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Secure Data, Protect Clients and Avoid Phishing in a Pandemic with High Wire Networks (Podcast included)

“As with any disaster recovery, you first have to find out what is essential to your business that you have to protect. There’s a lot of control mechanisms, protection, monitoring, […]

High Wire Networks Taps Cybersecurity Expert David Barton as CTO for Overwatch Managed Security Platform-as-a-Service

20-Year IT Veteran to Ensure Platform Integrity, Serve as Trusted Technology Adviser to MSPs and Their Business Clients High Wire Networks, providers of the Overwatch Managed Security Platform-as-a-Service, announced today […]

Overwatch Cybersecurity

WEBINAR: Cyberattack & Response (Part 1)  

What would you do if you were under cyberattack? It’s not a question of if, but when your business will be targeted. Join us for a one hour webinar as […]

8 Best Cybersecurity Practices for Working Remotely

If you and/or your employees are working remotely due to COVID-19, please consider these recommendations. It is imperative we keep a vigilant watch over our networks and data during these […]

High Wire Networks Supports Global Delivery of Overwatch Managed Security Services with New International Data Center

Guernsey-based Facility Boosts Availability, Georedundancy & GPDR Compliance for Businesses Around the World. High Wire Networks, a leading provider of managed security services based in Chicago, announced today the addition […]

MSPs, Build Trust by Solving Clients’ Biggest Business Problem: Security

MSP Today Q&A with High Wire Networks’ CEO Mark Porter Security is a business problem, not a technology problem, said High Wire Networks’ CEO Mark Porter in an interview with […]

High Wire Networks Introduces Overwatch 24/7 as Cornerstone for Overwatch Managed Security Platform as a Service

Solution Goes Beyond SIEM, Combining XDR Technology & 24/7 Security Operations Center as a Service to MSPs and Their Clients High Wire Networks a leading global technical field, professional and […]

Experience a Cyberattack & Response in a Real Time Simulation

MSPs, IT and Business Leaders Invited to Half-Day Event Demonstrating Step-by-Step Incident Detection & Response High Wire Networks, a leading global technical field, professional and cybersecurity services company, announced today […]

Public Agency Centralizes Security with a New Security Operations Center

A state government agency based in the Northeast wanted to ensure the tightest security posture in light of recent cyber-ransom attacks on cities, but it needed a security operations center […]

Simplify Compliance with New York’s SHIELD Act

Overwatch Managed Security Checks All the Boxes The state of New York is tightening up data privacy and security rules with the SHIELD Act, which takes effect on March 21, […]

What Can We Do About the Cyber-Workforce Crisis?

The cybersecurity workforce shortage is not hypothetical: According to the ISC(2) cyber-certification group, the size of the current workforce leaves a significant gap between the number of cybersecurity professionals working […]

Privacy Laws in 2020: What to Watch For

As we head into 2020, the debate over what tech giants do with private consumer information has reached an all-time high. As a result, new laws will fundamentally change how […]

2020’s “Most Wanted” Cybercrimes: Top 5 Security Threats to Watch Out for in the New Year

Crime never sleeps – but it evolves. After a year marked ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) fraud and an increase in targeted attacks against companies of all sizes, 2020 has […]

xdr, cybersecurity, SOC, SOCaaS

6 Things You Should Know About XDR

XDR is the new kid on the security block. And, it’s stealing all the attention from the popular, but older EDR. Before you start feeling bad about EDR’s fall from […]

High Wire Networks Taps Managed Security Veteran to Enable Channel Partners to Deliver Overwatch Cybersecurity Services

[Jeremy Cullen to Leverage Overwatch’s Streamlined Quoting and Onboarding Processes to Engineer Cybersecurity Solutions for MSPs and Their Clients] CHICAGO – October 24, 2019 – High Wire Networks, providers of […]

Overwatch Security Guide

Beware! The IRS may not be the IRS

By: Nick Pratt (Overwatch Security Analyst) and Ben Weerts (Overwatch Inside Sales/Marketing) As we approach the October 15 extension deadline, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is alerting taxpayers about a […]

High Wire Networks Hires Veteran CISO to Lead Overwatch Managed Security Platform-as-a-Service

[Philip Burnett’s Leadership Fortifies MSSP’s Position as Trusted Authority in Cybersecurity for Sales Partners and Their Business Clients]  CHICAGO – September 25, 2019 –High Wire Networks, providers of the Overwatch […]

High Wire Networks Adds Strategic International Partner to Offer Cybersecurity Outside of the U.S.

West Sealand Digital to Sell the Overwatch Managed Security Platform-as-a-Service to SMBs in EMEA Countries  CHICAGO & GUERNSEY – September 17, 2019 – High Wire Networks, a leading provider of […]

ChannelPro Network Interviews Overwatch

Joel Zaidspiner from The ChannelPro Network met with the Overwatch Managed Security team last month at ChannelCon by CompTIA  in Las Vegas.  He sat down with Josue Vargas, Overwatch’s Director […]

Overwatch Simplifies Cybersecurity

Overwatch Managed Security, High Wire’s security service, attended CompTIA’s annual convention, ChannelCon, August 5-7, 2019, in Las Vegas.  Josue Vargas, the Director of Security Operations, was featured on a podcast hosted by Don Witt from […]

Podcast: COMPTIA CHANNELCON – Special Feature

High Wire, a global service provider, delivers Overwatch full service cyber security to SMBs through their Channel Partners.

High Wire Networks’ Certified Ethical Hacker to Address State of Cybersecurity at ChannelCon 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE High Wire Networks’ Certified Ethical Hacker to Address State of Cybersecurity at ChannelCon 2019 Josue Vargas, Director of Security Operations, to Discuss the Challenge of Making Enterprise-class […]

Overwatch SOC Bolsters Security for Technology Customer

The Overwatch Protection:   Overwatch Security Analysts, monitoring a customer’s network, last month, discovered cybercriminals attempting to log-in to their web portal, using a brute force attack. Overwatch advised the […]

4 Steps to Effective IT Security Marketing

4 Steps to Effective IT Security Marketing If there is one advantage marketing IT security products, it is that you and your audience start from the shared perspective that taking […]

5 Signs that your End-Users Need a Security Service Boost

In business today, digital security is one of the most important functions that any IT department is responsible for, and the weight of that responsibility is only growing over time. […]

2019 Security Trends, and How they Affect your Customers

In the wake of the surprisingly high volume of serious data breaches that hit businesses of all sizes (and impacted millions of consumers) last year, information security practices are already […]

How to Market MDR Services to End- Users and Make it Click

If the key to resonating with your intended audience can be boiled down to any one consideration, it is that you as a reseller have to be able to see […]

Overwatch: MSSP Partner of the Year

High Wire Networks’ Overwatch Managed Security was awarded and named “Master MSSP Partner of the Year” at Seceon, Inc.’s  annual SecuRight Global Partners and Customers Summit in Devens, Massachussets. “We […]

BLOG: Why you don’t want to miss this webinar

By: Stan Herring, Director of Product & Strategy I’m excited about the seminar because it’s an opportunity to share with our Partners in the managed security space, information based on […]

WEBINAR: A New Paradigm for Service Providers

Join us on March 21st at 1:00pm CST Subject matter experts from High Wire’s Networks’ Overwatch Managed Security Services & Seceon, Inc., developers of the aiSIEM Platform, will discuss these […]

Overwatch Partners with Next Gen. Cloud VPN

High Wire Networks’ Overwatch Managed Security bolsters its holistic security platform, announcing today it now offers a business class, cloud-based VPN service designed to simplify and securely connect employees to […]

The difference between machine learning and artificial intelligence in your security platform

When one thinks of artificial intelligence or machine learning, the first place people often go to is science fiction–sentient computers, murderous robots, that kind of thing. They’re both very large […]

The 6 Key Ingredients that Make a High-Performance SOCaaS Solution

It seems like hardly a week goes by without another high-profile data breach making the headlines. Not even data fortresses like Facebook seem to be safe, proving that even industry […]

The core components of a proper cybersecurity offering for MSPs

While today’s technological advances have certainly facilitated the way many industries do business both locally and globally, it has also paved the way for cybercriminals to exploit weaknesses in the […]

Security operations center: Build or outsource?

Modern IT security teams have a challenging job, with a constantly evolving threat landscape, and the realization that only a single cyber attack has to be successful to have a […]

October is National Cybersecurity Month. So What?

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Susanna Song If you’re wondering, so what? Keep reading. There’s a reason why cybersecurity is no longer just a flashy headline or idea. Your SME clients need […]

Cyberattack: Criminals may already be inside your network

Posted on October 09, 2018 by Stan Herring, Director of Product & Strategy As a savvy IT manager, you’ve methodically researched and deployed the very latest in firewalls, intrusion detection […]

Overwatch Managed Endpoint Security Partner, Sophos, Named to Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant

For the seventh year in a row, High Wire Network’s managed endpoint security partner, Sophos, is a recognized Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. Overwatch’s platform offers channel partners wholesale managed […]

High Wire Networks Joins Sophos to Deliver Managed Endpoint Security for Channel Partners

High Wire Networks’ Overwatch Managed Security today announced it has joined the Sophos Partner Program.  Overwatch channel partners can now meet the SME markets’ growing security requirements with next-generation, predictive […]

Unseen threats to Maritime Security

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Josue Vargas — Leave a comment Last month, COSCO or China Ocean Shipping Company, which is known as one of the largest maritime cargo players in the market received a nasty […]

Are Your Vendors Secure?

By Mark Porter, President and CEO of High Wire Networks Every day we hear about another large corporation with a data breach, or a large-scale ransomware attack, or a new […]

ATLANTA: When Security Planning Comes Too Late

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Josue Vargas When the city of Atlanta came under attack by the SamSam ransomware on March 22nd, it was already too late—there was no emergency plan. By […]

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