Topic: Security - Page 67

Channel pros seeking to deal with growing threats to their customers’ VoIP systems should examine providers’ networks, service-level agreements, and incident response plans.

Artificial intelligence, the next frontier of automation, will be a business imperative for channel pros who want to become more agile, innovative, and competitive.

A major new upgrade named Compliance Manager GRC aims to turn an auditing and validation tool for a defined set of regulatory mandates into a more complete and flexible governance, risk, and compliance platform.

The recently introduced enhancements are the latest changes to a product family designed for a new generation of cloud-oriented MSPs.

A new edition of the vendor’s Prisma SASE product layers a multitenant management portal atop a solution originally meant for corporate IT departments, resulting in a tool MSPs can use to provide SASE services to both enterprises and SMBs.

By taking control of SaaS management, MSPs can boost their value to business clients and increase recurring revenue.

So maybe mom DOES love us best, but can you blame her? We’ve got Matt, Rich, and returning guest host Luis Alvarez, of leading-edge solution provider Alvarez Technology Group, here to discuss Nerdio’s melding of virtual and physical resource management, ThreatLocker’s innovative new network access control product, Pax8’s network security distribution deal with WatchGuard, and the secrets to thriving in the post-endpoint era of managed services.

The new offering, the distributor’s first for network access control, is designed to let MSPs sell and manage subscription-priced WatchGuard appliances through the same tools they use to deploy, bill, and administer other solutions in Pax8’s growing catalog.

The new product, ThreatLocker’s first to focus on hardware rather than software, uses locally installed agents to provide safe, short-term network access to trusted devices, in real time and without help from VPN connections.

The MSP of tomorrow must excel in a whole new realm of strategic, consultative services aimed at helping businesses capitalize on the power of cloud-based solutions.