DATA SECURITY,NETWORK THREAT DETECTION,PLATFORM SECURITY
NetSPI | August 18, 2022
NetSPI, the leader in enterprise penetration testing and attack surface management, today announced the launch of the NetSPI Partner Program which empowers its global channel and technology partners to deliver offensive security services during a time when it's needed most.
Partners within the program can offer end users NetSPI's proven vulnerability management technologies and human-delivered offensive security services, allowing both the partner and NetSPI to expand product and service offerings, further develop customer relationships, and enter new markets. Additionally, last month NetSPI joined the AWS Marketplace, simplifying the procurement process for enterprise organizations with existing AWS relationships by allowing them to purchase NetSPI's offerings directly via the marketplace.
The program is led by NetSPI's Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances, Lauren Gimmillaro. Gimmillaro has a track record of launching four successful partner programs, consisting of working with channel, referral, reseller, and technology partners.
"As today's global attack surface evolves and cybercriminals become more sophisticated in nature, it's critical to provide end users with the tools, services, and skill sets they need to take an offensive approach to security," said Gimmillaro. "Centered around our customer-first approach, the NetSPI Partner Program will allow our team to extend our world-class pentesting capabilities to a variety of diverse and trusted partners, strengthening organizations' cyber security efforts across the globe."
The NetSPI Partner Program encompasses the following partnership types:
Channel Partners: NetSPI provides its full suite of security services and products through a global channel network of referral and reseller partners. To meet partners' requirements, the programs include a tier-based model consisting of referral fees, preferred client pricing, and reseller discounts.
Technology Partners: Security and third-party software companies help build meaningful integrations with NetSPI to improve overall customer experiences.
For both, NetSPI offers technical and sales support to help partners achieve their business and go-to-market goals.
"Through the NetSPI Partner Program, SecureLink has been able to provide enterprises in the Middle East and Africa region access to NetSPI's continuous and scalable suite of offensive security solutions. "With NetSPI, we are proud to offer unmatched sophistication, methodology, and value to our global customer base."
Manish Pardeshi, director of cybersecurity practices at SecureLink
"Apiiro is proud to be part of the NetSPI Partner Program. The partnership has provided our customers with next-gen, context aware pentesting capabilities and NetSPI customers with our ability to detect and fix critical risks in cloud-native applications," said John Leon, vice president of business development at Apiiro. "Being a member of the NetSPI Partner Program allows us to achieve our sales goals while providing mutual customers with industry leading services and expertise."
About NetSPI
NetSPI is the leader in enterprise security testing and attack surface management, partnering with nine of the top 10 U.S. banks, three of the world's five largest healthcare companies, the largest global cloud providers, and many of the Fortune® 500. NetSPI offers Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) through its Resolve™ penetration testing and vulnerability management platform. Its experts perform deep dive manual penetration testing of application, network, and cloud attack surfaces, historically testing over 1 million assets to find 4 million unique vulnerabilities. NetSPI is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN and is a portfolio company of private equity firms Sunstone Partners, KKR, and Ten Eleven Ventures.
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SECURITY AUDIT AND COMPLIANCE
Balbix | August 09, 2022
Balbix, the leader in cybersecurity posture automation, announced today new integrations with ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the leading digital workflow company. As a result of the integrations, customers can automatically augment cyber risk data with business context and integrate remediation efforts with their existing security and IT workflows. CISOs can eliminate thousands of hours from the time required to operationalize cyber risk quantification (CRQ) in dollars and close the gap between cybersecurity and the business.
The integration with ServiceNow's configuration management database (CMDB) allows Balbix customers to automatically ingest business context from their CMBD into the Balbix platform and combine it with asset, vulnerability and risk data from their other IT and security tools, and Balbix sensors to create a unified cyber risk model presented in dollars. Data is automatically deduplicated, correlated and inferenced to drastically reduce the manual labor required for teams to add business context to cyber risks, and prioritize and measure them. For example, with the integration businesses can now:
Measure and report on the dollar amount of risk by business unit, business leader, asset type, application, regulatory requirement and geographic location (cities, countries, regions).
Quantify the dollar amount of risk related to externally facing assets, internal assets, assets that the IT department manages, and assets not managed by the IT department.
"Historically, Fortune 500 companies would spend thousands of hours of manual labor mapping business context to their risk data for board reporting, risk analysis and cybersecurity decision making, Our integration with the ServiceNow CMDB, has enabled us to sharply reduce the time needed to quantify cyber risk. With Balbix, CISOs can continuously and automatically map risk to their business hierarchy and prioritize their highest-risk issues for response."
Chris Griffith, chief product officer at Balbix.
Businesses are struggling to report concrete CRQ results with 62% indicating they cannot calculate their breach risk in monetary terms, according to Balbix's own 2022 State of Security Posture Report. Furthermore, according to the report, 51% of organizations indicated they lack continuous visibility into asset inventories making it difficult to correlate risk with business context, and instead relying on siloed tools, manual workflows, and qualitative analysis to quantify the exposure.
"Cyber risk has become a frustrating business risk to manage as leadership teams struggle to accurately quantify their risk and prioritize initiatives to mitigate it, These integrations address the growing needs CISOs have to report on cyber risk in a way that their business leaders can clearly understand, to make the right investments and to remediate their riskiest vulnerabilities faster."
Ed Amoroso, Founder and CEO of research and advisory firm TAG Cyber.
In addition to automating advanced CRQ capabilities, the integration with ServiceNow IT Service Management (ITSM) further eliminates manual effort by enabling security teams to create ServiceNow remediation tickets from within Balbix. This enables security and IT teams to increase productivity by using a familiar and shared system for remediation workflow. Moreover, security analysts can create tickets to remediate a vulnerability for a single impacted asset or for a group of assets to specify remediation tasks more efficiently and reduce the mean time to remediate (MTTR) risk issues.
About Balbix
Balbix enables organizations to reduce cyber risk by identifying and mitigating their riskiest cybersecurity issues faster. The Balbix Security Cloud™ platform ingests data from organizations' security and IT tools to understand every aspect of their cybersecurity posture, build a unified cyber risk model and then provide actionable insights for risk reduction. With Balbix, enterprises can automate inventory of their cloud and on-premise assets, conduct continuous risk-based vulnerability management and quantify cyber risk in dollars. Executives and operational teams can make cybersecurity decisions based on data not opinions.
A rapidly growing set of Fortune 500 companies trust Balbix as the "brain" of their infosec programs and are realizing the benefits of maximally automated workflows and measurably lower cyber risk. Balbix was ranked #32 on the 2021 Deloitte Fast 500 North America, and has been recognized for innovation by Gartner.
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DATA SECURITY,SOFTWARE SECURITY,WEB SECURITY TOOLS
Phosphorus | September 26, 2022
Phosphorus, the leading provider of advanced and full-scope security for the extended Internet of Things (xIoT), today announced a partnership with Dewpoint. The IT and security solutions provider will act as a value-added reseller (VAR) for Phosphorus in the US market.
The new partnership will see the two companies jointly delivering a new generation of xIoT security solutions in the US to meet growing enterprise demand for xIoT attack surface management and remediation capabilities.
“xIoT security is a critical need for today’s enterprises, and these risks are left unaddressed by traditional IT security solutions. We look forward to working with Dewpoint to help expand our US sales channels and bring the world’s most advanced xIoT security platform to more organizations.”
Kal Gajera, Director of North America Channels at Phosphorus
Phosphorus’s Extended Enterprise xIoT Security Platform is the world’s first and only automated security platform capable of delivering xIoT Attack Surface Management, xIoT Hardening, and Remediation, and xIoT Detection and Response across the full range of IoT, OT, and Network-connected devices—spanning both new and legacy devices. This enables large organizations to scale xIoT technologies (which can amount to millions of devices per organization) without having to add any additional employees to find, fix, and monitor them.
ABOUT PHOSPHORUS
Phosphorus Cybersecurity® is the leading xTended Security of Things™ platform designed to secure the rapidly growing and often unmonitored Things across the enterprise xIoT landscape. Our Extended Enterprise xIoT Security Platform delivers Attack Surface Management, Hardening & Remediation, and Detection & Response to bring enterprise xIoT security to every cyber-physical Thing in your enterprise environment. With unrivaled xIoT discovery and posture assessment, Phosphorus automates the remediation of the biggest IoT, OT, and Network device vulnerabilities—including unknown and inaccurate asset inventory, out-of-date firmware, default credentials, risky configurations, and out-of-date certificates.
ABOUT DEWPOINT
Dewpoint has been bringing business and technology together since 1996. We make sure technology is solving all your business problems, providing transparency of spend for executives, and enhancing collaboration and flexibility. As the IT industry and businesses continue to change, Dewpoint provides the thought leadership and industry expertise to offer a new level of services in project management, digital innovation, infrastructure, security, cloud, and a range of tailored professional and managed service solutions for all our clients.
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