Intelligent CIO North America Issue 19 | Page 11

NEWS

Customers in North and Latin America offered access to BlastShield

As a part of the agreement , Brier & Thorn will offer BlastWave ’ s BlastShield solution to its global customer base across North America and Latin America .
“ Partnering with Brier & Thorn opens so many doors for BlastWave and will allow us to support top technology customers across Latin and North America ,” said Tom Sego , CEO BlastWave .
“ Working with Brier & Thorn ’ s channel partners is mutually beneficial . We will allow users that scrambled to meet the remote and hybrid work requirements driven by the pandemic to significantly upgrade their performance and security posture from the flawed , legacy VPN stopgaps .
“ BlastShield allows customers to quarantine their network and prevent malware spread and eliminate the annoying aspects of remembering usernames and passwords , while enforcing 100 % Multi Factor Authentication . We take zero-trust security to a whole new level .”

BlastWave , a pioneer in invisible software-defined perimeter solutions designed to protect critical infrastructure assets and applications , has announced a partnership with Brier & Thorn , a leading Managed Security Service Provider ( MSSP ).

Brier & Thorn advises global leaders on their most critical IT risk management issues and opportunities including Global 500 , global manufacturers , retailers , biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies , automobile manufacturers and financial services .

Infor announces new Infor Marketplace to showcase customer solutions

Infor , the industry cloud company , has announced the new Infor Marketplace , a curated showcase of solutions that can augment and enhance customers ’ existing Infor investments .

The Infor Marketplace is designed to make it easier for customers to discover , source and license industry and micro-vertical solutions that integrate with Infor ’ s portfolio of enterprise software . to providing a smart , preconfigured and modern enterprise ecosystem .
“ We expect to provide access to hundreds of solutions that have been pre-integrated with Infor software or built with Infor platform technologies . From partner-developed apps , which support certain niche industry parameters , to free Infor-developed content such as visualizations , extensions and reusable widgets , the Infor Marketplace is intended to showcase new and innovative solutions for our customers .”
Antoinette Habets , VP of Acumen Group , said : “ The Marketplace can help facilitate greater awareness of existing business and technical applications that extend Infor solutions for all customers . It is designed to solve specific vertical or business requirements , while increasing their ROI from the platform .”
The Infor Marketplace is where customers can register to receive information and assets related to a range of Infor and partner solutions and services . Going forward , Infor plans to develop it into a real-time provisioning platform , where users can conduct frictionless e-commerce .
Soma Somasundaram , Infor Chief Technology Officer and President of Products , said : “ The launch of Infor Marketplace underscores our commitment
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