The new system is designed to help MSPs implement best practices based on a widely respected—and—increasingly mandatory, standard for preventing, detecting, and responding to cyber-attacks.

Called SecureX and scheduled to enter general availability in June, the new system is designed to ease the challenges of operating multiple security products with separate administrative interfaces and little inter-platform coordination.

Drawing on an IP address reputation index from Webroot, Untangle’s next-generation firewall now automatically blocks access to dangerous web sites, adding another layer of security to existing web filtering and virus protection capabilities.

The new feature, one of several updates to the vendor’s next-generation firewall offering, is designed to let organizations dynamically inspect encrypted network traffic for cloaked malware without slowing system performance.

The first installment in a four-part series examines a solution for internal vulnerability scanning, device alerting, and on-demand external vulnerability scanning—and how to sell it to your customers.

Successful recent efforts to protect an MSP whose credentials were for sale on the dark web, which came to light last week, are a short-term win in a long-term war, according to founders of a previously behind-the-scenes threat information sharing group.

The vendor’s first foray beyond endpoint security, the three new systems provide consolidated threat monitoring for a widely used cloud productivity suite that lacks multitenant management tools.

Working through a security information sharing group formed last summer, the two vendors successfully investigated and remediated an attempt to sell an undisclosed MSP’s administrative credentials on the dark web.

The IoT Security Services Association holds the first of six one-day Cyber Security Expos in Houston, gathering IT service providers and security experts for networking and education.

Drafting strategic business plans and generating leads were also on the agenda at the first of this year’s four quarterly conferences for VARs and MSPs.