Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of November 15th: Mimecast, Tigera, Absolute Security, and More
The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring news from the week of November 15th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Mimecast, Tigera, Absolute Security, and more.
Keeping up with all the most relevant Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring news can be time-consuming. As a result, our editorial team aims to summarize some of the top headlines in the space by curating a collection of the latest vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy news. With that in mind, here is some of the top endpoint security and network monitoring news from the week of November 15th.
Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of November 15th
Absolute Security Launches a New Enterprise Edition Solution
Absolute Security, an enterprise resilience solution, has launched the Enterprise Edition of its offering. The edition combines the new Safe Connect for Secure Access with the Comply Module for Secure Endpoint, creating a Security Service Edge (SSE) designed to ensure that only secure, compliant devices are accessing corporate networks. Other benefits of the offering include AI Threat Insights, Digital Experience Management (DEM) functionalities, always-on connections, Dynamic Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) policies, and an optimized user experience for remote and hybrid workers.
BlackFog Updates its Anti-Data Exfiltration (ADX) Platform with New Features
BlackFog, a ransomware prevention and anti-data exfiltration (ADX) solution, has launched a “next-generation” enterprise platform that aims to deliver powerful ransomware and insider threat prevention to organizations. The platform’s updates focus on providing enhanced data loss prevention capabilities that don’t require data classification. Specific additions include air gap protection for sensitive data, real-time geofencing functionalities for detecting bad actors, and baseline activity monitoring.
GTT Communications Debuts a Virtualized Version of its Managed DIA Service
GTT Communications—a networking and Security as a Service provider—has announced the virtualization of its Managed Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) service. The virtualized service is enabled through the GTT Envision platform, which is built to connect, orchestrate, virtualize, and automate enterprise networks. Tom Major, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Technology at GTT, says, “By virtualizing delivery of our global, high-quality Managed DIA services, we are enabling simple bandwidth optimization, greater segmentation flexibility, and enhanced business resilience.”
Menlo Security Appoints a New President
Menlo Security, a secure enterprise browser provider, has appointed industry veteran Bill Robbins as its President. Robbins is a renowned cybersecurity professional with over thirty years of experience in the industry, having served as the President of Worldwide Field Operations at Sophos and Chief Revenue Officer and Executive Vice President at Mandiant and FireEye. At Menlo Security, Robbins will oversee day-to-day operations and be responsible for the company’s revenue, customer success, product management, marketing, engineering, and support efforts.
Mimecast Releases the Partner ONE MSP Program
Mimecast, a human risk management platform provider, has launched its Partner ONE MSP Program. The program is built to provide a consistent, scalable partner experience for managed service providers (MSPs) by delivering the support they need to grow, evolve, and amplify their business. For example, the Partner ONE MSP Program provides partners with performance-based incentives, continuous support via the Mimecast Knowledge Hub, a multi-level certification program, integration into the Mimecast community, and access to new products, bundles, and pricing.
Mission Reveals Its New Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) Solutions
Mission—an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Services and ISV Accelerate Partner—has launched Mission Cloud Secure, a fully managed Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) SaaS offering. The new solution is powered by the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform and aims to provide AWS customers with comprehensive managed security to help them stop cloud breaches. Additional benefits of the solution include continuous threat hunting powered by the AI-native Falcon platform, cloud-native security functionalities, tools to ensure compliance with major frameworks, and access to a 24/7 security team.
Portnox Announces an Integration with Jamf
Portnox, a zero-trust access control solution provider, has announced a new integration with Jamf, a mobile device management (MDM) solution. The integration will strengthen Portnox’s passwordless, risk-basked authentication and access control offerings by enabling users to manage secure access for MacOS and iOS devices with or without the help of an agent. This can help businesses improve their operational efficiencies, reduce their access control suite’s total cost of ownership (TCO), streamline risk management efforts, and achieve compliance.
Sysdig Details Falco Feeds, a New Offering Backed by its Threat Research Team
Sysdig, a Cloud Security Posture Management solution, has launched Falco Feeds by Sysdig, a continuously evolving and curated suite of Falco detections. The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) backs Falco Feeds, designed to give open-source-focused companies access to expert-written rules that update whenever new threats are found. Falco Feeds will also provide teams with fully managed rules informed by up-to-date threat research, reinforced security posture, reduced maintenance, and, ultimately, a greater return on investment.
Tigera Introduces New Features to its Calico Solution
Tigera, a container security platform provider, has announced new features for its Project Calico suite. The updates will expand Calico’s network security and runtime security capabilities to help operators customize their runtime security and simplify their network security management. Specific additions will expand Calico’s network-based threat detection, reduce false positives, help users estimate the likelihood that a software vulnerability could be exploited, and provide additional support for new Kubernetes policies, nftables, and more.
Vectra AI Introduces New Security Functionalities for Microsoft Azure
Vectra AI, an AI-driven XDR solution, has extended its platform to include additional coverage for customers’ Microsoft Azure environments. The expansion adds over forty unique attacker behavior detections for Microsoft Azure, bringing the platform’s total detectors to over one hundred. With these detectors, businesses can reduce the complexity of siloed tools, maximize existing SOC time, remove operational latency, and maintain a comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud defense for their entire Microsoft environment.
Zscaler Launches a Zero Trust Segmentation Solution
Zscaler, a cloud security provider, has announced a Zero Trust Segmentation solution that provides a secure, agile, and cost-effective way to connect users, devices, and workloads across and within globally distributed factories, campuses, data centers, public clouds, and branches. With this solution, companies can prevent ransomware attacks and turn their branches into “café-like environments” that eliminate the need for firewalls, network access control (NAC), SD-WAN, and site-to-site VPNs. The Zero Trust Segmentation offering currently supports AWS and Azure, with support for GCP slated for February 2025.
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