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ContraForce Joins Microsoft Intelligent Security Association

  • Wednesday, July 28, 2021, 8:17 pm
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ContraForce, a leader in Open XDR for small and medium businesses, today announced that it has been nominated to join the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA). ContraForce was nominated for membership due to their Microsoft Azure Sentinel API integration.

ContraForce delivers the Azure Sentinel API integration to customers with their Open XDR solution targeted towards MSSP’s and SMB’s. The membership will allow ContraForce to work more closely with Microsoft security product teams in order to build-in additional security for end users. Tighter integrations into the Microsoft security stack will allow ContraForce to deliver a more powerful yet simplified Open XDR experience to customers who are struggling with rapid incident response, generating more visibility across their security environment while reducing their costs.

MISA is an ecosystem of independent software vendors and managed security service providers that have integrated their solutions with Microsoft security products to better assist end users defend against the world of increasing threats. Founded in 2018 MISA now has more than 245 members, more than 250 integrations and 165 service offerings some of which are available in the Azure Marketplace.

“I am extremely excited to expand our relationship with Microsoft in order to better serve our customers who are battling adversarial threats that impact their capacity to deliver business outcomes to their customers”, stated Stan Golubchik, CEO ContraForce. “With ContraForce’s integrations into the Microsoft security stack we are able to simplify security outcomes through an innovative Open XDR experience for our customers who are on-premises or in the cloud eliminating manual tool configuration, mitigating false positives and automating rapid incident response for reducing risk across all attack vectors,” he added.

“Microsoft Intelligent Security Association members leverage Microsoft's security products to better defend against cyber security threats with identity and access management, threat protection, information protection, and security management,” said Rob Lefferts, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Defender.

While ContraForce has integrated deeply with the Azure Sentinel API, they have also extended their solution’s integrations with Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Cloud App Security, Defender for Microsoft 365, and Defender for Identity to provide a comprehensive Open XDR platform for customers who believe in the Microsoft vision as much as ContraForce does.