At Brigantia, we take the selection of new vendors seriously, and the vendors in our portfolio are carefully chosen. This means that our portfolio is made up of high-quality products that provide solutions to challenges that businesses face across the channel. So, while we follow a rigorous selection process when selecting a vendor, you may be wondering why we chose them.
That’s why we thought a closer look at one of our vendors would be a good way to provide insight into what they have to offer and why we chose them.
In this article, we’ll go over Heimdal in greater detail, why we work with them, and why they’re a leading cybersecurity vendor. Heimdal has been part of our portfolio since 2016, and their service and solutions are exceptional.
Why Heimdal
Heimdal’s innovative technology is designed to reduce cyber risk and make the internet a more secure environment for users. They have a simple mission: to provide next-generation cybersecurity protection that can detect, hunt, and respond to cyber threats. Heimdal has a solid reputation for providing cutting-edge technology and solutions to every cybersecurity problem and challenge that organisations face.
They take a fully modular approach to cybersecurity, allowing businesses to add layers of security in a flexible and scalable manner, with each module providing a different level of protection. The more Heimdal modules you have, the stronger it becomes, providing the ultimate defence.
Background
Heimdal was founded in 2011 after the founders won the CTF World Hacking Championships with a novel idea. This winning concept transformed DNS security and antivirus solutions.
Since then, Heimdal has grown to become one of the market leaders in their category, with offices all over the world, which is why we've worked with them for so long.
What they offer
Heimdal offers nine different products, and their unique selling point is the ability to manage all of them from a single dashboard. The suite of services is designed to work in harmony, and organisations can choose to layer different modules on top of each other to effectively and efficiently secure data and assets.
The nine modules provide cybersecurity protection in the following areas:
- Threat prevention
- Privileges and application control
- Vulnerability management
- Email protection, including fraud prevention and security
- Remote desktop
- Endpoint detection, including next-gen anti-virus, firewall, MDM, ransomware encryption protection, and endpoint detection and response
- Managed services including managed extended detection and response
- Unified security platform including extended detection and response
- Threat hunting
All of these solutions run on a single platform.
Heimdal products not only detect but also actively hunt for threats, and they can predict future threats, allowing organisations to stay one step ahead and keep their data secure. The core product, Threat Prevention, is a DNS traffic filter on a device which guards it from connecting back to any infrastructure that’s trying to deliver a threat. The product can also detect patterns, which are then reported back to the user, and alerts are generated, identifying where the problem is, what it is, and how it can be resolved.
Heimdal’s unified dashboard provides full visibility and management for users. Identifying vulnerabilities, risk levels, and threat patterns. Their patch management system is fully automated, taking away the need for patches to be manually applied. Heimdal will take a patch from an agent, such as Google Chrome, inspect it, test, and check the patch before pulling it down and installing it silently on a device. This eliminates all of the pain points associated with patch management, allowing organisations to save time.
What makes Heimdal stand out from the crowd?
Heimdal is Europe's fastest growing non-funded security company, distinguished by their revolutionary, cutting-edge cybersecurity in a single unified product. You may have read recently about the compromised 3CX desktop app. Many security providers were forced to quarantine the threat in order to prevent it from spreading, resulting in organisations losing access to their services. Security providers that were using Heimdal didn’t need to quarantine because of the predictive DNS filter, which resulted in dial backs being blocked from making any further connections.
Partnering with Heimdal
The features and benefits with Heimdal’s products are endless. Their solutions are revolutionising cybersecurity by solving problems without the need for human intervention to avoid the worst-case scenario. In the last 12 months, Heimdal has prevented over 15 million attacks and implemented over 13 million patches, protecting thousands of businesses, and enhancing the safety of the channel.
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