Avoiding Storms While Transitioning to the Cloud

SIGNAL Magazine | April 9, 2018

By Wayne Lloyd, RedSeal Federal CTO

From an industry perspective there are many advantages to moving aspects of any organization to the cloud. In theory, cloud is more efficient and easier to manage, but organizations like the Defense Department need to make sure they are not bringing along their bad habits and old baggage with them. Legacy networks are hard to understand and have grown out of control in the last few decades. Cloud is as complex as legacy networks, but the difference is who or what is really maintaining them.

Video: American Dreams – Ray Rothrock and Digital Resilience

American Dreams | April 5, 2018

By Ray Rothrock, Chief Executive Officer

No one is immune to hacking- including systems not connected to the internet. No matter how much budget to pour into cyber security, its only a matter of time until your company is hacked. This is a principle that we’ve seen emerging in recent years. How should companies respond when they are under attack? How can they mitigate the damage and protect their most sensitive information?

Ray Rothrock is a veteran in the cyber industry and emphasizes in his new book, Digital Resilience, that it’s not enough for a company to have heavy barriers of defense- the hackers will still get inside, what companies need to focus on today is resilience.

Ray Rothrock: Tech Investor Who Runs on Optimism

Tau Beta Pi – The Bent | April 4, 2018

With Ray Rothrock, Chief Executive Officer

Ray Rothrock, the general manager at the Rockefeller family’s venture capital firm, Venrock, moves fast. When opportunity presents itself–and sometimes even when it does not–he plunges forward, certain that action will create its own luck.

Using Pizza To Understand The Cloud

Forbes | April 4, 2018

By Dr. Mike Lloyd, RedSeal CTO

It’s a tech evangelist’s worst nightmare. I was forced to explain something complex to a non-technical audience who would rather be doing almost anything else. I found myself in front of a sales force while they were in a vacation mood — possibly involving alcohol. We reward our sales overachievers with a vacation. It’s mostly focused on celebrating their success, but with some light company business thrown in. I was the speaker for a late afternoon session, on the topic of the cloud — and the next item on the agenda was the bar.

My assigned topic was cloud networks — a topic familiar to all, but still fuzzy, just like real clouds. It’s been several years since the famed survey that showed people thought bad weather was a problem for cloud computing.

RedSeal Featured in CRN’s 2018 Partner Program Guide

Annual guide recognizes the IT channel’s top partner programs

SUNNYVALE, CALIF., April 4, 2018 – RedSeal (www.redseal.net), the leader in network modeling and risk scoring, announced today that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, recognized its channel program in its 2018 Partner Program Guide. This annual guide is the definitive listing of partner programs from technology vendors that provide products and services through the IT channel.

To compile the guide, The Channel Company’s research team assessed each vendor’s partner program based on investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education and support, marketing programs and resources, sales support and communication.

RedSeal partners will benefit from a strong combination of product and service revenue streams when selling RedSeal’s platform. They will be able to deliver increased value to end users by helping them to validate and enhance the resilience of their network infrastructure, accelerate response to cyber incidents and improve the productivity of their network and security teams. In addition, RedSeal now provides a comprehensive suite of resources, including collaboration with local sales and support teams, access to RedSeal executives, as well as marketing, technical and program support via RedSeal’s new partner portal. The portal features:

  • Convenient, on-demand training modules so partners can stay up-to-date with the latest technology upgrades and product enhancements.
  • Pre-packaged sales playbooks for specific customer uses to help partners successfully sell, market and support customers.

“Finding the right technology vendor to partner with can be a daunting task, given the vast array of choices now available to solution providers,” said Robert Faletra, Executive Chairman of The Channel Company. “CRN’s Partner Program Guide helps them narrow the field and find the best fit, identifying the most rewarding partner programs and providing crucial insight into their strengths and benefits. We are pleased to present our 2018 PPG list, recognizing the strongest and most successful partner programs in the channel today.”

“Channel partners are an important part of our international growth and sales strategy,” said Marc Fernandez, vice president of worldwide commercial channels, at RedSeal. “So, it’s imperative to provide them with the resources they need to be successful. To this end, we have assembled a responsive team, a comprehensive program, and a compelling opportunity to add value to their customers and their bottom line.”

The 2018 Partner Program Guide will be featured in the April issue of CRN and online at www.CRN.com/ppg.

 

About RedSeal
RedSeal’s network modeling and risk scoring platform is the foundation for enabling enterprises to be resilient to cyber events across public cloud, private cloud and physical network environments. RedSeal helps customers understand their network from the inside out – providing actionable intelligence, situational awareness and a Digital Resilience Score to help enterprises measure and improve their resilience. Government agencies and Global 2000 companies around the world rely on RedSeal to help them validate their overall security posture, accelerate investigation and improve the productivity of their security and network teams. Founded in 2004, RedSeal is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Follow RedSeal on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About the Channel Company
The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by more than 30 years of unequaled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelco.com

 

Contact:      
Dean Fisk, Finn Partners
+1 (707) 292-4201
dean.fisk@finnpartners.com

 

NACD Northern California Chapter Elects Ray Rothrock to its Board of Directors

National Association of Corporate Directors | April 3, 2018

The Northern California Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the advocate for the profession of directorship, has elected Ray Rothrock to its board of directors.

Ray Rothrock is the chairman and CEO of RedSeal, Inc., a company providing enterprises with a network modeling and risk scoring platform that measures and improves resilience to cyber events and network interruptions. He is partner emeritus of tech investment firm Venrock and a member of numerous boards, including Check Point Software Technology (NASDAQ: CHKP) and Roku, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU).

 

RedSeal Formalizes Channel Partner Program to Address Growing Global Demand to Model, Measure and Manage Hybrid Data Centers  

Authorized Resellers Addressing Commercial and Federal Markets Will Benefit from Competitive Differentiation and Service Revenues

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – April 3, 2018RedSeal, the leader in network modeling and cyber risk scoring, today announced enhancements to its RedSeal Partner Program – providing partners with additional support, enablement and profit opportunities. RedSeal partners will benefit from a strong combination of product and service revenue streams when selling RedSeal’s platform. They will also have the opportunity to deliver increased value to their end users by helping them to validate and enhance the resilience of their network infrastructure, accelerate response to cyber incidents and improve the productivity of their network and security teams.

“Channel partners are an integral part of RedSeal’s go-to-market strategy,” said Ray Rothrock, chairman and CEO of RedSeal. “They expand our reach and add important value to our customers. We have made significant investments in the channel this year – bringing sales, development and marketing resources to the table to support our partners’ short- and long-term success.”

  • Convenient, on-demand training modules so partners can stay up-to-date with the latest technology upgrades and product enhancements.
  • Pre-packaged sales playbooks for specific customer uses to help partners successfully sell, market and support customers.
  • Access to deal registration and market development funds for qualified partners.

The company is inviting solution providers and managed service providers with a significant presence in specific verticals and geographies, across both commercial and federal markets, to apply for membership to RedSeal’s Partner Program through the company’s website.

About RedSeal
RedSeal’s network modeling and risk scoring platform is the foundation for enabling enterprises to be resilient to cyber events across public cloud, private cloud and physical network environments. RedSeal helps customers understand their network from the inside out – providing actionable intelligence, situational awareness and a Digital Resilience Score to help enterprises measure and improve their resilience. Government agencies and Global 2000 companies around the world rely on RedSeal to help them validate their overall security posture, accelerate investigation and improve the productivity of their security and network teams. Founded in 2004, RedSeal is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Contact:
Dean Fisk, Finn Partners
+1 (707) 292-4201
dean.fisk@finnpartners.com

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XL Catlin and RedSeal team up for cyber risk resilience tool

Insurance Business UK | April 2, 2018

XL Catlin and cybersecurity specialist RedSeal have teamed up to create a tool to measure a network’s resilience against cyber risks.

According to a statement by the firms, the tool will help underwriters assess their client’s cyber exposures and help them improve their cybersecurity and benefit from better insurance terms.

Federal Civilian Agency Saves the Day

Two years ago, a federal government civilian agency had a problem.

Nation state actors were targeting the agency, creating numerous cyber events and breaches every day. The media was all over the story. They faced enormous pressure to change the cybersecurity status quo.

The agency’s cybersecurity team knew that they were in reaction mode. They had a gut feeling that they didn’t know as much about their networks as they needed to. Vulnerability scanners were in place, patching was done on schedule, yet incidents kept happening. Were the scanners accurate? Were there missing components on their networks?

After extensive review and testing of the cybersecurity analytics tools on the market, the agency selected RedSeal—initially to manage the findings of the vulnerability scanners and to determine what to fix first, based on risk to high value assets. After expanding the program to thirteen locations, the agency integrated RedSeal enterprise-wide for network mapping and vulnerability prioritization.

The audit team manager said, “Just last week, using RedSeal, we conducted an assessment of a location with 1,500 endpoints and correlated 5,000 vulnerabilities. Further automated analysis by RedSeal showed that only four were a critical threat and should be prioritized for remediation. Normally, the local network engineering staff would have been overwhelmed by 5,000 findings. We saved them a massive amount of work, lowered the risk of a breach and gave them an accurate model of their network for the first time.”

The agency’s Cybersecurity Assessment Team found that with RedSeal the team’s functionality, speed and accuracy was significantly improved. Intuitively, the team members are able to set up RedSeal instances and map the network with a minimum of training and outside consultants. They are also able to easily create reports customized to the needs of each site’s particular mission and responsibilities. “RedSeal is the must-have tool for any cybersecurity assessment team,” was the agency’s conclusion.

Do you have a problem with your time consuming and inaccurate manual vulnerability assessment program? Click here to set up you free trial of RedSeal and choose the better way.

 

XL Catlin to Offer Network Modeling, Cyber Risk Scoring Platform Through RedSeal

Insurance Journal | March 28, 2018

XL Catlin and RedSeal have partnered on a new approach to cyber insurance using an objective measurement of a network’s resilience to help underwriters evaluate their clients’ risks over time and help clients continue to improve their cybersecurity and potentially improve their insurance terms.

RedSeal’s cyber risk modeling and and risk scoring platform creates a network model from the inside out, including physical assets, as well as those in public and private cloud environments. RedSeal uses this info to calculate the Digital Resilience Score, a holistic measure of the network’s resilience, similar to a credit worthiness score.