ContraForce, which offers an Open extended detection and response (XDR) platform for MSSPs, has joined the Microsoft Intelligence Security Association (MISA). The company received a nomination to join MISA based on its Microsoft Azure Sentinel API integration.Microsoft Azure Sentinel is a cloud-based SIEM (security information and event management) platform that ISVs (independent software vendors) and MSSPs increasingly leverage.Meanwhile, MISA is an independent ecosystem of software vendors that have integrated their solutions to better defend partners and customers from cyberattacks, Microsoft says. Rough 133 organizations were MISA members as of July 2020, up from 57 in 2019. MSSP Alert has reached out to Microsoft for more recent MISA figures, and will update this article if/when we have new data to share.Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) Security data analytics Security integration Solution development MSSPs can leverage Open XDR and ContraForce's Azure Sentinel API integration. In addition, they can access ContraForce integrations with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Cloud App Security, Defender for Microsoft 365 and Defender for Identity.