Three things you might have missed from the ‘Horizon3.ai Drives Global Partner-First Approach’ event – SiliconANGLE News

For enterprise cybersecurity initiatives to be effective today, they must be continuous and proactive. Organizations simply cant risk a real breach to test their security mettle. But what does it take for cybersecurity strategies to be deemed proactive? Usually, it implies a balanced mix of observability and continuous verification.

Penetration testing has emerged as one way to continuously test the fidelity of networking and data infrastructures by mirroring an actual malicious attack. Horizon3 AI Inc. offers pentesting as a service through its NodeZero platform. NodeZeros growing popularity and appeal across a global user base, in addition to Horizon3s channel-based go-to-market strategy was the focus of a recent livestream event.

Industry analyst John Furrier, host of theCUBE, SilicionANGLE Medias livestreaming studio, hosted the Horizon3.ai Drives Global Partner-First Approach With Expansion of PartnerProgram event. In three separate interviews, Furrier spoke with Horizon3sRainer M. Richter, vice president of EMEA and APAC;Chris Hill, sector head for strategic accounts/federal; andJennifer Lee, head of channel sales, Americas lead. They discussed enterprise use cases and topics on how organizations can maintain agile cybersecurity structures.(* Disclosure below.)

Here are three insights you might have missed:

Data is the enterprises currency, and often its the target or conduit of a malicious attack. With companies constantly ingesting and processing unprecedented swathes of data, such an entry point must be a security priority.This call for better care extends to solutions providers especially, as they are often the direct custodians of multiple customers data. The Horizon3/Splunk partnership perfectly exemplifies this concept, according to Hill.

What weve been able to do with Splunkis build a purpose-built solution that allows Splunkto eat more data, Hill said. So, Splunk itselfis an ingest engine, and the great reason people buy it is to buildthese really fast dashboardsand grab intelligence out of it. With NodeZero,sure we do pentesting,but because were an autonomous pentesting tool,we do it continuously.

In platform partnerships, results are the preeminent measure of value. And, yet again, the Splunk example is handy for determining NodeZeros true enterprise value. Alongside enabling multi-tier users to glean their exposed areas, it has also created visibility to high-impact data logs and enabled asset discovery, according to Hill.

One of the cool things that we can dois actually create this low-code, no-code environment.So Splunk customers, for instance, can use Splunk SOAR to actually triageevents and prioritize that event, he said.

Heres Chris Hills complete video session:

Horizon3 has carved a niche that caters to managed service providers, managed security service providers and consultancy partner ecosystems. That spectrum is much wider, however, as the company is also entrenching itself with resale, systems integrators, technology and cloud partners.

Then weve got our cloud partners.We are in Amazon Web Services Marketplace andwere part of the ISV Accelerate Program, Lee said.So were doing a lot there with our cloud partners.And, of course, we go to marketwith distribution partners as well.

Horizons NodeZero continuous autonomous penetration testing platform offers a certification program, including separate seller and operator portions both of which are offered virtually and at no extra cost to partners, according to Lee.

Its live virtually but not self-paced.And we also have in-person sessions as well.We also can customize these to any partnersthat have a large group of people.And we can do one in-personor virtual just specifically for that partner, Lee added.

Heres Jennifer Lees complete video session:

Horizon3 serves a diverse range of partner sizes, but it appears the smaller-sized early adapters account for a considerable share of the buzz around NodeZero, according to Richter.

They immediately understand where the value isand that they can change their offering, he explained. Theyre changing their offeringin terms of penetration testingbecause they can do more pentestsand they can then add other ones.

From previously having to source pentesting expertsto get the pentest at a particular customer done, they can now do that independently with NodeZero, according to Richter.More importantly, NodeZero isnt thought of as a replacement for the traditional pentesters job, but rather as a tool with which to do pentestings foundational work.

We are providing with NodeZerosomething like the foundational workof having an ongoing penetration testingof the infrastructure and operating system.And the pentesters by themselvescan concentrate in the futureon things like application pentesting, for example.So we are not killing the pentest, Richter stated.

Heres Rainer M. Richters complete video session:

You can also watch the entireHorizon3.ai Drives Global Partner-First Approach event on-demand below, or visittheCUBEs exclusive event website:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Horizon3.ai Drives Global Partner-First Approach livestream event. Neither Horizon3 AI, the sponsor of theCUBEs event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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