Month: June 2020

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VPLS recognized on CRN’s list of Top 500 Solutions Providers for second consecutive year

VPLS recognized on CRN’s list of Top 500 Solutions Providers for second consecutive year

VPLS earns the #363 spot on the list of Top Solutions Providers for 2020

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VPLS CRN Solution Provider 500 2020We are excited to announce today that CRN® a brand of The Channel Company, has named VPLS to its 2020 Solution Provider 500 list. 

CRN’s Solution Provider 500 list serves as the industry’s benchmark for recognizing the top-performing technology integrators, strategic service providers, and IT consultants, and as a valuable resource for technology vendors looking to partner with top solution providers. This marks the second consecutive year that VPLS has been recognized on the Solutions Provider 500 list. In February 2020, VPLS was also named to the CRN 2020 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Elite 150 category (#145).

“CRN’s Solution Provider 500 list showcases the top IT channel partner organizations across North America,” said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel Company. “This year, companies on this list represent a combined revenue of $393 billion, a data point that underscores the impact and influence these solution providers have on the IT industry. On behalf of The Channel Company, I’d like to congratulate these companies for their outstanding contributions to the growth and success of our industry.”

“We are honored to once again be acknowledged as a top Solution Provider,” stated John Minnix, VP of Sales and Marketing at VPLS. “VPLS is dedicated to our role as a strategic partner for our clients, helping to assess, integrate, and execute IT solutions that will drive business growth. As a partner, we’re also committed to expanding our team and portfolio to provide support for all areas of our clients’ IT needs, from the cloud to the edge.”

“VPLS’s recognition on CRN’s Solution Provider 500 list reflects our continued investment in technology, customer service, and most importantly, our clients. I applaud our dedicated team and employees for continuing to build strong partnerships and client relationships during these challenging times.”

VPLS was recently part of a merger that included Evocative Data Centers and VPLS Solutions. The new combined entity now operates under VPLS and represents an expanded portfolio of services that includes data centers, colocation, network services, hosting, cloud services, professional services, managed services, and value-added reseller partner status for brands like HPE, Fortinet, and Veeam.

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What is EDR? – A Primer in 5 Minutes

What is EDR? – A Primer in 5 Minutes

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EDR stands for Endpoint Detection & Response. The “endpoint” in this phrase refers to any individual network-connected node belonging to your company, such as an employee’s workstation or a company web server.

EDR emerged because the standard endpoint protection platform (EPP), i.e. traditional antivirus products, were not cutting it in today’s world of ransomware, determined threat actors, and advanced persistent threats (APTs).

Traditional EPPs focus on preventing infection in the first place, mostly through a database of signatures. However, according to Gartner Research’s Magic Quadrant for EPP, “The security mindset has shifted to acknowledge that prevention alone is not enough; security and risk management leaders must be able to more easily harden endpoints and perform more detailed incident response to resolve alerts.”

“The security mindset has shifted to acknowledge that prevention alone is not enough; security and risk management leaders must be able to more easily harden endpoints and perform more detailed incident response to resolve alerts."

standard endpoint protection platform processTo put it simply, threats will get through your antivirus protection. When they do, EDR will Detect that threat and Respond both quickly and automatically to ensure that the breach is stopped, and that any other relevant actions are taken, such as isolating the endpoint or rolling back malicious changes.

Where EPPs only provide pre-infection protection, EDR completes the circle by providing both pre-infection and post-infection protection.

To ensure I am honest on my 5-minute promise, I just wanted to touch on some other capabilities of EDR that set it apart from EPPs. For example, the unprecedented visibility into the endpoint provided by EDR allows your team to investigate the chain of events that led to the attack and understand how the malicious code compromised the system.

Additionally, this visibility allows members of your organization to participate in “threat hunting”, whereby the hunters can look at all of your endpoints for indicators of compromise (IOCs) and proactively investigate the endpoints for threats before a data breach occurs.

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There are many more exiting capabilities of EDR, but this primer was meant to introduce those unfamiliar with EDR to the general concepts of the product and how it fits into a company’s security stack. If you are interested in going deeper into how EDR works and how it can fit into your existing environment, please contact us today to learn more.

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VPLS recommends and proudly offers FortiEDR as our EDR solution of choice. We are a Fortinet Expert-level partner and MSSP, which means we have highly certified Fortinet engineers (all the way up to NSE8), as well as an in-house SOC, that can deploy and manage FortiEDR for your company with unparalleled expertise.

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