Intelligent CISO Issue 21 | Page 12

news Atos to provide global Managed Security Services for Bayer tos, a global leader in Digital Transformation, has announced that it has been selected as a strategic partner to support German multinational life sciences company Bayer to transform its IT function to further accelerate the digitalisation of the company. In this role, it has been awarded another contract, in which it will implement and deliver Managed Security Services for Bayer globally. This comes in addition to its recently signed contract for global Digital Workplace Services. This contract has a term of six years with a one-year extension option. A As part of the new agreement, Atos will bring its expertise as a global leader in cybersecurity to provide Managed Security Services to augment Bayer’s in-house capabilities. Through its certified portfolio of services, strong capabilities and extensive experience it will partner with the Bayer teams to help protect and secure the company’s global IT landscape, and ensure a consolidated and harmonised security technology environment resulting in increased efficiency and security transparency to 91 countries worldwide. Atos was chosen for the strength of its expertise and experience, market- leading security portfolio, strong partner network, its position as a global leader in cybersecurity and its proven track record in delivering efficient cybersecurity services for global clients. 12 BITDEFENDER EXTENDS MSP SECURITY SUITE itdefender, a global cybersecurity leader protecting over 500 million systems across 150 countries, has announced new endpoint defence capabilities for its GravityZone MSP platform. B New features are designed to help managed service provider organisations to offer enhanced endpoint protection and detection services by identifying and stopping network-based and fileless attacks, exploits and malicious behaviours before they reach endpoint resources. Incident response for security operations is now simplified, offering better guidance to streamline processes. Backed by the power of Bitdefender’s threat intelligence, the new capabilities of GravityZone enable managed services providers to detect attacks earlier in the kill chain, increasing protection of their customers. For instance, with the recent BlueKeep related outbreaks, Bitdefender solutions with this update are able to block the attacks prior to exploit, before ransomware or other payloads can be dropped onto the system. Bitdefender also announce GravityZone Email Security, which offers advanced protection against the rapidly growing incidence of business email compromise and executive impersonation attacks. GravityZone Email Security leverages a multi-stage threat prevention model which blocks highly redirected threats with more than 10,000 algorithms and world class reputation engines. Accommodating virtually any deployment scenario, it features a unique multi-engine platform for highly accurate message categorisation and threat protection. Issue 21 | www.intelligentciso.com