Phishing

Cloud

Intermedia completes move of its large McAfee install base onto its own, revamped platform

April 5, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Intermedia completes move of its large McAfee install base onto its own, revamped platform
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.

Channel Programs

VIPRE looks upmarket with new, simplified VIPRE Advanced Security for Business

March 1, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on VIPRE looks upmarket with new, simplified VIPRE Advanced Security for Business
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.

Security

Five ways to educate your customers about ransomware

February 28, 2017 Guest Poster Comments Off on Five ways to educate your customers about ransomware
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.

Cloud

eSentire integrates cloud sources into its Managed Detection and Response service

February 28, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on eSentire integrates cloud sources into its Managed Detection and Response service
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.

Iva Perric-Lightfoot, country manager for ESET Canada
Security

ESET looks to deepen enterprise penetration with new threat intelligence service

February 21, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on ESET looks to deepen enterprise penetration with new threat intelligence service
ESET is taking the intelligence grid that it uses internally in its cloud protection system, and making it available to customers as a service.

Security

SonicWall integrates Capture Advanced Threat Protection into Email security

February 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on SonicWall integrates Capture Advanced Threat Protection into Email security
SonicWall Email Security 9.0 also features improved Office 365 Support.

Cloud

Palo Alto stresses breakthrough innovation across massive range of new launches

February 9, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on Palo Alto stresses breakthrough innovation across massive range of new launches
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.

Security

LookingGlass brings multiple technologies into new ScoutShield Threat Intelligence Gateway

February 1, 2017 Mark Cox Comments Off on LookingGlass brings multiple technologies into new ScoutShield Threat Intelligence Gateway
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.

Security

Anti-phishing firm KnowBe4 looks to gear up channel

August 22, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Anti-phishing firm KnowBe4 looks to gear up channel
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.

Managed Services

Secure Now offers MSPs Breach Prevention Platform for white-labelled security

August 4, 2016 Mark Cox Comments Off on Secure Now offers MSPs Breach Prevention Platform for white-labelled security
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.