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Today’s MSSP Alert Market News:
1. Fulcrum IT Acquiring Fortress Security: Fulcrum IT Partners, an international IT solutions provider, has announced its intent to acquire Fortress SRM (Security Risk Management). The acquisition of Fortress will add significant depth to Fulcrum's cybersecurity portfolio, including its 24/7 SOC and IT managed service desk. These service gains will be immediately made available to Fulcrum’s MSP brands and enhance the real-time monitoring and management of clients’ cyber postures, the company said.
2. Entro Security Expands Identity Offerings: Entro Security, a non-human Identity and secrets management platform, has unveiled two new features, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support for secret scanning and Employees Tokens Blast Radius, as part of its NHI platform. The OCR feature will enable organizations to discover exposed non-human identities (NHIs) and secrets embedded in images, giving security teams the ability to scan for hidden NHI potential exposures. The Employees Tokens Blast Radius feature will allow security teams to review and comprehend the NHIs accessible to each employee, how these identities are used and the potential reach of the damage they can cause if misused, the company said.
3. Skyhawk Security Intros Purple Team Solution: Skyhawk Security, a cloud threat detection and response provider, has introduced its Purple Team Assessment. The free assessment evaluates an organization’s cybersecurity posture and shows weaponized threats attackers are likely to exploit, the company said. Skyhawk also announced that it is expanding its channel program and will allow partners to offer Purple Team Assessments to their clients.
4. Sweet Security Delivers GenAI: Sweet Security announced that it has added generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)-powered capabilities to its cloud runtime security suite. Sweet Security users now have an upgraded ability for runtime risk management and runtime response, as they can classify workloads by business impact and get granular incident response playbooks on the fly, the company said.
5. Securonix, TD Synnex Announce Partnership: Securonix, a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) specialist, has announced a new partnership with TD SYNNEX, a global distributor and solutions aggregator. TD SYNNEX will distribute Securonix’s AI-reinforced SIEM platform to its solution provider network. The partnership expands the market reach of Securonix EON, which introduces advanced AI capabilities into Securonix’s leading SIEM platform, the company said.
6. Varonis Announces SentinelOne, Microsoft Integrations: Varonis Systems, a data security specialist, has announced new integrations with SentinelOne and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Varonis' Managed Data Detection and Response (MDDR) analysts can stop attacks faster and conduct more conclusive investigations, the company said. And by integrating with leading EDR providers, Varonis expands its visibility to customers' endpoints.
7. Cyble, Wipro Form Partnership: Cyble, an AI-powered threat intelligence prover, and Wipro, a technology services and consulting company, are partnering to enhance enterprise cybersecurity risk management through AI-driven threat intelligence solutions. The partnership brings together Cyble's AI systems and automation capabilities with Wipro’s security and compliance expertise to provide security teams with deeper insights, the companies said.
8. Bulletproof Bolsters Security Monitoring: Bulletproof has added new security monitoring and response capabilities through its unified security workspace platform. Bulletproof is now capable of supporting organizations that use QRadar and Splunk as SIEM systems and CrowdStrike Falcon. And in collaboration with fellow Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) member ContraForce, Bulletproof has implemented the unified security workspace within its managed security solution offering, Bulletproof 365 Enterprise (B365E), the company said.
9. Stamus Collaborates with InfoBlox: Stamus Networks, a provider of network-based threat detection and response (NDR) systems, has announced the integration of the Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense intelligence feed and active indicators into the Stamus Security Platform, the company's flagship NDR system. This combination allows users to achieve enhanced threat coverage by detecting threats and unauthorized activity linked to suspicious and known-bad hosts in both DNS-based and non-DNS based network communications, the company said.
10. ADT Reports Data Breach: American building security company ADT confirmed it suffered a data breach after threat actors leaked stolen customer data on a popular hacking forum. An investigation into the breach revealed that the exposed data includes limited customer information, email addresses and locations. (Source: Bleeping Computer)
