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By Bill Munroe
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.
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By Iratxe Vazquez
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.
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By Pedro Costa
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.
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By The Editor
We’re proud to announce that two WatchGuard leaders have been named to CRN’s Top 100 Executives list for 2026, recognizing their leadership, innovation, and commitment to the channel. This year’s honorees are: Each year, CRN’s Top 100 Executives list celebrates leaders who are shaping the future of the IT industry through their vision, business leadership, and commitment to the partner ecosystem.
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By Carlos Arnal
For years, phishing has worked for one simple reason: it exploits the weakest link, the user. The defensive strategy has followed the same formula: better email filtering, more user awareness, and an extra layer of authentication. It wasn't perfect, but it was a workable balance.
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By Kim Maibaum
One particularly concerning trend in the recent evolution of phishing is the rise of QR code-based attacks. It doesn't rely on new malware or sophisticated exploits. Instead, it takes advantage of something much simpler: the trust users place in QR codes every day. Over the last few months, QR codes have become one of the most popular tactics for steering users toward malicious sites on mobile devices or in browser environments, where the visibility of many security tools is very limited.
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By WatchGuard
Participation in OpenAI's Daybreak program and Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program advances vulnerability research, security testing, and proactive threat defence.
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By Iratxe Vazquez
For years, the cybersecurity industry has assumed that the primary challenge was to see more, detect better, and deploy increasingly sophisticated tools. That paradigm no longer reflects the reality of today's cybersecurity operations. Organizations have never had so much visibility into their attack surface or so many capabilities to identify threats. However, the rapid evolution of AI is increasing the speed and complexity of attacks to a point where detection alone is no longer enough.
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By Marc Laliberte
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming one of the most transformative technologies in cybersecurity. Unfortunately, it's not transforming the industry exclusively for defenders. Attackers are already experimenting with AI to accelerate reconnaissance, analyze software for vulnerabilities, develop fully-functional exploits, and automate nearly all parts of the attack lifecycle.
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By Corey Nachreiner
The cybersecurity conversation usually revolves around attacks. We talk about ransomware, phishing, and critical vulnerabilities—but there is a much less visible problem that is limiting many organizations' ability to respond: operational complexity. Today, a single company might rely on dozens of security tools, manage workloads spread across multiple cloud providers, handle hundreds or thousands of digital identities, and support employees connecting from absolutely anywhere.
A stolen password should not open the front door to your entire network. Traditional VPNs were built for a different era. Once a user gets in, too much of the network often becomes reachable. That broad, implicit trust gives ransomware exactly what it needs: an entry point, a path to move, and room to spread.
This week on the podcast, we cover the crazy saga that unfolded between the popular open-source AI platform Hugging Face and the frontier AI lab OpenAI. After that, we discuss a recent WordPress remote code execution vulnerability WP2Shell and the research process that Searchlight Cyber followed to uncover it sing artificial intelligence. Finally, we end with a quick analysis of Palo Alto Global Protec's authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2026-0257.
Catch the full webinar to learn how to uncover shadow IT, assess cloud risk, and turn that insight into a valuable security service.
This week on the podcast we cover the key takeaways from the just-released Cyber Hygiene Report from WatchGuard. After that, we discuss a recent alert from CISA and other international security agencies on state-sponsored attacks against network equipment. We end with an interesting research post on exfiltrating data from Claude's memory.
Every time a client gets breached through a cloud app, it's the MSP who gets the call. Compromised Microsoft 365 accounts, unauthorized AI tools, and misconfigured sharing settings. Attackers aren't breaking in anymore. They're logging in through gaps that your endpoint, firewall, and MDR tools were never designed to see.
This week on the podcast, we review an after action report from CISA on a security incident they responded to back in May. After that, we cover a vulnerability in Amazon's Q Extension for VSCode before covering a research post from Microsoft on Giga Wiper.
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Hundreds of MSPs joined our last webinar to discuss the growing security and operational challenges of remote-user VPNs. Since then, the headlines have only reinforced the problem. Fortinet. Ivanti. Palo Alto Networks. SonicWall. Different vendors, same challenge: critical vulnerabilities, credential theft, and ransomware attacks continue to target remote access infrastructure, forcing organizations into a cycle of emergency patching, user disruption, and increased risk.
This week on the podcast, we take a look at the impact of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) backing away from their previous role of enriching vulnerability CVE records. Before that, we discuss Huntress's insider threat drama before ending with an AI-assisted vulnerability discovery in the Front Gate Tickets platform.
This week on the podcast we welcome back Ryan Estes from the WatchGuard Endpoint Security attestation team to discuss a recent deep dive analysis of NoisyS0cks. After that, we give an update on the latest trends in Ransomware targeting SMBs.
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By WatchGuard
Ransomware is one of the most talked about and publicized security threats in the modern era. What started as a few high-profile attacks caused by a handful of malware variants has developed into a virulent threat landscape in which increasingly unskilled attackers are able to execute highly effective ransomware campaigns against organizations of all sizes and levels of complexity. Small-to-midsize businesses disproportionately fall victim to ransomware, as they often lack the technical skills and tools needed to prevent infection.
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By WatchGuard
Risk-based authentication both enhances security and user experience by allowing you to rank the resources you want to protect based on risk level and type of user. This gives you the power to create rules that are unique to the security structure in your organization, therefore enabling more flexibility or higher protection only when necessary.
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By WatchGuard
Cyber attacks grab headlines almost daily. WatchGuard's award-winning network security platform not only provides one of the most complete suites of unified security controls on the market today to detect and prevent these attacks, but our strategy of sourcing the best scanning engines to integrate with our built-in defenses boosts security in critical attack areas. Take a closer look at the WatchGuard security platform's all-star team of best-in-class threat management services.
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By WatchGuard
In this eBook we provide you with suggestions on how to start providing some basic but vital security services that will improve the security posture of your customers while increasing your Average Revenue (ARPU), such as endpoint security set-up and monitoring.
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By WatchGuard
If you are in the retail or hospitality industries, it's important to know exactly how your network security solution maps to PCI DSS standards. This white paper presents a straight-forward review of PCI requirements and how the WatchGuard platform delivers the capabilities you need to ensure mandates are met.
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By WatchGuard
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed business continuity inadequacies at many organizations, and highlighted the slow pace of progress in digital transformation. This new reality necessitates a departure from a traditional network-centric security model that assumes every device and user within the network should be trusted. In this eBook we will explore how the dynamics of COVID-19 have impacted security, outline the importance of a zero-trust approach, and discuss how WatchGuard can help your business deliver the security you need during these trying times.
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By WatchGuard
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed business continuity inadequacies at many organizations, and highlighted the slow pace of progress in digital transformation. This new reality necessitates a departure from a traditional network-centric security model that assumes every device and user within the network should be trusted.
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By WatchGuard
Respected PCI-Qualified Security Assessor Coalfire recently completed a technical assessment of the WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response (TDR) solution, validating it for PCI DSS anti-malware use cases. Download the whitepaper to learn more!
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WatchGuard has deployed nearly a million integrated, multi-function threat management appliances worldwide. Our signature red boxes are architected to be the industry's smartest, fastest, and meanest security devices with every scanning engine running at full throttle.
For 25 years, WatchGuard has pioneered cutting-edge cybersecurity technology and delivered it as easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage solutions. With industry-leading network and endpoint security, secure Wi-Fi, multi-factor authentication, and network intelligence products and services, WatchGuard enables more than 250,000 small and midsize enterprises from around the globe to protect their most important assets including over 10 million endpoints.
The WatchGuard Difference:
- Intelligent Protection: Effective protection against today’s vast number of evolving threats requires multiple services working intelligently together. Prevent, detect, and instantly respond to cyber attacks with automated policies.
- Simplified Management: Managing security across your organization has never been simpler. Use out-of-the-box tools to quickly and easily deploy, configure, and maintain your security with the granularity of your choice.
- Actionable Visiblity: Monitor and report on the health of your IT infrastructure. Actionable visibility tools enable you to proactively identify threats, while providing corrective action against known issues.
In a world where the cybersecurity landscape is constantly evolving, and new threats emerge each day, WatchGuard makes enterprise-grade cybersecurity technology accessible for every company.