Micro Focus: Smart Digital Transformation And Intelligent Security With Trusted Technology Aggregator Ivalue Infosolutions
With internet, came the era of smartphones, and with smartphones came along the need to connect with customers via Apps. With Apps came planet sized volumes of data and thus ushered in a plethora of vulnerabilities. Data is crown jewel of almost every organization that has an online presence and the dire need to protect it is stirring the enterprise sector. Addressing this enterprise sector’s security needs are few multispecialty solution providers. However, these players hardly plug the leak caused by businesses that seek to go digital faster and dangerously. What they need is a wizard. Speaking of wizard, based out of Berkshire, UK, Micro Focus is the world’s seventh-largest pure-play software company with over USD3.3 billion in revenues, spread across 43 countries, 40k customers across the enterprise, government and public sector. Micro Focus is a name renowned for empowering businesses in their digital transformation journey by helping them build, operate, secure and analyze as they move in the journey. The global software giant has engineered 4 solutions that address 4 pivotal areas for lasting Digital Transformation success- Enterprise DevOps, Hybrid IT Management, Security, Risk & Governance and Predictive Analytics.Why compromise between Faster and Risk Free Digital Transformation
Leadership is often pulled either way due to the conflict between investments on strategies that would help the organization Run & Transform and those that will help Innovate Faster with Less Risk. While organizations recognize that they must evolve their IT practices to stay competitive, they also know that the core business systems and supporting processes they have developed over time are the lifeblood of the organization. As the Country Manager – Security Risk & Governance at Micro Focus, Praveen Patil Kulkarni adds, “The rules of business are being rewritten nearly every day as a combination of technology advancements, evolving customer expectations, process enhancements and new business models are forcing executives to re-think their IT strategies.” Micro Focus delivers on the promise of smart Digital Transformation by developing and delivering software that is optimized to bridge the old and the new. With an integrated and open portfolio, which is generally backwards compatible, Micro Focus helps customers run and transform their business at the same time. The aforementioned 4 core pillars or solutions of DX align directly to established – yet historically disconnected – software markets.
While the increased number of Apps and the consequent growth of data have released vulnerabilities 10 times faster, CISO’s and IT leaders are making solid efforts to ensure that everything possible is done to prevent a breach. Moreover, compliance, governance, and privacy requirements (GDPR, CCPA, FINRA/ SEC, HIPPA, Dodd-Frank, ISO 27001/2, etc.) are mounting, adding even more risk. Enterprise security has moved to a new level of complexity as well, with added responsibility for identities, data, and applications. Your security, risk, and governance strategy must support all three dimensions. However, point solutions typically solve only one particular problem, ignoring related issues. Evidently, it takes many disparate solutions to address the entire heap of problems, which leaves the integration part for the customer to figure out. Unlike point products, Micro Focus Security, Risk & Governance solutions take a holistic, analytics-driven approach to securing what matters most: identities, applications, and data. The Micro Focus Approach to Securing What Matters Most.
To avoid the financial and reputational devastation that cybercriminals can inflict, one of the solutions that Micro Focus offers is its ZENworks solutions. This product unifies the key capabilities a business needs to strengthen its data breach defenses while minimizing the effort in employing those defenses. Micro Focus ZENworks Patch Management automates the process of discovering, monitoring, and updating the patch state of all Windows laptops, desktops, and servers. Micro Focus ZENworks Endpoint Security Management gives the fine-grained, policy-based control over all your Windows laptops, desktops, and servers, including advanced firewall protection, application controls, wireless security, port controls, and robust storage device controls. ZENworks Full Disk Encryption from Micro Focus makes it easy to automatically protect data stored on laptops and desktops. ZENworks Mobile Workspace gives a best of breed MAM solution that empowers the organization to secure and control corporate data and applications on users’ personal devices without impacting those users’ personal use and files.
Intelligent Adaptability of Existing Security Infrastructure
A full view of the security posture of an organization includes everything within the firm’s hybrid landscape- traditional perimeter, data center, public cloud, SaaS, managed platforms, etc.-to the network and all the apps, data, devices and endpoints that touch it. Praveen explains that there are four key initiatives that cover the bulk of what you need to protect and govern; Application Security, Zero Trust (or Identity and Access Management), Data Privacy, and Security Operations. Currently, while point products easily find their way in any organization, IT leaders have now realized that it is actually unsustainable as new attack vectors appear every day with bad actors stealing identities, exploiting application vulnerabilities, and attempting to breach your defenses. Instead of a never-ending cycle of fighting one-time vulnerabilities, Micro Focus poses a rhetorical question: what if you could intelligently adapt with your existing security infrastructure? Micro Focus promises to protect across your identities, applications, and data-at the same time and at scale.
With NetIQ, a business will not just secure identities regardless of type or deployment model; it will be enabled to use events and automation to control them in near real-time. Fortify allows to find and eliminate vulnerabilities in code or running applications of all types, on-prem or in the cloud. And with Voltage, one can encrypt and lock down all critical
data, structured and unstructured, at the source, without disrupting downstream business processes. As a result, the organization is able to eliminate gaps and significantly reduce the breach exposure. This in turn, assures the business leader that his data is safe as he continues to expand the digital offerings and business models to keep up with customers’ demands.
More so, it’s a given that even the most secure organizations will experience a breach or breakdown at some point. But what distinguishes the best is how quickly they can detect a genuine threat and respond- because the longer a threat remains hidden, the more damage it does. With Micro Focus ArcSight, leading SIEM and SOAR integrations are combined to not just detect real attacks quickly, but also automate orchestrated responses in near-real-time.
Helping Evolve the Security Posture with Speed of Change
As established already, vulnerabilities are not constant but evolve and present itself to you in numerous way, at numerous occasions and at unpredictable intervals. Educating about the seriousness of the situation, Praveen explains, “You don’t have an unlimited budget or an army of resources to throw at these challenges each time they surface. This means you can’t afford to be painted into a corner by bespoke, hardcoded, on-prem solutions-even if they have best-of-breed capabilities- because change in this kind of environment typically requires big effort, big consulting hours and big costs. And if your people have to spend their time training on new technologies, maintaining hardware and re-writing rules to account for the latest best practices, they won’t be in a position to quickly respond when the newest threat appears-putting your future initiatives at risk”.
Micro Focus helps businesses evolve their security posture at the speed of change. One can leverage the advantage of hybrid deployment options to build on the current heterogeneous foundation, adding SaaS capabilities without capital costs. Since Micro Focus translates domain expertise from its partner ecosystem directly into controls within relevant technologies, an organization can automatically upgrade its protections and stay aligned with new industry requirements as they appear. Finally, by leveraging data science capabilities like machine learning, artificial intelligence, and dashboards, a better visualization of the rich data can be achieved and used to power threaded use cases that cross typical protection gaps. Remarkably defined, this is how a business can prepare itself to respond with flexibility and agility to unpredictable changes- creating a feedback loop for evolving the protection, detection and response activities into the future.
Every industry poses unique technologies, regulations and business processes that one needs to account for. Let alone the fact that they’re changing all the time. Micro Focus empowers its clients to cope with these bottlenecks better and faster. Credit also goes to Micro Focus’ partner ecosystem that comprises leading consulting firms and technology aggregators like iValue InfoSolutions, that are defining best practices and standards as technology and regulatory changes hit the market. And as these standards are set, Micro Focus can turn this domain expertise into controls within relevant solutions, so the client can automatically upgrade the protections to account for unique industry use cases and pain points. This implies that the customer need not manually interpret, codify and create rules for the innumerable regulations as they appear and change, thereby putting the client in a better position to quickly and cost-effectively provide the unique industry safeguards the customers’ demands.
iValue InfoSolutions - A Trusted Distributor Of Micro Focus
iValue has been a trusted distributor for Micro Focus since 2015, nurturing great alignment with Micro Focus’ GTM Practices. This alignment has made an incredible impact in creating a sustainable, high-performance partner ecosystem that has greatly contributed to the growth of both our organizations in APAC. Our proactive support and expertise in ensuring an ongoing successful partner enablement program has helped our partners achieve continued success in large and hybrid IT environments, especially in the government and BFSI segments. We at iValue are happy to be recognized as the best ValueAdded Distributor in Asia Pacific. iValue is the only Platinum Distributor in APJ for Micro Focus.
The Director & CEO of iValue InfoSolutions says, "Growing together in the Indian Market, iValue and Micro Focus has invested extensively to build sales, technical and services capabilities. Micro Focus’s gamut of solutions has enhanced iValue’s comprehensive Solution offering reputation with both, iValue’s channel partners and customers. This relation has helped both sides to leverage on each other’s channel partner loyalty and will continue to add feathers to their caps with longer years of healthy mutual growth".
More so, it’s a given that even the most secure organizations will experience a breach or breakdown at some point. But what distinguishes the best is how quickly they can detect a genuine threat and respond- because the longer a threat remains hidden, the more damage it does. With Micro Focus ArcSight, leading SIEM and SOAR integrations are combined to not just detect real attacks quickly, but also automate orchestrated responses in near-real-time.
Helping Evolve the Security Posture with Speed of Change
As established already, vulnerabilities are not constant but evolve and present itself to you in numerous way, at numerous occasions and at unpredictable intervals. Educating about the seriousness of the situation, Praveen explains, “You don’t have an unlimited budget or an army of resources to throw at these challenges each time they surface. This means you can’t afford to be painted into a corner by bespoke, hardcoded, on-prem solutions-even if they have best-of-breed capabilities- because change in this kind of environment typically requires big effort, big consulting hours and big costs. And if your people have to spend their time training on new technologies, maintaining hardware and re-writing rules to account for the latest best practices, they won’t be in a position to quickly respond when the newest threat appears-putting your future initiatives at risk”.
Micro Focus helps businesses evolve their security posture at the speed of change. One can leverage the advantage of hybrid deployment options to build on the current heterogeneous foundation, adding SaaS capabilities without capital costs. Since Micro Focus translates domain expertise from its partner ecosystem directly into controls within relevant technologies, an organization can automatically upgrade its protections and stay aligned with new industry requirements as they appear. Finally, by leveraging data science capabilities like machine learning, artificial intelligence, and dashboards, a better visualization of the rich data can be achieved and used to power threaded use cases that cross typical protection gaps. Remarkably defined, this is how a business can prepare itself to respond with flexibility and agility to unpredictable changes- creating a feedback loop for evolving the protection, detection and response activities into the future.
Future Endeavours to Safer Business Practices
Micro focus is the world’s seventh-largest pure-play software company with over usd3.3 billion in revenues, spread across 43 countries, 40k customers across the enterprise, government and public sector
Every industry poses unique technologies, regulations and business processes that one needs to account for. Let alone the fact that they’re changing all the time. Micro Focus empowers its clients to cope with these bottlenecks better and faster. Credit also goes to Micro Focus’ partner ecosystem that comprises leading consulting firms and technology aggregators like iValue InfoSolutions, that are defining best practices and standards as technology and regulatory changes hit the market. And as these standards are set, Micro Focus can turn this domain expertise into controls within relevant solutions, so the client can automatically upgrade the protections to account for unique industry use cases and pain points. This implies that the customer need not manually interpret, codify and create rules for the innumerable regulations as they appear and change, thereby putting the client in a better position to quickly and cost-effectively provide the unique industry safeguards the customers’ demands.
iValue InfoSolutions - A Trusted Distributor Of Micro Focus
iValue has been a trusted distributor for Micro Focus since 2015, nurturing great alignment with Micro Focus’ GTM Practices. This alignment has made an incredible impact in creating a sustainable, high-performance partner ecosystem that has greatly contributed to the growth of both our organizations in APAC. Our proactive support and expertise in ensuring an ongoing successful partner enablement program has helped our partners achieve continued success in large and hybrid IT environments, especially in the government and BFSI segments. We at iValue are happy to be recognized as the best ValueAdded Distributor in Asia Pacific. iValue is the only Platinum Distributor in APJ for Micro Focus.
The Director & CEO of iValue InfoSolutions says, "Growing together in the Indian Market, iValue and Micro Focus has invested extensively to build sales, technical and services capabilities. Micro Focus’s gamut of solutions has enhanced iValue’s comprehensive Solution offering reputation with both, iValue’s channel partners and customers. This relation has helped both sides to leverage on each other’s channel partner loyalty and will continue to add feathers to their caps with longer years of healthy mutual growth".
