Here are five (actually, more) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and much more to start your day for Wednesday, February 9, 2022. Sip up.
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A. Today Technology, Channel Chief and MSP Partner Program News
1. Meet ChannelE2E This Week: We will be attending the Right of Boom security conference until this Friday. If you are at the event and would like to meet, please email me ([email protected]).
2. Research – Integrations and Acquisitions: The cybersecurity market generated $ 77.5 billion in M&A volume and $ 29.3 billion in private equity and venture capital investments, according to Momentum Cyber’s Cybersecurity Almanac 2022.
3. Executive Leadership – Distribution: Named by ScanSource John Eldh as president. Former President Mike Baur remains chairman and CEO.
4. Channel Chief section: Rubrik hired Cisco, Google Cloud and Cybereason veteran Ghazal Asif as VP of global partners and alliances.
5. Talent-Identity and Access Management: SecureAuth named Paul Trulove as CEO and Mandeep Khera as chief marketing officer (CMO). Executive updates appeared after Acceptto’s recent acquisition of SecureAuth.
6. Partnerships – Risk Management in Financial Services: A TruSight-ServiceNow Vendor Risk Management integration “aims to improve the efficiency of third-party risk management (TPRM) workflows associated with customers,” the two companies said.
7. Partnership – 5G Workflow Automation: NTT and ServiceNow have partnered to “simplify and accelerate the use of private 5G through an AI-enabled end-to-end workflow automation platform,” the two companies said.
8. Partner Program – Cloud Infrastructure: Vultr’s partner program, which soft-launched in 2021, is now generally available. More than 500 MSPs, resellers, and technology companies have joined the program – positioned as an independent, higher -margin alternative to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform. ChannelE2E has not independently confirmed margin claims.
9. Partnership – Email Security and Cyber Insurance: Armorblox and Coalition have partnered to offer customers email security and cyber insurance to “protect organizations from cyber threats such as business email compromise (BEC), email account compromise (EAC) , and phishing attacks, “said the two companies.
10. Partner Program – Incident Response: NetWitness, an RSA business, has released a new Partner Program for reseller, distributor, and managed security service provider (MSSP) channels. Additionally, RSA and NetWitness veteran Corné van Rooij has been promoted to lead NetWitness’s global channel organization.
11. Partnership – Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC): MorganFranklin Consulting and OneTrust have signed a strategic partnership to assist end-customers with privacy, security, data management, GRC, third-party risk, ethics, and ESG programs.
12. Microsoft 365 Data Protection: Hornetsecurity has released a new solution to give Microsoft 365 business users the security and data loss prevention they need. 365 Total Protection Enterprise Backup is the only solution on the market to cover all aspects of security, compliance and backup for Microsoft 365.
13. Data Protection Aware of the Application: The latest NetApp Astra Control now supports cloud block storage providers (such as Microsoft Azure Disk Storage and Google Persistent Disk) and new Kubernetes platforms (including Rancher Kubernetes Engine and community Kubernetes). The Astra Data Store is also available as a preview and provides native file services for your Kubernetes and VMware deployments.
B. Channel Partner Summits, MSP Conferences and Virtual Events Calendar
- ASCII 2022 MSP Success Summit (February 16-17, Houston)
- NerdioCon 2022 (February 21-23, Cancun, Mexico)
- ThreatLocker Zero Trust World 2022 (February 21-23, Orlando, Florida)
- Addigy Innovate Summit (February 22-23, Virtual)
- Global Telecom Data Exchange (March 17-18, Miami, Florida)
- The complete ChannelE2E event calendar
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