Sophos and Arcserve have formed an alliance through which both companies will integrate their respective cybersecurity and data protection capabilities. That combined offering should make it simpler to immediately kick off a backup and recovery process every time a cybersecurity attack occurs.
“There’s now a ransomware attack every 14 seconds,” says Clark Brown, vice president of channel sales and strategic alliances for Arcserve.
IT vendors have been making a case for integrating data protection and cybersecurity platforms with mixed success for years. However, with the advent of ransomware interest in that capability has dramatically increased because the only way to effectively thwart attacks that encrypt data is to restore a pristine copy of that data.
To limit the damage from a cybersecurity attacks, an instance of Sophos Intercept X Advanced for Server, which apply artificial intelligence (AI) based on deep learning algorithms to identify attack patterns, is being added to ArcServe Appliance Series.
Rather than relying on a platform from a single vendor, that offering that will be supported by Arcserve provides channel partners with all the benefits of an integrated platform using best-of-breed software from Arcserve and Sophos, said Brown.
In the case of Sophos that means taking advantage of AI capabilities to constantly monitor file behavior that results in files being automatically quarantined any time suspicious behavior is detected, says Ted Anglace, director of strategic alliances and OEM for Sophos.
The two companies also already share several distribution partners so this extended level of integration should make it simpler for channel partners to deploy, adds Anglace.
“We configured the product to deploy as an application on the Arcserve appliance,” says Anglace.
It’s not clear to what degree channel partners will prefer this approach to working with rival offerings that are based on data protection and cybersecurity provided by a single vendor. In most cases, those rival offerings are based on disparate platforms that have been brought together by an acquisition. Arcserve by working closely with Sophos is trying to provide all the same benefits without all the disruption an acquisition would entail.
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