The new healthcare and retail security assessments are part of a collaboration and program with Intel to enhance companies’ security abilities. These supplier-agnostic assessments are designed to help partners determine their customers’ risks across a wide range of top breach concerns, such as ransomware, cybercrime hacks, loss or theft of mobile devices or media, malicious insiders, fraud or snooping. This will enable partners to prioritize security initiatives for their customers. As a result, partners can identify needs that often lead to deeper subsequent engagements including policy creation or updates, risk assessment, penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, audit, user training, or implementation of various breach security safeguards.
“At Lumenate, we see great value in the use of Avnet’s breach assessment tool, as it provides customers immediate insight into their security environments,” said Drew Robinson, chief security officer, Lumenate, a technical consulting firm focused on enabling and securing the virtualized enterprise, and an Avnet partner. “The results of the assessment allow us to reinforce the importance of governance as it relates to federal guidelines mandating protections around confidentially, integrity and availability in the handling, transmission, use and storage of electronic-protected health-related information. Thus, we are able to work with our customers to architect strong cybersecurity frameworks by identifying gaps in tools, applications, processes and procedures needed to effectively govern and protect their environments and open the doors to other opportunities that may not have been visible otherwise.”
The new security assessments are part of Avnet’s growing security services portfolio, which includes its recently launch managed security service program – Recon – that allows partners to easily offer their customers 24x7x365 security monitoring and management. It also builds upon Avnet’s solutions specialist approach to accelerate the channel’s abilities to capitalize on the next-generation technologies that are rapidly growing and defining the future of computing and the data center. Partners will be able to engage Avnet’s dedicated solutions specialists to develop complete security solutions. Avnet also provides the channel with in-depth expertise and education services in complementary technology market segments, including: cognitive computing, data analytics, the data center, the internet of things (IoT), mobility, security and enterprise networking, and training and education.
For additional information, please visit the Avnet Security Assessment Program webpage and the Avnet Security and Networking solutions information page
