Predictive cyber threat intelligence pioneer Darkscope launches channel program for MSSPs
Successful pilot deployments lead to global roll-out
20th August 2024 – Cheltenham, UK – Darkscope today announced a formal channel program for Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) to distribute Darkscope’s unique, award-winning, AI-powered portfolio of cyber threat intelligence solutions. Following successful pilot deployments with MSSPs in the UK and Germany, Darkscope will initially seek to build partner relationships across EMEA, North America and APAC.
Being blindsided by an unforeseen cyberattack is every CISO’s nightmare scenario and, being unforeseen, can be the one that does most damage. Darkscope’s unique, AI-powered solutions spot sources of cyberattacks that others can’t, and before they take place, enabling organisations to reinforce their cyber defenses where they’re about to be needed.
Morten Mjels, VP Sales EMEA for Darkscope, said: “The rapidly changing cyber security landscape and the imminence of the EU’s NIS2 directive have made Darkscope’s predictive approach to cybersecurity more relevant and important to organizations than ever before. It makes ‘now’ the right time to expand the distribution of Darkscope solutions via the channel. It’s a terrific opportunity for MSSPs: Darkscope’s suite of cyber threat intelligence solutions offers customers what they need to rehabilitate their approach to risk management for cybersecurity and to reconnect their cybersecurity budget with the risks they actually face.”
Benjamin Richter is CEO at Cyber Complete GmbH, with which Darkscope has been piloting it’s channel program. He said: “Strategies based on adding incremental cybersecurity solutions and relying on reactive measures can hardly ensure enterprise security. The number of attacks and the amount of losses suffered speak for themselves. Darkscope’s approach to cyber threat intelligence helps us restore a traditional 4-step risk and compliance management process for our customers – identification, assessment, treatment and monitoring. This enables our customers to develop more comprehensive and proactive cybersecurity strategies.”
Peter Vervaene, CEO, Raxco Software BeLux & France has also been working with Darkscope. He commented: “Darkscope’s portfolio enables us to provide a very precise understanding of the risks and threats facing a customer, in real-time. This means that, rather than having them invest everywhere, we can help our customers target their resources into constructing efficient, effective defenses where we know they are needed, rather than just try to build ever-higher walls.”
Darkscope’s portfolio of solutions and services are all built around its core ‘Watchtower’ platform. The portfolio:
- provides real-time detection/monitoring of both direct threats and indirect (partner/supply) chain risks; and
- helps cyber insurance providers understand the overall cyber security risk of an organisation
- enables organizations to evaluate their ISO27001 and NIST readiness, and to comply with the imminent, stricter rules of NIS2
- combined with human analysis reduces the chances of an “alert storm” and false positives.
A combination of highly accurate AI models and algorithms assign scores to compromise indicators, so security teams can prioritize mitigation tasks. Specific combinations of functionality, solutions and services are configurable according to customer requirements.
For full details of the MSSP program and its opportunities, visit Darkscope’s website.
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About Darkscope
Darkscope was founded in 2016 by Joerg Buss, after serving on the committee that defined ISO 27001. The first iteration of Watchtower was ready by the end of 2018. More than 250,000 lines of source code and several AI models later, Watchtower is capable of finding, analysing, and identifying all information necessary to determine the cyber risk of a customer. Sources span the entirety of cyberspace: the Internet, news, social media, dark web, forums, chat rooms – Darkscope analyzes over 200 million dark web pages per week alone and countless Telegram groups, chat rooms and forums. Headquartered in New Zealand, the company has a presence in three continents and is commercially active across five.Media contacts
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