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The name change is the latest manifestation of the vendor’s ongoing effort to move past RMM software alone toward offering a complete and integrated managed services toolset.

With the VSA ransomware incident behind it, the company is spending heavily on additional penetration testing and best practices endorsed by Jason Manar (pictured), its new chief information security officer.

The new offering, called Secure Payments, includes tools for identifying payment-related vulnerabilities in a customer environment and then eliminating them via ConnectBooster’s encrypted end-to-end payment processing network.

CMO Mike Puglia (pictured) discussed those and other product plans at the vendor’s ConnectIT event this morning.

Speaking at the vendor’s ConnectIT event today, CEO Fred Voccola (pictured) said Kaseya let users down by failing to prevent attackers from breaching its RMM solution, but is investing heavily in efforts to prevent future attacks

Called HP Presence, the sprawling set of hardware, software, and services is designed to make meetings easier for remote and office-based employees to participate in together and easier for IT professionals to manage and secure.

Designed to combine compact footprints with high capacity, both units come with a two-year supply of ink.

Security takes multiple layers, even when the threat you’re securing against is walking, dead, and hungry for brains. Take it from MSP and security pro Charles Henson, of Nashville Computer, who joins Matt and Rich this week to discuss Datto’s SaaS Defense product, MSP360’s flat-rate Amazon S3 backup storage, takeaways from the recent Bandwidth.com DDoS incident, and how to profit from helping businesses complete security questionnaires.

Speakers at the vendor’s online DattoCon NOW partner event today, including CISO Ryan Weeks (pictured), said that vendors and channel pros alike must work together to overcome a growing “crisis in confidence” brought about by out-of-control attacks.

Called SaaS Defense, the system is designed to detect and block attacks on the Microsoft 365 suite’s Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams components.