Who doesn’t like a good ole’ game of “Guess how many M&Ms or marbles are in that jar”? Are you off by 20, 50, or by a couple hundred? Or maybe you’re fairly close estimating the number of spheres in a confined space. Now think about your IT assets in your organization. Are all of them accounted for? Where are they located? Take a guess. Guess again. A miss is as good as a mile.

Identity & Access Management (IAM) is the central administration of identities and access rights in a company. Authentication and authorization are essential components with which identities are managed and access rights for linked solutions, systems, applications and resources are controlled. It may sound complicated, but this can be easily explained using a practical example.

Our latest announcement comes in the form of another exciting partnership, this time with Qualys! A leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions, Qualys has integrated Ivanti Patch Management technology into their Qualys VMDR (Vulnerability Management Detection Response) platform.

I’m thrilled that we’ve finally announced the availability of the new Ivanti Neurons platform! It’s been a long journey involving huge efforts by all parts of the Ivanti organization over recent years to get to this point. There is a powerful and close relationship between the Ivanti Neurons platform and Ivanti’s Enterprise Service Management and IT Service Manager capabilities.

Threat actors move fast. They are agile and will shift tactics as opportunities present themselves. As the COVID-19 pandemic changed how we had to work and manage our users and environments, threat actors also made changes. They adapted to a new opportunity and they did so very quickly. ZScaler released a report in April showing the increase in COVID themed attacks increasing 30,000% between January and March this year.

With the first half of the year now behind us, and following our current cadence of quarterly updates, we continue to support our customers by releasing a third Identity Director update for 2020. Where the 2020.1 release of Identity Director focused on password resets—aiming to help both users and organizations as more and more employees work from home—the current release is all about empowering the users to be in control.

As part of our re-affirmed commitment to customers, Ivanti formed an Independent Business Unit that consists of a dedicated set of Ivanti products and services with the single purpose of pleasing its customers by providing long term value. This new unit’s development is driven by our customers’ feedback and requirements. We are pleased to announce our most recent release for Ivanti Service Desk 2018.3 - update 14!

If you are an IT professional, you are technical. You love technology. You love to dabble. You enjoy the thrill that comes from troubleshooting problems and finding a solution. But you probably don’t want to troubleshoot and fix problems all day. There are other interesting things to do. IT can be strategic in helping companies improve their top and bottom line. The complexity of IT continues to increase. The good news is that the need for talented IT staff also continues to grow.

We at Ivanti are thrilled to announce our new strategic partnership with Intel. Offering Device-as-a-Service with self-healing capabilities for the next generation workforce, Intel® Endpoint Management Assistant (Intel® EMA) now integrates with the Ivanti Neurons hyper-automation platform. This partnership enables IT organizations to self-heal and self-secure with Intel vPro® platform-based devices—both inside and outside of the corporate firewall.

Today is the day! We've just published this press release announcing our brand new Ivanti Neurons platform! What it is: Ivanti Neurons is a new hyper-automation platform that empowers organizations to proactively, predictably and autonomously self-heal and self-secure devices, and self-service end users. Ivanti Neurons augments IT teams with automation bots that detect and resolve issues and security vulnerabilities while improving the accuracy, speed and costs of services IT delivers.