Ransomware

Distribution

Anti-ransomware fighter Halcyon signs North American distribution deal with Climb Channel Solutions

October 30, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Anti-ransomware fighter Halcyon signs North American distribution deal with Climb Channel Solutions
While Halcyon has worked with Carahsoft in the public sector, and has had distribution relationships in EMEA and APJ, this deal with Climb is their first in North American that handles the enterprise, commercial or SMB areas in North America.

Email

Organizations that take more than nine hours to deal with email breaches 79% more likely to be hit by ransomware

October 30, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Organizations that take more than nine hours to deal with email breaches 79% more likely to be hit by ransomware
New research from Barracuda also finds that 78% of respondents experienced an email security breach in the previous 12 months, that smaller companies have the heaviest recovery costs and that the average cost of recovering from a single email security breach exceeds $200,000.

Artificial Intelligence

Recovery Point Systems enhances their Ransomware Recovery as a Service (RRaaS) with AI-powered backup validation

October 28, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Recovery Point Systems enhances their Ransomware Recovery as a Service (RRaaS) with AI-powered backup validation
Recovery Point Systems, which makes cyber resiliency and business continuity solutions, has announced a major enhancement to its Ransomware Recovery as a Service (RRaaS) solution with the addition of AI-powered Backup Validation. This new capability enables organizations to verify the integrity of their backup images before initiating recovery, which provides a higher level of assurance that restoration will be clean, secure, and operational following a cyberattack.

Agent

Rubik, Cognizant launch cyber resilience-based partnership

October 28, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubik, Cognizant launch cyber resilience-based partnership
Cognizant and Rubrik’s partnership advances outcome-based cyber resilience, combining AI-driven security and global scale to move from reactive recovery to proactive resilience.

Agent

Illumio Insights strengthens threat detection and containment with new Insights Agent

October 24, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Illumio Insights strengthens threat detection and containment with new Insights Agent
Illumio launches Insights Agent to provide fast, radically simplified threat detection and containment

Artificial Intelligence

Ultraconverged Infrastructure [UCI] pioneer VergeOS launches VergeOS 26 with VergeIQ and its AI-focused abilities

October 23, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Ultraconverged Infrastructure [UCI] pioneer VergeOS launches VergeOS 26 with VergeIQ and its AI-focused abilities
VergeOS 26 modernizes infrastructure while VergeIQ, integrated within it, has features like shared LLM, OpenAI-compatible services, vendor-agnostic GPU support, and generative AI intelligence.