Topic: Security - Page 142

Continuing its 2017 tour, ASCII Group hosted IT solution providers and vendors in Miami for two days of networking, education, and training.

The summits to feature an enhanced educational agenda, new cities, and new content, plus a keynote by a former White House CIO.

The vendor also announced that Sophos Server Protection now supports Microsoft Azure server instances, and can coordinate defensive measures with Sophos XG Firewall on Azure.

The security and data protection vendor has also added provisioning and integrated billing support to its ECHOplatform MSP management portal.

The vendor added two new platforms to its expanding A3 printer family and new workflow scanners too, along with an SDK for building industry-specific workflow solutions around those and other HP print devices.

The name changes comes as the branches out from its origins as a security-as-a-service vendor into SD-WAN services as well.

The new offerings combine formerly discrete equivalents from Avast itself and AVG, the security and managed services vendor it purchased last year.

The acquisition positions the managed services software maker to add a more robust threat intelligence engine, mobile-friendly interface, and multilingual code base to its MSP Mail security, archiving, and continuity solution.

New CryptoSafeGuard feature in the company’s flagship Windows Server BDR solution protects backups from being encrypted.

The cloud business application vendor’s Intermedia Email Protection offering now comes with six different safeguards against one of today’s most rampant threats at no additional cost.