Interview
Life in the channel
Malwarebytes, Amy Appleyard
Real-time cyberprotection specialist, Malwarebytes recently appointed Amy Appleyard as its new senior vice president of Global Sales. Appleyard joined Malwarebytes from VMware, where she was vice president of Sales for the Commercial division of VMware Carbon Black. Michelle Winny, Editor of PCR caught up with Amy to find out how she is getting on in her new role.
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ince joining Malwarebytes, Amy Appleyard has driven forward the company’s focus on providing MSPs with cybersecurity solutions
for their customers. As a female in the cybersecurity industry Appleyard explains more about why a career in cybersecurity is so rewarding.
Please could you tell us a bit about your background within the channel and your new role at Malwarebytes and moving over from VMware? Having worked in cyber security for a number of years, I am deeply aware of the importance of working with channel partners and MSPs, as most customers leverage channel partners to help them define and meet their security maturity goals. At Malwarebytes, we value working with channel partners to provide endpoint security solutions, which are a key component of any security framework. I moved to Malwarebytes from VMware as I was interested in taking on a global role and in working for an incredibly nimble organisation with aspirational growth goals, and a focus on Mid-Market customers. I have enjoyed getting to know my new team, and especially developing strategies to meet the needs of international organisations.
I understand that in your current role, you are tasked with
expanding the company’s focus on cybersecurity solutions. Please could you explain a bit more about this and the current need within the channel? We have seen a gap in cybersecurity solutions that solve the needs of small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs); part of my role
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is to help reach and serve this market. Many business cybersecurity solutions are aimed at large enterprises with a security operations team, and can be overwhelming for SMBs that need simple, automated solutions. Our solutions help to ensure that cybersecurity is simple and intuitive for this audience, while also streamlining management of the solutions from MSPs or other partners in tandem. Channel partners and MSPs are integral in giving us the ability to reach and help more SMBs by reducing hands-on management and providing a more approachable experience for businesses without a security team.
Tell us a bit more about how Malwarebytes is supporting the next phase in addressing cybersecurity threats and remote worker management? Many businesses were not fully prepared for the shiſt to remote or hybrid work environments, and this expanded into cybersecurity preparedness as well. Without properly secured networks at home, many remote workers are at risk. Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) attacks are rising as more organisations work from home. Brute force RDP attacks seek to gain access to an Internet-connected computer, and then use it to infect other devices and servers on the network. Attackers operating ransomware such as Egregor and REvil use exposed RDP connections to access a vulnerable device. Malwarebytes’ Brute Force Protection directly combats these attacks by blocking IP addresses that exceed a threshold of invalid login attempts on Windows workstations and servers.
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