Jul

12

FINE TEC IS NOW ACQUIRED BY EXCLUSIVE GROUP


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Exclusive Group Acquires US VAD – Fine Tec

Latest deal enriches global partner value, accelerates access to US markets and creates bridgehead for future Americas expansion

 
PARIS, FRANCE & SAN JOSE, UNITED STATES – July 10th 2017 – Exclusive Group, the value-added services and technologies (VAST) group, today advanced its global distribution partner offering with the acquisition of leading Silicon Valley-headquartered cyber security VAD, Fine Tec.  The move places Exclusive Group at the heart of the world’s largest cyber security market; complementing its existing global presence throughout the EMEA and APAC regions.  Global systems integrators, service providers and vendors, as well as large North American reseller partners, will be the chief beneficiaries as Exclusive Group extends its unique, highly successful ‘Disruptive Distribution’ blueprint with an established local player that already shares similar DNA and value-adding culture.    
 
“This will be a major step forward for our global proposition as we harness US-based skills, resources and relationships to support the execution of worldwide deals with large systems integrator partners and to advance our unique formula into the domestic market,” said Olivier Breittmayer, CEO of Exclusive Group.  “Fine Tec is as an operationally excellent business with a strong services capability and successful reputation for delivering value in a highly competitive environment.  It represents a great opportunity to integrate a culturally-aligned business into our global family, and we look forward to working with Fine Tec CEO James Shen and his team to build on their success and accelerate growth throughout the region.”
 
“This is great news for everyone connected with Fine Tec family as it validates the approach we’ve taken to value-added distribution in the US for nearly 20 years,” said James Shen, Fine Tec President & CEO.  “The Exclusive Group story is well known and we’ve admired it from afar, but now with the Group’s global reach and resources it opens up many new opportunities for our partners.  It really is an exciting time as there is true opportunity to extend the disruptive distribution model to the US, whilst the ambition for us to grow internationally is finally released.”
 
Fine Tec is a value-added distributor in network security, data integrity and storage solutions, with significant services and training capabilities.  The move follows Exclusive Group’s recent appointment of Patrick Huth as VP Alliances Americas, who will be instrumental in enabling new partner and vendor opportunities alongside Fine Tec’s existing leadership team.  The successful integration of the Fine Tec business is set to increase Exclusive Group’s forecast revenues for the full year 2017 to 1.8bn€ ($2bn).
 
About Exclusive Group
Exclusive Group is the value-added services and technologies (VAST) group accelerating the growth of disruptive and innovative technologies around the world.  Its people are committed to the high-growth imperatives of ambitious IT vendors and fueled by a strong culture of ambition, entrepreneurialism and sustainable growth.
 
With 50+ offices across five continents and presence in over 100 countries, Exclusive Group brings all the essential elements of a proven winning strategy for market entry and growth.  Redefining value and enabling new market opportunities through “Disruptive Distribution” is at the heart of the Exclusive Group proposition through its cybersecurity brand, Exclusive Networks, and datacentre transformation division, BigTec.  This is complemented by the extensive and innovative capabilities of PASSport Global Services, and the comprehensive, integrated commercial leasing offerings delivered by Exclusive Capital.
 
About Fine Tec
Starting as a value-added distributor (VAD) in the year 2000, Fine Tec has become the heart of an ecosystem comprised of leading and emerging technology vendors who provide network-security and data-integrity solutions for our broad network of resellers across North America. We’ve done this by maximizing sales opportunities for our partners while removing the hurdles that impede business transactions from before the sale to after the deployment.
 
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Jun

27

Fortinet Expands Technology Alliance with Microsoft to Deliver Cloud Security at Scale for Global Enterprise Customers


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Fortinet announces that Microsoft has joined its Fabric-Ready Partner Program and integration of advanced security capabilities into Microsoft Azure workloads

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Jun 26, 2017

John Maddison, senior vice president of Products & Solutions at Fortinet
“To keep pace with evolving infrastructure requirements for on-demand resources, automated policies, and real-time threat intelligence, security must adapt with the business. Fortinet and Microsoft share a commitment to help enterprises securely move their data to the cloud so their business strategies can benefit from the elasticity, scale and performance of cloud-based services. We welcome Microsoft as a Fabric-Ready Partner and look forward to continued collaboration to deliver automated, adaptive security capabilities at cloud-scale for our global enterprise customers.”

News Summary
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced an expanded technology alliance with Microsoftthrough its Fabric-Ready Partner Program and new integrations for cloud security services.

  • Microsoft has joined the Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner Program, further integrating Fortinet Security Fabric threat information, intrusion prevention, and management capabilities into Microsoft Azure Security Center (ASC) to better protect cloud workloads.
  • In addition to FortiGate Enterprise Firewalls, FortiWeb virtualized Web Application Firewalls (WAF) are now available on Azure Security Center for multi-layered application threat protection.
  • FortiGate Enterprise Firewalls are now available on-demand in the Azure Marketplace.

Fortinet and Microsoft Collaborate to Securely Move Enterprise Customers to the Cloud
According to a recent report by McKinsey & Company, more large enterprises are likely to move workloads away from traditional and virtualized environments toward the cloud, with the number of enterprises hosting at least one workload on an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform set to increase to 41 percent by 2018. In order to drive this increase in adoption of IaaS, enterprises need to be sure that their data is kept safe as it moves to and through a cloud-computing model.

Through the expansion of the Fortinet and Microsoft technology alliance, enterprise customers benefit from integrated cybersecurity that can share intelligence in real-time and ensure automated protection across on-premises and cloud workloads.

  • Microsoft Becomes Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner: As a Fabric-Ready Partner, Microsoft Azure customers benefit from the broad and automated capabilities of the Fortinet Security Fabric with pre-integrated, end-to-end cloud security offerings, reducing technical support burden and costs for enterprise customers. Fortinet’s virtualized solutions provide Azure customers with real-time threat intelligence feeds and automated security controls to give a more comprehensive view of the security state of their Azure workloads and enable faster, more intelligent responses to threats.
  • FortiWeb Web Application Firewall Now Available in Azure Security Center: Security automation and recommendation is essential for cloud deployments. With the growing variants in cyberattacks, having automated, analytics-driven policies in place to respond is critical. FortiGate Enterprise Firewalls have been available on ASC and now FortiWeb has been validated for Azure workloads to deliver greater security automation with analytics-based detection and multi-layered application threat protection, giving Azure customers more control over their security posture.
  • Security Fabric Extends to Enterprise Security Group Reference Architecture: The FortiGate Enterprise Firewalls have been validated as a recommended security solution as part of the ECG’s comprehensive enterprise deployment model. The extension of Fortinet’s virtualized firewalls into the ECG reference architecture enables Azure customers to maximize their existing infrastructure investments and securely move to the cloud.
  • Fortinet Security Fabric virtualized solutions, including FortiGate Enterprise Firewalls, FortiAnalyzer for centralized network logging, analytics and reporting, FortiManager for centralized cloud security management, FortiMail for secure mail gateway, and FortiWeb web application firewalls are available now in the Azure Marketplace.

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“While connected technologies drive immense opportunity for enterprises, to accelerate business innovation and mitigate risks, security needs to be built in everything we do. By integrating Fortinet’s technologies into Microsoft Azure and assuring high security hygiene through Azure Security Center, Microsoft and Fortinet deliver on a shared commitment to protecting modern enterprises with advanced cybersecurity for a mobile-first, cloud-first world.”

– Ann Johnson, vice president, Worldwide Enterprise Product and Cybersecurity Groups, Microsoft Corp.


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About Fortinet

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network – today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud, or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 300,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.

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Jun

23

Bradford Networks Joins Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner Program


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Formalizes integration of Network Sentry with Fortinet Security Fabric to provide deeper integration and reduce implementation time

Boston, MA, June 15, 2017 – Bradford Networks, an innovator in the enterprise security automation and orchestration market, has joined the Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner Program and formalized its integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric. This partnership enables both companies to share technology information and roadmaps in order to ensure seamless integration of current and future security programs.

Joining the Fortinet Fabric-Ready Partner Program further expands Bradford Networks’ existing Fortinet integration support that includes FortiGate, FortiSIEM, FortiAP, FortiSSO and FortiSwitch solutions. Bradford Networks’ security automation and orchestration solution, Network Sentry, enables companies to gain complete visibility into all endpoints including IoT devices, control all network access, automate threat response, and seamlessly integrate with third-party security solutions to enhance the fidelity of alerts and view all security events through one integrated dashboard.

“We are pleased to announce this enhancement to our partnership with Fortinet,” stated Frank Andrus, CTO of Bradford Networks. “This will make it even easier for our resellers to provide seamless integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric and deeper integration into our security dashboard.” Andrus continued, “This not only helps us provide secure end-to-end solutions at installation, but also ensures both security products remain seamlessly integrated once installed, even as both solutions continuously evolve to counter security threats.”

“A rapid and coordinated response is critical to defend against today’s threats. The Fortinet Security Fabric has the breadth to scale across the entire enterprise infrastructure and enables tight integration with other security vendors’ solutions through our Fabric-Ready Partner Program. This open approach enables vendors’ security solutions like Bradford Networks’ to share actionable threat intelligence and mitigation information in real-time, further amplifying Fortinet and its partners’ capabilities to protect enterprises,” said John Maddison, vice president of products and solutions at Fortinet. “Working with Bradford Networks helps our joint customers reduce threat containment time by correlating security alerts with detailed contextual information tied to endpoints, users, applications and network connections.”

“As one of the largest resellers of Network Sentry and the Fortinet Security Fabric, we are excited about this new partnership that will help us create a comprehensive solution set with products that validate and complement each other with actionable results,” stated Rob Anderson, partner and chief operating officer at Secure Data Solutions, Inc. “While Network Sentry already has a ‘build your own’ security device integration wizard, by adding standardized support for the Fortinet Security Fabric API, it will make it easier and faster to implement and scale these solutions.”

“The partnership between Bradford Networks and Fortinet allows us to offer a valuable solution to our security-conscious clients,” stated Jennifer Minella, vice president of engineering of Carolina Advanced Digital, Inc. “As a national leader in NAC integrations, and a security-focused integrator, this type of partnership and integration is exactly what we’ve been seeking. Among other scenarios, organizations can now benefit from FortiSIEM for security intelligence, and Network Sentry for a policy engine and for complete network visibility.”

Bradford Networks’ award-winning Network Sentry security automation and orchestration solution is designed to seamlessly integrate with the widest variety of security technologies and streamline the IT workload. The Network Sentry platform serves as a core component of a comprehensive security posture.  Network Sentry provides full visibility into desktop, mobile and IoT devices on the network, offers dynamic network access control to support the mobile workforce, and automates threat response to reduce containment time.

About Bradford Networks

Bradford Networks is leading the transformation of network security by providing visibility, control and response to minimize the risk and impact of cyber threats.  The company’s patented Network Sentry solution continuously assesses the risk of every user and endpoint, and automatically contains compromised devices that act as backdoors for cyber criminals. The company’s award-winning Network Sentry is used by more than 1000 enterprise companies worldwide across many market sectors, including finance, government and defense, healthcare, education, logistics and transportation, media and entertainment, retail and hospitality, technology, utilities and many others. For more information, please visit www.bradfordnetworks.com.

About Fortinet

Fortinet secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network – today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud, or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 310,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.

Fortigate®, FortiSIEM®, FortiAP®, FortiSSO® and FortiSwitch® are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fortinet.

May

15

Array Networks Unveils New Network Functions Platform for Deploying Virtualized App Delivery and Security Functions with Guaranteed Performance


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Purpose-built systems and third-party ecosystem allow enterprises and service providers to reconcile the desire for agility with the need for performance

LAS VEGAS – May 15, 2017 – Array Networks, Inc., the network functions platform company, today announces the immediate availability of its new AVX Series Network Functions Platform at Interop ITX. The AVX Series is a line of purpose-built, virtualized hardware systems designed for multi-tenancy and engineered to host multiple Array and third-party virtual application delivery, networking and security functions while maintaining guaranteed performance.

As data centers grow in complexity and expectations, networking and security professionals are looking for ways to gain agility through software-centric approaches; however, many still rely on hardware to meet the requirements of business-critical operations.

Array’s Network Functions Platform eliminates this trade-off, combining the best attributes of dedicated hardware, virtualization and software-centric computing to create an environment that provides guaranteed performance for networking and security virtual appliances.

Enterprises and service providers can transition to an agile approach without sacrificing the performance needed for business-critical applications. Racks of legacy gear can be consolidated to reduce space, power and cooling costs. Services can be provisioned on demand with guaranteed SLAs and security need not compromise the user experience.

As noted by the research firm Gartner1, “NFV services significantly improve enterprise network agility; allow enterprises to rapidly deploy functionality to new locations, without large numbers of specialty appliances; support changes in bandwidth at locations, without having to replace devices; and enable deployment of new capabilities networkwide, in minutes, under software control.”

The AVX Series Network Functions Platform hosts Array application delivery virtual appliances, such as load balancing and SSL VPN, as well as best-of-breed networking and security virtual appliances from third-party vendors. With Array’s virtualized hardware environment and a growing partner ecosystem, businesses can reconcile the desire for agility with the need for performance.

“Organizations are moving toward software-centric technologies, but are faced with challenges in guaranteeing performance for virtual application delivery, networking and security functions,” said James Kwon, Array’s Senior Director of Product Management for Network Functions Platforms. “With our new AVX Series, network engineers can kickstart NFV projects without the need to be experts in servers, hypervisors and SR-IOV technologies.”

Available for immediate purchase, Array’s Network Functions Platform supports multiple functions, variable size virtual machines (VMs) and pay-as-you-go capacity licensing. In addition, all platforms feature Array’s unique ability to reserve hardware resources – including CPU cores, SSL cores, memory and physical interfaces – per VM to ensure guaranteed performance and agility at scale.

The AVX Series Network Functions Platform will be on demo at Array’s booth (618) at Interop ITX, which runs from May 15-19, 2017 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV.

1 Gartner, The Hype Cycle for Networking and Communications, 2016, Danellie Young, Bjarne Munch, 27 July 2016

About Array Networks

Array Networks, the network functions platform company, develops purpose-built systems for deploying virtual app delivery, networking and security functions with guaranteed performance. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Array is poised to capitalize on explosive growth in the areas of virtualization, cloud and software-centric computing. Proven at over 5000 worldwide customer deployments, Array is recognized by leading analysts, enterprises, service providers and partners for next-generation technology that delivers agility at scale. To learn more, visit: www.arraynetworks.com.

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Mar

28

Fine Tec is now a Channel Distributor for Array Networks


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Distribution Agreement Gives Resellers Access to Emerging Technology for Running Virtualized Network and Security Functions with Guaranteed Performance

Milpitas, CA – March 28, 2017 Fine Tec, a value-added distributor (VAD) of network security and data integrity solutions, today announced that it has expanded its suite of services to include a network functions platform product line with Array Networks. Under the terms of the agreement, Fine Tec will offer Array’s next-generation network functions platform product line, as well as Array’s line of physical and virtual load balancing and SSL VPN appliances.
 
Fine Tec optimizes IT security and network solutions for vendors, resellers and their customers – end to end. Array’s network functions platforms are a perfect fit for Fine Tec resellers seeking to build security and networking solutions in environments that are increasingly influenced by cloud and virtualization. With Array, Fine Tec partners gain access to the only solution on the market capable of running virtualized network functions with guaranteed performance.
 
Array Networks’ network functions platform is a purpose-built environment designed to host virtualized networking and security functions. By assigning reserved CPU, SSL, memory and interfaces per virtual machine, virtualized networking and security appliances not only benefit from guaranteed performance, they also achieve performance on par with dedicated hardware appliances. An open solution, the platforms support Array’s load balancing and SSL VPN virtual appliances, as well as third-party virtual appliances such as the Fortinet FortiGate – a popular solution among Fine Tec resellers.
 
“For our partners looking to offer software-centric security, develop cloud-hosted network and security services or assist enterprises in building private clouds, Array’s network functions platforms provide an ideal foundation,” says David Yang, senior director of support and product development at Fine Tec. “A big part of our value add to our partner ecosystem is introducing innovative new vendors, and we’re excited to add Array Networks to our product catalog.”
 
Supplementing the network functions platform, Array’s physical and virtual ADC and SSL VPN appliances will meet the needs of Fine Tec customers that require high availability, performance and security for applications and services, and desire flexibility in selecting deployment models that strike a balance in both performance and agility.
 
“Our alliance with Fine Tec was a natural fit,” says Rich Siegel, VP of sales and business development at Array Networks. “Not only do our ADC and SSL VPN round out and scale Fine Tec’s security portfolio, our network functions platform is an ideal solution for resellers moving toward software-centric security and cloud and virtualization. We are thrilled to be working with Fine Tec to launch the world’s first solution for running virtualized network and security functions with guaranteed performance.”
 
Fine Tech and Array will host a webinar on Wednesday, April 5 at 10am PT / 1pm ET to provide an overview of Array virtual functions, including load balancing and SSL VPN, as well as third-party security functions, including virtual next-generation firewalls and Web application firewalls. To register, please visit https://us.partner.exclusive-networks.com/event/deploy-security-app-delivery-network-functions-platforms-array-networks.

About Array Networks
Array Networks, the network functions platform company, develops purpose-built systems for hosting virtual networking and security functions with guaranteed performance. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Array is backed by over 250 employees worldwide and is a profitable company with strong investors, management and revenue growth. Poised to capitalize on explosive growth in the areas of cloud, virtualization and SDN/NFV, analysts and thought leaders including Gartner, IDC and Frost & Sullivan have recognized Array Networks for its technical innovation, operational excellence and market opportunity. To learn more, visit: https://www.arraynetworks.com.

About Fine Tec
Starting as a value-added distributor (VAD) in the year 2000, Fine Tec has become the heart of an ecosystem comprised of leading and emerging technology vendors who provide network-security and data-integrity solutions for our broad network of resellers across North America. We’ve done this by maximizing sales opportunities for our partners while removing the hurdles that impede business transactions from before the sale to after the deployment.
 
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Feb

17

Bradford Networks Announces Availability of the Network Sentry 8.1 Release


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Significant Enhancements to Security Automation and Orchestration Platform bridge the gap between the SOC & NOC

February 14, 2016 – Boston, MA – Bradford Networks, an innovator in network security automation and orchestration leveraging endpoint visibility, control and response, announces availability of Network Sentry 8.1. This release features major advances in the platform’s ability to integrate with third party security solutions, through “build your own” security device integrations that allow Network Sentry to support any third party security solution — including standardized interfaces for vulnerability scanner integrations.  In addition, this release includes over 15 major core product enhancements increasing the depth of visibility into all endpoints including the Internet of Things (IoT), global control of large scale deployments from a centralized single pane of glass, a pre-deployment policy simulation tool, streamlined vendor agnostic wireless management, business criticality reporting of security events, and a new SOC dashboard.

“Bradford Networks is a customer-driven organization and the new security features are directly correlated to the needs of the market,” said Everett Andrus, chief customer officer at Bradford Networks. “From the start, our philosophy for development of the Network Sentry platform was to enable customers to have a flexible and comprehensive network security solution that was highly scalable and always poised for future needs like virtualization, BYOD, and now the management and securing of IoT devices. This new release continues Bradford Networks’ mission to empower our customers with security solution that keeps pace with their network evolution.”

“In our highly regulated industry, network security is not only critical from a vulnerability exposure perspective, but also from a regulatory standpoint,” said Michael Seymour, vice president of information technology of Pike Electric. “As one of the world’s largest energy solutions providers, the new release of Network Sentry will provide an enhanced security posture across our locations with singular control of each and every endpoint, regardless of location, allow us to control access and permissions, and automate our ability to respond to threats.”

“We are delighted with the new 8.1 release as a trusted partner of Bradford Networks,” said Jennifer Minella, vice president of engineering of Carolina Advanced Digital. “As a leader in technology infrastructure and security solutions, customers look to us for solutions that can really move the needle on security posture, and these enhancements ensure clients like Pike Electric benefit from even greater efficiency, visibility, and responsiveness to the ever-evolving threat landscape.”

Network Sentry 8.1 includes key new benefits for customers in the area of endpoint visibility and the automation of network access control and threat response. Enhanced endpoint visibility details who, what, where and when users are connecting or have connected to your network. Comprehensive control features inherent in the platform empower customers to orchestrate security procedures to automate threat response by leveraging the new security device integration feature with third party security solutions.  A notable feature includes built-in integration with Tenable’s vulnerability assessment and management solution.

“Because of the increase in point product spending, there will need to be an increase in the adoption of security automation and orchestration tools in order for organizations to better realize the features of disparate products, and as a way to ultimately execute against their organizational playbook for sensitive data handling,” according to Gartner Predicts 2017: Application and Data Security, Brian Lowans, Neil MacDonald, Marc-Antoine Meunier, Brian Reed, November 22, 2016. A key feature of Network Sentry 8.1 is the ability to easily and seamlessly integrate with key point products, streamlining the process between the SOC and NOC to enhance automation of both access and threat response.

Based on patented technologies, Bradford Networks’ Network Sentry is an award-winning security automation and orchestration solution, designed to meet the demands of organizations of all sizes. Recognized as a leader in an open approach via technology partnerships to deliver integrated best-in-class technologies, the platform serves as a core component of a comprehensive security posture.  Network Sentry provides full visibility into desktop, mobile and IoT endpoints on the network, offers dynamic access control to support the mobile workforce, and automates threat response to reduce containment time. The new release of Network Sentry is available exclusively through Bradford Network’s channel partners.

About Bradford Networks

Bradford Networks is leading the transformation of network security by providing visibility, control and response to minimize the risk and impact of cyber threats.  The company’s patented Network Sentry solution continuously assesses the risk of every user and endpoint, and automatically contains compromised devices that act as backdoors for cyber criminals. The company’s award-winning Network Sentry is used by more than 1000 enterprise companies worldwide across many market sectors, including finance, government and defense, healthcare, education, logistics and transportation, media and entertainment, retail and hospitality, technology, utilities and many others. For more information, please visit www.bradfordnetworks.com.

Feb

17

Bradford Networks Accelerates Threat Detection and Response with Tenable.io Integration


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February 13, 2017 – Boston, MA – Bradford Networks, an innovator in transforming network security through visibility, control and response, has announced its partnership with Tenable to seamlessly share vulnerability data with Bradford Networks’ Network Sentry.  Bradford Networks’ Network Sentry is a comprehensive policy-based security automation and orchestration platform that continuously assesses the risk of every endpoint connecting to the network and accelerates the threat containment through intelligent correlation and prioritization of security events.

The integrated solution leverages the cloud-based Tenable.io platform to trigger a comprehensive scan of newly identified endpoints for vulnerabilities. If an endpoint is found vulnerable, the security event is fed into Network Sentry’s correlation engine to enhance its fidelity, assign priority and enforce policy-based threat containment actions. Network Sentry’s Live Inventory of Network Connections (LINC) provides real time tracking and repository of user, device, application and network connections information — which is used to triage security events into actionable security alerts.

In a recent study cosponsored by Tenable and the Center for Internet Security (CIS), lack of integration among tools was one of the top five impediments to implementing cybersecurity frameworks, which have been shown to help organizations strengthen overall security posture.

“As assets, networks and threats continue to evolve, security solutions can no longer operate on their own,” said Dave Cole, chief product officer, Tenable. “The ability to integrate security tools and share vulnerability and other complementary data is crucial if security teams want to understand their true level of exposure and risk. Our integration with Bradford Networks, a leading vendor in the security automation and orchestration space, will bring a new level of visibility and security capabilities to customers.”

“Understanding the full scope of vulnerabilities on every endpoint is critical for today’s organizations with dynamic networks,” said Frank Andrus, chief technology officer, Bradford Networks. “Tenable is the clear leader in providing cloud-based vulnerability management for the modern IT environment and this technology partnership will expand the ability of our joint customers to improve their overall security posture.”

Bradford Networks’ patented and market leading Network Sentry solution featuring the SmartEdge Platform provides extensive security automation and orchestration functionality by offering visibility into every endpoint connected to the network, correlating valuable context around security events, and accelerating the threat containment process.

About Bradford Networks

Bradford Networks is leading the transformation of network security by providing visibility, control and response to minimize the risk and impact of cyber threats.  The company’s patented Network Sentry solution continuously assesses the risk of every user and endpoint, and automatically contains compromised devices that act as backdoors for cyber criminals. The company’s award-winning Network Sentry is used by more than 1000 enterprise companies worldwide across many market sectors, including finance, government and defense, healthcare, education, logistics and transportation, media and entertainment, retail and hospitality, technology, utilities and many others. For more information, please visit www.bradfordnetworks.com.

Feb

17

Bradford Networks Partners with Cyphort to Automate Threat Triage and Response


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February 9, 2017 – Boston, MA – Bradford Networks, an innovator in transforming network security through visibility, control and response has announced its partnership with Cyphort to integrate Cyphort’s Adaptive Detection Fabric (ADF) with Bradford Networks’ Network Sentry.  The integrated offering enables organizations to automate the complex threat triage and response process to reduce threat containment time following a cyber breach.

For many organizations, the existing threat response process requires significant manual intervention and expertise to trace and contain the threat’s electronic foothold, leading to delays in response and remediation. Cyphort’s ADF is powered by its SmartCore engine, which couples machine learning with behavioral analytics to detect advanced malware. Once detected, the malware is dissected and Cyphort’s SmartCore amasses critical threat information, which is then passed to Bradford Networks’ Network Sentry to correlate the threat to a specific endpoint – including who owns the device, what type of device, where the device is located and when the incident occurred. Once a compromised endpoint is identified, Network Sentry triggers an automated response to contain the endpoint in real time. Containment actions can include termination of connection, restrictions on network access, quarantining, and a range of automated notification actions. The integration of Cyphort and Bradford Networks’ solutions reduces the containment time from days to seconds.

“With the combined solution, we have greater visibility than we’ve ever had before,” says Alex Soler, systems security analyst at Jacksonville University.  “Bradford Networks’ Network Sentry and Cyphort’s ADF help us solve the classic security challenge for universities – to provide freedom for the academic community to access networks while monitoring and filtering cyberthreats.  With this integration, we not only understand the threat from all angles, we can also determine the appropriate response faster and with fewer internal resources.”

“It is now easier than ever for attackers to design sophisticated malware that can infiltrate corporate networks without being detected by traditional security solutions,” said Frank Andrus, chief technology officer, Bradford Networks. “As a recognized leader in malware analysis, the partnership with Cyphort will allow us to provide our joint customers with best-in-class protection from these advanced, otherwise undetectable threats.”

“Cyphort’s ADF delivers rich contextual intelligence that increases accuracy and fuels a fast and effective response,” says Jeremy Carlson, VP of Business Development of Cyphort.  “Partnering with Bradford Networks bridges the gap between SOC and NOC with automated workflow, essentially isolating the infected user device and buying time for the customer to then prioritize remediation efforts based on the threat.”

The integrated solution will be available in Q1 2017.

About Bradford Networks

Bradford Networks is leading the transformation of network security by providing visibility, control and response to minimize the risk and impact of cyber threats.  The company’s patented Network Sentry solution continuously assesses the risk of every user and endpoint, and automatically contains compromised devices that act as backdoors for cyber criminals. The company’s award-winning Network Sentry is used by more than 1000 enterprise companies worldwide across many market sectors, including financial institutions, government & defense, healthcare, education, logistics and transportation, media and entertainment, retail and hospitality, technology, utilities and many others. For more information, please visit www.bradfordnetworks.com.

About Cyphort
Cyphort, Inc. is a network security company providing mid- and large-size enterprise customers with the innovative Adaptive Detection Fabric, a scalable software solution designed to integrate with existing security tools to discover and contain the advanced threats that bypass the first line of security defense in an organization. Based in Santa Clara, California, the company was founded in 2011, is privately-held, and distributes its software through direct sales and channel partners across North America and international markets. Learn more at www.cyphort.com.

May

25

FINE TEC IS NOW PARTNERED WITH ACCELOPS


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FINE TEC IS NOW PARTNERED WITH ACCELOPS, Inc.

San Jose, CA, May 25, 2016— Fine Tec is proud to be partnered with AccelOps, Inc. who is fundamentally changing the way organizations identify and manage security and compliance threats, through patented correlation of network security data with network performance data, providing unprecedented analytics for rapid insights into the network environment.

About AccelOps
AccelOps virtual appliance software seamlessly discovers, in real-time, the devices and applications, attached to the network including routers, firewalls, servers, storage, cloud networks, and users, resulting in a comprehensive topology mapping, detailing the interrelationships of all the components. Thousands of compliance reports come standard – including PCI, HIPAA, ISO 27001 etc. Simple scalability and multi-tenant architecture are ideal for distributed enterprises and for Managed Service Providers offering Security as a Service. For more information on AccelOps products, please contact us or your regional sales rep.

About Fine Tec
Starting as a value added distributor (VAD) in the year 2000, Fine Tec has become the heart of an ecosystem comprised of leading and emerging technology vendors who provide network-security and data-integrity solutions for our broad network of resellers across North America. We’ve done this by maximizing sales opportunities for our partners while removing the hurdles that impede business transactions from before the sale to after the deployment. Learn more at www.finetec.com and connect with us through social media.

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Awareness Technologies is now Fine Tec’s Partner


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FINE TEC IS NOW PARTNERED WITH AWARENESS TECHNOLOGIES


San Jose, CA, April 13, 2016— In review of many businesses, the ability to be aware of the end-point is paramount to maintain process and procedures related to compliance. Fine Tec is proud to be partnered with Awareness Technologies who provide enhanced end-point protection with InterGuard – a complete insider threat prevention platform that is deployed at the user endpoint and delivered via pure SaaS format. The four proactive modules; Web Filtering, Employee Monitoring, Laptop Recovery and Data Loss Prevention provide an end-to-end view that provides all the necessary ingredients to maintain compliance with People, Process and technology at the User-Endpoint. For more information on Awareness Technologies products, please contact us or your territory sales rep.
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