6. Talent: MKACyber, a Top 100 MSSP for 2017, has hired SecureAuth veteran Stephen Cox as vice president of software development. Cox will lead MKACyber's software development teams, which focus on data-informed, business-focused and cost-effective SOC solutions. FYI: The 2018 Top 100 MSSP Survey and all future survey links surface here.
5. Partnership: HKT, a telecommunications service provider in Hong Kong, has joined Carbon Black's partner program as a managed security services provider (MSSP). Carbon Black launched a successful IPO last week and continues to work more deeply with MSSPs worldwide.
4. Partnership: Comodo Cybersecurity and Mission Secure Inc. (MSi) are developing an integrated industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity with a unified security operations center (SOC). The solution is designed safeguard government and enterprise critical infrastructure against the cyber threats targeting ICS.
3. Partnership: Kudelski Security has launched managed security services focused on the protection of Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS). The effort includes a close working relationship with Claroty, whose technology will be integrated with Kudelski Security's Cyber Fusion Centers (CFC) in Switzerland and the United States.
2. Secure Operations: Watch for the ServiceNow partner ecosystem to announce a range of Secure Operations integrations and associated moves during the Knowledge18 conference this week in Las Vegas. True believers include AHEAD, a major cloud-focused IT consulting firm that is helping customers with SecOps projects.
1. MSP to MSSP: We'll be touring the Kaseya Connect 2018 conference today in Las Vegas, paying particularly close attention to security vendors that are assisting MSPs with their MSSP practice build-outs. We may share more details soon...
