Cloud Range Partners with Ingram Micro to Launch Cyber Range Simulation Training in Canada; Solves Customers’ Most Critical Challenge, the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
Comprehensive SOC Analyst Training creates instant experience using Cloud Range’s virtual cyber range
NASHVILLE, TN, November 26, 2020 Cloud Range today announced that its cyber range training is now available to all Ingram Micro partners in Canada.. Through this partnership, Ingram Micro customers can now access a simulation-based cyber defense training platform from Cloud Range. This platform helps ensure that SOC teams have the proper skills and experience to detect and remediate inevitable cyber attacks.
The new offering allows partners to solve their customers’ most critical security challenge, the cybersecurity skills shortage. Cloud Range provides security teams with hyper-realistic simulation training on a virtual cyber range, eliminating the need for costly infrastructure and administration of a traditional cyber range, and is now part of Ingram Micro’s security offering. The unique service utilizes industry-leading security tools from IBM, CheckPoint, MicroFocus, Fortinet, Symantec, Splunk and more, within the virtual environment. This allows customers and partners to train in an environment that mirrors their own.
"Ingram Micro's vision for addressing the cybersecurity skills gap is going to make a tremendous impact on a customer’s ability to hire and train security professionals quickly and efficiently,” said Debbie Gordon, CEO of Cloud Range. "Ingram Micro's global reach and channel relationships will be instrumental in managing the demand for this groundbreaking solution to the skills shortage.”
Ingram Micro helps customers get the most value out of the technology they provide by partnering with some of the industry's best players. Ingram Micro is thrilled to partner with Cloud Range to offer this groundbreaking solution to the cybersecurity skills gap,” said Anthony Karim, VP, Vendor Management, Ingram Micro Canada. “Cloud Range has completely changed the ability to staff effectively by ‘manufacturing experience’ through simulation training. Customers can now maximize their investments in security tools, knowing that they can hire and train SOC operations staff quickly and effectively by training them on Cloud Range’s virtual cyber range platform.”
With an acute shortage of security professionals worldwide, it is getting increasingly difficult for customers to staff their cybersecurity teams appropriately. This often delays or eliminates the purchase of certain technologies, leaving the customer exposed to additional risk.
Cyber defenders are required to have the training and experience needed to protect their organizations. Still, industry certifications and vendor training are not enough to ensure they are prepared for live combat. Cloud Range is solving the most critical customer challenge: the cybersecurity skills gap, which directly impacts every organization’s security posture while ensuring that SOC Operations teams gain the actual “live combat skills” and ability to practice addressing any complex cyber threat.
About Cloud Range
Cloud Range is a pioneer in cybersecurity simulation training, providing the first Cyber Attack Simulation Training Platform as a Service (CASTaaS), available to customers exclusively through cybersecurity Technology Manufacturers, Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), Value-Added Resellers (VARs), and Technology Distributors. The Cloud Range training platform can be utilized on-premises at a customer’s site or virtually, led by Cloud Range’s professional instructors. The platform can emulate each customer’s specific network environment, using industry leading cybersecurity technologies that are built into the platform. Customers can train security teams, assess candidates, onboard new hires, and improve cybersecurity team skills within a customizable, virtual network environment that mirrors their own. Cloud Range training enables security professionals the ability to “Prepare from Anywhere”™.
About Ingram Micro
Ingram Micro helps businesses Realize the Promise of Technology™. It delivers a full spectrum of global technology and supply chain services to businesses around the world. Deep expertise in technology solutions, mobility, cloud, and supply chain solutions enables its business partners to operate efficiently and successfully in the markets they serve. Unrivaled agility, deep market insights and the trust and dependability that come from decades of proven relationships, set Ingram Micro apart and ahead. More at ca.ingrammicro.com.