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Unlock MSP Growth: How AI Drives Operational Efficiency and New Revenue | WatchGuard Webinar

Sep 17, 2026 By WatchGuard Technologies In WatchGuard
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future consideration for MSPs because it is already reshaping how leading providers run their businesses, protect their clients, and create new revenue streams. Separating real business value from hype requires a clear-eyed, practitioner-driven perspective.
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More Vulnerabilities Are Being Found Than Ever Before. That's Good News.

Sep 16, 2026 By Tracy Hillstrom In WatchGuard
If you've glanced at a vulnerability tracker lately, the numbers look alarming. The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) now projects roughly 66,000 CVEs will be published in 2026; up from a February forecast of 59,427 and closing in on 70,000 by some counts. That would follow a record 2025, which finished at roughly 48,000 disclosed CVEs, itself a sharp climb from about 40,000 the year before. It's tempting to read that curve as a sign that software is getting worse. It isn't.
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The only perfect Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) score in 2026 belongs to Elastic

Sep 15, 2026 By Mia LaVada In Elastic
Elastic sits at the very top of this year’s AV-Comparatives' CyberRisk Quadrant within the 2026 Endpoint Prevention and Response (EPR) test with the only protection scores at 100%, combined with both the lowest modelled operational footprint of any tested product and zero false alerts.
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Cloud Risk Management for MSPs: From Visibility to Control

Sep 15, 2026 By The Editor In WatchGuard
Guest post by Neil Holme, Founder and CEO of Impact Business Technology, a WatchGuard partner. The cloud environments MSPs manage change every week. Clients adopt new SaaS applications, AI tools, and collaboration services, making it difficult to track what is in use, how it is configured, and which access permissions remain active. Exposure grows without a clear warning sign until an incident occurs. The cloud is also the fastest-growing attack surface an MSP manages.
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The Cyber Resilience Act: What MSPs Need to Know About the New European Guidance

Sep 10, 2026 By Matthew Terry In WatchGuard
The European Commission has published its first official guidance to help businesses implement the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)—the EU regulation establishing cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements. The timeline is critical: reporting obligations for actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents take effect on September 11, 2026, while the core CRA requirements will become mandatory from December 11, 2027.
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Skynet Comes Online - The 443 Podcast - Episode 386

Sep 8, 2026 By WatchGuard Technologies In WatchGuard
This week, dive into OpenAI's and METR's analysis of the rogue OpenAI agents that hacked Hugging Face back in July. We go over the full attack timeline discussing the multiple message boards the agents created and the ultimate goal of their attack against Hugging Face and trust us, its as crazy as it gets. Before that, we discuss a recent dark web service that popped up selling 153 million stolen drivers licenses before discussing a research post into a malware implant discovered in inexpensive Chinese routers.
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When Vulnerability Databases Are No Longer Enough

Sep 8, 2026 By Manu Santamaría Delgado In WatchGuard
The NIST’s changes in how the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) operates have fundamentally shifted how organizations interpret the vulnerabilities published in this go-to registry. In the past, the NVD provided vulnerability enrichment data, such as CVSS scores, affected products, CWE classifications, and reference links.
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From MSP to Strategic Advisor: Lead with Risk

Sep 7, 2026 By The Editor In WatchGuard
The MSP landscape is evolving. Customers increasingly expect more than technology management, they want trusted partners who can help them understand, reduce, and manage cybersecurity risk. WatchGuard's upcoming “Provider to Advisor: The MSP Shift Toward Risk Leadership” webinar explores exactly this opportunity.
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Intel Chat: OpenAI's Astra hits Critical, DEF CON phishing, Philippine nuclear breach [346]

Sep 3, 2026 By LimaCharlie In LimaCharlie
Intel Chat with Matt Bromiley and Chris Luft. Stories covered: Chapters: The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast — a podcast about cybersecurity and the people that keep the internet safe. New episodes drop weekly. Subscribe wherever you listen.
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5 Tips for Scaling Cloud Security Without Adding Complexity

Sep 3, 2026 By Sarah Smith In WatchGuard
For years, managed service providers (MSPs) have secured customer cloud environments through periodic reviews of each tenant. That approach worked when a customer ran two or three cloud applications. As organizations adopt more SaaS applications, the number of environments, identities, and configurations to monitor also increases. The challenge is already visible.
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