Australian IT and security consultancy creates integrated offering to help customers protect against cyberthreats and data breaches.
Solista, an award-winning Australian cloud transformation and security consultancy, has announced the formation of the Zero Trust Alliance, an integrated security offering combining best-of-breed technologies from market-leading security vendors, CrowdStrike, Netskope, Okta, Illumio, CyberArk and Mimecast.
Digital business creates unprecedented cyber-risks and many organizations struggle to balance cybersecurity with everyday business needs. Different organizational requirements, existing technologies and security maturity affect the way in which a Zero Trust security architecture is implemented. Solista’s Zero Trust Framework and maturity model helps organizations assess their Zero Trust readiness and develop a plan to achieve Zero Trust.
The Zero Trust Alliance is designed to help customers address the challenges created by the ever-increasing complexity of modern businesses and the expanding ability of attackers to compromise their networks. Alongside Solista’s Zero Trust Framework, the members of the Zero Trust Alliance work seamlessly together to enable business agility, give organizations the ability to repel and remediate against internal and external threats, and create a frictionless user experience, regardless of application, device or location.
“Customers are looking for a unified security solution that delivers a frictionless user experience while upholding a world class security posture. To help clients focus on securing their business, we formed the Zero Trust Alliance with Solista’s Zero Trust Framework to enable clients to accelerate business and security transformation,” said Noel Allnutt, Co-founder at Solista.
Solista’s Zero Trust Alliance provides an IT roadmap to cybersecurity which helps CISOs develop a toolset and framework that enable risk-based decisions while protecting against security threats and preventing data breaches as well as other cybersecurity events.
Geoff Swaine, Vice President of Channels and Alliances, Asia Pacific and Japan at CrowdStrike, said: “Recent high-profile attacks involving compromised credentials have served as a moment of truth for organizations struggling with expanding remote workforces, growth of cloud applications and an increasingly complex threat landscape.
“Modern organizations need to embrace an identity-centric approach to security with a mature zero trust architecture that is dynamic and end-to-end, automating workflows that ensure verified access across endpoints, networks, workloads and devices. Zero trust must be the de facto standard in today’s work-from-anywhere world.”
Tony Burnside, – VP Asia Pacific at Netskope, said: “Netskope is extremely pleased to be working with such a great partner in Solista and taking a united best of breed technology offering to the Australian marketplace. Netskope’s strong alliance and integrations with CrowdStrike, OKTA and Mimecast translates to our customers benefiting immensely by deploying security technology that truly complements each other and provides our customers with a far more robust security posture. Having Solista as a talented deployment partner provides our customers peace of mind that their deployment will be to the highest level.”
Matt Paull, Director of Regional Alliances, APJ at Okta,said: “As businesses around Australia continue to adapt to the new, dynamic way of working it is clear that an integrated and seamless security strategy is needed to both maintain employee productivity and ensure the protection of company resources.
“We are delighted to join our ecosystem partners Netskope, CrowdStrike and Mimecast in Solista’s Zero Trust Alliance. Cyberattacks large and small are continuing to make headlines, underscoring the critical need for reliable and user-friendly security solutions. We are proud to partner with Solista on this cutting-edge initiative to help the Australian business community collectively uplift security posture.”
Craig McGregor, Channel Director Mimecast ANZ, said:“Enterprise businesses continue to embrace cloud services, and as part of that Digital Transformation, are also facing unprecedented cyber-risks. As such a secure cloud experience is paramount. Solista, an elite partner with Mimecast, understands the need of their clients to establish a Zero Trust security posture.
“Mimecast is excited to be part of this joint alliance with our ecosystem partners Netskope, CrowdStrike and Okta to ensure that Solista’s clients have a combined solution of leading industry platforms to create a powerful Zero Trust Strategy.”
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