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…policies are not granular enough. And it takes far too long to implement segmentation policies.

Companies are increasingly moving toward more modern security solutions to overcome legacy firewall challenges, Burton said. That includes micro-segmentation.

“Micro-segmentation is the technique of inserting security services between two workloads to isolate them from one another and secure them individually,” he said. “This allows system administrators to deploy flexible security policies that restrict traffic between workloads based on the principle of least privilege. Fifty-four percent of respondents say their organizations have adopted micro-segmentation. Out of these respondents, 66% say micro-segmentation is important to their organization’s security posture.”

Offering micro-segmentation as an alternative to firewalls for data center could be a solution that MSSPs build, Burton said.

Software-based segmentation offers a quick and cost-effective delivery of new security services, he said. Those services include MDR, micro-segmentation as-a-service, audit and compliance, and cloud workload protection.

“These service offerings afforded through micro-segmentation solutions provide MSSPs with options to expand into adjacent security solutions and create more revenue opportunities,” Burton said.

Terranova Security Beefs Up Partner Program

Terranova Security has enhanced its partner program for MSSPs, OEMs, distributors, resellers and technology partners globally.

The enhancements include expanded tier options, special offers to bolster revenue-generation opportunities, and an enhanced partner portal interface.

Participants have access to:

• Online training and certification;
• Incentives and offers to drive new sales opportunities and facilitate new account acquisition and portfolio expansion; and
• Sales and marketing resources that promote continuous business growth.

Terranova’s Mathieu Oullette

Mathieu Ouellette is Terranova‘s vice president of sales.

“We wanted to ensure that our partners had the best possible experience, with a collaboration process that was as transparent, actionable and easy to navigate as possible,” he said. “The partner program is also opening up the Terranova solution to different channels worldwide, giving more partners and resellers access to high-quality security awareness training content and phishing simulations.”

These enhancements were also prompted by the Terranova’s partnership with Microsoft, Ouellette said. Many Microsoft partners want to work with the company.

“There’s also a lot of demand for security awareness training solutions for Microsoft E3 clients,” he said. “And we wanted to make our high-quality content available to all organizations at this level. It’s all about giving all partners and their clients the tools they need to avoid phishing threats and understand the risks that come with cyber scams.”

Terranova gives partners an “unparalleled advantage” over other options in the security awareness training domain, Ouellette said.

“It’s a mutually beneficial program that boasts a very appealing ROI and an excellent overall investment for partners,” he said. “For example, MSSPs can also manage the security awareness platform and, through this capability, sell services for additional revenue. OEMs benefit from very competitive pricing and volume discounts available across all our partner program tiers.”

Exabeam Unleashes Enhanced SMP

Exabeam has enhanced its Security Management Platform (SMP) with AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure cloud storage monitoring.

The enhanced SMP allows organizations to protect themselves against cloud threats, even with remote work and scattered security teams.

The behaviors that the enhanced SMP will help identify, investigate and contextualize include:

• Enumeration of cloud storage objects;
• Abnormal amounts of data being sent from buckets; and
• Additional irregular cloud admin activity.

Trevor Daughney is Exabeam‘s vice president of product marketing.

“Partners will see carryover benefits from assisting end users in solving specific pain points by ingesting audit data from Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blobs and Google Cloud Platform cloud storage buckets,” he said.

This is yet another step in new opportunities for Exabeam partners, Daughney said.

“Exabeam’s multi-tenant cloud platform extends Exabeam’s SIEM solution with capabilities unique to Exabeam – user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and object-centric workspaces – as well as cloud storage, data graphing and integrations with over 250 products,” he said.