Why Data Connect?

We are always working hard to perfect our solution offerings, ensuring all our customers receive the best service possible. This is why we like you to hear from our customers and partners, and why they continue to work with us.

  • Constantly reviewing vendors and technology
  • Dedicated to building and maintaining strong relationships
  • Tried and tested products that we believe in
  • Certified and vendor accredited technical team
  • Continually exceeding customers’ commercial expectations
  • 19 years of experience working with the channel
  • Constantly reviewing vendors and technology
  • Dedicated to building and maintaining strong relationships
  • Tried and tested products that we believe in
  • Certified and vendor accredited technical team
  • Continually exceeding customers’ commercial expectations
  • 19 years of experience working with the channel

GOOGLE CHRONICLE

As part of the Google Cloud Platform, Google Chronicle is designed to help businesses detect, investigate and respond to cyber threats, with speed and precision, to eliminate cyber security blind spots.

  • This is based upon incident investigation, threat hunting, detection and third-party apps
  • Orchestrate, automate and collaborate to respond to threats quickly and easily
  • Utilise Google’s threat intelligence to identify malware and/or users who may have accessed malicious sites

PALO ALTO NETWORKS

Palo Alto Networks is a multinational cyber security company with a large portfolio of products and services; it specialises in advanced firewalls and cloud based offerings to extend firewalls to cover other areas of security.

  • Named as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls for the 11th year
  • Trusted by 9 out of 10 of the largest manufacturing companies in the world
  • A founding member of the Cyber Threat Alliance, which is a non-profit organisation based around improving cyber security

BITDEFENDER

Bitdefender helps improve your cyber resilience, ensuring maximum efficiency with easy to deploy agents. Bitdefender helps defend your network through continuous end point monitoring, detection and response.

  • Award-winning cloud based technology
  • Discovers over 400 threats every minute
  • Uses machine learning models to identify and prevent attacks

KNOWBE4

KnowBe4 is the world’s largest library for security awareness training combined with real-life phishing simulations. KnowBe4 is a flexible provider that helps businesses of all sizes to create a security awareness programme.

  • Selected as an ‘Excellence Award’ winner at the SC Awards in 2021
  • Choose from 100s of phishing templates or create bespoke emails
  • Keeps your employees mindful of physical and cyber threats

MIMECAST

Since 2003, Mimecast has been reducing the risk to organisations through a range of services. Mimecast offers advanced solutions for email security, email archiving, security awareness training and web security.

  • Named Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice in 2022
  • Integrates with existing security solutions
  • Provides complete protection for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace

QUALYS

Qualys offers cloud based security services, including vulnerability management, compliance and asset management solutions. Using automation, it identifies all unknown and known devices within your IT environment and beyond.

  • Partners with Amazon, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
  • Winner of ‘Best VM Solution’ at the SC Awards in 2022
  • Founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance

VARONIS

Varonis enables companies to protect their data by securing sensitive files and emails, facilitating customer confidentiality and protecting financial records. The platform can detect insider and outsider threats to prevent and limit malicious activity.

  • Continuously classifies your data and remediates exposure to stop cyber attacks
  • Rated the ‘#1 Data Security Platform’ by Gartner’s File Analysis
  • Integrates with over 50 apps, including Microsoft 365, Google, AWS and Salesforce

FORTINET

Fortinet is a provider of cyber security solutions and next-generation firewalls. Its broad, integrated and automated approach provides comprehensive cyber security protection to all users, devices and applications across network edges.

  • Over 635,000 customers trust Fortinet
  • Recognised 13 times in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls
  • Provides 360° advanced threat detection for all firewalls

CHECK POINT

Check Point offers a multilevel security architecture, offering both hardware and software products to protect cloud, network and mobile devices. It specialises in network security, next-generation firewalls, intrusion prevention and data loss prevention.

  • Offers protection from fifth-generation cyber attacks to over 100,000 organisations
  • Named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls in 2022
  • A quarter of Fortune Global 500 businesses use Check Point

TESSIAN

The Tessian Cloud Email Security Platform is a fully automated platform that detects advanced email threats, whether external or internal. Where the internal compromises are due to human error or insider threats, Tessian uses behavioural data and artificial intelligence (AI) to stop them in their tracks.

  • Prevents advanced threats, including spear phishing and ransomware
  • Enhanced email security for cloud, on-premises (on-prem) and hybrid environments
  • Integrates across email, SOARs and active directory management clients

CISCO

Cisco is a leader in IT, cyber security solutions and networking; it helps businesses connect, communicate and collaborate. The company provides IT across five main areas, including networking, security, collaboration, data centres and the internet of things (IoT).

  • Cisco’s name is a homage to San Francisco, and the logo represents the Golden Gate Bridge
  • Ranked one of the world’s best workplaces 12 years in a row
  • Around 70% of its manufacturing suppliers/components will achieve a zero-waste diversion by 2025

AWS

AWS offers reliable and secure cloud computing services to organisations. The company provides encryption capabilities, key management and sensitive data discovery to help organisations protect their workloads.

  • The AWS cloud spans 99 availability zones within 31 geographic regions around the world
  • AWS is a part of Amazon and stands for Amazon Web Services
  • It’s adopting renewable energy sources, which are currently powering one-quarter of AWS

MANAGEENGINE

ManageEngine provides IT management software to organisations for their service and operations management, as well as fulfilling their active directory and security needs. With more than 60 enterprise tools, ManageEngine aims to bring IT solutions together to provide an integrated approach for all.

  • Around 9 out of 10 Fortune 100 companies use ManageEngine products
  • Winner of the ‘Best Application Performance Monitoring Board’ at the CIO Select Awards in 2022
  • ManageEngine has a portfolio of over 120 products

IMPERVA

Imperva provides organisations with complete cyber security through managing all digital experiences, including APIs, microservices and the data layer. Imperva does this by adopting activity monitoring, real-time protection services and risk management solutions.

  • Won three awards at the Global Infosec Awards in 2022
  • Winner in ‘Web Application Security’ at the Cybersecurity Excellence award for 2023
  • Protects over 6,200 enterprises and millions of people daily

RAPID 7 

Rapid7 provides cloud risk management and threat detection to help secure data. Its services simplify the methods behind visibility, analytics and automation. This helps teams reduce vulnerabilities and monitor for malicious behaviour.

  • Labelled a ‘visionary’ in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing in 2021
  • Designated by MITRE to be a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Naming Authority for research and innovation
  • Has over 10,700 customers world-wide

OKTA

Okta provides a powerful and extensible platform that focuses on identity, allowing customers to sign in, authorise and manage users in one place. It enables companies to connect the right people securely to the right applications.

  • Across Okta’s office, remote workforce and third-party cloud service consumption, it has achieved 100% renewable electricity usage
  • Recognised as the Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for 2022
  • Has over 7,400 pre-built integrations

FORCEPOINT

Forcepoint provides organisations with better security by focusing on critical data, behaviour intelligence and risk analytics. It provides a holistic partnership with its customers, based up problem-solving, productivity and value.

  • Awarded the ‘Best Data Leakage Prevention Solution’ at the SC Awards in 2022
  • Has over 14,500 customers across more than 150 countries
  • Provides operational savings of 72% for remote IT personnel and networking infrastructure

TREND MICRO

Trend Micro is a global leader in enterprise cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), and cyber security platform solutions. The company provides automated security for its customers through the use of the cloud and the virtualisation of security products.

  • Collects over 5.5 trillion threat queries per year
  • Partners with AWS, VMware, Microsoft, HP, IBM and Google
  • Since 2007, it has been named a leader in global vulnerability research and discovery

SONICWALL

SonicWall works to detect and prevent malicious attacks. It provides a multitude of services and products, incl. firewalls, secure mobile/wireless access, and endpoint protection and management.

  • Over 1 million previously unseen malware variants have discovered by SonicWall technology
  • Awarded the ‘Best of Enterprise VPNs [virtual private networks]’ by Expert Insights in 2022
  • Provides additional controls to firewalls to prevent further data leakage

CENSORNET

Censornet works with businesses to provide enterprise-grade solutions through autonomous integrated security; this focuses on reducing threats that enter a company through email, web or cloud activity.

  • Processes over 1 billion threats a day
  • Awarded ‘Technology Provider of the Year’ by the British Business Awards in 2022
  • Winner of Computing’s ‘Cloud Excellence Award’ in 2021

DELINEA

Delinea is one of the leading providers of privileged access management solutions, which enable organisations to secure critical data, devices and cloud infrastructure, allowing them to reduce risk, remain compliant and simplify security.

  • Formed through a merger between Thycotic and Centrify
  • Named a multi-category gold winner in the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards in 2022
  • Its president was named ‘Executive of the Year’ by the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards in 2022

VMRAY

VMRay works with companies to provide comprehensive and accurate solutions for threat detection. Its services and products work with security operations centre (SOC) and IT operations teams to handle the growing volume and diversity of threats.

  • Partners with Microsoft, Google, VMWare and Carbon Black
  • Joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
  • VMRay’s portfolio contains over 20 products

HP

HP develops and manufactures computing, data storage and networking hardware. It also designs software and delivers a large portfolio of services to individuals and organisations.

  • Founded in 1939 by William Hewlett and David Packard
  • The order of words in the business’s name was chosen by the flip of a coin
  • In a bid to become more environmentally conscious, HP has recycled 352 tonnes of hardware

MERAKI

Meraki Cisco helps organisations to manage their Wi-Fi, routing and security. The Meraki Cisco cloud is able to connect millions of networks every day, which can be managed through its own dashboard.

  • Its name was inspired by the Greek word meraki, which translates as ‘soul, creativity and love’
  • Has been running its cloud networking service continuously for over 10 years
  • Cisco acquired Meraki in 2012

DUO

Duo supplies organisations with multifactor authentication, single sign on, remote access and access control products. Its platform allows employers to verify user identities, as well as assess and take action on the health of devices.

  • Duo was acquired by Cisco in 2018
  • Works with the likes of Microsoft, Intel and VMware
  • Named the ‘Best Authentication Company’ by TrustRadius in 2022

KENNA SECURITY

Kenna Security is vulnerability management software that prioritises real-time threat intel. Utilising machine learning and data science, it helps businesses to exploit intelligence feeds, analyse threats, manage vulnerabilities and secure data.

  • Acquired by Cisco in 2021
  • Winner of the ‘Cutting Edge in Vulnerability Management Award’ at the Global InfoSec Awards in 2021
  • Winner of a Cybersecurity Excellence Award in 2021

TENABLE

Tenable is an exposure management company that has created Tenable One, an exposure management platform, and other well-known technology such as Nessus, the vulnerability scanning software. Its vision is to “empower all organizations to understand and reduce their cybersecurity exposure”.

  • Winner of the Frost & Sullivan 2022 Technology Innovation Leader Report
  • Supply protection and services to 50% of the fortune 500
  • Tenable’s podcast, The Hacker Chronicles, was named Best Brand Podcast by the Campaign US Brand Entertainment Awards

NEBRC

The North East Business Resilience Centre is a non-profit organisation with the aim to support and help protect business within the North East, Yorkshire and Humber area with their cyber security.

  • Police-led workforce with over 20 years of experience
  • Named ‘Police Team of the Year’ at the 2022 National Cyber Awards
  • Rebecca Chapman, Director of the NEBRC, won ‘Inspiring Female Business Leader of the Year’ for 2022 by the North East England Chamber of Commerce

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