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Provides instant security assessment, visibility and remote computer patching with zero impact on VPN bandwidth for both corporate and personal computers
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Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of cloudbased security and compliance solutions, today announced a cloud-based remote endpoint protection solution at no charge to its customers for 60 days that allows IT and security teams to protect the computers of remote employees.
It will initially be available for Qualys customers. Delivery to others will be prioritized based on their signup date.
The Qualys remote endpoint security solution allows security teams to leverage the lightweight Qualys Cloud Agent to complete an up-to-date inventory of all their remote endpoint hardware and the applications they are running. Gain a real-time view of all critical vulnerabilities impacting the operating system and applications posing a risk to these devices and remotely patch these systems
within hours from the cloud with one click of a mouse without using the limited bandwidth available on VPN gateways. Realize visibility in device hygiene by tracking common misconfigurations that leave the endpoints exposed to exploits.
In summary, the free Cloud-based Qualys Remote Protection solution allows security teams to gain instant and continuous visibility of remote computers, easily see missing patches for critical vulnerabilities and deploy them from the cloud. The patches are delivered securely and directly from vendors’ websites and content delivery networks to ensure there is little to no impact on external VPN bandwidth. Qualys Cloud Platform, without the need to touch the client systems. Alternatively, a lightweight Qualys agent is deployed to the remote computers.
“The entire Qualys team is pleased that during these critical times, we can offer a real solution that will allow companies to ensure the security of both corporate and personal computers,” said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of Qualys. “Thanks to our cloud-based implementation, this offer will enable companies to assess in real-time their security and compliance posture and remotely patch employees’ devices with the click of a button.”
The initial version supports patching on Microsoft Windows 7 and above. Patching for Macs as well as the addition of Malware detection and protection will be available soon.
AVAYA SPACES PROVIDES NEW CAPABILITIES FOR CLOUD-BASED COLLABORATION AND MEETINGS Avaya Spaces is an easy-to-use cloud meeting and team collaboration app, accessible anywhere for teams on-the-go
Enabling an increasingly distributed and mobile workforce, Avaya Holdings Corp. has added new capabilities to Avaya Spaces that embrace a multiexperience approach by centralizing voice, video, messaging, chat and task management in one place to improve productivity and increase employee satisfaction. Avaya Spaces is a cost-effective cloud meeting and team collaboration app that effortlessly integrates voice, video, tasks, sharing and more into one app that can be accessed from any endpoint device.
Avaya Spaces is easy-to-use, integrating web meetings and team collaboration and allowing users to create cloud work spaces where they can message, meet, share content and manage tasks from a browser or mobile device, and provides a simple, secure and effective way to get work done in the cloud.
Over the next decade, analysts predict that the user experience for digital workers will undergo a significant shift, adapting new ways to interact, perceive and communicate, moving to a model that connects people with more nuanced information as well as each other, regardless of location, device or communication platform. The way teams interact with data, technology and their colleagues is evolving into a richer environment of converged digital channels and modes of communication. Gartner forecasts that by 2023, fewer than onethird of digital workers will choose the office as their preferred place to work. Organizations need to empower teams to work in more effective and productive ways with their preferred channels and touchpoints, wherever they may be and using whatever devices and platforms they choose.
“The expectations of employees and customers and how they want to engage is driving the shift towards a blended communications model of interactions across a variety of channels, devices and touchpoints, requiring solutions that provide an effortless way to enjoy a uniform experience,” said Savio Tovar Dias, Senior Director – Sales Engineering, Avaya International. “With the new capabilities of Avaya Spaces, we are facilitating this through an easy-to-use app that helps foster enhanced collaboration and communication. Avaya Spaces underscores the company’s commit
ment to delivering a multiexperience environment that is blending unified communications, contact center and collaborations capabilities to empower teams and improve customer engagement.”
Avaya Spaces enables users to create a work space or digital work hub where they can collaborate via messaging, meetings and share content. It offers a converged environment of meetings and team collaboration for a simple, economical, and secure way to communicate and work through a multitude of channels.
FORTINET UNVEILS NEW FORTIGATE 1800F FortiGate 1800F is powered by NP7, Fortinet’s new seventh generation network processor designed to accelerate security performance in the data center
customers to deploy FortiGate 1800F as an internal segmentation firewall and effectively strengthen their security posture.”
Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today unveiled the FortiGate 1800F Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) powered by NP7, the company’s seventh generation network processor, to enable today’s largest enterprises to achieve true internal segmentation as well as unprecedented scale, performance, detection, and enforcement capabilities.
John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet “The FortiGate 1800F powered by NP7 has a Security Compute Rating ranging from 3x to 20x faster than the comparable product from our competition. This allows our Digital Innovation is disrupting enterprise organizations, creating new services and business opportunities while also causing increased risk across all industries. Explosive adoption of IoT and mobile devices, as well as applications and services from multiple clouds, are pushing the attack surface beyond the traditional network boundaries. An expanding and fragmented attack surface is undermining the ability of network security leaders to maintain network performance, security, reliability, and availability.
In today’s data centers, many enterprise architectures have been built on a high-performance routing and switching infrastructure without integrating security. To facilitate flexibility and
agility in this type of environment, networks have become progressively flatter and more open, which means security implementation within the internal network is, in most cases, basic and limited to Virtual LANs and Layer 4 access lists. Therefore, in the event of a security breach, once beyond the security perimeter, hackers can easily move about and freely gain access to credentials, resources, and data. More, the lack of security infrastructure within the internal network also significantly limits the enterprise’s visibility into suspicious traffic behaviors and data flows, which hinders the ability to detect a breach.
A new challenge has emerged for enterprises trying to successfully segment their network: security performance. Today’s enterprises face unprecedented performance demands on their infrastructure that often cannot be matched by existing security solutions. For a majority of enterprises, traditional security appliances that are built with off-the-shelf CPUs and hardware to process security traffic have become an infrastructure bottleneck, resulting in degraded user and application experience. Simply put, yesterday’s security performance is no longer enough to secure and enable enterprises at the pace of today’s business innovation.
