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Announced at majority owner Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Protect conference this week, the moves are mostly designed to help businesses secure hybrid cloud environments and help software developers tap into Micro Focus functionality.

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.

Called Domain Discover, the system combines proactive fraudulent domain scanning with Proofpoint’s threat intelligence network to stop lookalike domain email attacks before they strike.

Now known as Westcon-Comstor Americas, those businesses will operate as a SYNNEX subsidiary with complementary expertise in security, unified communications, and networking.

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.

Aimed at consumers but equipped with functionality likely to appear in business-focused Acronis backup products in the future, the new release utilizes machine learning to detect and halt ransomware attacks before they can begin corrupting data.