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WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, has been recognized as a 2026 CRN Annual Report Card (ARC) Award winner in the Security: Network Security—SMB category by CRN, a brand of The Channel Company. The recognition is based on direct feedback from solution providers across North America, who evaluated technology vendors on product innovation, support, partnership, and managed and cloud services. WatchGuard achieved an overall score of 92.8, ranking first in the category.

The recent Grandoreiro campaign detected by the WatchGuard Threat Lab team is a clear example of how today’s threats combine different techniques to make detection more difficult and operate more discreetly. In this case, the attack begins with a phishing email designed to persuade the user to click a link. From there, the victim is taken through several redirects and eventually downloads a compressed file from well-known services such as Dropbox or MediaFire.

Artificial Intelligence has quickly become one of the most important conversations in cybersecurity. Much of that conversation focuses on what attackers might create next: AI-generated malware, deepfakes, autonomous attacks, or entirely new categories of threats. Those risks matter, but focusing only on new attack techniques misses a much larger transformation already taking place. The real impact of AI is not only what attackers can create. It is how efficiently they can operate.

Employees are increasingly using AI tools, working across unsecured networks, and bypassing established security practices creating new risks that traditional security controls alone can’t address. Join WatchGuard’s Marc Laliberte, Director of Security Operations, on August 20 for an exclusive webinar exploring the findings from the 2026 Cybersecurity Hygiene Report.

Organizations are increasingly turning to third-party providers to navigate a cybersecurity landscape marked by expanding attack surfaces, fragmented technologies, and growing operational complexity. MSPs deliver specialized capabilities, round-the-clock protection, and multi-environment expertise, helping internal teams mitigate risks that are difficult to manage on their own.

Peak season brings challenges to the hospitality industry every year. Thousands of guests, temporary staff, vendors, and business partners interact daily with reservation systems, management platforms, mobile apps, and loyalty programs. That operational complexity makes hotels a particularly attractive target for cybercriminals. Artificial intelligence hasn't created a new problem for hotels, it is simply accelerating an existing one: identity-based attacks.

For years, cybersecurity has faced a persistent talent shortage. Yet the real challenge for many organizations isn't simply finding more people; it's having the specialized capabilities needed to investigate and respond to today's increasingly sophisticated threats.

The workplace has fundamentally changed. Employees work from home, customer locations, airports, coffee shops, hotels, and virtually anywhere with an internet connection. At the same time, the applications they depend on are spread across Microsoft 365, SaaS platforms, private cloud environments, corporate data centers, and on-premises business applications. For managed service providers (MSPs), this represents one of the largest recurring revenue opportunities available today.

MSPs are operating in an increasingly demanding environment. Every client they onboard adds more applications, identities, endpoints, cloud services, data, and third-party dependencies. All of this drives up the daily operational workload that teams have to absorb.

Generative AI has quickly moved from experimentation to everyday business use. Employees use AI tools to create content, write code, analyze data, automate repetitive tasks, and interact with business applications in entirely new ways. At the same time, software vendors are embedding AI capabilities into the products organizations already use every day, often without requiring users to adopt separate tools.