{"id":384269,"date":"2020-03-24T07:44:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T05:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=384269"},"modified":"2020-03-24T07:44:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T05:44:54","slug":"bcx-launches-two-new-security-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/384269\/bcx-launches-two-new-security-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"BCX launches two new security solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BCX, one of South Africa\u2019s leading ICT companies, has extended its Network offering to include two additional security solutions, namely Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Stealthwatch.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcx.co.za\/solutions\/security\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=24March2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BCX<\/a><\/strong> has an established Managed Security practice offering using Cisco\u2019s security infrastructure, including firewall services, as well as Cisco\u2019s SD-WAN and Meraki<em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe addition of Umbrella and Stealthwatch to our extensive product suite will allow BCX to provide an integrated security solution to our customers,\u201d said Carel Booysen, Executive, Data Networks Portfolio Manager at BCX.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcx.co.za\/solutions\/security\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=24March2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to find out more.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Disruptive trends such as public cloud adoption and digital transformation are presenting great opportunities for businesses to modernise, while improving their operational efficiencies, reducing costs and enhancing customer experiences. \u201cWith digital transformation comes great risk\u201d, explained Booysen, \u201cCIOs and CTOs are under greater pressure from unscrupulous hackers to future proof their networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Global Cyber Security company, Kaspersky Lab, Malware attacks in South Africa have increased by 22% in the first quarter of 2019. \u201cThat\u2019s a significant increase,\u201d said Booysen, \u201cit is a global phenomenon and requires solutions that provides immediate, real-time answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BCX has expanded its Managed Security offering to include Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Stealthwatch for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco Umbrella is a cloud security platform that provides a first line of defence against any internet threat.<\/p>\n<p>The solution aids businesses to automatically identify malicious activity in real-time. It uses the Domain Name System (DNS) as its main mechanism to get traffic to the cloud platform and block requests from malicious domains, IP\u2019s and URLs before the user\u2019s connection is established. The M2M capability allows it to analyse and automatically identify unusual activity before it reaches the network or end points.<\/p>\n<p>Umbrella combines multiple security functions into a single solution, so you can enrich your incident response data and easily extend protection to devices and locations anywhere. Because Umbrella is delivered from the cloud, it is the easiest way to protect your users everywhere in minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCisco Stealthwatch is a state-of-the-art real-time security analytics solution that provides visibility, detection and incident mitigation functionality to enable a cyber safe network,\u201d says Booysen.<\/p>\n<p>According to Garsen Naidu, Cisco South Africa Country Manager: \u201cStealthwatch is a Cisco product that gives the CIO or CTO a view of who is on the network and what they are doing using telemetry from the customer\u2019s network infrastructure.\u00a0 It also uses behavioural analytics to identify abnormalities in the network and alerts decision makers to these changes providing them with a quicker response time to possible threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stealthwatch is also capable of integration into automated response systems that can shut down affected devices anywhere to contain the threat, further preventing any destruction to the network.<\/p>\n<p>BCX is a Cisco Gold Partner and was awarded the 2019 Cisco Global Service Provider EMEAR managed Network Service Provider of the year, as well as the 2019 MEA Cisco Managed Service Partner of the year award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BCX has extended its Network offering to include two additional security solutions, namely Cisco Umbrella and Cisco Stealthwatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":309548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[4445,14797,26],"class_list":["post-384269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-bcx","tag-bcx-network-security","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384271,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384269\/revisions\/384271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}