Fortinet drives innovation theme to partners at their Accelerate event, and indicates some potential new opportunities looking ahead.
Kaspersky Lab is highlighting the next-gen capabilities in this offering, such as machine learning, a neural network-based anti-phishing engine, and sandboxing.
Barracuda said this new capability is something that their partners have been asking for, and will allow them to take a more full-featured offering to their customers – which will be an additional revenue generator as well.
Safetica introduced a branded DLP offering to the North American market last year, an enterprise solution simplified for SMBs. Now with a new partner program focused on training MSPs how to offer a proof-of-concept to customers, they are looking to grow the partner base from dozens to thousands.
A new survey from BlackBerry finds that internal breaches far outnumber external ones, notwithstanding the fact that most organizations focus their spend on external threats.
The availability in French of ESET’s cybersecurity information site is likely to boost their already significant presence in Québec,
This significantly upgrades the anti-phishing protection available for users of the Intermedia solution for Exchange, and while the features themselves are free, they give partners an opportunity to have a phishing discussion with customers.
Adding Mac support to Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud should open markets for which Kaspersky Enterprise Support for Business was not a good fit.
Sophos also launched a new Hot Line to provide competitive intelligence, made changes to their post-sales technical skills certification and should have a new Cloud Security Provider program by the fall.
Intermedia is formally announcing availability of its new platform, Intermedia Email Protection, which replaces both the end-of-lifed McAfee platform and Intermedia’s legacy Advanced Email Security offering.
VIPRE has consolidated its business portfolio into a single full-featured offering, at a rock bottom price for 250 seats and over. It’s part of a broad strategy to expand the traditionally sub-250 seat-focused vendor upmarket.
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.
The addition of cloud visibility into the Managed Detection and Response service responds to the user vulnerability to issues like phishing and data exfiltration, and presents a strong new opportunity for partners.
ESET is taking the intelligence grid that it uses internally in its cloud protection system, and making it available to customers as a service.
SonicWall Email Security 9.0 also features improved Office 365 Support.
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.
ScoutShield uses technology from LookingGlass’s 2015 acquisitions of CloudShield and Cyveillance to create a Threat Intelligence Gateway that integrates with the LookingGlass ScoutVison threat intelligence platform.
About five per cent of the company’s partner business is in Canada today, but they have a push panned in the Canadian market in 2017.
NY-based MSP Secure Now developed a HIPAA-focused security offering for the health care industry in 2009, and has now added a new offering aimed at the more general market, targeting SMBs, and sold only through partners. Canadian partners are being eagerly sought.
This platform, the CS-4000E, is a version of the CS-4000 the company has been selling to government customers, priced lower for the enterprise. Looking Glass has begun to recruit a channel, and sees the platform’s ability to cover the whole threat intelligence spectrum as a strong incent for partners.
