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ThreatQuotient Enters Middle East IT Security Market Through Partnership Agreement with Help AG
September 2016 by Marc Jacob
Help AG, an information security services and solutions provider in the Middle East, 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 utilize the
platform for its own 24x7 Managed Security Services (MSS) offering.
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% of IT decision makers whose organizations suffered data
breaches believe having threat intelligence at the time of the breach could
have prevented or minimized the consequences of the attack.
The focus of the agreement is on enterprise-sized customers and Help AG
intends to offer ThreatQ to organizations 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.
