Topic: Security - Page 185

The first installment in a four-part series examines a solution for internal vulnerability scanning, device alerting, and on-demand external vulnerability scanning—and how to sell it to your customers.

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.

Working through a security information sharing group formed last summer, the two vendors successfully investigated and remediated an attempt to sell an undisclosed MSP’s administrative credentials on the dark web.

The IoT Security Services Association holds the first of six one-day Cyber Security Expos in Houston, gathering IT service providers and security experts for networking and education.

Drafting strategic business plans and generating leads were also on the agenda at the first of this year’s four quarterly conferences for VARs and MSPs.

The alliance makes TitanHQ’s SpamTitan Cloud email security offering and WebTitan Cloud DNS filtering system available to Pax8’s MSP partner base.

The announcement follows a similar move last May involving N-central, SolarWinds’s on-premises RMM platform.

The new product, which updates and replaces the vendor’s Sophos Mobile Security solution, protects Chromebooks and other Chrome OS devices in addition to Android and iOS hardware.

Both enhancements, which are part of the 2.0 release of BVoIP’s Barricade offering, arrive weeks after the addition of new mobile app and emergency message features to the unified communications vendor’s core PBX and integration platforms.