Lidera Network, IT value wholesaler, has signed a distribution agreement with Cylance® Inc. to offer its next-generation endpoint security solution. Cylance is the company that revolutionized the traditional antivirus market with AI-powered prevention that blocks everyday malware along with today’s most advanced cyber threats. With the addition of CylancePROTECT® to the portfolio of solutions and services, Lidera Network is responding strongly to the changing landscape of threats. Ransomware and attacks continue to increase in frequency and severity, acquiring different forms including web threats, phishing attacks, variants such as Cryptolocker and zero-day malware.
“We are very excited to be partnering with Lidera Network and are confident in their expertise about what differentiates Cylance’s AI approach from other cybersecurity vendors,” said Tim Mackie, vice president of worldwide distribution at Cylance. “With this channel partnership, we can satisfy the significant customer demand in Spain and Portugal and respond to the huge interest we are already experiencing from potential customers in these countries.”
Against this threat environment, Cylance has taken a radically different technological approach to cybersecurity from antivirus solutions that rely on signatures, behavior-based analysis, host intrusion detection and sandboxing, all of which require malware to run before it can be stopped. By applying artificial intelligence and machine learning prior to execution, Cylance is able to evaluate the essential attributes of each file and determine when a file is malicious prior to execution.
In this way, CylancePROTECT analyzes the code's DNA before its execution at the endpoint to detect and prevent threats that others cannot. Its lightweight agent offers complete protection against system and memory attacks, spear phishing, zero-day threats, privilege escalations, scripts, malicious and potentially unwanted programs, all without high false-positive rates, and with minimal use of system resources.
"The incorporation of Cylance in Lidera Network completes our portfolio of security products and gives the value that the channel was asking for a definitive solution for malware,” said Jose Carlos Jimeno, channel director at Lidera Network. “Cylance is redefining endpoint protection with its revolutionary artificial intelligence-based approach to threat detection. Organizations are becoming ever more vulnerable to cyber attacks, so they need agile and effective security to stop them. We are confident that Cylance technology will play an important role in the future of security and the fight against cybercrime. Combining the experience of Lidera Network with Cylance technology results in a strong partnership that gives our customers the highest levels of security on all endpoints."
