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The newly established link lets users of SolarWinds Remote Monitoring and Management deploy, administer, and upgrade EDR agents on any Windows device via the same interface they use to perform other administrative tasks.

Called Sophos Rapid Response, the new offering provides flat-rate assistance with ransomware strikes, deeply embedded malware, and other urgent threats for 45-day periods without ongoing contracts or retainers.

The company will phase out work on Acronis Cyber Backup and train all of its development efforts on Acronis Cyber Protect, its combination security and BDR solution, according to CEO Serguei Beloussov (pictured).

Version 6.7 of the product also includes geo-fencing functionality, the ability to enforce automated defensive measures on potentially compromised MacOS endpoints, and compliance reporting for both Macs and USB storage devices.

Strong demand for managed security help from businesses with work-from-home employees has MSPs reporting growth, according to Sophos, which has seen membership in its MSP partner program grow 30% since April and MSP billings rise 56%.

In an interview during ConnectWise’s IT Nation Secure event today, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin (pictured) discussed the origins and implications of the nation’s first regulation for MSPs and MSSPs.

The new addition to the vendor’s lineup of IT Nation conferences seeks to help partners tackle an enormous challenge with equally enormous revenue potential.

Ransomware operators are increasingly organized with schemes to auction stolen data and rent attack tools.

Provided at no extra cost, the new functionality turns Cloud Optix into an unusual hybrid mix of security system and remote management tool.

Endpoint protection products from Panda Security, which WatchGuard bought in March, are now available to all of the company’s partners while membership in the WatchGuardONE partner program is now open to former Panda resellers.