Sepio and Lenovo Launch ThinkShield Hardware Defense Partnership to Protect Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
Sepio, a leader in hardware asset risk management, announces a strategic ThinkShield Hardware Defense Partnership with Lenovo™. The integration of ThinkShield Hardware Defense, powered by Sepio, into the newly launched ThinkShield Solutions marks a major milestone. This collaboration significantly advances hardware security for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), schools, and other organizations with limited IT resources, while driving new revenue streams and broader market reach for Sepio.
ThinkShield Hardware Defense Partnership
“Lenovo’s recent launch of ThinkShield Solutions, featuring Sepio’s Hardware Defense, reinforces our commitment to enhancing security at scale,” said Yossi Appleboum, CEO of Sepio. “This partnership with Lenovo on ThinkShield Hardware Defense is poised to generate several million dollars in revenue for Sepio over the next year, leveraging Lenovo’s global reach and trusted brand.”
ThinkShield Hardware Defense powered by Sepio provides comprehensive visibility and robust control over hardware assets, establishing a trusted inventory across networks and endpoints. This empowers IT and security teams to proactively defend against hardware-based threats, enhancing protection without the complexity of traditional solutions.
Addressing a Critical Security Gap for SMBs and Schools
Cybercriminals target SMBs, schools, and other smaller organizations due to their limited cybersecurity resources. The ThinkShield Hardware Defense Partnership addresses this gap by delivering affordable and accessible security solutions. In fact, the majority of reported cyberattacks are directed at SMBs, making them a primary focus for threat actors.
Educational institutions are also a growing target due to the wealth of sensitive student data they hold. Ransomware attacks on schools breached over 6.7 million personal records globally between 2018 and mid-September 2023, leading to an estimated $53 billion in downtime costs.
The Lenovo-Sepio partnership on ThinkShield Hardware Defense helps these organizations implement robust hardware-level protection without the need for large IT teams.
Industry Recognition and Analyst Praise
The industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan stated, “Sepio stands out from competitors based on its commitment to innovation, creativity, and ability to launch new solutions with far-reaching impact and application. Sepio’s solutions are vital for government agencies, financial institutions, critical infrastructure, managed security service providers, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail. The company pairs its technology focus with customer-centric values, thus earning a solid reputation in the network access control market.”
Gartner also shared its feedback on the company in its recent Magic Quadrant for CPS Protection Platforms, writing, “Sepio’s trafficless approach takes away the need for traditional sensors, probes, or crawlers. This supports easy deployment and low architectural complexity.”
Gartner subscribers can access the report here.
About Sepio Hardware Defense
Sepio is the pioneer of Hardware Asset Risk Management (ARM). It delivers the world’s first platform powered by device existence, not traditional traffic or behavioral analytics. By detecting and validating the mere presence of all hardware assets, authorized or rogue, Sepio provides organizations with complete, real-time visibility across their entire digital and physical infrastructure.
With Sepio, IT and security teams can enforce granular policy controls, prioritize risk mitigation efforts, and achieve a trusted asset inventory, without the complexity of deploying traffic sensors or probes. This trafficless approach ensures faster deployment, lower overhead, and universal adaptability across IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments.
Sepio’s platform plays a critical role in Zero Trust architecture (ZTA). It eliminates blind spots at the physical layer and strengthening organizational resilience against hardware-based threats. From Fortune 500 enterprises to government agencies, Sepio equips security leaders with actionable intelligence to defend against today’s evolving threat landscape.
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