Security Update: Exabeam Enhances SOC Platform for Organizations, MSSPs

Each week, ChannelE2E compiles a list of the top stories about the managed security services market from our affiliate brand, MSSP Alert.

This week, we looked at Exabeam's enhanced SOC platform for MSSPs, explored SonicWall's dramatic transformation from firewall vendor to a key security services and solutions partner for managed services providers and iOT365's new SOC aimed at the particular challenges that surround the convergence of IoT, OT and cybersecurity.

Here’s this week’s round-up of news from MSSP Alert.

Exabeam Enhances SOC Platform for Organizations, MSSPs

Exabeam is embracing the Open-AI Standard (OAS) in a move that not only will make its security operations platform more automated and open but also will deliver similar enhancements to MSSPs that use it.

The Foster City, California-based company this week announced that its New-Scale Security Operations Platform is now compatible with the venerable OAS, which is important to security vendors and service providers that want to more easily bring automation to their security operations center (SOC) capabilities.

This is particularly important when it comes to responding to threats, according to Steve Wilson, chief product officer at Exabeam, adding that there are few metrics are more important when a cyberattack happens than mean time to respond (MTTR).

“When we look at TDIR [threat detection, investigation, and response] workflows, automating the [response] is a critical part of optimizing MTTR,” Wilson told MSSP Alert. “Automating responses may involve connecting to many types of third-party systems.”

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SonicWall’s Transformation Takes the Turn into 2025

For SonicWall, 2024 was a key year in its much-publicized transformation from its decades-old roots as a firewall vendor into a cybersecurity company with a relentless focus on its MSSP and MSP partners.

The Milpitas, California-based company hadn’t made an acquisition for 14 years before making three deals in four months between late 2023 and early 2024, when it bought Solutions Granted, Banyan Security, and Trapmine. Much of the first half of last year was spent integrating those acquisitions to expand its offerings.

The acquisition of Solutions Granted, a master MSSP that served hundreds of MSPs with such services as security operations centers (SOCs) and managed detection and response (MDR), also brought partner-friendly financing options, including month-to-month agreements with no annual contracts or mandatory minimums.

Two months later, in January 2024, SonicWall bought Banyan, a player in the growing security service edge (SSE) space, which includes zero trust network architectures, and cloud-native capabilities. The deal gave SonicWall more offerings that MSSPs and MSPs could leverage in an increasingly remote and hybrid working environment where employees still need to access business apps via increasingly complex networks.

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iOT365 Offers SOC for MSSPs to Help Clients as IT, OT, IoT Converge

iOT365 is rolling out a security operations center (SOC) platform to help organizations and MSSPs manage cybersecurity in an increasingly complex world as IT, operational technology (OT), and the Internet of Things (IoT) continue to converge.

The startup, founded in 2022, is adding the SOC capability on top of its iOT365 OT/IoT Cybersecurity Platform, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that was launched in 2023 to address the challenges organizations face as their OT environments become connected to the internet and IoT takes on a larger role.

The 14-month-old platform includes intrusion system (IDS) and security information and event management (SIEM) capabilities, including real-time monitoring and anomaly and threat detection. With the SOC platform, organizations and MSSPs will be able to monitor activities across multiple OT and IoT sites to better detect and respond to threats in real time. It also will offer flexible deployment across virtual, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructures and fewer false-positive findings, according to iOT365.

The New York City-based company announced the SOC platform this week at the Intersec 2025 event in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

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