Topic: Security - Page 129

Called Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Threat Experts, the new offerings are designed to help overwhelmed IT departments and MSSPs cope with a continually shifting threat landscape.

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.

Speakers and sponsors at the conference, which took place last week in Orange County, Calif., shared advice for capitalizing on rising demand for cybersecurity help and industry-specific services.

The new, subscription-priced offering is designed to help MSPs drive adoption of managed security services.

Though its acquisition spree isn’t over, the BDR, failover, migration, and now security vendor plans to make growth through partner engagement, recruitment, and cross-selling bigger priorities this year, according to channel exec Tim Puccio (pictured).

The agreement will expand Arctic Wolf’s reach by making its managed security and risk assessment services available to Ingram’s global base of reseller and MSP partners.

His charter when he officially steps into his new role next month will be helping a company that has completely re-tooled itself in the last 19 months as a business availability vendor with an MSP-first channel hit the gas pedal on growth.

And that word is “synergy.” Joining forces will allow the two companies to deliver a complementary stack of data protection technologies to an equally complementary set of channel partners.

In addition to combining Webroot’s security portfolio with its own BDR and high availability products, the $618.5 million deals also merges Webroot’s extensive base of MSP partners with Carbonite’s VAR-heavy channel.

Hackers employed a vulnerability first reported and remediated in 2017 last week in attacks aimed at spreading ransomware onto endpoints managed by users of Kaseya’s RMM platform with unpatched or improperly patched copies of ConnectWise software.