Chillisoft sees Vocus NZ as a potential partner for ExtraHop network security Vocus NZ has selected ExtraHop’s network detection and response platform Reveal(x) to amplify its security posture with network visibility. The sale was made directly by local ExtraHop distributor Chillisoft, which told Reseller News that was because the deal also represented a potential longer term “sell-through” opportunity. “We worked with them directly on this deal as there is a possibility that this could turn into a service that Vocus would take out to its customers,” said Chillisoft CEO Alex Teh. “Vocus has been a long-time partner of Chillisoft for products like…
Author: Cherry Thelmo-Fernandez
By Alex Teh, Chillisoft CEO Since I started at Chillisoft 3 years ago, we have been eagerly anticipating the launch of ESET’s unlimited cloud solution. ESET’s first venture into a cloud solution with their cloud admin (Sub 250) solution was a great success in NZ with over 500 sites adopting the solution. The idea that the vendor will now be responsible for the compute and the updates of their product was highly attractive to NZ SMB’s. The fact that the solution was priced reasonably, and it was the simplest product to deploy (under 2 hours) made it compelling for many…
by Alex Teh At the time endpoint detection and response (EDR) technology was first introduced into the world of endpoint security around five years ago, there were many new entrants to the market. The most popular vendors in this category were Cylance, CrowdStrike, and Carbon Black. These vendors stormed the market with clever messaging around endpoint security being dead and claimed that older incumbent vendors using signature-based protection were not good enough. To be fair, they did a great job, especially in communicating the idea that endpoint security vendors needed to augment their endpoint protection products with a solution that…
Gartner-leader PAM and ISaaS vendor CyberArk and specialist IT security distributor Chillisoft have signed a distribution agreement for New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. Alex Teh, CEO at Chillisoft, believes that by adding CyberArk to their complementary cybersecurity solutions portfolio, Chillisoft will continue down its path of achieving the ‘Gartner-leader cross-pollination effect’. “Partners and customers that are looking for best-in-class security solutions can come to Chillisoft with the knowledge that they will get enterprise-class sales/technical support and services homegrown in NZ.” Teh notes that, “CyberArk has been the market leader in the Privilege and Access Management (PAM) space for a long time,…