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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