Third-party Integration: Streamlined Security Monitoring With Liongard

Most MSPs, MSSPs and IT organizations are managing multiple systems at once, and each of those systems has its own portal reporting and alerting them. While it’s crucial to maintain visibility into each system, this can be challenging as you grow and scale. But with unified visibility, MSPs can always run in a known state, proactively detect changes to stay one step ahead, and automate day-to-day tasks so they can focus on what matters most.

Building on our existing partnership with Liongard, we are extremely proud to provide the enhanced Configuration Change Detection & Response (CCDR) as part of the SonicWall Capture Client EDR integration.

“Extending Liongard’s relationship with SonicWall gives us the ability to inspect and assess across the SonicWall solution portfolio,” said Michelle Accardi, CEO of Liongard. “Our integrated solution will proactively monitor SonicWall Capture Client policy configurations, guarding against human errors and changes both on and off network. With this comprehensive protection in place, our partners gain effective threat protection, increased visibility and protection, and centralized management.”

This capability helps ensure customers are protected and getting their money’s worth. Together, SonicWall and Liongard are delivering a more robust and comprehensive cybersecurity risk mitigation stack for our channel community.

Understanding Liongard and SonicWall Capture Client:

Liongard – Transforming IT Operations: Liongard is a revolutionary IT automation tool that delivers a Configuration Change Detection and Response (CCDR) service. This service empowers Managed Service Providers (MSP), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and IT organizations to better deliver enhanced security, maintain compliance, and prevent operational disruptions through its advanced monitoring and intelligent alerts.

It’s designed to provide businesses with real-time visibility into their managed systems, which includes configuration data, asset and device inventory, user account inventory, and details on items such as roles, privileges, licenses and expiration. It helps in unifying all your systems, portals, access and alerts into one centralized location that will feed the core tools you’re using today, such as PSA platforms, documentation platforms, etc.

Liongard offers visibility into all your systems from a single place by collecting data and inspecting systems automatically every day. Their Deep Data Platform unlocks the intelligence hidden deep within IT systems by transforming messy, hard-to-reach data into a unified, actionable source of intelligence.

SonicWall Capture Client – Elevating Endpoint Security: SonicWall Capture Client is a cutting-edge endpoint security solution powered by the SentinelOne Singularity engine that offers next-gen antivirus protection with built-in autonomous EDR. Not only does Capture Client excel in offering effective threat protection, but the synergy with the SonicWall platform allows for increased visibility and protection both on and off the network.

With its advanced EDR capabilities, SonicWall’s Capture Client helps organizations gain active control of endpoint health. It employs multiple layers of security, including real-time behavior monitoring, anti-ransomware technology and malware prevention, to ensure endpoints remain secure from various cyber threats.

It also empowers administrators to track threat origins and intended destinations, kill or quarantine as necessary, and “roll back” endpoints to the last-known good state in case of infection or compromise. With its advanced features and cloud-based management, SonicWall Capture Client helps organizations safeguard their endpoints, users and data.

Features & Functionality

The integration of Liongard with SonicWall solutions (Capture Client and firewall) takes cybersecurity to a whole new level by combining a proactive visibility platform with robust network security and endpoint security. Here’s how this integration can benefit your business:

1. Comprehensive Visibility: By integrating the Liongard and SonicWall solutions, you gain holistic visibility into both your IT network infrastructure and endpoint devices. The SonicWall Capture Client (CC) Inspector retrieves endpoint, policy and management settings data from the SonicWall Capture Client instance. SonicWall Firewall Inspector helps in viewing and tracking firmware settings and SonicWall model version information for devices across multiple environments.
   
2. Real-time Monitoring: The synergy between Liongard’s real-time monitoring and SonicWall Capture Client provides comprehensive endpoint monitoring and reporting, covering everything from threat detection and prevention to malware activity and device compliance. This combination of solutions gives you unparalleled visibility into the health of your endpoints, ensuring that they remain secure and compliant. With SonicWall Firewall Inspector, security monitoring is greatly simplified. SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) data lets security-focused partners identify potential gaps in their security settings with the Liongard platform. This proactive approach enables quicker response times and minimizes the impact of security incidents.
   
3. Efficient Resource Allocation: By identifying issues and potential threats in real time, IT teams can allocate their resources more efficiently. This ensures that critical tasks are prioritized, leading to improved productivity and reduced downtime.
4. Centralized Management: The integration provides a unified approach that simplifies the monitoring and management of both IT network systems and endpoint security. This centralization ensures seamless cybersecurity risk mitigation for organizations and eliminates the need to switch between different tools and dashboards, making it easier for IT teams to oversee operations. SonicWall Firewall Inspector sends automated alerts for your firewalls’ expiring firmware, registrations and licenses directly into the PSA platform (or via email).
   
5. Data-Driven Decision Making: With access to comprehensive data collected by both platforms, organizations can make informed decisions regarding cybersecurity strategies, resource allocation and infrastructure improvements.

Get Started

The SonicWall Capture Client (SCC) inspector is available now in Liongard’s CCDR platform. To start taking advantage of the enhanced visibility into the SonicWall Capture Client platform and set up CC Inspector, simply head over to the CC Inspector Liongard documentation and follow the steps. To set up your SonicWall Firewall Inspector, refer to the SonicWall Firewall Inspector documentation.

Chandan Kumar Singh

Technical Marketing Engineer | SonicWall

Chandan Singh handles technical marketing responsibilities for SonicWall security services. In addition, he’s also responsible for third-party integrations with SonicWall products. With nearly a decade of cybersecurity experience, Singh has held various roles, from information security engineer in a SOC, to solution architect, where he helped customers find the best solution for them and design their security infrastructure.