Surveillance & Security News for November 2024

Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys, announced the launch of the Finacle Data and AI Suite, a set of solutions to empower banks to infuse AI into their digital operations and accelerate their enterprise AI journey. The suite will offer a comprehensive set of platforms that enable banks to build low-code, predictive as well as generative AI solutions from the ground up with high transparency and explainability. It will help banks scale their...

Allied Universal®, a pioneering security and facility services company, proudly announces that its security professionals earned 31 of the 44 annual awards bestowed by California’s only industry association dedicated to advocating on behalf of the security industry. Each year, CALSAGA (California Association of Licenced Security Agencies, Guards and Associates) recognises security professionals who have demonstrated heroism by going above and beyond their expected duties. Top three a...

The hospitality industry drives economic growth and development by creating jobs, generating revenue, and initiating a ripple effect to improve profitability throughout the supply chain. The hospitality industry includes a vast number of small businesses, including hotels and restaurants. But what are the security challenges of these businesses, and how is the security marketplace serving those needs? We asked this week's Expert Panel Roundtable: How can technology address the security challenge...

Google Workspace is a set of productivity applications with over 3 billion users and 10 million paying customers around the world. As the storage of a massive amount of sensitive information, this cloud-based suite is a top security concern for businesses. The risk of data breaches makes it crucial for MSP to implement data loss prevention (DLP) controls to prevent leaks within apps, such as Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and more. Let’s review how. What is DLP in Google Workspace?...

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks involve manipulating or impersonating email accounts to deceive employees, often leading to financial fraud, breaches or data loss. According to Verizon, BEC attacks doubled last year and comprised nearly 60% of all social engineering incidents. To deal with this growing frequency of BEC attacks, MSPs need advanced strategies, such as user behaviour analysis and employee training programs. Let’s look at the key BEC protection strategies for MSPs. W...

Slack is the preferred communication, collaboration and file sharing hub for teams in more than 150 countries. The number of Slack’s monthly active users is expected to reach 79 million by 2025, per Statista. While the user-friendly interface and versatile app integrations of Slack make it a fan favourite, over time, the platform becomes a repository of sensitive data. Users often share a wealth of information, from project details to business strategies and account credentials, in both p...

More than 80% of 2023 data breaches involved data stored in the cloud, per IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report. To deal with the evolving SaaS risks, MSPs need a proactive and comprehensive approach to security and compliance. This is where a SaaS risk assessment comes into play. A SaaS cyber assessment involves a meticulous examination of potential threats, vulnerabilities and compliance issues within the SaaS applications of MSPs and their clients. It serves as a strategic initiativ...

In May, the Whitehouse issued an Executive Order on improving the Nation’s cybersecurity, which laid the groundwork for the nation’s response to the latest security breaches and sought to address the persistent and increasingly sophisticated malicious cyber campaigns threatening the public sector, the private sector, and ultimately the American people. The order is aimed at improving the Government’s efforts to identify, deter, protect against, detect, and respond to these act...

In the current world, a vast majority of a company’s sensitive data resides in Software as a Service (SaaS) applications like Office 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dropbox, etc. In the recent 2020 State of SaaSOps report by BetterCloud, their data suggests that 85% of all application usage by 2025 will be via SaaS. For those who’re an MSP or IT service provider reading this, they should be thinking, “Oh snap!!! What can I be doing to better protect the sensitive data in th...

SaaS Alerts, the cyber security company purpose built for MSPs to protect and monetise their customers’ business SaaS applications, announced that it has closed a round of funding totaling $1.2 million. Most notably, the round was led by MSP industry veterans, including Gary Pica, David Bellini, Adam Slutskin, Paul Cissel, Pete Peterson, Kevin Lancaster, Paul Brady, John Barrows and Michael France. SaaS Alerts announces funding round completion “The technology landscape has been e...

The recent growth of funding into the SaaS application monitoring and security space makes MSPs wonder how they can expand their services and grow their business. A recent article by Joe Panettieri of ChannelE2E and MSSP Alert provided a round-up of the SaaS application security tools and software platforms that have achieved recent funding and demonstrates there is clear recognition that monitoring the user behaviour associated with SaaS applications is important and should be a part of every...

SaaS Alerts, led by CEO Jim Lippie, raises $1.2 million in early stage funding from Gary Pica, David Bellini & additional MSP industry pioneers. The lineup of investors includes Gary Pica, David Bellini, Adam Slutskin, Paul Cissel, Pete Peterson, Kevin Lancaster, Paul Brady, John Barrows and Michael France, ChannelE2E has confirmed. SaaS Alerts secures funding The funding arrives at a key time for SaaS Alerts and the MSP software industry. Indeed, thousands of MSPs have successfully exten...

Pat Sullivan brings his years of experience at helping MSPs to evolve their service models from his time and over the last decade, has introduced thousands of MSPs to cloud workspace technologies that in aggregate increased MSP revenue by tens of millions of dollars. Pat Sullivan joins SaaS Alerts team Pat Sullivan has formerly held roles with IndependenceIT, CloudJumper and most recently at NetApp. SaaS Alerts is thrilled to welcome Pat to the team!

SaaS Alerts, the industry’s first-ever unified monitoring and alerting platform purpose-built for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to protect and monetise their customers’ core business SaaS applications, announces its general availability release and introduces its MSP Reslillent Response (MRR) program to provide MSPs with free unlimited use through October 1st. SaaS Alerts SaaS Alerts was designed to help MSPs monitor and protect their customers’ usage of today’s most...