Modular cybersecurity vendor Coro unveiled new AI features designed to make security more accessible for SMBs, and less complex, operationally wise, for the MSPs that serve them. The ne Coro 3.6 AI-powered capabilities and centralized global policy management deliver automated security insights across all client workspaces.
By automatically analyzing complex security data, correlating threats across the unified platform, and providing actionable insights, the features not only enable greater efficiency, but also boost margin, according to Dror Liwer, Coro cofounder.
“For an MSP to service an SMB effectively, it’s very problematic, because the effort that it takes is too high and therefore it erodes their margins because they need to invest too much work to support a small customer,” Liwer says. “What we’re trying to do is reduce that workload, which is the highest cost for that MSP, [and] make sure that the machine does as much of the work on their behalf. So with the same team, they can service a whole lot more customers—with absolutely no compromise on the level of protection they’re getting—and be very profitable doing so.”
Aiming to simplify the management of multiple clients, Liwer explains that if more than one customer has the same issue, say a newly identified vulnerability, “it’s easier now to go in and manage it once across all of your customers instead of trying to deal with it one customer at a time.”
Building on Coro’s Core Mission
Coro’s mission has been to simplify how MSPs provide robust security to SMBs by offloading work from humans to machines, Liwer explains. The new Gen AI capabilities build on Coro’s machine learning technology, which Liwer says has powered the platform since 2014. Now, Coro’s Gen AI “leverages an enormous amount of the unsupervised machine learning technology that we’ve always had that is proprietary to us and part of the LLM. The LLM itself is proprietary to us, but the engines that are running on top of it that are extracting the knowledge, some are our own and some are third party.”
Key features in Coro 3.6 include the ability to generate executive summaries and guided recommendations on clients’ security posture over any time frame; centralized global policy management, delivering best practices security across multiple client environments while still tailoring policies to meet workspace or industry-specific needs and address compliance risks for customers; advanced zero trust network access and MFA; ongoing visibility into security vulnerabilities, risky settings, and ticket trends; and global data protection safeguards against unauthorized access or exposure of sensitive data across multiple countries, with integrated Data Loss Prevention (DLP) mechanisms that automatically block outgoing emails that violate governance policies.
“For those MSPs that are supporting customers, for example in Canada or in Europe, we have added data centers in those areas and greatly enhanced our DLP with language models that are supporting the local languages. Because as you know, DLP is very language centric, as is phishing and spear phishing,” Liwer says.
This 3.6 release comes on the heels of Coro’s new security awareness training module announced in May, a module Liwer says MSPs were asking for.
What’s on the Coro Roadmap?
Asked what’s on the roadmap, Liwer says Coro is considering partnering with an MDR provider rather than building out the service themselves. “In many cases, having MDR might be viewed by some of our MSP partners as competitive, and we don’t want to be competitive with our partners. … Right now, nothing is set in stone.”
Coro is also considering disaster recovery and identity security, Liwer says, as MSPs have been asking for these capabilities as well. “Identity would seem like a natural extension,” he says, “as well as some other areas of security that we’re looking into right now. So while I can’t commit to a time frame or where it is on the road map, we’re definitely investigating that potential for Coro.”
How Does Coro Differentiate?
While there are other cybersecurity competitors that also offer a comprehensive platform, Liwer says Coro built its solutions in one platform with a single pane of glass and a single endpoint agent. “We have one set of AI eyes that looks at the security posture of a company across all of the domains, the user, the endpoint, the cloud, the email, the data, the network. Everything is through one set of AI eyes and everything was built by us to be integrated.”
He concludes, “Our belief is that every SMB in the world should be protected and our mission in life is to protect those SMBs through our partners.”
The 3.6 version of Coro is available now; pricing remains the same, according to the company,
