Each business day, MSSP Alert broadcasts a quick lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across the 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.
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A. Today’s MSSP Alerts
1. Cybersecurity Suites: BlackBerry Spark Suites are now available. The suites feature cybersecurity and endpoint management options to help protect data, minimize risk, and reduce cost and complexity. 2. Funding - Cyber Insurance: Coalition has raised $90 million in equity capital led by Valor Equity Partners. Felicis Ventures, Greyhound Capital, and Coalition’s existing investors participated in the round.3. Remote Work - Security: Varonis Systems has released a Varonis Data Security Platform update give remote, cloud-enabled organizations enhanced visibility and control over their most sensitive and valuable data, the company says.4. Revenues - Cloud SIEM: Exabeam says its SaaS Cloud generated more than half of the company's Q1 FY21 new and add-on recurring revenue.5. Risk Management: ProcessUnity has extended its Vendor Risk Management automation platform with new capabilities to incorporate industry risk intelligence into third-party risk processes. 6. Email Security: Abnormal Security has launched VendorBase, a global, federated database that tracks the reputations of an organization’s vendors and customers, and improves detection accuracy of advanced social engineering attacks, the company says.7. Talent - Utility and Energy Security: Fortress Information Security has recruited EY veteran Michael Bailey to assist utility customers with third-party risk management and supply chain security concerns.8. Talent - Endpoint Security: Kaspersky has hired RSA veteran Randall Richard as the new head of enterprise sales for the United States.B. Partnerships and Strategic Alliances
1. Partnership - Unified Endpoint Security: Lookout, Carbon Black and VMware are partnering to deliver a Unified Endpoint Security (UES) solution.2. Partner Program - Cloud Security: Armor has enhanced its Global Partner Program with new perks for MSPs. VARS, master agents and resellers also are partner targets for the program.3. Partnership - Cloud Security: SecureSky and ThreatQuotient are working together...C. Upcoming Cybersecurity Conferences
- List: Tech Conferences Canceled, Postponed or Online Only (Source: ChannelE2E)
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