- Qualys GO Secure
Designed specifically for PCI DSS-conscious merchants, the new Qualys GO Secure service puts Web sites through their paces by scanning for malware and vulnerabilities, as well as SSL certificate validation. Sites that pass GO SECURE's security tests are stamped with a SECURE seal to ease the worries of its visitors. When a site fails any of the tests, the seal is revoked until the problem is remediated.
Channel Benefits: Not only does this subscription-based service offer recurring revenue, but it also gives partners the opportunity to add mitigation services in order to fix problems found by the frequent scans.
- McAfee Emergency Response Services
At RSA McAfee announced the formation of its new Vulnerability and Detection Response Group, which brings together the resources of its McAfee Labs, Office of the CTO and Foundstone Professional Services. The idea is to pull these resources together in order to offer two service offerings: McAfee Internet Response and McAfee Vulnerability Search. Both give enterprises emergency analysis of vulnerabilities and attacks, particularly important in the case of today's threat from Operation Aurora.
Channel Benefits: Partners can draw on the very specialized expertise of McAfee's researchers to target problems within customer environments and then add recommendations based on these services findings and the partner's intimate knowledge of their customer's technological and business situation.
- Cenzic ClickToSecure Cloud
This self-service, cloud-based security assessment solution gives SMBs in particular the ability to scan for web application vulnerabilities without breaking the bank. SMBs traditionally have been unable to afford web application vulnerability assessments; ClickToSecure Cloud offers quick-and-dirty assessments that can help smaller merchants comply with PCI DSS requirements.
Channel Benefits: Cenzic is working with channel partners to allow them to brand this cloud-based service as their own through a special white-labeling program.
- Secunia Free Application Updater
Secunia launched a new free updating service that rolls up its own Corporate Software Inspector with Microsoft's Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) that checks for third-party application updates and makes appropriate patches automatically upon start-up.
Channel Benefits: Free is the operative word here--partners working with customers that have constrained budgets can leverage this service to deploy automated patching in organizations that would otherwise have gone the manual route.
- Imperva Threat Radar
This add-on service to Imperva's SecureSphere Web Application Firewall (WAF) offers additional dynamic adjustments to Web security policies that will alert or block traffic from newly identified attack sources, based on a centralized collection of information from numerous credible data sources that ThreatRadar servers consolidate into actionable information.
Channel Benefits: A useful add-on to the increasingly popular WAF, this service offers partners the ability to better automate customer's response to shifting threats.
- M86 Secure Messaging Service
This cloud-based e-mail security service is based on the M86 MailMarshal technology, giving customers affordable access to integrated content filtering and a collective intelligence policy update that nixes spam, phishing and other malicious mail attacks.
Channel Benefits: The low price point of this service gives resellers the ability to cheaply bundle it in with more robust security solutions packages.
- SunGuard Availability Services Secure2Disk
SunGuard Availability Services latest offering gives customer organizations access to EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems that will interface with the customer's existing on-site tape archiving architecture, while supplementing with off-site backup and recovery capabilities.
Channel Benefits: The ability to work with existing infrastructure offers channel partners to drop this availability service into a range of security and availability service packages with little hassle.
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