Topic: Cloud - Page 51

Sales of Microsoft Office 365 and firewalls, with assistance from increased adoption of Microsoft Azure and Google G Suite, helped the distributor grow SMB revenue a record 31 percent last year, according to Vice President of Sales John Phillips (pictured).

Expected to reach market by May, the new offerings are core elements of a new network security framework designed to help businesses deliver security efficiently and cost-effectively at both core and remote locations.

ZixSuite combines the vendor’s threat protection, encryption, and archiving services for SMBs in a single subscription-based package.

The new integration, which is available at no additional charge to users of both products, lets organizations apply policy-based access controls to mobile devices automatically in response to real-time mobile threat data.

The new system is designed to address the challenges associated with email-based attacks that employ stolen credentials or social engineering tactics rather than malware, attachments, and malicious links to bypass traditional security safeguards.

Delivered through StratoZen, the managed security services allow MSPs to outsource oversight of Fortinet hardware-as-a-service solutions. The encryption service, provided by Encryptics, offers subscription-priced protection for data beyond the corporate network.

Drawing on artificial intelligence, the Avid Secure platform provides visibility into cloud workloads and automates compliance and governance tasks.

Dynamic path selection functionality in the new release lets SD-WAN users failover to a backup network connection automatically when performance drops below preset thresholds. Other new features include integration with the Tigerpaw PSA platform.

Those and other updates were part of a Q4 launch wave that includes zero-touch provisioning capabilities, a new risk scoring application (pictured), two new unified threat management platforms with built-in Power-over-Ethernet, and more.

The new program bundles security, backup, and eLearning products into standard Office 365 plans at no extra cost.