News for today:
- [Acronis] MSPs in the UK via Entanet. Acronis partnered with Entanet to bring Acronis’s cybersecurity, data protection, and IT management capabilities to more MSPs in the UK market. Entanet has a long-standing history in the UK telecommunications market, providing wholesale connectivity services to channel partners. Through the new agreement with Acronis, the company will extend its offering to include integrated cybersecurity and data protection capabilities, giving MSPs access to additional technology as they develop services tailored to their customers’ needs. Acronis
- [AvePoint] Deeper partnership with Microsoft. AvePoint expanded its strategic partnership with Microsoft; focus is AI trust (encompassing deployment, governance, security, and optimization). AvePoint and Microsoft have already worked together for almost 25 years. AI represents the next major technology shift. Through our expanded strategic partnership with Microsoft, we’re helping organizations establish the trust, governance, and operational foundations needed to confidently deploy AI at scale. Together, we’re enabling customers to move faster while maintaining control over the data, agents, and systems powering their AI initiatives. AvePoint
- [Cayosoft] AI-assistance for ransomware resilience. Cayosoft announced two new capabilities that will be available in 1Q 2027: AI-assisted forensics, and a SaaS deployment option for its Guardian Instant Forest Recovery offering. Group Policy Management, a third new capability, is available immediately. On the first: With the new AI-assisted forensics capabilities, administrators can ask Guardian questions in plain language to determine which identities acted, what changed, and when. That evidence helps teams select a known-good recovery state that predates the compromise. Cayosoft
- [Cribl] Acquired Tero. Cribl announced the acquisition of Tero, which adds intelligence assessment to observability data. Tero built technology that measures how much of an organization’s telemetry is waste, pinpoints low-value data across observability tools, and lets engineers fix it in the tools they already use. At Cribl, the team will help lead the roadmap across host monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), federated observability, and AI-native observability, bringing those capabilities onto the same open platform customers already use to collect, route, and optimize their telemetry. Cribl
- [Obsidian] Pre-run control for AI agents. Obsidian’s new Runtime Policy Detection Engine gives security teams the ability to control AI agent actions before they run. Security teams can identify agents, understand their access and address risky configurations. Putting an agent to work often means accepting some access risk. An agent may legitimately need access to customer records while still needing limits on how it uses them. Obsidian’s Runtime Policy Decision Engine provides those mitigating controls at the moment an agent acts. It evaluates allowed actions against centrally managed policies, using available identity, employment and application context alongside customer-provided context such as data classification labels. Connected enforcement points allow, block or, mandate human approval for the action where supported. Obsidian
- [WatchGuard] Research on ongoing deepfake risks. New research from WatchGuard found continued reliance on familiarity when assessing cyber risks, even with the rise of AI-powered deepfake attacks. 46% [of respondents] trust digital communications more than they did five years ago, compared with 31% who trust them less. Further complicating matters is the fact that 55% of respondents said they don’t always independently verify the sender before acting on sensitive requests. With AI enabling convincing imitations of familiar voices, faces, and writing, this gap leaves organizations more exposed to impersonation, fraud and cyberattacks. WatchGuard