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… quite significant, Shah said. It can range from extracting value within sensitive enterprise emails to performing lateral phishing attacks within the enterprise, he said.

“In addition, continuous monitoring of these accounts is challenging given the difficulty sometimes in identifying attacker activity vs benign activity,” he said.

Ivanti, Intel Partner for Device Cybersecurity

Ivanti has entered a new strategic partnership with Intel to offer device as a service (DaaS) with self-healing capabilities for remote workers.

Intel Endpoint Management Assistant (Intel EMA) now integrates with the Ivanti Neurons hyperautomation platform. That allows IT organizations to self-heal and self-secure with Intel vPro platform-based devices both inside and outside the corporate firewall.

Nayaki Nayyar is Ivanti‘s chief product officer. She said joint Intel and Ivanti partners can better deliver on their customers’ need to make endpoints autonomous.

Ivanti’s Nayaki Nayyar

“This helps partners become more valuable advisers to their customers that wish to better enable and service their remote workforce,” she said. “It also gives partners delivering managed services a powerful combined solution for active remediation and deep visibility. When using Intel EMA with Ivanti Neurons for example, partners can configure customer endpoints to take remote actions automatically on vPro devices such as powering them on, restarting them, setting wake-up times, controlling systems even during an OS failure, or repairing devices at scale.”

With the integration of Intel EMA, Ivanti Neurons provide enhanced remote management for on-premises and cloud-based endpoints.

“By better enabling solution providers with the integrated solutions that truly deliver DaaS operations along with hyperautomated self-healing and self-securing capabilities, channel partners can become more tightly aligned with their customers’ business goals,” Nayyar said. “It opens up many new professional service options for partners as they help their customers align their endpoint management with business priorities for performance and productivity, while further supporting demands for increased endpoint security — no matter where users are working.”

ForeScout-ServiceNow Integration Protects Critical Infrastructure

Forescout Technologies this week unveiled its latest technology integration enhancements with longtime partner ServiceNow.

The integration aims to improve asset intelligence. It also improves threat prevention, detection and response for industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) environments.

Security teams can make informed decisions to close the security gap from unmanaged OT devices, the companies said. They can also improve performance in mean time to resolve (MTTR) in remediating vulnerable or affected systems.

Jonathan Corini is Forescout’s vice president of worldwide channel sales.

Forescout’s Jon Corini

“Together with ServiceNow, Forescout is helping our partners grow their OT and ICS security business and secure across the modern enterprise,” he said. “Channel partners will benefit from the additional value they can provide in sectors such as manufacturing, utilities and health care. This expanded partnership increases opportunities for joint integrations that improve asset intelligence and threat detection for critical infrastructure.”

The integrated offering centralizes security and improves resiliency in manufacturing, energy, transportation and other sectors. That’s where internet-connected infrastructure is often invisible to traditional cybersecurity controls.

“The new Forescout and ServiceNow integration is the only solution that delivers real-time, rich contextual asset intelligence across all of IT, IoT and OT/ICS,” Corini said. “To simplify enterprise security, Forescout’s automatic network access control and dynamic segmentation leverage existing network infrastructure — including legacy industrial networks.”