The two companies harness the power of generative AI to revolutionize security operations in New Zealand
The future of managed detection and response activities will be driven by generative artificial intelligence and SentinelOne (NYSE: S), a global leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, together with Advantage, a leading New Zealand-based provider of managed services, networking and security, are combining their respective expertise to offer the new service to businesses. The two longtime partners announced that Advantage will integrate PurpleAI from SentinelOne, the industry's leading AI security analyst, in its cutting-edge detection and managed response (MDR) service, enabling businesses of all sizes to defend against AI-based attacks with AI-enhanced solutions.
“Many vendors talk about generative AI, but SentinelOne is actually delivering it with technology capable of transforming the way security activities are managed,” said Brad Pearpoint, Managing Director of Advantage. “Together, with our managed services solutions, we can make high-profile Security Operations Centers (SOCs) a reality for every enterprise.”
Advantage Protect MDR service, powered by SentinelOne technology, provides businesses with enterprise-grade protection across endpoints, servers and cloud environments. With the integration of Purple AI, Advantage can increase the skills of its security team and enhance their efforts with an advanced AI security solution that not only creates complex data queries from natural language, but anticipates what security analysts need to do and suggests next steps.
“With SentinelOne, we can effectively leverage the power of machine learning and behavioral analytics to dramatically accelerate mean time to investigation (MTTI) and mean time to remediation (MTTR) and identify and neutralize attacks for our customers in real time,” Pearpoint said.
Advantage has been a SentinelOne partner for four years and was awarded Partner of the Year for Asia-Pacific and Japan in 2023. It is the only service provider in New Zealand capable of providing cyber threat intelligence. NCSC Malware Free Networks (and other types of intelligence) via SentinelOne. Advantage also holds SentinelOne's most rigorous SIREN certification for cyber incident response and containment, available to SentinelOne partners.
“Advantage is one of our most important partners in New Zealand and the APJ region and we are proud to partner with them to offer comprehensive, uncompromised security to customers across the region,” concluded Jim Cook, NZ Sales Director at SentinelOne. “SentinelOne pioneered AI-powered security, and we will continue to innovate to transform how security teams manage the complexity of their environments and defend against threats.”
