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ReliaQuest GreyMatter joins Microsoft Intelligent Security Association

ReliaQuest
ReliaQuest, a security operations force enhancer, announced today that it has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA). MISA is an ecosystem of independent software manufacturers and managed security service providers that have linked their products to better guard against an ever-increasing number of threats.

"With digital transformation driving migration to Microsoft Azure, it becomes even more critical to have a unified view across an organization’s security infrastructure. Now, with added support for Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, ReliaQuest GreyMatter extends visibility across the Microsoft ecosystem. GreyMatter unifies detection, investigation and response to drive security effectiveness and cyber resilience, while allowing the customer to integrate Microsoft Security products at the pace that best suits their organization.”

Brian Foster, ReliaQuest Chief Product Officer

This partnership makes it simple for Microsoft clients to ingest data and automate activities across any vendor solution, whether on-premises or in one or more clouds. GreyMatter, in conjunction with extensive security operations knowledge, accelerates threat detection and response. This improves the efficiency of current investments, such as the correlation capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

GreyMatter contextualizes threat research, aggregate customer knowledge, more than 40 open source and commercial security data sources to build a complete, actionable picture of present and upcoming risks. ReliaQuest will continue investing in GreyMatter's integration capabilities with the Microsoft 365 security suite, extending the ReliaQuest aim to "Make Security Possible."

Rob Lefferts, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Defender said that, “Microsoft Intelligent Security Association members, like ReliaQuest, leverage Microsoft’s security products to better defend against cyber security threats with identity and access management, threat protection, information protection and security management.”

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