SOFTWARE SECURITY
businesswire | December 10, 2020
FireMon, the main organization security strategy the executives organization that brings visibility, control, nimbleness, and mechanization to enterprise cloud and half and half organization infrastructure, today declared it has signed with DLT Solutions, the chief government innovation solutions aggregator. The partnership will encourage FireMon's commitment to public sector clients, simplify purchasing for government agencies, and give DLT's channel partners access to its dexterous organization security strategy the board stage's full capabilities.
As government organizations move to the cloud and zero trust networks, they must oversee security policies over increasingly heterogeneous cross breed networks. Using FireMon, they can quicken their migrations with the certainty that they will stay secure and consistent even notwithstanding increasing rates of progress. Recently, FireMon was considered basic to public security by the United States Treasury, a world class designation which points to the significance FireMon solutions play to public sector customers.
"As the public sector continues its digital transformation to modernize aging systems and infrastructure, new network security considerations and risks are introduced," said Chris Wilkinson, president, DLT Solutions, a Tech Data company. "Adding FireMon's solutions to our cybersecurity portfolio provides our channel partners and their public sector customers with an agile approach to managing network security policy that helps secure our nation's most critical networks."
"As the move to the cloud accelerates, government agencies are challenged with securing complex hybrid networks and implementing zero trust architectures," said Andrew Warren, VP of Global Channel Sales for FireMon. "Working with DLT and its partners, FireMon lets them secure these networks seamlessly, without compromising agility or responsiveness."
About FireMon
FireMon is the only agile network security policy platform for firewalls and cloud security groups providing the fastest way to streamline network security policy management, which is one of the biggest impediments to IT and enterprise agility. Since creating the first-ever network security policy management solution, FireMon has delivered command and control over complex network security infrastructures for more than 1,700 customers located in nearly 70 countries around the world. For more information, visit www.firemon.com.
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ENTERPRISE SECURITY
McAfee Enterprise | November 25, 2021
McAfee Enterprise and FireEye today announced that the company has been named as a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud Security Gateways 2021 Vendor Assessment (doc #US48334521, November 2021) for its MVISION Cloud technology, which is part of its MVISION Unified Cloud Edge (UCE) portfolio. McAfee Enterprise received this distinction based on its robust cloud registry and analytics, data loss prevention (DLP) and threat detection capabilities.
The IDC MarketScape defines a cloud security gateway (CSG) as a security enforcement point that monitors cloud application usage by organizations to provide discovery, monitoring, and protection. CSGs incorporate multiple security controls, including policy enforcement, threat detection, data loss prevention and user behavior analysis. Typical use cases for CSGs are data protection, shadow IT discovery, visibility and control of unmanaged devices, threat protection, compliance and security operations in infrastructure as-a-service (IaaS) environments.
According to the report, “McAfee Enterprise has a strong ecosystem of security solutions, including Secure Web Gateway, CSG and endpoint security that it can integrate to enable customers in their data loss prevention, User Behavior Analytics, XDR and threat prevention goals. McAfee has focused on providing robust protection and DLP, with the scale and speed necessary to support large user bases."
“We believe this recognition is yet another validation of McAfee Enterprise’s cloud-native approach to helping businesses overcome the security challenges of adopting a multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environment,MVISION Cloud aims to transform the way IT security is deployed and managed. Together with McAfee Enterprise’s next-generation secure web gateway and MVISION Private Access products, it delivers the industry's most comprehensive security services edge solution—the security element of the Secure Access Service Edge framework.”
Anand Ramanathan, Senior Vice President of Product Management, McAfee Enterprise and FireEye
Additional resources:
MVISION Unified Cloud Edge
McAfee Enterprise and FireEye blog
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model (idc.com) is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
About McAfee Enterprise and FireEye
McAfee Enterprise and FireEye combined in October 2021, bringing together their portfolios and expert teams to create a market-leading security company. With proven technology and unrivaled experience, the company serves more than 40,000 enterprise, commercial, and government customers worldwide. The new company blends innovative technology, intelligence, and automation to help solve the most complex cybersecurity problems for its customers.
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DATA SECURITY
Elisity | June 17, 2021
The new platform for behavior and identity-based enterprise cybersecurity, Elisity, Inc., the pioneer of Cognitive Trust™, has announced a Series A funding round totaling $26 million. It is co-led by AllegisCyber Capital and Two Bear Capital. Atlantic Bridge, the previous seed investor, is participating.
The present subsidizing will scale Elisity to satisfy customer needs for its cloud-delivered cybersecurity stage that can investigate the identity and context of individuals, applications, and gadgets—including IoT and OT—any place they're working. The platform can comprehend, engage and progressively adjust security from the edge to the cloud by learning conduct to review hazards, consequently and constantly streamline security assurance.
Elisity is the principal organization to offer a solitary online protection stage that is adequately astute to see how resources and individuals associate past corporate edges and powerfully adjust security for each client, gadget, information, and application from the edge to the cloud. Elisity's Cognitive Trust stage wires character and AI-driven social insight to ceaselessly evaluate hazard and quickly upgrade access, availability, and security arrangements that follow resources and individuals any place they go. Elisity helps endeavor class associations, everything being equal, and ventures get through the present siloed systems administration and-security bunch difficulties by incorporating resource the board, availability, and security.
Three co-founders began Elisity: Burjiz Pithawala, chief product officer; Sundher Narayan, chief architect; and Srinivas Sardar, vice president of engineering, who all previously held leadership roles product development, engineering, and architecture at Cisco. The chief group is driven by James Winebrenner, CEO, who drove the go-to-market procedure for Viptela from pre-dispatch through the deal to Cisco in 2017, having additionally held influential leader positions at Cisco, Aviatrix, and Checkpoint Software.
Strategic advisors include security and networking leaders such as Greg Akers (former SVP Advanced Security Research and Governments at Cisco), Khalid Raza (co-founder of Viptela and CEO and founder of Graphient), Brian Long (co-founder and managing partner at Atlantic Bridge and on Elisity's Board of Directors), and Jeff Tantsura (Internet Architecture Board). Spencer Tall and Mike Goguen will join Brian Long on the Elisity board due to today's transaction.
About Elisity
Elisity understands behaviors and identity to simplify connectivity, asset and user access, and security from the initiative edge to the cloud. Elisity invented the AI-powered Cognitive Trust platform to learn behavior, measure risk enthusiastically, and promptly adapt apparent access policies for people, devices, data, and applications. Elisity is based in San Jose. The company is backed by AllegisCyber Capital, Two Bear Capital, and Atlantic Bridge.
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