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10 Cybersecurity Companies Making Moves: February 2023
Kyle Alspach
We’re taking a look at the cybersecurity companies that launched products and partner program updates, raised major funding, announced acquisitions or made key executive changes in February.
ThreatLocker Unveils Its First Detection Tool
ThreatLocker last month announced its first-ever capabilities for detection of malicious activity, such as an attempted cyberattack, in a move to help managed services providers do even more to protect their end customers. On Feb. 2, the endpoint security firm unveiled Ops, a new threat detection tool that aims to augment the capabilities of the 4,000 MSPs using its platform.
Because ThreatLocker’s “application allowlisting” functionality ensures that malware cannot run in customer IT systems, the company hadn’t previously focused on detection of cyberattacks. However, ThreatLocker has recognized that even if it’s just an attempted cyberattack on an IT system, there is still value in being able to detect that activity, since it can often help an MSP to take other cyber defense measures for the customer that’s been targeted, according to co-founder and CEO Danny Jenkins (pictured).
And while ThreatLocker has already significantly displaced the need for using endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools with application allowlisting and its other capabilities, the new Ops tool could displace even more usage of EDR by MSPs, Jenkins said. “I think the reliance on EDR is going to be massively reduced by using Ops,” he said.
Ops is a “community-based platform” because it will leverage findings and detection rules that are provided by its community of users at MSPs and customers, Jenkins said.
