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Vijilan Announce Joining Hands with CrowdStrike Powered Service Provider Program

Vijilan Announce Joining Hands with CrowdStrike Powered Service Provider Program

Vijilan, a leading provider of cybersecurity services, announced that it had become a CrowdStrike Powered Service Provider (CPSP) partner. As a CPSP partner, Vijilan will offer managed observability services and managed endpoint detection and response (EDR) powered by the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to its partner communities of managed service providers and IT professionals.

CrowdStrike has transformed security with the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, a unified security platform with a single, lightweight agent that safeguards and empowers the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern enterprise. CrowdStrike protects the most important areas of enterprise risk, such as cloud workloads and endpoints, identity and data, to keep customers ahead of the latest adversaries and stop breaches.

As a CPSP partner, Vijilan will provide the following:

  • Managed Endpoint Detection and Response: With leading EDR at its center, CrowdStrike correlates third-party and native cross-domain telemetry to provide unprecedented investigative efficiency, high-confidence detections, and quick, confident responses from one unified, threat-centric command console.
  • Managed Observability: Designed with a unique index-free architecture and advanced compression technology that reduces the amount of hardware needed, CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale is a unified log management and observability solution. It allows organizations to analyze, store, and retain log data at scale, giving them insights that can be used for various security and non-security purposes.

Kevin (KayVon) Nejad, Vijilan's CEO, said, "With CrowdStrike, we are delivering better-together security solutions to businesses of any size and a last line of defense when hackers have already passed through the organization's security appliances and tools." He also added, "Vijilan complements CrowdStrike's EDR capabilities through cross correlation of telemetry data from networks, devices, users, applications and data used by most MSPs and MSSPs."
 

(Source – Cision PR Newswire)

About Vijilan Security

Founded in 2014, Vijilan is a U.S.-based LLC specialized in cybersecurity threat management. With more than 20 years of experience monitoring security, Vijilan has mastered the art of finding threats and incident response. Partners of Vijilan include Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) that deliver managed IT services to industries like banking, education, healthcare, government and manufacturing. They rely on security solutions and security experts from Vijilan to deliver managed extended Detection and Response (mXDR) for its customers in the United States, the middle east, Asia-Pacific, and Europe.

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