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Described by Chief Product Officer Craig Fulton (pictured) during the managed services vendor’s IT Nation Connect conference in Orlando last week, the new features are designed to help MSPs improve brand recognition and technician productivity.

Available in both free and advanced editions, the new functionality automatically searches for advanced persistent threats, keyloggers, malicious registry changes, and other intrusions that have gained a foothold on monitored end points.

The new program bundles security, backup, and eLearning products into standard Office 365 plans at no extra cost.

Acronis, Dropsuite, Passportal, Proofpoint, and lesser-known Israeli anti-phishing vendor IRONSCALES join Pax8’s catalog in connection with an ongoing effort to give partners more options to recommend and cross-sell within key product categories.

According to CEO Arnie Bellini (pictured), core elements of the initiative include the launch of an open source security integration standard and the introduction of new cybersecurity solutions, some of which will compete with products from ConnectWise partners.

Version 7.8 of the consolidated BDR, storage, and security offering also includes functionality for orchestrating and automating cloud-based disaster recovery processes, according to Americas Vice President and General Manager Patrick Hurley (pictured).

Formerly available as a stand-alone product or add-on to any edition of Beachhead’s PC encryption and access management solution, SimplySecure USB is now exclusively available as a free, standard feature of SimplySecure PC Premium.

Under an expanded alliance agreement between the two vendors, Continuum partners can now purchase Webroot’s SecureAnywhere DNS Protection solution from inside Continuum’s RMM platform, and use the system at no extra cost.

The service is designed to help partners transform data from public cloud services into actionable insights on optimizing utilization and costs, while securing a safe environment and mitigating cloud vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

The vendor plans to use price cuts, free trial deployments, no-fee onboarding, and other measures to drive adoption of its flagship solution by both newcomers to documentation software and customers of competing vendors, including market leader IT Glue.