Cybersecurity Roundup: Tightening Up Election Security

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“The goal at ThreatConnect has always been to enable security teams to make smarter, faster decisions,” said Andy Pendergast, ThreatConnect’s vice president of product. “For that reason, we are excited for Bitdefender to join the ThreatConnect Developer Partner Program. This partnership will enable us to develop strong operational use cases. Together, we can make a positive impact for our customers and users.”

eSentire Unleashes New Cloud Security Portfolio

eSentire has unveiled its new esCloud, a portfolio to monitor customer cloud environments and detect potential vulnerabilities.

Technical preview of esCloud will begin at the end of February, with general availability at the end of March. The portfolio will include support for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Office 365, with support for Google G Suite, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Dropbox and Box to follow this year.

Chris Braden, eSentire‘s vice president of global channels and alliances, tells us esCloud represents a “terrific opportunity” for eSentire’s partners, particularly those who have developed a practice around selling and support AWS, Google and Azure cloud infrastructure and/or who manage Office 365 for their clients.

eSentire’s Chris Braden

“It will also represent new opportunity in the form of expanded market reach for eSentire’s managed detection and response (MDR) solution, enabling partners to provide MDR services to customers who are using IaaS infrastructure for most or all of their IT operating environment versus traditional LAN/WAN network structures,” he said.

esCloud for IaaS will provide real-time detection, response and containment capabilities for threats, misconfiguration, network anomalies and adherence to compliance standards. esCloud for SaaS expands the use of esLOG+ to ingest logs from SaaS environments.

“esCloud will further extend eSentire’s competitive advantages by adding a powerful new data ingestion capability for even greater reach,” Braden said. “esCloud represents a level of security for IaaS and Office 365 applications and environments not currently available with other MSSP offerings who refer to themselves as MDR, further expanding our competitive differentiation. This enables our partners to provide their customers with even greater value across more IT infrastructure architectures than are available from traditional MSSPs.”

PhoenixNAP Provides Customized Security Solutions to Partners

PhoenixNAP has rolled out its new Data Security Cloud (DSC) Advanced package for partner distribution.

By adding new security delivery models to DSC, phoenixNAP enables partners to address the needs of their customers more directly, and offers partners more flexible deployment models.

DSC is a secure, multitenant cloud infrastructure platform that provides clients with cloud security via virtualization and segmentation controls. Its architecture has been developed in collaboration with leaders in virtualization, hardware and infrastructure technology, the company said.

“The enhancements of DSC enable our partners to better cater [to] industries that require secure, compliance-ready, cloud-based infrastructure,” said Ian McClarty, phoenixNAP’s president. “As new emerging industry trends and frequency of data breaches are on the rise, security has emerged as a top priority for modern organizations. With DSC, midsize organizations can enjoy enterprise-grade data protection and greater performance. They can choose between DSC Essentials and DSC Advanced models, and secure their infrastructure for the always-on environment. These models also enable our partners to offer more customized solutions to their target markets.“