Halcyon Allies with Pax8 on Ransomware Resilience

Halcyon has recently announced a team up with Pax8 to boost market outreach and fortify businesses against the threat of ransomware through a strategic partnership.

Halcyon now available to channel partners on Pax8 marketplace

The alliance between the two companies will bring Halcyon’s anti-ransomware platform to Pax8’s cloud marketplace. The partnership is rooted in a shared mission to enable partners and their customers of all sizes with powerful security solutions.

“Halcyon is designed to seamlessly integrate with other Pax8 Marketplace vendors, addressing the critical security gap posed by ransomware,” said Chris Catanzaro, VP of Global MSSP and Channels at Halcyon. “Our strategic partnership with Pax8 will provide operational resilience to partners and their customers, ensuring swift recovery in the face of a ransomware attack.”

The Halcyon platform utilizes a layered, lightweight approach with built-in resilience to prevent ransomware from impacting business operations for organizations of all sizes. The platform prevents attackers from breaching a users network at all phases of the attack with a proprietary engine that specifically targets ransomware.

It also claims to insulate organizations from ransomware and is the only platform designed to fight ransomware from attack initiation to extortion.

The key features of the platform include:

• Key Material Capture: Automatically captures the key material during a ransomware encryption event, allowing for the swift recovery of any encrypted data.
• Automated Decryption: Triggers the automated decryption of data encrypted during a ransomware attack, eliminating the need for manual-intensive restoration from backups to swiftly return business operations to normal.
• Data Exfiltration Prevention (DXP): Ransomware-tuned data protection that automatically detects and blocks attempts to exfiltrate data by analyzing suspicious IPS, DNS activity, and volume thresholds. DXP prevents data extortion attempts and blocks threat actors from carrying out “double extortion” tactics.

“We are thrilled to have award-winning Halcyon join the Pax8 Marketplace with this much-needed anti-ransomware platform for our partners,” said Ryan Burton, VP of Marketplace Vendor Strategy at Pax8. “The fact that Halcyon combines multiple advanced prevention engines, key interception, automated recovery, and enhanced third-party security controls protection all in one platform makes it a game-changer for Pax8 partners to protect their end-user customers at an even higher level.”

Pax8’s marketplace continues to grow

Online marketplaces are considered essential growth engines to expanding customer bases for organizations by offering new and improved services that can be acquired in a virtual shop.

“As solution providers look to marketplaces as the sales channels of the future, they are best served by platforms with comprehensive e-commerce solutions that expand their digital capabilities, deliver a seamless online sales experience and maximize opportunities for upselling and cross-selling,” said Ryan Walsh, Chief Strategy Officer at Pax8. “The Pax8 Marketplace is designed to help partners unlock more sales opportunities and enhance relationships with their customers, providing them with the infrastructure and resources to drive profitability at scale.”

Pax8 is continually onboarding new vendors and additional solutions to its marketplace, empowering small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises, by providing software and services that unlock growth potential and enhance their security posture.

Recently, the organization added GoTo’s LogMeIn Resolve product as well as offerings from Foxit. LogMeIn Resolve provides Pax8 partnerswith a leading solution that offers remote monitoring and management (RMM), remote access and support, asset management, and more. By adding Foxit’s advanced document management technology to the Pax8 marketplace, partners can access the solutions with ease and enable them to enhance productivity, scalability, and security.

Along with improving its marketplace, Pax8 recently gave its leadership team a boost by appointing industry vet Eric Torres as VP of Channel and Community Engagement. Read more about what drew Torres to the company and where he believes opportunities lie for Pax8 partners.