SECURITY
NEWS
Proofpoint and Okta partner to protect users most
targeted by cyberattacks
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roofpoint, a leading cybersecurity and
compliance company, has announced
an expansion to its technology partnership
with Okta, a leading independent provider
of identity for the enterprise, to bolster how
organisations protect their most at-risk
users from sophisticated cyberattacks.
Through this streamlined integration, protection for their users that receive the
most critical and targeted phishing, malware
and impostor attacks,” said Ryan Kalember,
Executive Vice President of Cybersecurity
Strategy for Proofpoint.
“Adversaries continue to attack specific
people within organisations, including many
that aren’t traditionally considered likely provides essential insight into who an
organisations’ VAPs are and how they are
being attacked.
“While we have several adaptive controls
built into our solutions, our partnership
with Okta extends these capabilities to
include identity and access management and
provide additional account protection in a
joint customers can leverage Proofpoint’s
people-centric Targeted Attack Protection
attack index, which scores threats based
on their criticality, to identify their very
attacked people (VAPs) and apply stronger
access controls to better protect those users
with the Okta Identity Cloud.
“Our Okta partnership delivers
exceptional value for our customers
and channel partners – and now we
are expanding on our commitment to
help organisations automatically dial up victims. Our people-centric intelligence seamless, cloud-to-cloud integration.”
Sophos Cloud Optix now available on AWS Marketplace
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Dan Schiappa, Chief
Product Officer, Sophos
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ophos, a global leader in
network and endpoint security,
has announced availability of
Sophos Cloud Optix on Amazon
Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.
As a new agentless Software-as-
a-Service (SaaS) offering, Cloud
Optix automatically discovers
cloud assets, detects cloud
security vulnerabilities and
misconfigurations, and provides
threat response for AWS customers.
Recognised as a channel-first,
channel-best leader in providing
innovative solutions like Cloud Optix,
Sophos has also been named AWS
Partner Network (APN) Technology
Partner of the Year. It tops the list of
APN partners for its dedication to
helping AWS customers build, market
and grow successful cloud businesses.
“Sophos research shows that
cybercriminals are relentlessly
trying to attack cloud servers, using
automation to scan for weaknesses
like open cloud buckets and launching
attacks within minutes of assets going
live in the cloud,” said Dan Schiappa,
Chief Product Officer, Sophos.
“Organisations are at risk of a
security breach if they can’t see
and properly secure what they’re
putting into the cloud. Cloud Optix
continuously monitors cloud assets,
configurations and network traffic
patterns to prevent provisioning of
vulnerable infrastructure.”
More than 200,000 active AWS
Marketplace customers can now easily
access and set up Cloud Optix on a per-
host, per-hour basis for flexible scaling,
with no minimum term contract.