Every business day, MSSP Alert delivers this fast lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across the security services provider’s managed ecosystem.
- The content: Written for MSSPs, SOC as a Service (SOCaaS), Managed Detection and Response (MDR), eXtended Detection and Response (XDR), threat hunters and MSP security providers – and those who need to partner with such companies.
- Frequency and Format: Every business morning. Usually one or two sentences for each item below.
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A. Today MSSP, MDR, XDR and Cybersecurity Market News
1. RSA Conference 2022 News: Check out the RSAC live blog here.
2. ConnectWise IT Nation Secure 2022 News: Check out ChannelE2E’s live blog here.
3. National MSSP Launched: New Charter Technologies has launched a national MSSP called Cyber74. The effort includes merging two regional MSSPs – Digital Umbrella and MachBlue Defense. Private equity firm Oval Partners is supporting the effort.
4. Microsoft Honors Three MSSPs: The 2022 Microsoft Security Excellence Awards include awards for three MSSPs – namely, Open Systems, BlueVoyant. and Transparity.
5. MDR and Risk Management: BlueVoyant has launched BlueVoyant Elements, a platform that combines managed detection and response, third-party cyber risk management, digital risk protection, and expert professional services, the company said.
6. Integration – MDR Services: Critical Start MDR services for Trend Micro Vision One are now available.
7. China Targets Network Service Providers: Here are the details from CISA.
8. Vulnerability Management: Qualys announced Qualys Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response (VMDR) 2.0, a new cloud-based solution that provides “unprecedented insights into an organization’s unique risk stance along with the ability to use drag and drop workflow to organize responses, ”the company asserted. .
9. Vulnerability Mapping: SentinelOne announced Singularity Vulnerability Mapping, which delivers “vulnerability assessment, prioritization and remediation at machine speed,” the company insists.
10. Funding – Vendor Security Intelligence: Whistic, which developed the network to review, publish and share vendor security information, has raised $ 35 million in Series B Funding led by JMI Equity.
11. Partnership – Email Security: Mailprotector has joined Gradient MSP’s Synthesize vendor integration program. This integration “automates the billing settlement process for MSPs, making it easier than ever to make sure you’re being paid for the services you’re billed for — and it works,” the companies said. .
12. Partnership – Google Cloud and Risk Management: Google Cloud customers can use the CyberGRX third-party validated cyber risk assessment to “gain in-depth access to the Google Cloud risk profile, which details compliance with industry standards and security protocols built into the infrastructure its, ”the companies said.
13. Partnership – Cloud Financial Services: Atos and IBM expanded their partnership around the IBM Cloud for Financial Services. The aim is to help financial services companies reach “optimal data and system security using the“ trusted EU cybersecurity monitoring ”provided by Atos,” the companies said.
14. CrowdStrike Partnerships: CrowdStrike has expanded the CrowdXDR Alliance to include partners such as Menlo Security, Ping Identity and Vectra AI. CrowdStrike also introduced new capabilities for the Falcon XDR module to “speed up discoveries for security teams, including an integration with ServiceNow.”
15. Cybersecurity and Compliance Gap: Approximately 40% of organizations have suspended or postponed IT security projects to address compliance issues, a Sumo Logic survey revealed.
16. Threat Intelligence: Redacted released TIDE – a Threat Intelligent Detection Engine – to the public for community -driven testing and extension, the company said.
17. Security Automation: Swimlane has launched Swimlane Turbine, a “low-code automation platform that unifies visibility and action at the point of threat initiation while centering human and machine data into a system of records,” the company said.
18. Data Security: Snowflake has launched a Cybersecurity workload that “enables cybersecurity teams to better protect their businesses using the Data Cloud,” the company said.
19. Government Security Contract: Booz Allen Hamilton has won a contract with NASA Cybersecurity and Privacy Enterprise Solutions and Services (CyPrESS) —a hybrid indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) single award contract with a total potential value of $ 622.5 million, the company said.
B. MSSP, MDR and Cybersecurity Virtual Events and Conference Calendar
- Identiverse 2022 (June 21-24, Denver, Colorado)
- CyberArk Impact 2022 (July 12-14, Boston, Massachusetts)
- AWS re: Inforce (July 26-27, Boston, Massachusetts)
- Black Hat USA (August 6-11, Las Vegas)
- Defcon 30 (August 11-14, Las Vegas)
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