Each business day, MSSP Alert broadcasts a quick lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across the managed security services provider ecosystem.
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A. Today’s MSSP, MDR, XDR and Cybersecurity News Alerts
1. Channel Chief - Threat Detection and Response: Vectra AI has named
Bonnie Simmons as VP of partner sales, Americas.
2. Are Ransomware Payments Worth It?: If you suffer a ransomware attack and pay extortionists to regain access to data, applications, and/or systems, there's only a 14 percent chance that you'll recover all of your data, according to
OwnBackup research.
3. Partnership: ePlus has expanded its Managed Security Services portfolio to include
Fortinet's FortiSwitch and FortiAP switching and wireless access points, FortiManager network management software, and FortiAnalyzer security fabric analytics and automation.
4. SaaS Security Posture Management: Obsidian Security now has the ability to detect SaaS session hijacking attempts "early in the kill chain across multiple platforms" such as Okta, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Microsoft 365 and more, the company said.
5. Cyber Insurance: Resilience has launched a "new process for modular policy production, making it the first to adopt modularity for cyber insurance," the company asserted.
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