Topic: Security - Page 121

So close, yet so far away! Both in sunny Southern California, Erick and Rich discuss the forthcoming unified Carbonite/Webroot partner program, why you should hire a forensic accountant before closing an acquisition, and the $60 million reasons an Irish drug dealer should have backed up his data.

In the completion of deals announced late last year and early this one, Sophos has been formally acquired by Thoma Bravo and Veeam has been bought by Insight Partners.

Frank Abagnale, of “Catch Me If You Can” fame, was one of many speakers at the IT membership group’s conference yesterday in Long Beach, Calif., to discuss challenges and opportunities in cybersecurity.

Not easy to get clients to read your emails, is it? Maybe referencing this week’s episode will do the trick.

Priced at $4 per firewall per month, the new service feeds inbound and outbound data directly from Cisco Meraki, Fortinet, SonicWall, Sophos, and WatchGuard products to RocketCyber’s SOC, where analysts look for malware, spam, and other threats.

Called the Malwarebytes Premier Partner Program, it includes a track for MSPs offering monthly pricing and a consumption-based tiering structure aligned with recurring revenue business models, according to channel exec Mike LaPeters (pictured).

The new offering, which will include one set of tiers but different tracks for VARs and MSPs, will sell and support a unified portfolio of “cyber resilience” products covering security and data protection.

The new system is designed to help MSPs implement best practices based on a widely respected—and—increasingly mandatory, standard for preventing, detecting, and responding to cyber-attacks.

Successful recent efforts to protect an MSP whose credentials were for sale on the dark web, which came to light last week, are a short-term win in a long-term war, according to founders of a previously behind-the-scenes threat information sharing group.

The vendor’s first foray beyond endpoint security, the three new systems provide consolidated threat monitoring for a widely used cloud productivity suite that lacks multitenant management tools.