Manage endpoint devices

09/14/2017
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When you have large deployments of endpoint devices to manage...patching, making sure you're aware of any vulnerabilities can be a huge issue. Automating this process can save a tremendous amount of time. We speak with Baramundi Software about their technology that's helped thousands of customers. 

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hey Dave Littman, Truth in IT and I am

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joined today by Jonathan Langer Jonathan

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is executive Sales Manager with

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barramundi software Jonathan welcome

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yeah good to meet you Dave

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all right glad to have you so today we

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are talking about managing endpoint

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devices we're talking about managing

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Windows devices Apple devices servers

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desktops mobile devices even Android so

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Jonathan give us a little high-level

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overview of barramundi we'll get into

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some Q&A; yeah thanks Dave

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so barramundi um is a comprehensive

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endpoint management solution that's

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designed to manage your mobile devices

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as well as your Windows desktop Windows

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servers we've actually been around for

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17 years now started off as basically

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back then a migration project from two

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university students migrating from

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Windows NT to Windows 2000 and out of

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that project basically the whole company

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evolved we have over two and a half

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thousand customers know and are probably

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yeah there's a software product that's

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most comprehensive and easy to use in

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that space right now okay great so when

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we talk about let's talk about managing

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endpoint devices are we talking about

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you know knowing where their physical

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locations are managing patch updates

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making sure that you know you can

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protect them in case they get lost or

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stolen help us understand what what

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management of these devices really yes

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they're actually you just covered a

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couple of these aspects concerning your

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classic Windows desktops laptops servers

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um obviously patching has become a

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larger and larger issue concerning

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security so barramundi can really help

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you to detect any known or common

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vulnerability and exploit and visualize

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that so it can tell you how you need to

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prioritize patching and handling your

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software as well as remediated

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remediating that and that as well the

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window side and on the third-party

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application side that's one thing we

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actually have an extremely strong engine

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there for software deployment with a lot

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of software products you have to

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repackage them to deploy them in a large

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scale with barramundi you can just

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automate that

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usually saves about 80% of the time that

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you would need with other competing

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products yeah and then going all the way

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to the OS side where we can actually

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automate your Windows 10 in-place

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upgrades which can be difficult of since

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there's in your release coming out every

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six months from Windows 10 at the moment

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ya know the mobile side it's also app

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management you can do inventory on the

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machines and you can lock them if they

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get lost what remotely wiped them all

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the classic and basically mobile device

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management stuff okay great and you know

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one last question but as you know

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cybersecurity and ransomware are top of

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mind for every IT professional and

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frequently we know that the the laptop

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or the mobile phone is in many cases the

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the point of attack so how can

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barramundi help our audience prevent

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against circumstances like this that's

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right so a common example one that just

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actually came up was the whole wanna cry

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scenario which was all around the media

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and everything and basically how these

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ransomware works is they always use a

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common unknown vulnerability where RT

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departments just haven't been on top of

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their game patching their software and

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keeping windows and their other

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applications up to date so basically the

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best way how to protect that is really

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to keep your standard stuff up to date

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and yeah sometimes we forget that

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hackers are lazy people as well

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sometimes so they won't find the tiny

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gap that somewhere in the corner but

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they're just gonna use the common

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exploits that are known and 90% of the

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time actually that's what the NSA does

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as well so that's why the whole wanna

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cry thing was actually came out of with

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a hole and as a backdoor that they were

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using yeah and so really just doing your

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basic homework that's what Burundi is

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all about and with that it actually

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prevents most the most common and yes

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security risks from actually affecting

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your environment okay so you guys can

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facilitate an audit of the environment

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and you guys see where patch levels are

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not up to date employ those patches

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exactly and that's actually a very

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strong point of our solutions most

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solutions will say that they can do that

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Mondays benefit is that it's a push

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solution and therefore there's a

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real-time connection basically with

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between the server at the end and the

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actual end point that you're managing

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and therefore you get real-time feedback

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if a patch has been deployed if it's

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been successful if the patch has failed

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yeah and that all with very little

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system load and that's actually pretty

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unique about our software so really if

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you have to close your wanna cry

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loophole on a Monday morning first thing

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before your staff gets in and uses the

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computer barramundi is ideal to actually

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track if that's happened successfully

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and to lock down the device if that's

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not been the case all right very good

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Jonathan Longo with barramundi software

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hey thanks very much for speaking with

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us today thank you Dave okay thanks for

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watching check them out barramundi

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barramundi de or barramundi comm

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barramundi comm barramundi comm okay

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great hey thanks again take care

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everyone

 

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