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Barracuda improves AI-powered BarracudaONE Platform for MSPs

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Barracuda improves AI-powered BarracudaONE Platform for MSPs
The updates are purpose-built to help MSPs accelerate threat response across multi-tenant environments, simplify operations and drive scalable growth, and include bulk remediation for email threats, PSA integrations for automated billing and invoicing, and streamlined account management.

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Artificial Intelligence

NetApp adds more capabilities to ransomware protection

October 14, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on NetApp adds more capabilities to ransomware protection
NetApp has rebranded its anti-ransomware offer, and also embeds its data breach detection into enterprise data storage

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Backup

Object First targets edge locations and smaller businesses with new Ootbi Mini immutable storage appliance

October 10, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Object First targets edge locations and smaller businesses with new Ootbi Mini immutable storage appliance
The Ootbi Mini broadens the market for Object First storage to ROBOs and smaller businesses, while also adding a honeypot feature and a beta for fleet managers which should appeal to MSPs in particular.

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Channel Communities

New Halcyon channel chief Dave Pawlowski wants partners to brand Halcyon as go-to for ransomware protection

October 9, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on New Halcyon channel chief Dave Pawlowski wants partners to brand Halcyon as go-to for ransomware protection
Pawlowski, Halcyon’s newly appointed Worldwide Vice President of Channels and MSSP, lays out his plans to make Halcyon a dominant player specifically in the anti-ransomware space, partnering rather than competing with EDR companies, and getting channel partners and distribution  more involved.

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Agent

Horizon3.ai lets organizations ramp up offensive security efforts with new Active Directory Tripwires for their NodeZero platform

October 9, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Horizon3.ai lets organizations ramp up offensive security efforts with new Active Directory Tripwires for their NodeZero platform
Active Directory Tripwires lets organizations fight the attacks on AD that come from it sitting at the centre of enterprise identity, giving them the equivalent of an attacker-informed early warning system, and protecting them from bad guys attempting privilege escalation.

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Artificial Intelligence

PAM provider Keeper Security partners with Google Security Operations for cyber threat protection

October 8, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on PAM provider Keeper Security partners with Google Security Operations for cyber threat protection
Cybersecurity vendor Keeper Security, which focuses on password management and  cloud-native privileged account management [PAM], has announced a new integration with Google Security Operations that will add PAM data from Keeper to Google

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Channel Programs

Network observability vendor NetBrain unveils ACE+ Partner Program

October 8, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Network observability vendor NetBrain unveils ACE+ Partner Program
The all-in-one channel program includes cloud and desktop licensing options, plus a library of pre-built automations with free, full-platform access, allowing partners to rapidly generate customer network assessments and accelerate sales cycles

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Artificial Intelligence

Auvik’s new CTO Dan Zaniewski lays out his plans

October 7, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Auvik’s new CTO Dan Zaniewski lays out his plans
Auvik has promoted Dan Zaniewski to Chief Technology Officer from his previous role as Senior VP of Engineering. His job is to advance Auvik’s technical leadership in the growing network management and IT operations sectors, and leverage his deep expertise in product engineering in the MSP channel and security spaces to accelerate Auvik’s AI adoption, cybersecurity, and cloud strategies.

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Artificial Intelligence

Deep Instinct releases next-gen AI Analyst in AI-based deep learning framework for cybersecurity

October 7, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Deep Instinct releases next-gen AI Analyst in AI-based deep learning framework for cybersecurity
DIANNA, which built on the first and only AI-based deep learning framework for cybersecurity, pairs with the DSX Brain to provide expert-level analysis of zero-day and unknown threats, arming security teams with confidence from unknown threats in seconds

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Artificial Intelligence

Datalink Networks launches expanded Microsoft Teams Voice services

October 7, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Datalink Networks launches expanded Microsoft Teams Voice services
IT managed service provider Datlalink has embarked on a collaboration around its expanded Microsoft Teams Voice services, with the idea that this will help organizations, especially those in regulated industries.

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Artificial Intelligence

Halifax-based Liferaft announces AI-powered  threat intelligence solution

October 6, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Halifax-based Liferaft announces AI-powered  threat intelligence solution
Liferaft makes Liferaft iQ AI-driven open source threat intelligence that processes vast volumes of open-source intelligence and delivering high-context insights that support faster, more confident decisions.

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Artificial Intelligence

Newly promoted Jim Taylor lays out RSA strategy changes around innovation

October 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Newly promoted Jim Taylor lays out RSA strategy changes around innovation
Taylor detailed in some detail what he plans to do, and why he thinks RSA is well positioned to succeed in his role going forward.

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Artificial Intelligence

Identity vendor Nametag introduces Nametag Signa to ensure actions are by a human, and expands Okta partnership

October 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Identity vendor Nametag introduces Nametag Signa to ensure actions are by a human, and expands Okta partnership
Nametag Signa uses the Nametag workforce-grade Deepfake Defense and Okta’s policy engine together, to verify there is a live human behind AI actions, helping enterprises adopt agentic AI securely.

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Artificial Intelligence

Bad guys increase ransomware attacks for first time in three years: Hornetsecurity

October 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Bad guys increase ransomware attacks for first time in three years: Hornetsecurity
A new report from Hornetsecurity found the first increase in ransomware attacks in three years were driven by new technology, particularly more convincing AI-based phishing attacks, against which traditional training and defenses have little use.

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Agent

Akto looks to protect MCP servers with new Agentic Security Platform

October 2, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Akto looks to protect MCP servers with new Agentic Security Platform
Akto’s new Agentic Security Platform is an end-to-end security solution purpose-built for the age of autonomous AI agents that is designed to protect enterprises as they deploy AI agents at scale and adopt the Model Context Protocol , with the platform delivering complete visibility, continuous Agentic red teaming, and real-time guardrails to stop agents from going rogue.

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Agent

Simbian launches AI Threat Hunt Agent integrated to Microsoft Sentinel data lake

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Simbian launches AI Threat Hunt Agent integrated to Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Simbian’s new AI Threat Hunt Agent will allow Microsoft 365 customers to accelerate and scale their organizations’ threat hunting capabilities, which will make them more efficient, and also open up new channel opportunities.

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Agent

Databricks and OpenAI partner to make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks platform and Agent Bricks flagship product

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Databricks and OpenAI partner to make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks platform and Agent Bricks flagship product
Databricks and OpenAI have announced a multi-year partnership that will make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Databricks’ flagship AI product Agent Bricks, while they also signed a multiyear, $100 million deal to sell artificial intelligence services to large business customers.

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Agent

Autonomous AI agents key to Email security startup AegisAI leaving stealth

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Autonomous AI agents key to Email security startup AegisAI leaving stealth
Cybersecurity startup AegisAI has announced a radical approach to email security as parts of both its public launch and seed funding round, with the premise being the use of autonomous AI agents that eliminate phishing, malware, and business email compromise attacks before they ever reach user inboxes.

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Artificial Intelligence

Gartner analyst Felix Gaehtgens lays out product strategy vision for Beyond Trust

September 30, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Gartner analyst Felix Gaehtgens lays out product strategy vision for Beyond Trust
After little more  than a week on the job, and his appointment as Vice President, Product Strategy at BeyondTrust, Gaehtgens spelled out his vision for the new company and how he plans to get there.

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Artificial Intelligence

FireMon adds NVIDIA Cumulus Support to unify policy management in AI-intensive data centres

September 30, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on FireMon adds NVIDIA Cumulus Support to unify policy management in AI-intensive data centres
The integration closes a long-standing gap for teams who standardize on open networking while maintaining a single source of truth for network security policy across firewalls, clouds, and modern fabrics.

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