Help AG has announced the signing of a reseller agreement with ThreatQuotient. As the vendor’s first regional partner, Help AG has achieved the Gold Partner status under ThreatQuotient’s Threat Alliance Program (TAP) and will offer the ThreatQ threat intelligence platform to enterprises looking to augment their Security Intelligence and Event Management (SIEM) capabilities or build their own Security Operations Centers. Help AG will also utilise the platform for its own 24×7 Managed Security Services (MSS) offering.
“In recent years, even large organisations with significant IT security investments have been falling victim to data breaches that disrupt business, cause the loss of sensitive company data that ultimately results in irreparable damage to their brand. This makes threat intelligence a critical element of a business’s security posture,” said Stephan Berner, CEO, Help AG. The benefits of threat intelligence are widely backed by the IT security community. As a case in point, recent research by the Ponemon Institute found that 80 percent of IT decision makers whose organisations suffered data breaches believe having threat intelligence at the time of the breach could have prevented or minimised the consequences of the attack.
The focus of the agreement is on enterprise-sized customers and Help AG intends to offer ThreatQ to organisations from the Banking and Finance, Government, Oil and Gas, Retail, Telco, and Media sectors. ThreatQ centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources with all internal security and analytics solutions for contextual and operationalised intelligence in a single view. As a result, ThreatQ enables threat intelligence teams to shift their focus to analysis, and improve their security operations by reducing the amount of effort traditionally exerted into combining data sources.
As part of the partnership agreement, Help AG was required to have a team of security analysts with a keen understanding of incident management methodology and best practices such as SANS. The reseller’s Managed Security Services Analysts, Implementation Engineers and Support Engineers have been fully trained and certified on the product and will deliver consultancy around ThreatQ starting from implementation to advanced services like integrations and support.
