Untangle strengthens security suite with Malwarebytes partnership, looking to drive channel growth in 2019
Untangle recently announced their inaugural “Voice of the Channel” survey to determine the state and desires of their small business customers, as well as the priorities of their partners.

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Security

Proofpoint adds new index identifying specific persons at most risk of attack to their Targeted Attack Protection solution

December 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Proofpoint adds new index identifying specific persons at most risk of attack to their Targeted Attack Protection solution
Being able to identify the people in an organization most likely to be attacked – who are often not the obvious C level execs – provides a compelling new value proposition that Proofpoint is highlighting as an industry-first.

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Backup

Pax8 adds five new vendors to linecard

November 9, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Pax8 adds five new vendors to linecard
Cloud distributor Pax8 continues to expand and grow its vendor roster, adding Acronis and Dropsuite in the business continuity space, and IRONSCALES, Passportal and Proofpoint for different things within security.

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Security

Kaspersky Lab upgrades web traffic security within Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway

October 29, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Kaspersky Lab upgrades web traffic security within Kaspersky Security for Internet Gateway
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.

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Networking

Lastline releases new Email Defender-Cloud product to channel partners

October 17, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lastline releases new Email Defender-Cloud product to 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.

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Security

Barracuda makes three e-mail solutions available on a single SKU

September 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda makes three e-mail solutions available on a single SKU
Barracuda also related their latest Threat Spotlight, which found that account takeover incidents, which are addressed by the Barracuda Sentinel solution that is part of the bundle, are increasing in frequency.

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Managed Services

Proofpoint adds anti-phishing capabilities to automated email protection solution with new CLEAR solution

September 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Proofpoint adds anti-phishing capabilities to automated email protection solution with new CLEAR solution
The new capabilities come from the Proofpoint acquisition of Wombat Security earlier this year, and significantly beef up what had been Proofpoint’s TRAP automation platform.

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Managed Services

ID Agent seeing strong MSP response to Dark Web monitoring offering

August 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on ID Agent seeing strong MSP response to Dark Web monitoring offering
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.

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Managed Services

Soft launch of Managed Phishline builds on Barracuda MSP Momentum

August 6, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Soft launch of Managed Phishline builds on Barracuda MSP Momentum
Barracuda made Managed Phishline, an MSP-focused version of the technology they acquired from Phishline this year, available to MSPs in July.

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Cloud

German cloud security firm Hornetsecurity looks to expand North American operations with ChannelCon presence

July 30, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on German cloud security firm Hornetsecurity looks to expand North American operations with ChannelCon presence
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.

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Mobility

Check Point adds threat prevention to mobile security, and intros new high-end gateway to prevent today’s threats

July 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Check Point adds threat prevention to mobile security, and intros new high-end gateway to prevent today’s threats
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.

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Security

Sophos adds Deep Learning to its email in Sophos Email Advanced

June 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Sophos adds Deep Learning to its email in Sophos Email Advanced
Sophos integrates its email solution with their Sophos Central cloud platform, and with their Synchronized Security cross-product collaboration capabilities are able to bring their deep learning functionality to their email.

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Security

Barracuda unveils PhishLine offering for mid-size organizations

June 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda unveils PhishLine offering for mid-size organizations
Barracuda has released a version of the PhishLine social engineering simulation offering they acquired early this year that is targeted at the 1000 seat market and under, with the big difference from the enterprise version coming from the removal of industry-specific customization options.

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Security

Cofense – formerly PhishMe – moves to 100 per cent channel model

April 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cofense – formerly PhishMe – moves to 100 per cent channel model
Cofense offers a full suite of phishing products to address the phishing threat within a collective defense model, with a focus on the enterprise.

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Security

Trend Micro email writing analysis technology highlights their RSA phishing announcements

April 23, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Trend Micro email writing analysis technology highlights their RSA phishing announcements
Trend Micro also announced a free phishing simulator for business, as well as their participation in a new vendor alliance that pledges to customers it will not assist any government in offensive cyber-operations.

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Partnerships

Avaya adds Identity-as-a-Service capability through partnership with Post Quantum

March 14, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Avaya adds Identity-as-a-Service capability through partnership with Post Quantum
The new technology will roll out later this year in a new service, Avaya Mobile Experience, although Canadians will have to wait a little longer, since it will initially be limited to the U.S.

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