Each business day, MSSP Alert broadcasts a quick lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across the managed security services provider ecosystem.
A. Today’s MSSP, MDR, XDR and Cybersecurity News Alerts
1. Government MSSPs: Here's how the U.S. Infrastructure Bill may influence your business.
2. Integration - MDR and Endpoint Protection: Blackpoint Cyber, which provides real-time threat detection and response for MSPs, now integrates with BlackBerry's Cylance endpoint protection software. The integration "ensures Blackpoint customers using Cylance’s next-generation antivirus solution have immediate access to enhanced Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services," Blackpoint asserts.
3. Cloud SIEM for MSPs: Freshly funded threat detection & response startup Blumira is reaching out to midmarket MSPs with a cloud-based SIEM platform...
4. Talent - Government Cybersecurity Services: Sphere, a woman-owned, government-focused cybersecurity business, has hired Forcepoint veteran James Wilde as global head of security strategy.
5. DDoS Attack Mitigation: Cloudflare earlier this summer automatically detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack. The event was nearly three times larger than any previous DDoS attack that Cloudflare has tracked, the company says.
