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Speakers at the vendor’s second annual Security Summit yesterday urged listeners to embrace security frameworks, take full advantage of security features in their business systems, and share the latest threat information with one another.

The former SimplySecure for MSPs is now BeachheadSecure for MSPs in connection with an ongoing effort to turn a tool for deploying and orchestrating encryption and compliance on PCs into an automated threat detection and remediation platform as well.

Drawing on the manufacturer’s TechPulse platform, the four offerings are designed to help partners and IT departments anticipate problems before they occur and resolve issues that do occur faster.

Announced on the closing day of the vendor’s NerdioCon conference, the system is designed to help channel pros more easily monitor and manage both new and existing Windows Virtual Desktop and Azure environments.

The new security-driven networking model protects businesses anywhere on any edge—on premises, in the cloud, or both—and opens up new opportunities for MSPs.

The new system is designed to accelerate threat investigation, remediate issues automatically, and ease burdens on human security analysts.

MSPs and end users who choose to run the system in their own data center or colo, versus Axcient’s cloud, will get the same functionality but pay about half as much.

The service provides a centralized multi-tenant administration console for all of the Microsoft Defender deployments an MSP manages while augmenting the product’s native capabilities with expertise and assistance from the Huntress ThreatOps team.

Nearly a year into the work-from-home experiment forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, we look at some best practices and lessons learned for channel pros.

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