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INSA INTEGRA CYBERNEWS
Volume 25 Number 5
Education and Enterprise edition |
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INSA Integra CyberNews May 2025 edition
Hello everyone. In this issue you will find exciting details about the updated OECM contract, including 11 new products you can purchase via this vehicle. We are also excited to promote the first public run of the INSA Aruba ClearPass Advanced class, to continue your ClearPass Journey for those that have completed ClearPass Foundations.
You may have seen us at CIS where I gave a talk "AI, Beyond the Breach" with Peter Smetny of Fortinet. There are great events coming up including the OASBO right away and the Pembroke Seminar soon after that, read more below.
This edition's product spotlight is eSentire, a product-agnostic, all-Canadian Managed Security Service with deep skills and experience.
You are receiving this based on your previous interactions with INSA Integra. Unsubscribe links are at the bottom and feel free to pass this along to any other interested parties!
Also please feel free to email me, Russ Doucet, for any suggestions, questions, comments or concerns regarding this newsletter.
Thanks for being a great asset to the CyberSecurity community!
-Russ Doucet, CTO
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TRAINING UPDATE: Upcoming Schedule
CLICK ABOVE LINKS TO REGISTER!
Note that the pricing has been adjusted, eg. all five day courses are now $5000, (less for shorter) and volume discounts are available. |
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CLASS SPOTLIGHT: INSA's Aruba ClearPass Advanced
Brand new class! 100% INSA developed courseware completes the picture for ClearPass, continuing from Foundations. This one will be delivered by Rajvir Singh, the highest certified Aruba Partner engineer in Canada. Content includes OnGuard, Guest Access, Device control, BYOD, SAML, firewall Integrations. Class includes hands-on labs using INSA lab gear.
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Today you can find INSA Integra at IT@UofT Metamorphasis Conference with HPE Aruba, serving the Tri-Campus community. |
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May 7-9: OASBO Conference
Join us at the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville for the OASBO 2025 Annual Conference, where collaboration, innovation, and education come together to empower school business professionals across Ontario. Come see us at Booth L23 or Email Tim Kim to connect with us. Click the link below for more information and to register. |
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Our booth is live at OASBO! Come see us on the show floor! We don't want to take any of this swag back to the office! :-) |
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May 22: PEMBROKE SEMINAR
Sign up for our interactive CyberSecurity Seminar at the Best Western Conference Center in Pembroke to see speakers Paul Landry, Russ Doucet, and other industry experts share their knowledge and insights on securing your network, data, and physical infrastructure. Learn about the latest enterprise networking products designed to enhance your organization's security. Email Zlatan or click the link below to register. |
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June 1-3: ECNO Conference
INSA Integra is always pleased to attend ECNO whose mission is
"Expert technology leadership empowering Ontario’s K-12 community through partnerships, best-practices, cost-efficient solutions, and agile responses to emerging need"
Join us at the Nattawasaga Inn near Allison Ontario for this event! Email Tim Kim to connect with us there or click the link below to register.
This year's event supports a variety of children’s hospitals in Ontario: The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids – Toronto), CHEO (Ottawa), HHSC (Hamilton) and Victoria Hospital (London) |
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June 1-4: MISA Windsor
The MISA conference in Windsor brings together Municipalities from across Ontario. this event will be one of Canada’s most extensive networking, knowledge sharing and professional development platforms for the sector. Come see us at our booth! Further information via the link below |
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June 22-25: HPE ARUBA DISCOVER
HPE's massive Discover conference hosts around 18,000 attendees in Las Vegas -- the Keynote takes place in the Sphere! INSA will be there once again meeting with our Aruba clients and attending the excellent sessions. I have been very, very impressed at previous events and the quality of information provided at this conference. If you would like to go you can register at the link below. Also, let us know if you are going as we generally get together with our clients in Vegas one evening and we'd love to see you there! |
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Hope you made it to the Cybersecurity and Identity Summit in Ottawa in April. Our booth was well attended and Peter Smetny and I had fun speaking to the conference on our lunch session, about AI and its effect on security, incident response and business continuity. |
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OECM NEWS
Big news here, the new OECM contracts are ready! INSA has increased our participation significantly by including the following vendors -- all now available for purchase from INSA Integra with NO RFP at pre-negotiated discount pricing thanks to OECM!
Here is the new product lineup:
A10 Networks: Load Balancers, DDOS, CGNat
Cato Networks: SASE
eSentire: Managed Security Services and MDR
Extreme Networks: Switches and AP's
Fortinet: NGFW Firewalls, SASE, Networking, AP's
HPE Aruba: SASE, Networking, AP's
LCM Security: Compliance-driven Managed Service
NetScout: Packet Analysis, DDOS, Monitoring
Netskope: CASB and SASE
Radware: DDOS and ADC
Semperis: Active Directory security and DR
Contact your INSA Integra representative for information on any of these products! |
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Product Spotlight: eSentire
Since 2001, eSentire has been providing Managed Security Services from their offices in the Cambridge/KW area. This homegrown Canadian company has turned into an international powerhouse employing hundreds of Canadians and operating in 80 countries worldwide. eSentire leverages their own MDR client to supplement or even replace other endpoint security solutions and provide industry leading network monitoring and incident response capabilities. eSentire goes even beyond cutting-edge SOC which make sure you get the most out of your firewalls, endpoint security, all the way to digital forensics and incident response and even Exposure Management and Risk Management services.
Send me an email if you'd like to set up a call to learn more about eSentire or to arrange a demo. Or visit their website for more information. And YES they are available on OECM through us!
This really is Canadian entrepreneurship at its best! |
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Recent Articles from INSA Integra Experts
Click any title above to read the article. It's been a little busy as of late but I'll get back to writing more new content soon!
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