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Drawing on assets acquired along with the former Avnet Technology Solutions, the distributor is helping resellers transform themselves from hardware and software order takers to providers of high-margin, industry-specific product and service combinations.

Combining the distributor’s old and new assets is benefitting partners in tangible ways already, Americas president Joe Quaglia (pictured) says, including an expanded, consolidated line card and access to managed security offerings.

Resellers can now include Cisco’s Security Incident Response Service and Ruckus wireless networking products in end user solutions.

The cloud-based system interfaces with 8 PSA and ticketing platforms now and will soon come with integrated vulnerability scanning functionality as well.

The stand-alone surveillance solutions feature easy setup and advanced video management.

Originally developed for use with Intercept X, the security vendor’s next-generation end point protection solution, CryptoGuard identifies ransomware attacks in real time, shuts them down, and automatically rolls impacted files back to their pre-encrypted state.

The company’s new security solutions are designed to guard against the growing threat of complex and costly data breaches.

The dual moves give resellers access to Symantec’s Integrated Cyber Defense solution portfolio and resources they can use to design cloud solutions and managed services for clients in specific industries.

Based on the vendor’s Detector network security appliance, the new offering features subscription-based, unlimited use licensing that lets MSPs offer internal threat mitigation assistance to all of their customers at no incremental cost.

The new unified threat management firewall boasts faster processor speeds and improved device efficiency.