Big defense for lean teams: bridging the cybersecurity gap in Latin America. Sep 09, 2026 Table of Contents The challenge for Lean IT teams. Organizations today are deeply reliant on digital infrastructure, yet many operate with exceptionally compact workforce structures. Lean IT teams carry the massive burden of securing sprawling networks, fending off sophisticated threats, and maintaining stringent compliance - often without the luxury of specialized security personnel or expanded budgets. This creates a critical market gap: high digital dependence coupled with protection models that are simply unviable for smaller teams. As cyber threats grow more complex, these lean departments are stretched incredibly thin, facing unsustainable operational overhead just to keep business operations secure. The result is a landscape where agile businesses are disproportionately vulnerable, hindered by a lack of accessible, streamlined solutions. A strategic cybersecurity shift in Brazil. To address this pressing market demand from organizations with compact structures, a significant development is unfolding within the Latin American cybersecurity sector. Coro is officially extending its channel-first motion into Latin America by launching a strategic partnership with Nova8 in Brazil. This collaboration is specifically engineered to bring integrated, automated cybersecurity protection directly to Lean IT teams across the country. Nova8, recognized as a highly specialized value-added distributor, provides the ideal operational medium for Coro's streamlined security architecture. Together, they are actively dismantling the barriers that have historically kept robust cybersecurity out of reach for businesses requiring more viable protection models for their Lean IT operations. Automated defense without the operational overhead. The fundamental promise of this joint venture is delivering comprehensive defense mechanisms without increasing operational overhead for the end-user. Coro's cybersecurity platform consolidates essential cybersecurity protections into an integrated, automated system, deliberately cutting out the noise and alert fatigue that routinely overwhelm small IT departments. By leveraging automated threat detection and remediation, the platform acts as an immediate force multiplier for Nova8's client base. This ensures that Lean IT teams no longer must juggle fragmented security tools or sacrifice countless hours investigating false positives. Instead, they inherit a highly functional protection model perfectly scaled to their specific operational bandwidth. Empowering Digital Growth Ultimately, this partnership is focused on enabling secure corporate growth. When compact businesses are freed from the constant anxiety of digital vulnerabilities, they can successfully redirect their limited resources toward innovation and market expansion. The synergy between Coro and Nova8 marks a decisive turning point for Brazilian organizations, ensuring that high digital dependence no longer mandates high operational risk. By prioritizing intelligent automation and seamless integration, they are giving Lean IT teams the exact tools needed to defend their digital environments confidently and efficiently.

Coro helps MSPs consolidate security and reclaim valuable time, podcast. "Let your engineers get back to doing what makes you money." In this Technology Reseller News podcast recorded at ChannelCon 2026, Heather Harlos, Demetrios "Demi" Georgiou and Benjamin Morrell, of Coro Cybersecurity discuss how consolidating security tools can help MSPs reduce complexity, improve margins and serve more customers. Coro brings email security, endpoint protection, EDR, data loss prevention, VPN, secure web gateway, security awareness training, cloud protection and backup into a single platform. It is designed primarily for SMBs and midsized organizations with limited internal IT and security resources. Many MSPs recognize that they have a tool-sprawl problem but hesitate to replace products and vendor relationships they have relied on for years. "Consolidation is a very big objective for channel partners," the Coro team says. "The challenge is making that change their new normal." For MSPs, the value extends beyond lowering software costs. A unified platform reduces the time engineers spend moving between consoles, investigating alerts and managing separate systems. That additional capacity can be used to onboard customers, develop new services and increase revenue. Coro uses AI to filter security noise and surface the information that requires attention. The platform is also designed to scale easily across customers of different sizes. The team says smaller businesses are increasingly being targeted by phishing, ransomware and automated attacks. Although these organizations may lack enterprise security budgets, they still expect their MSPs to deliver effective protection. At the same time, MSPs must differentiate themselves through service rather than simply reselling a collection of tools. "Customers should buy from the channel partner because of the partner - not just because of the software being sold," the team says. By simplifying security operations, Coro aims to help MSPs support more customers without continually adding personnel. Time and resources can then be redirected toward higher-value services, including new AI projects and business growth. Video Player

Coro and Keepit partner to bring integrated data protection to the Coro Workspace Cybersecurity platform. August 04, 2026 09:00 ET | Source: Coro NEW YORK, Aug. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Coro, a leading workspace cybersecurity platform provider purpose-built for organizations with Lean IT teams, and Keepit, the leading provider of dedicated cloud data protection, today announced a strategic partnership to bring Keepit's intelligent data resilience directly into the Coro Platform. The partnership addresses a critical need for resource-constrained infrastructure security teams (Lean IT teams) who require a more unified approach to securing their business and people rather than juggling traditional, multi-vendor tool stacks. "Our integration with Coro allows IT teams to easily shift to a proactive, security-first strategy where their backup is completely isolated and resilient. We..." "Our partnership with Keepit adds independent, immutable backup and recovery for supported SaaS applications," "By complementing Coro's cloud security capabilities, it helps customers recover critical data following accidental deletion, corruption, or a cyberattack..." "Relying on conventional data protection in an era of AI-driven threats is no longer sufficient," "Our integration with Coro allows IT teams to easily shift to a proactive, security-first strategy where their backup is completely isolated and resilient. We..." "Our partnership with Keepit adds independent, immutable backup and recovery for supported SaaS applications," "By complementing Coro's cloud security capabilities, it helps customers recover critical data following accidental deletion, corruption, or a cyberattack..." "Relying on conventional data protection in an era of AI-driven threats is no longer sufficient," "Our integration with Coro allows IT teams to easily shift to a proactive, security-first strategy where their backup is completely isolated and resilient. We..." In Coro's understanding of the Gartner(R) Market Overview for Workspace Cybersecurity Platforms, workspace cybersecurity platforms are emerging as a vital solution for mid-market businesses and Managed Service Providers (MSPs), offering modular, pre-integrated protection for worker endpoints, identities, applications, and data.[1] Recognized by Gartner as an Example Vendor in the Market Overview for Workspace Cybersecurity Platforms[1], Coro stands by its claim that its cybersecurity platform consolidates endpoint, email, cloud, network, identity, data protection, and security awareness training into one unified platform. By incorporating Keepit's vendor-independent, air-gapped backup architecture, Coro significantly strengthens its platform's native data protection, providing comprehensive defense against data loss, ransomware, and compliance risks. Intelligent Resilience Meets Seamless Workspace Security Keepit is renowned for an independent cloud architecture that stores backup data completely separately from production data, avoiding reliance on third-party sub-processors to secure data against sophisticated threats. Through this partnership, Coro users will benefit from: * Immutable Backup and Rapid Recovery: Keepit's always-available, vendor-independent and air-gapped storage helps essential SaaS data remain secure and recoverable. * Unified Cybersecurity Operations: Tested and proven by Coro, its shared AI intelligence auto-resolves over 95% of threats. Bringing Keepit's data recovery capabilities into Coro's unified environment further reduces the workload on Lean IT teams and consolidates operational workflows. * Streamlined Compliance: The integration supports compliance efforts for organizations operating under regulatory frameworks such as NIS2, DORA, GDPR, and HIPAA, while helping retain data sovereignty and audit-ready documentation. "Our partnership with Keepit adds independent, immutable backup and recovery for supported SaaS applications," said Joe Sykora, CEO at Coro. "By complementing Coro's cloud security capabilities, it helps customers recover critical data following accidental deletion, corruption, or a cyberattack without juggling multiple vendor interfaces." "Relying on conventional data protection in an era of AI-driven threats is no longer sufficient," said Frederik Schouboe, Co-founder and CVO at Keepit. "Our integration with Coro allows IT teams to easily shift to a proactive, security-first strategy where their backup is completely isolated and resilient. We are thrilled to partner with Coro to make enterprise-grade disaster recovery accessible and simple for Lean IT environments." Availability Keepit's integrated backup protection is currently in early access for Coro customers. The full integration will be ready and generally available by the end of the year. For more information, please visit:https://www.coro.net/coro-keepit-workspace-backup-security Gartner does not endorse any company, vendor, product or service depicted in its publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's business and technology insights organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this publication, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. [1] Gartner: Market Overview for Workspace Cybersecurity Platforms by Evgeny Mirolyubov, Peter Firstbrook, 20 July 2026. About Coro Coro is a leading workspace cybersecurity platform provider built for Lean IT teams and MSPs. Coro consolidates endpoint, email, cloud, network, identity, and data protection - along with security awareness training - into one unified platform. Driven by a single AI agent and a centralized dashboard, Coro automatically remediates threats, eliminating the complexity, overhead, and alert fatigue associated with fragmented security stacks. By automatically detecting and remediating security threats, Coro enables organizations and their channel partners to scale security efficiently and sustainably without increasing operational overhead. Find out more: www.coro.net About Keepit Keepit provides a next-level SaaS data protection platform purpose-built for the cloud. Securing data in a vendor-independent cloud safeguards essential business applications, boosts cyber resilience, and future-proofs data protection. Unique, separate, and immutable data storage with no third-party sub-processors ensures compliance with local regulations and mitigates the impact of ransomware while guaranteeing continuous data access, business continuity, and fast and effective disaster recovery. Headquartered in Copenhagen with offices and data centers worldwide, more than 25,000 companies trust Keepit for its ease of use and effortless backup and recovery of cloud data. For more information, visit www.keepit.com or follow Keepit on Linkedin.