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Adelaide, Australia – ZeroFox, a global third-party cybersecurity provider, announced that it is expanding its presence in the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) market with the signing of two of the largest distributors in the Pacific: Netpoleon Solutions, a Macnica company and emt Distribution, a popular company. Through these alliances with local distributors, ZeroFox will develop its consulting functions in the region with corporations and public sector establishments that need intelligence and coverage of external risks against virtual risks.
Australia’s Information Commissioner’s Office reported more than 400 knowledge breaches in the first part of 2021 alone, 65% of which come from malicious attacks or criminals. Cyber coverage features are more critical than ever.
Similarly, ZeroFox has documented a 142% increase in the average monthly volume of external risk alerts since the beginning of the year for existing consumers in the APAC region, largely due to spoofed URLs/domains used for phishing attacks, targeting vulnerabilities. on the Zoom platform and Twitter. Imitations.
ZeroFox’s Cyber Threat Landscape report in Australia and New Zealand (October 2021) identifies phishing campaigns, adding email engagement advertising campaigns (BECs) and social engineering campaigns, as the biggest dangers for ANZ-based organizations, either from the perspective of workers and visitors. Trojans, botnets, and denial-of-service attacks continue to create dangers for businesses operating in the region, especially from financially motivated malicious actors. Similarly, ANZ is experiencing an increased risk of ransomware, a trend that is expected to continue in 2022.
As regional calling grows in highly compatible industries such as finance, government, and healthcare, ZeroFox is helping those corporations identify and disrupt risk actors on their virtual attack surface through its AI-powered risk intelligence platform. Help them protect their data, people, and brands outside the classic security perimeter.
Australia’s cybersecurity industry is expected to succeed by $7. 6 billion through 2024 and this partnership is a strategic next step for ZeroFox in a hyper-growth region where the company expects stable 35% year-over-year expansion in its anz business through 2024.
“ZeroFox offers complex functions, such as the ability to identify and dismantle the infrastructure used for target workers and customers, that high-value target organizations want to protect themselves from,” said Shane Mahney, senior sales manager at emt Distribution, a leading company. . ” With ZeroFox, our channel partners, MSMs and MSSPs can deliver multiple high-impact, high-demand security responses on a single platform to meet their customers’ most pressing desires. “
“External threat intelligence, including dark internet tracking and virtual threat coverage, has noticed tremendous expansion due to the accumulation of large-scale ransomware attacks,” said Paul Lim, regional director of Netpoleon, ANZ. At the immense prices of a security breach, contextual threat intelligence becomes an indispensable component of detecting imminent external threats and allows decisive and timely action to be taken to prevent a breach from occurring. , ZeroFox adds a valuable new size to our offerings that will bring advantages to ANZ channel components and end consumers who want outdoor coverage responses from their classic internal security perimeter.
“Our team at ZeroFox is proud to work with Netpoleon and rhipe to provide consumers with more powerful threat intelligence, coverage capabilities and on-site queries across the ANZ region. We look forward to executing in combination to fight cybercrime in development in Australia and New Zealand,” said Gabe Goldhirsh, vice president of MEA/APAC. With this spousal relationship, we are strengthening the regional and global presence of our global spousal program and remain committed to a spouse-driven strategy that provides in-depth insights into virtual threats and the dark internet to businesses around the world. “
About ZeroFox: ZeroFox provides organizations with intelligence and policies opposed to external threats to disrupt threats to logos, people, assets, and knowledge across the public attack surface on a single, end-to-end platform. With a comprehensive global policy on the surface, the web deep and dark. , and an Intel-backed synthetic intelligence-powered analytics engine, the ZeroFox platform identifies and fixes targeted phishing attacks, credibility compromise, knowledge exfiltration, logo hijacking, address and location threats, and more. , messages and accounts across the social and virtual landscape, spanning LinkedIn, Facebook, Slack, Instagram, Pastebin, YouTube, mobile app stores, domains, cloud-based emails, and more. Visit www. zerofox. com for more information.
About emt Distribution: emt Distribution, now a component of rhipe (ASX: RHP), is a value-added distributor and supplier supplier founded in Adelaide, offering services in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates and South Africa. emt offers cyber security responses that address the 4 main mitigation methods to prevent you from cyber security incidents, the broader methods of the Australian government’s Information Security Manual (ISM), and responses to address cyber risk management. MSSPs provide the cybersecurity responses their consumers need. Emt provides pre- and post-sales channel development, engaged sales processes, and marketing for suppliers and distribution components.
About Netpoleon: Netpoleon Group is a distributor of price-raised network security (VAD) products, headquartered in Singapore with full offices in the APAC region in Australia, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand and the Philippines. Thanks to our strong partnership with distribution partners, Netpoleon has a strong presence in several sectors that are not easy, namely the monetary facilities sector, where knowledge protection is a key competitive merit for companies, the telecommunications sector, which is a critical data. infrastructure and also the public sector where a highly secure and secure environment is required to protect classified government data. cybersecurity consulting services to our channel partners throughout the region. Netpoleon continues to move forward and aspires to be one of the maximum trusted partners (TPM) of our suppliers, resellers and customers.
* ECA Annual Cyber Threat Report 2020-2021