Security Update: Check Point and Wiz Partner for Better Cloud Security

Each week, ChannelE2E compiles a list of the top stories we’ve covered about the security services market from our affiliate brand, MSSP Alert. Here’s this week’s round-up of news from MSSP Alert.

Check Point and Wiz Partner for Better Cloud Security

Check Point is partnering with high-flying startup Wiz to offer expanded cloud security capabilities as enterprises continue to migrate data and workloads into hybrid cloud environments.

The alliance will combine Check Point’s AI-infused cloud-based cybersecurity platform and cloud networking capabilities with Wiz’s cloud-native application protection (CNAPP) offerings to better enable organizations to prioritize risks, gain better visibility into their cloud environments, and automatically prevent attacks.

The two companies said the partnership will involve integrating technologies and creating a strategic business alliance. It also will give MSSPs another tool they can bring to their clients, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst with The Enderle Group.

In addition, “partnerships like this often need someone like an MSSP to validate them to the buyer because they’ll typically have more experience with both companies and are loyal to the buyer so can provide advice and help when it comes to choosing, and then deploying a solution,” Enderle told MSSP Alert.

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Andesite Launches Its Bionic SOC for Human-AI Collaboration

Cybersecurity company Andesite is rolling out its platform for security operations centers (SOCs) that is based on what executives are calling a tight collaboration between human security pros and AI, and the two-year-old startup now has another $23 million to invest in the technology and grow its reach.

The company’s bionic SOC, which is now generally available, is designed to deliver much-needed help to organizations’ cybersecurity teams, which are being overwhelmed by the skyrocketing number of alerts and indicators being generated by a security setup that often involves cobbled-together tools and portals.

The new offering comes as more organizations are either turning to MSSPs and MSPs to outsource their security operations or adopt hybrid models, with MSSPs working with SOC teams, according to Andesite co-founder and CEO Brian Carbaugh.

As the McLean, Virginia-based company grows its business and expands its portfolio, MSSPs will play a larger role, Carbaugh told MSSP Alert in an email.

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Qualys Puts the Power of ROC into MSSPs’ Hands

Qualys executives in October 2024 rolled out a cloud-based risk operations center (ROC), a tool enterprises can use to aggregate such data as vulnerabilities, configurations, and identities in a single place to more easily measure their security posture and prioritize and minimize their risks.

Organizations are struggling with an increasingly distributed IT environment, multiple one-off tools that they’re trying to cobble together, and more sophisticated cyberthreats. The ROC is designed to alleviate such challenges and allow companies to better measure their risk posture against business demands.

Part of Qualys’ Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) platform, a ROC “aligns risk management strategies with expected business outcomes and enables organizations to prioritize and mitigate risks based on their business impact, offering a coordinated, proactive response,” Mayuresh Ektare, vice president of product management at Qualys, told MSSP Alert. “ROC centralizes the security posture and risk signals across the ever-expanding attack surface and enables a coordinated response for risk reduction.”

Now the San Diego, California-based vendor is putting its ROC in the hands of MSSPs with the release this month of the Managed ROC (mROC) Partner Alliance, which will let Qualys extend the reach of its ROC capabilities and give partners new revenue streams by offering services to enable organizations to identify, assess, and mitigate cyber risks.

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