DATA SECURITY, ENTERPRISE SECURITY, SOFTWARE SECURITY
Beyond Identity | March 16, 2023
Beyond Identity, the industry leader in providing phishing-resistant, passwordless MFA, has announced the official launch of 'Zero Trust Authentication' as a subcategory of zero trust technology, along with the introduction of the Zero Trust Leadership series of events worldwide, which will be held throughout 2023.
Combining industry-leading security integrators and technologies, such as Beyond Identity, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Optiv, World Wide Technology, BeyondTrust, Climb Channel SolutionsPing Identity, and Guidepoint Security will enable organizations to move toward secure authentication designed to improve the zero-trust strategies of the Fortune 5000.
Zero Trust Authentication was created in response to the failure of conventional authentication methods, a problem that has been compounded by the rise of cyberattacks. Implementing Zero Trust Authentication will enable businesses to surpass the constraints of legacy multi-factor authentication (MFA) and passwords and deploy more effective security strategies.
To achieve this, the Zero Trust Authentication strategy incorporates components like Beyond Identity's risk scoring and continuous authentication functionalities, which greatly increase the given level of security.
Tom Jermoluk, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Beyond Identity, mentioned, "In working with leaders across the security ecosystem, it became apparent to us that the industry needs to formally bring identity and access management into the security fold to continuously deliver the highest level of security around users and devices."
(Source – Business Wire)
He added, "We are bringing together the leaders from the essential technology categories to ensure authentication decisions are risk based and continuously informed with signals from the wealth of existing cybersecurity tooling. Through close technology collaboration and now go-to-market collaboration in this Zero Trust Leadership series, we are delivering strong authentication built for an 'always on' zero trust world coupled with the practical advice and best practices so that enterprises can finally close identity and access management vulnerabilities."
(Source – Business Wire)
About Beyond Identity
Beyond Identity is redefining digital access for companies seeking to enhance protection against cyber assaults and provide the greatest levels of security for their customers, employees, and developers. The company's phishing-resistant, passwordless, and Zero Trust Authentication technologies enhance both security and the user experience.
The platform provides continuous risk-based authentication that incorporates signals from the zero-trust ecosystem to guarantee that only valid users and secure devices get or keep access to vital resources. Snowflake, Roblox, and Unqork rely on Beyond Identity's highly accessible cloud-native platform to deter assaults and advance their zero-trust strategy.
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DATA SECURITY, PLATFORM SECURITY, SOFTWARE SECURITY
Prnewswire | May 10, 2023
Malwarebytes, a global leader in real-time cyber protection, today launched Malwarebytes Mobile Security for OneView, enabling MSPs to safeguard Chromebooks, Android and iOS devices against the latest mobile threats such as ransomware and malicious apps. MSPs can now use the Malwarebytes OneView multi-tenant platform to monitor their customers' mobile phones and tablets alongside their servers, workstations and laptops. With real-time protection, MSPs also can prevent accidental access to harmful websites, safeguard against malicious apps, block unwanted in-app ads and enable a secure mobile experience for their customers.
"Nearly half (45%)1 of organizations have been subject to a security incident involving a phone or tablet that led to data loss, downtime or another negative outcome," said Brian Thomas, VP of Worldwide MSP and Channel Programs, Malwarebytes. "MSPs are in a prime position to both help their customers secure mobile devices, while also boosting their growth and profitability by offering a streamlined and effective solution. It's a win-win situation for our partners."
Program Growth
Over the last year Malwarebytes continued to focus on securing resource-constrained organizations through partnerships with MSPs. The company recently added new strategic partnerships with Achab, BeMSP, Climb Channel Solutions, EBERTLANG, Innosoft, Minitel, Pax8 and Zaltor, among others. Malwarebytes also recently added its MSP solutions to its distribution deal with TD Synnex.
Outside of growing the MSP program externally, Malwarebytes invested internally as well. In six months, the MSP team doubled in employee size and the company brought on industry veteran Brian Kane as Director of Global MSP Programs.
"Working in the industry for years, I was very aware of the Malwarebytes reputation of being easy-to-deploy and incredibly effective," Kane said. "I am thrilled to join the team to help more partners access our solutions, streamline their cybersecurity offerings and grow their profit margins."
Malwarebytes also was awarded the prestigious 5-star rating in CRN's 2023 Partner Program Guide, showcasing the company's innovation and commitment to partner success.
Malwarebytes OneView Updates
The channel requires streamlined and simplified solutions to keep pace with skyrocketing costs and the complexities of managing multiple solutions. The Malwarebytes OneView platform unifies management of endpoint security, licensing subscriptions, role-based access, customer reporting and more. Malwarebytes continues to invest in its OneView platform with a focus on making cybersecurity easy to buy, deploy, use and manage.
In addition to Mobile Security, recent OneView updates include:
Application Block: A new threat prevention module that helps resource-strained security teams quickly guard against unsafe third-party Windows applications, meet key compliance requirements and encourage productivity without adding management complexity.
Global Management: Streamlined options for scheduling scans, tasks, groups and EDR management.
Onboarding Assistance: A new onboarding wizard shows MSPs a click-by-click view of how to onboard new sites and users, and deploying their first endpoints.
About Malwarebytes
Malwarebytes believes that when people and organizations are free from threats, they are free to thrive. Founded in 2008, Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski had one mission: to rid the world of malware. Today, Malwarebytes' award-winning endpoint protection, privacy and threat prevention solutions and its world-class team of threat researchers protect millions of individuals and thousands of businesses across the globe. The effectiveness and ease-of-use of Malwarebytes solutions are consistently recognized by independent third parties including MITRE Engenuity, MRG Effitas, AVLAB, AV-TEST (consumer and business), Gartner Peer Insights, G2 Crowd and CNET. The company is headquartered in California with offices in Europe and Asia. For more information and career opportunities, visit https://www.malwarebytes.com.
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ENTERPRISE SECURITY, PLATFORM SECURITY, SOFTWARE SECURITY
Businesswire | April 03, 2023
AttackIQ®, the leading independent vendor of Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) solutions, today announced the availability of AttackIQ Ready!, a fully managed breach and attack simulation service that leverages years of advanced content and actionable reporting to improve organizations’ security posture and security program performance. The service was designed to simplify the execution of a continuous security validation program, showing results in real-time and orchestrating faster remediation – all through one automated platform – for everyone who wants it.
Absent real data, teams lack clarity about their capabilities and performance and cannot confidently operate against the adversary. AttackIQ has found that security controls only stop the adversary 39% of the time in the real world due to misconfigurations and security control degradation. To solve this problem, AttackIQ Ready! delivers clear reporting and analysis so that security leaders know how well their controls perform against the adversary. AttackIQ Ready! provides weekly reports, monthly executive-focused reports, and insurance-focused reports that can be used to communicate to the executive team, the board, insurance companies, and regulators alike.
“We know that automated testing provides a path to better security and business outcomes. With this announcement, we are making AttackIQ’s advanced testing capabilities available to a much broader section of the market,” said Carl Wright, Chief Commercial Officer, AttackIQ. “Many organizations lack the resources to operationalize the MITRE ATT&CK framework or conduct red team assessments of their cyberdefenses. We are very excited to release AttackIQ Ready! to help teams of all sizes maximize return on investment and improve operational readiness.”
With AttackIQ Ready!, organizations can expect the following:
Easy and Immediate Use: From day one, AttackIQ Ready! provides an easy-to-use and immediate baseline understanding of your security coverage as well as continuous visibility into your security posture. It helps you to identify gaps and issues surrounding your overall cybersecurity hygiene.
Weekly and Monthly Reporting: Weekly and monthly reports about your security controls’ performance, including against specific adversaries curated by the AttackIQ Adversary Research Team (APT29, FIN6, etc.).
Monthly Adversary Curation: Every month, the AttackIQ Adversary Research Team introduces a new set of adversarial campaigns to test your security controls against that specific adversary.
Continuous Automated Testing: The AttackIQ Ready! team conducts weekly tests of your security controls using MITRE ATT&CK-aligned assessments drawn from the full AttackIQ research library.
Actionable Remediation Guidance: Generates tailored, easy-to-use remediation guidance so that you can close gaps and address issues quickly to improve performance.
Detection Engineering: AttackIQ Ready! introduces the option of detection testing for companies that have a security operations center or a SIEM structured to respond to alerts and attacks.
In-App Threat Intelligence and Analysis: Gain immediate in-app analysis about emerging and advanced threats and how to prepare your defenses to withstand attacks.
AttackIQ Ready! will help an even broader range of customers to achieve these results. A security operations center is not required to use AttackIQ Ready!. All that is needed are existing security controls to validate, either through cloud services like AWS or Azure or security providers.
What kind of results might companies expect? One security leader at a premier biosciences company recently used the AttackIQ platform to prove to an insurance company that his security controls were performing as intended and negotiate a peg to his insurance premium, saving his organization hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees. As he said, “When we can prove that our solutions and controls are not just adequate, but they're rock solid, there's much value there. The investments in our firewalls, endpoint controls, and network security controls help build the program's reputation and instill more confidence. Then when we go to the board for requesting a large sum of funding for maybe a new project, there are not as many questions.”
“AttackIQ has helped companies from the Fortune 10 to Global 2000 elevate their security effectiveness, including JetBlue, Bupa and the Department of Defense,” Wright continued. “This service will help companies hone security analyst and security operations team performance, find redundancies in security controls, validate security controls for insurers, decrease the impact of breaches, and much more. You can’t manage what you can't measure, and we look forward to helping organizations measure their defenses against the adversary.”
Pricing and Availability
AttackIQ Ready! is available now. More details are available at: www.attackiq.com/ready. For pricing or to schedule a demo, contact AttackIQ.
About AttackIQ
AttackIQ, the leading independent vendor of breach and attack simulation solutions, built the industry’s first Security Optimization Platform for continuous security control validation and improving security program effectiveness and efficiency. AttackIQ is trusted by leading organizations worldwide to plan security improvements and verify that cyberdefenses work as expected, aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The Company is committed to giving back to the cybersecurity community through its free award-winning AttackIQ Academy, open Preactive Security Exchange, and partnership with MITRE Engenuity’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense.
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