Each business day, MSSP Alert broadcasts a quick lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across that managed security services provider ecosystem.
The Content: Written for MSSPs, SOC as a Service (SOCaaS), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and MSP security providers — and those who need to partner up with such companies.Frequency and Format: Every business morning. Typically one or two sentences for each item below.Reaching Our Inbox: Send news, tips and rumors to [email protected]. A. Today’s MSSP Alerts
1. Partnership - Cyber Insurance & Threat Intelligence: Cysurance and Red Sky Alliance have partnered to provide cyber risk management services to businesses.
2. Partnership - SD-WANs: Fortinet Secure SD-WAN now integrates with Amdocs’ extensible orchestration solution. MSPs and MSSPs, in turn, can deliver managed SD-WAN and security services across customer premises, data centers and the cloud, while reducing deployment and operational costs, the companies assert.
3. Partnership - Security Awareness: GuardSight, a
Top 200 MSSP for 2019, cybersecurity as a service, and managed detection and response (MDR) company, has formed a partnership with
AwareGo to expand its service offering and offer security awareness services to its customers.
PS: GuardSight is a master at sending MSSP Alert concise, on-message updates specifically for our readers.
4. Cloud Distribution - Security Alerting: Pax8 has agreed to offer
Novacoast's novaSOC to partners. novSOC is a monitoring and alerting security service that consolidates input from multiple threat intelligence sources to validate indicators of network compromise, the companies say.
5. Talent - Endpoint Protection: SentinelOne has hired Cohesity veteran Mark Parrinello as senior VP of global sales.
6. A Living Computer Virus?: That's how
Kaspersky describes the KBOT malware.
7. Funding - SOCaaS: Cysiv, a security operations center as a service (SOCaaS) company, has raised $26 million in Series A financing from ForgePoint Capital. Trend Micro incubated Cysiv and also invested in the round through the Trend Forward Capital arm.
8. Device Security: Forescout Technologies has updated its platform to further safeguard devices linked to Internet of Things (IoT) networks and operational technology (OT) systems.
9. SIEM for SOC Analysts: Devo Technology has announced
Devo Security Operations, a security operations solution that leverages auto enrichment, threat intelligence community collaboration, a central evidence locker, and a streamlined analyst workflow.
10. Research - Ransomware Attack Costs: EmsiSoft offers a c
ountry-by-country look at ransomware attack costs here.
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