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ZeroFox has expanded its presence in Canada
Cybersecurity provider ZeroFox has announced new disruption research and expanded partnership to serve Canadian businesses. A new partnership with Quick Intelligence will expand critical threat intelligence, digital risk protection and adversary disruption services to Canadian businesses, building on ZeroFox’s existing Canadian customer base. In the first three months of 2022, ZeroFox performed more than a 60 percent increase in delay actions including deletions of impersonations, spoofed domains and malicious content for Canadian customers compared to the previous year, which can be seen in social media, domains, pasting sites and more. digital platforms.
Cavelo launched the partner program, announcing the channel leadership appointment
Data protection solutions provider Cavelo Inc. launched this week. its channel partner program and announced the appointment of Kris Shoemaker as head of channel sales.
“Complex security stacks and data loopholes make it difficult for businesses to get a clear picture of the assets and sensitive data they have, especially avoiding the cyber risk associated with it,” James said. Mignacca, chief executive officer at Cavelo. “The Cavelo platform helps businesses integrate noisy tools and technologies. This partner program makes the Cavelo platform available to a broad spectrum of partners, which in turn can deliver greater value and boost cybersecurity. to their customers. With years of security and expertise in managed services, Kris fully understands the complexity of the security marketplace, and what drives meaningful partner relationships. “
Cavelo’s partner program includes referral, reseller, technology and managed aervice provider (MSP) partners. Partners can function as any or all partner types depending on the customer’s consumption preferences. All partners benefit from the program’s aggressive sales margins, additional IT consulting opportunities, extensive marketing support, education and seller incentives.
Microsoft releases updates for Exchange Server, changed the update delivery model
Microsoft announced the availability of integrated updates (CUs) for Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019. These CUs include fixes for customer-reported issues along with all previously released security updates (SUs), including updates released in March 2022 SUs.
It also featured changes to its update delivery model for Exchange Server, moving to a release cadence of two CUs per year – released in H1 and H2 of each calendar year, with overall target release dates of March and September. But, it said, “our release dates are quality driven, so we may release updates in April or October, or another month, depending on what we deliver. The release may be too long. CU every 6 months to wait for some updates, so we may also release hotfixes between CU releases. “
The next CU will be released in H2 of 2022 and for Exchange Server 2019 only; Basic support has ended for Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2016, which will only accept SUs as needed while those versions are in extended support. With changes to this service model, timeliness still means running the latest CU or the one immediately preceding it, but the ‘currency window’ has been extended from 6 months to 1 year.
Fluent Commerce achieves AWS Retail Competency status
Fluent Commerce, provider of Distributed Order Management System (OMS), Fluent Order Management, has become an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Retail Competency Partner. AWS Retail Competency Partners undergoes rigorous AWS validation to ensure alignment with AWS best practices for building secure, high -performance, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure for retail applications, to give customers greater confidence when making decisions.
“We are extremely proud to achieve AWS Retail Competency status,” said Chad Hooker, vice president, global channels and alliances at Fluent Commerce. “In addition to other recent awards and recognitions in the retail community, being an AWS Retail Competency Partner provides further market validation that Fluent Commerce is setting the standard in modern order management. The Fluent team is, and continues to be, committed to helping companies improve their fulfillment strategies and enable them to respond quickly to changing environments. As an AWS Partner, we look forward to helping organizations achieve their technology goals together. “
Masergy, Fortinet, and Ingram Micro announce SD-WAN for Resellers with a new route of selling managed services
Masergy, Fortinet, and Ingram Micro Inc. collaborated. to deliver a new distribution sales route and adapted SD-WAN solution for value-added resellers and managed service providers (MSPs). For the first time, Masergy’s managed SD-WAN services are available through a distribution channel, helping partners easily expand their services to tap into previously unreachable markets with integrated offering that combines networking, security, and services, making it ideal for those without services. operations, technical expertise, or SD-WAN certification. Distributed by Ingram Micro, the solution combines the power of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN solutions with 24/7 network and security management services from Masergy.
Tapping into the Masergy Guardian Portfolio, resellers and MSPs will be able to sell fully managed SD-WAN services (fully provided by Masergy) and co-managed services (for which the reseller or MSP is responsible for in Tier 1 and Tier 2 client support). The companies say the benefits include:
- Recurring revenue with more sales potential: In addition to hardware and monthly revenue margins, add-ons for remote network access and 24/7 threat detection and response services bring increasing potential.
- Service expansion without initial investment: Fully managed services work as a way for partners to expand their support model without overhead.
- Client loyalty and lifetime value: Shared services allow partners to protect their current client relationships as they get more share of the wallet.
- Low barriers to entry: Technical certifications are not required to sell the SD-WAN solution, and zero-touch implementation capabilities simplify installation.
Trend Micro has announced the Trend Micro One
Global cybersecurity provider Trend Micro announced the launch of Trend Micro One, a unified cybersecurity platform with a growing list of ecosystem technology partners that allow customers to better understand, communicate, and communicate their cyber danger. The unified security platform approach delivers a seamless lifecycle of risk and threat analysis with surface attack detection, cyber risk analysis, and threat and threat response. Trend Micro One technology ecosystem’s inaugural partners include Bit Discovery, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Okta, Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow, Slack, Qualys, Rapid7, Splunk, and Tenable.
“As a unified platform, Trend Micro One delivers powerful risk assessment capabilities, but ecosystem partners have expanded that to make it the most complete in the industry,” Trend Micro said in its announcement. “Joint customers benefit from truly connected visibility, better detection and response capabilities, and comprehensive protection across security layers and systems.”
BlackBerry has released QNX Hypervisor 2.2 for Safety
BlackBerry announced the release of QNX Hypervisor 2.2 for Safety, the latest edition of the company’s safety-certified, real-time embedded hypervisor product, designed to enable the healthcare industry to deliver safely , secure medical devices and applications to market faster. In addition to being certified to the latest ISO 26262 ASIL D standard for automotive and IEC 61508 SIL3 for electronic systems, the QNX Hypervisor 2.2 for Safety is recognized with the highest functional safety standard for medical device software – IEC 62304 Class C compliance – from independent auditors at TÜV Rheinland. The new release comes during an increased U.S. regulatory investigation following the revelation of numerous medical device security vulnerabilities in the latter, with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) releasing a draft cybersecurity guide to medical devices in conjunction with the introduction of two new pieces of legislation. – the Protecting and Transforming Cyber Health Care (PATCH) Act and the Healthcare Cybersecurity Act, all of which aim to actively strengthen cybersecurity healthcare protections and protect lives. With QNX Hypervisor 2.2 for Safety, medical device manufacturers and other embedded system suppliers can integrate multiple systems with mixed critical and different operating environments in a hardware platform, which reduces both initial development and long-term cost of ownership for a wide variety of embedded systems in industries such as industrial, automotive, transportation, heavy machinery, metals and robotics and more.