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Stop adding the wrong layers!

Balance is key to mitigating cyber threats, in particular a balance between having reactive based detection layers and proactive layers. Have too many reactive layers?...

Welcome to Heimdal’s New Channel Partner Programmes

Brigantia is proudly Heimdal’s Master Distributor for the UK & Ireland. Brigantia, back in 2016, was hugely impressed by the unique nature of Heimdal’s technology which was built...

Brigantia launches Untangle: Q&A with SVP of Product and Marketing

As part of the launch with Untangle, Brigantia put forward some questions to Untangle’s Heather Paunet, SVP, Product and Marketing, to hear how Untangle’s NG...

Final nail in the coffin for agent based RMM?

As you are probably aware, Kaseya has become the latest Remote Management and Monitoring (RMM) solution to suffer a ransomware attack. The previous attack on an RMM on a similar scale was Connectwise Automate. There was also the Solarwinds Orion hack, another monitoring tool heavily used by many MSPs.

Hornetsecurity launch 365 Total Backup!

Hornetsecurity 365 Total Backup is a high performance, intuitive, and easy-to-manage backup and recovery solution, protecting your clients against enterprise data loss through a comprehensive, automatic backup of Microsoft 365 mailboxes, OneDrive for Business accounts, SharePoint document libraries, Teams Chats, and endpoints.

Redstor continues to expand the reach and capability of its data management platform

Redstor now supports Microsoft’s OneNote as part of OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams backups, creating the broadest M365 support of any backup provider.

Redstor also offers backup and recovery of Salesforce.

Introducing Heimdal’s Ransomware Encryption Protection

Heimdal’s latest addition to their module stack is aimed at providing an extra layer of protection against ransomware attacks by blocking unwanted encryptions on your devices.

Another day, another breach!

It seems that every morning when you read the news, there is yet another company that has been breached, it is not coincidence either, attackers are using more and more sophisticated attacks to breach the defences of some of the world’s largest organisations.

Redstor adds more than 20 enhancements to its data management platform to round out H1 2021

The first half of 2021 has seen several major trends dominate the IT space, including a surge in crippling cyber-attacks, high-profile outages, and the continued growth of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace as organisations embrace remote or hybrid working strategies.

Changes to Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus

In April every year, IASME provides an update to the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus process for the coming twelve months.

Safe-T Added as an Approved Vendor by NASA

NASA now uses Safe-T. This is a big win for MSPs & MSSPs.

Time is Money: Issues faced in building your security stack

Given that money is a rather important part of doing what you do, you might want to take a step back and ask yourself whether what you have rolled out to protect your network is really the best for the network, and for you managing it.

Brigantia launches ThreatAware: Q&A with ThreatAware’s CEO

ThreatAware creates the single pane of glass that IT teams have been crying out for since moving to the cloud. It analyses all your security tools, looking for vulnerabilities, configuration issues, and gaps between the manufacturers’ best practices.

Cyber Essentials Plus 2021 – what are the changes?

CyberSmart employ their own IASME accredited auditors to conduct the required surveys, meaning there are no expensive consultancy fees and much like Cyber Essentials they can guarantee your pass, and guarantee that your costs will be fixed.

ThreatAware

You could open every instance of every service out there and check each one’s pulse, but that would be like painting the Forth Bridge. You need an overview.

Heimdal™ Protects its Customers Against Microsoft Exchange Server Exploit

By now, you will have heard all about how Exchange servers across the world have been hacked into en masse. What you may not have heard is how Heimdal has responded to this.

Brigantia launches quarterly newsfeed for channel reseller and MSP community

At the start of the new year, we also made the decision to introduce a quarterly newsfeed to our partner base. Our aims for the newsfeed are to keep partners up to date with all things Brigantia; what is happening with our technology vendors and our plans for the future.

Tips for working from home and home-schooling

Advice on how to support staff who are juggling working from home and home-schooling schedules.

What does safe-t do, and why should I be interested?

The fundamental concept behind safe-t’s services is “Zero Trust”.

Important announcement: A change in the Heimdal™ product names

At the start of the New Year, Heimdal™ announced some important changes to their branding.

Retrofitted MFA for existing solutions?

ZoneZero MFA allows you to easily integrate multi-factor authentication and identity awareness into all access scenarios for remote and internal users, VPNs, web applications, and non-web applications.

How we helped Cornwall IT to deliver seamless Microsoft 365 protection to their client base

Day-to-day, Cornwall IT are busy taking care of customers and dealing with new enquiries, so needed a reliable solution that “just worked”.

Why you should never store your credentials in your browser

As many as three million people use browser extensions that maliciously take their data.

Computing Security Awards – Winners Announced 2020

The Computing Security 2020 Award winners were announced last night and we are proud to be Runners Up in the Security Distributor of the Year...

Case Study: Heimdal & Orbital Technology

About five years ago, Orbital Technology became aware that its existing Anti-Virus solution was not effectively protecting customers’ systems, and was allowing threats that were...

Business Cyber Security and How to Achieve It!

You want your business to be secure from pretty much everything that the world has got to throw at it. That seems easy enough to understand, so why is it not so easy to do?

MSPs need to make more money

A VAD knows that the only way to succeed is when you, the MSP, also succeeds.

Computing Security Awards 2020

Over the last 5 years, Brigantia has focused on finding new and innovative technology to take to our channel, and it seems like our strategy...

How We Helped Amazing Support Achieve Their Place In The 2020 MSP 501 Awards

London-based Amazing Support, has been recognized as a leading global Managed Service Provider, being named in the Channel Futures MSP 501 for 2020. Amazing Support is an IT services company, delivering managed IT support, cyber-security, business continuity, cloud solutions, and IT consultancy to its clients.

CompTIA Spotlight Award Finalist

Brigantia Partners Ltd is pleased to announce that Sales Director, Angus Shaw, is one of the three finalists in the highly prestigious CompTIA 2020 UK Spotlight Awards under the Channel Changer category.

Why don’t people use password managers?

People don’t see why they need a password manager to store a few passwords for all their accounts nor know the risks associated with poor password hygiene. Clearly, there is a need for effective education if more people are to adopt these tools.

Do you think that your backup offering is still completely fit for purpose?

This is a blatant plug for Redstor, but don’t let that put you off. Brigantia is holding this up as the standard for MSP provisioned backup, so please, take a few minutes and read this to see how your offering fairs against it.

What is the value of your MSP / MSSP / Reseller business?

The real investment that you dedicate most of your time to servicing, is your business.

The ALLOWLIST

The ALLOWLIST is a vetted preferred supplier list for cyber security and data protection.

What would you class as a good business opportunity?

There are three key points to making an opportunity “good”:
1. Your prospective clients need what you can provide.
2. Your prospective clients can afford what you can provide.
3. The service / product is something that you can provide competitively whilst making money.

Rollover or Double-Down?

You are faced with a choice: you can either stick to your current business model, accept your lot, and get ready to tighten your belt: or you double-down, work out other income streams and try to more than make up for your reduced core business.