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Wiz Defend Offering Debuts with Tamnoon as a Launch Partner

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 2, 2024 by itnerd

Tamnoon, a leader in Managed Cloud Security Remediation, today announced its status as a launch partner for Wiz Defend. The new solution from Wiz draws upon the power of Wiz Integration Network (WIN) partners to better detect and respond to cloud threats in real-time. Tamnoon was selected as a launch partner due to its leading Managed Cloud Security Remediation capabilities, seamlessly integrating with Wiz Defend to empower customers and their SOC/Incident Response teams.

The WIN platform enables bi-directional sharing of security findings across the cloud security ecosystem comprised of hundreds of industry-leading partners like Tamnoon that help mutual customers gain security insight and visibility. With the introduction of Wiz Defend, Wiz is now extending its value to SOC and IR teams for better preparation, investigation, detection, and response to cloud incidents. 

WIN enables mutual customers of Tamnoon and Wiz to receive the following benefits: 

  • Enhanced Cloud Visibility: Wiz’s agentless scanning gives teams immediate visibility into all workloads and cloud services, ensuring no security issues are missed across their infrastructure. Combining this visibility with AI-driven, human-verified managed cloud security from Tamnoon allows customers to bring down critical threats faster than ever.
  • Reduced Alert Fatigue: Wiz Issues combine toxic risk combinations that lead to open attack paths, helping teams identify what to prioritize and fix. Tamnoon enriches all Wiz Issues with proactive, human, and AI-driven investigation, correlating current and past alerts and factoring in information about critical assets, ownership, encryption, public exposure, and more. To enhance the collaboration between security and engineering, Tamnoon offers curated, highly relevant remediation playbooks that facilitate quick handover between teams, closing the loop on the original issues.
  • Cloud Exposure Remediation: The integration automates the remediation of Wiz issues by leveraging Tamnoon’s managed cloud remediation that allows for safe and scalable remediation and ongoing incident response monitoring, including exposure reduction SLAs and KPIs for continuous improvement — all driving critical cloud threats and exposures to zero within months. 

The combined value of these two offerings will streamline security for organizations seeking to eliminate blind spots and telemetry gaps in order to improve cloud incident response readiness, multi-cloud threat detection, investigation, and threat hunting.

Vancouver Canucks Announces Fortinet as Its Preferred Partner

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 2, 2024 by itnerd

Vancouver Canucks and Fortinet today announced that Fortinet has become the new Preferred Partner for the 2024–2025 season. Canucks Sports & Entertainment (CSE) has chosen Fortinet’s industry-leading Security Fabric platform to reduce complexity and streamline the identification and remediation of network and security issues across the group’s facilities.

CSE is one of the premier sports and entertainment companies in North America. In support of their goal to create inspiring moments and unforgettable experiences for their fans, CSE has deployed several Fortinet solutions at its central data center to help secure the Rogers Arena, home to NHL Vancouver Canucks and its fans, the Canucks Training Camp facilities, and the eSports team Vancouver Surge.

The Fortinet Security Fabric Wins Over Vancouver Canucks 
The Fortinet Security Fabric platform and Fortinet’s unique ability to converge networking and security help organizations like CSE reduce management complexity by consolidating siloed security tools, increasing visibility, improving performance, and decreasing the mean time to detect and respond to security incidents.

The Canucks’s implementation includes a central FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) cluster at its data center to protect and segment its network and build a Secure SD-WAN platform to simplify, accelerate, and secure communications between locations. Supported by the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, CSE has a single pane of glass to help consolidate management, visibility, analytics, and control for the entire environment.

Fortinet Leads the Cybersecurity Evolution in Canada
Fortinet has a long history of investing in Canada over the last 20 years. With more than 2,600 employees and over $200 million in infrastructure investments across Canada, including a regional data center, offices, a security operations center, and center of research and development excellence, Fortinet has been dedicated to protecting Canadian enterprises, nonprofits, educational institutions, and government agencies. 

Fortinet also remains steadfast in its commitment to close the cybersecurity skills gap and has pledged to train 1 million people globally by 2026 through its award-winning Training Institute program. As part of this, with more than 30 Canadian academic partners, no-cost training to all K-12 school boards in Canada, and an emphasis on helping military members, veterans, and spouses transition into the cyber field, Fortinet is helping grow cybersecurity awareness and resilience across the nation.

DMZ’s Women Innovation Summit returns for year three

Posted in Commentary with tags on December 2, 2024 by itnerd

 DMZ, a global startup ecosystem, announced its third annual Women Innovation Summit, set to take place on March 6, 2025. Hosted at DMZ’s headquarters in downtown Toronto, the Summit will bring together women-led startups, innovators, investors, corporate partners, allies and policymakers for a full day event in honour of International Women’s Day. 

Committed to celebrating women entrepreneurs and serving as a catalyst for women’s innovation, the 2025 Summit will unite attendees through intimate roundtable discussions, a pitch competition providing women-led startups with funding opportunities and the official unveiling of DMZ’s 2025 Women of the Year honourees.

Applications for the Women Innovation Pitch Competition and nominations for DMZ’s Women of the Year are now open at dmz.to/WIS. The deadline to apply or nominate is January 19, 2025.

For the third consecutive year, The Firehood—a national network dedicated to advancing women in technology—will join DMZ as an investment partner, committing $100,000 in cash investments for the Women Innovation Pitch Competition. The Firehood has awarded $330,000 in funding to women-led startups through DMZ’s Women Innovation Summit, which has welcomed more than 600 attendees over its first two years.

Women Innovation Pitch Competition

Open to women founders across Canada, the pitch competition provides a unique opportunity to secure funding and accelerate business growth. From the applicants, 25 women founders will be chosen to receive personalized pitch advisory sessions, participate in curated roundtable discussions and gain valuable marketing and PR exposure. Of these, 10 finalists will pitch live at the Summit to angel investors from The Firehood. In 2024, three remarkable women-led startups—LyfeMDRoga and Granularity—secured funding through the Women Innovation Summit, showcasing the incredible talent driving Canada’s innovation ecosystem. 

Women of the Year Awards

DMZ’s Women of the Year Awards honours outstanding women who are driving meaningful change in Canada’s tech and business sectors. Honourees represent trailblazers who are disrupting their industries, leading multi-million dollar companies, revolutionizing technology and inspiring the next generation of women in innovation. Previous awardees include Sylvia Ng, CEO of ReturnBear; Fatima Zaidi, CEO and Founder of Quill; and Mirela Pirlea, Lead Partnerships Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Ontario – Atlantic – West Canada at Desjardins. 2025 award recipients will be revealed at the Women Innovation Summit on March 6, 2025. 

Applications for the Women Innovation Pitch Competition and nominations for Women of the Year are open until January 19, 2025. Learn more and apply at dmz.to/WIS.

DMZ’s Women Innovation Summit was funded in part by the Government of Canada’s Women Entrepreneurship Strategy.