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Cygilant, provider of Cybersecurity-as-a-Service to mid-sized organizations, launched Cygilant Endpoint Security, a new solution that will give companies greater visibility into suspicious activity taking place on network endpoints. Cygilant Endpoint Security is an agent-based solution that collects real-time security data from a company's critical assets, detects suspicious files, services and other activity - and then streams alerts to the 24×7 Cygilant Security Operations Center for further investigation and action.

New research from Tanium reveals that 72 percent of US CIOs find previously undiscovered computing devices on a daily or weekly basis. Even if remote unprotected endpoints are identified, they may be left unfixed due to the considerable bandwidth and time required to connect them via VPN to a centralized patch management solution.

Ivanti, the company that unifies IT to better manage and secure the digital workplace, announced the expansion of its growing portfolio of enterprise service management solutions with the launch of Ivanti Assistants which enable endpoint self-healing capabilities. "Ivanti Assistants are a new family of cloud-based automation bots that provide endpoint self-healing capabilities and give IT organizations their very own 24/7 virtual support team," said Ian Aitchison, senior product director at Ivanti.

Through this growing partnership, CrowdStrike customers can now proactively reduce their endpoint attack surface by up to 80%, and dramatically reduce the alert fatigue caused by unpatched and misconfigured systems. Automox's cloud-native cyber hygiene platform automates the fundamentals of endpoint hardening to dramatically reduce corporate attack surface up to 80% while decreasing alert fatigue common in downstream endpoint detection and response tools.

Outsourcing your endpoint protection can deliver positive returns by improving operational efficiency and minimizing risk, but it's not always easy to prove the business case. This guide delivers specific guidance on how to calculate savings in the context of your organization's risk while accounting for size and industry.

Less than 50 percent of organizations can patch vulnerable systems swiftly enough to protect against critical threats and zero-day attacks, and 81 percent have suffered at least one data breach in the last two years, according to Automox. The research surveyed 560 IT operations and security professionals at enterprises with between 500 and 25,000 employees, across more than 15 industries to benchmark the state of endpoint patching and hardening.

Delta Risk, a leading provider of SOC-as-a-Service and security services, announced that it has expanded its partnership with VMware Carbon Black, a leader in cloud-delivered, next-generation endpoint security. The partnership includes fully integrated managed detection, response, threat hunting, and monitoring capabilities via Delta Risk's ActiveEye security platform for customers using VMware Carbon Black solutions, providing improved endpoint visibility for organizations of all sizes.

Qualys 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. 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.

Nubeva Technologies, a cloud visibility SaaS software developer for enterprises with assets in public and private clouds and data centers, announced support for modern endpoint-based decryption. Nubeva TLS Decrypt, a software solution using symmetric key intercept technology, now allows organizations to offload decryption from proxy-based systems to allow full visibility with improved speed, performance and reduced cost.

WatchGuard Technologies, a leading global provider of network security and intelligence, secure Wi-Fi and multi-factor authentication, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Panda Security, a leading global provider in advanced endpoint protection. Under its current leadership team, WatchGuard has continued to deliver on its vision of providing a complete security portfolio of products and services that protect users both inside and beyond the network perimeter, including secure Wi-Fi solutions, multi-factor authentication, and now most recently, user-focused security services.