Kaseya's ID Agent Buy Strengthens IT Complete Security Suite
The acquisition of ID Agent is a big security play.
May 8, 2019
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Unitrends arrived on the scene in May of 2018. By combining Unitrends’ business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) technologies with Kaseya’s IT Complete suite of management solutions, both MSPs and MMEs had a single solution that met all their critical IT needs, including remote monitoring and management (RMM), endpoint management, network monitoring and management (NMM), professional services automation (PSA), IT service desk, security, and backup and disaster recovery.
The May 2019 addition of ID Agent is designed to advance Kaseya’s IT security management suite by adding end-user protection to its existing infrastructure protection suite. “[What ID Agent brings to the table] is truly outstanding and its offerings are a natural fit for Kaseya’s customers as we continue to innovate our IT Complete offering to help our customers meet the challenge of implementing secure, adaptive and scalable cybersecurity solutions under one pane of glass,” said Fred Voccola, CEO, Kaseya.
The acquisition of IT Glue in December was a feather in Kaseya’s cap in terms of its vision of creating the largest and most comprehensive management platform for MSPs. The idea was to help MSPs achieve two key objectives: Generate more revenue and run more efficiently. The addition of IT Glue to Kaseya’s IT Complete platform addresses the latter by giving the company control over the most popular documentation tool used by MSP technicians.
Kaseya snapped up Spanning last October. Prior to this, in May of the same year, Kaseya had introduced Kaseya Office 365 Backup powered by Spanning, which gives users a full BDR solution for Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite. The new offering enables MSPs to create additional revenue streams around Office 365. This is important where small profit margins are concerned, as they have historically hampered providing and managing the solution for some channel partners.
Kaseya last September bought Atlanta-based RapidFire Tools with the intent to bring the provider’s portfolio of assessment, security and compliance products into its IT Complete product suite. RapidFire brings to the table a range of solutions that help fill out Kaseya’s IT Complete ambitions, including Network Detective for network and security assessments and Cyber Hawk for continuous cybersecurity threat detection and alerting.
Kaseya last September bought Atlanta-based RapidFire Tools with the intent to bring the provider’s portfolio of assessment, security and compliance products into its IT Complete product suite. RapidFire brings to the table a range of solutions that help fill out Kaseya’s IT Complete ambitions, including Network Detective for network and security assessments and Cyber Hawk for continuous cybersecurity threat detection and alerting.
Somebody call security — Kaseya is on fire. The business management software provider this week announced it has snapped up ID Agent, a leading threat intelligence and identity monitoring provider.
ID Agent is the latest in a series of Kaseya acquisitions, continuing the company’s 18-month hot streak. The partnership is designed to further Kaseya’s IT security management suite by adding end-user protection to its existing infrastructure protection suite.
With the acquisition, ID Agent brings its products into the mix, including Dark Web ID, a channel dark web monitoring platform, and BullPhish ID, a phishing simulator and security awareness training platform. Combined with Kaseya’s existing suite of infrastructure management security solutions, the finished product boasts complete protection.
This is fantastic news for the small to midsize business (SMB) sector and the MSPs that service that market. By utilizing Kaseya’s IT Complete Security Suite (which is geared toward SMBs), these companies can completely protect their user networks and sensitive data from cybercriminals, ransomware and other malicious attacks with:
ID Agent Dark Web ID – combines human and dark web intelligence with search capabilities to identify, analyze and proactively investigate an organization’s compromised or stolen employee and customer data.
ID Agent BullPhish ID – complements that data with simulated phishing attacks and security awareness training programs designed to educate employees, making them one of the best lines of defense against cybercrime.
AuthAnvil Identity and Access Management – secures user access using a series of steps, including multifactor authentication, password protection and single sign-on.
Kaseya Security Manager – scans and secures networks, servers and endpoints from fishy or unauthorized changes and attacks.
Kaseya Patch Management – patches vulnerabilities in operating systems and third-party software solutions.
ID Agent is Kaseya’s fifth market-leading acquisition in the last year and a half — a clear sign it’s riding a wave of record-breaking growth with no signs of slowing down. The recent key acquisitions include Unitrends, RapidFire Tools, Spanning Cloud Apps, IT Glue and now ID Agent.
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