Security Roundup: ‘Undercover’ Industries, Recorded Future, Check Point
… ensure diversification in their portfolios, protecting against potential downturns within business sectors. In addition, it creates new revenue streams.
“The first way the channel can help is through greater education,” Mason said. “I cannot stress how important education is when it comes to cybersecurity across all sectors. Security is a complicated concept and one that clients may struggle to understand. Creating a clear picture of what and why they need the different security components goes a long way in building trust and growing that relationship.”
Another way is by offering complete security solution sets. MSPs need to offer more than just endpoint security and SSL, and truly become a one-stop solution by providing a holistic security solution that delivers comprehensive protection.
“Finally, MSPs should continue reviewing and assessing with each client on a consistent basis,” Mason said. “As they grow, their security needs might change, and this provides a unique opportunity for MSPs to grow with them as their security expert.”
Recorded Future Debuts Third-Party Risk Intelligence
Threat intelligence company Recorded Future this week unveiled Third-Party Risk, a new offering that will expand the scope of its threat-intelligence capabilities to help organizations expose, contextualize and rate the potential threat environment so they can mitigate third-party risk.
With Third-Party Risk, threat-intelligence teams can integrate vendor analysis into their overall business risk assessment and security strategy within a single platform, staying apprised of changes to their risk profile, regardless of origin. It also provides full transparency into the reasoning and threats contributing to overall risk scores in real time so that security teams can make determinations about how to engage with third parties in accordance with their unique requirements and profiles.
Ashleigh Serrano Erturk, Recorded Future‘s director of partner marketing, tells us Third-Party Risk is an “exciting offering for our partner community.”
“Third-Party Risk is tremendously beneficial for MSSPs looking to increase their capabilities,” she said. “The offering is unique in that it combines insights from Recorded Future’s standard threat-intelligence services with live data and security ratings on threat activity targeting third parties. The module monitors for an organization’s dark web footprint, IT policy violations, unpatched or vulnerable technology that third parties are using, as well as instances of domain abuse (domain squatting, for example). Each of these serve as crucial indicators of indirect risk, and we expect the ability to provide such comprehensive security services should be a boon for our partner MSSPs.”
Data transparency is a noteworthy differentiator as it allows customers to …