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The Reseller Shift to Managed Services: Where to Start and Why It Matters

May 15, 2025 By Linda Kerr In WatchGuard
Resellers are feeling the pressure: escalating cybersecurity demands, tighter customer budgets, and increasingly commoditized product sales. Managed services provide a path forward to offer recurring revenue, stronger customer retention, and a more scalable business model.
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Hybrid SOC: The Key to NIS 2 Compliance and MSP Growth

May 13, 2025 By Iratxe Vazquez In WatchGuard
In recent years, cybersecurity regulations have evolved to address more sophisticated cyber threats. In Europe, the NIS 2 directive is increasing pressure on managed service providers (MSPs) to ensure both technical resilience and regulatory compliance. While 78% of private sector leaders believe cybersecurity regulations effectively mitigate risk, many still need support with compliance.
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In Full Bloom: What Cybersecurity Maturity Looks Like

May 9, 2025 By Adam Winston In WatchGuard
Imagine your organization’s cybersecurity as a garden. Achieving maturity isn’t a final milestone ‒ it’s about cultivating a thriving ecosystem. It’s when you’re not just reacting to weeds (ahem, threats), but proactively tending to the health of your infrastructure. It’s not about chasing alerts ‒ it’s about growing with confidence because you know your roots are strong, your systems are resilient, and your people are engaged.
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#212 - Intel Chat: RSA 2025

May 9, 2025 By LimaCharlie In LimaCharlie
In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community. During a talk at RSA, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem provided an update on the future direction of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) under the new Trump administration. During the panel discussion titled “AI and Cyber Defense: Protecting Critical Infrastructure” which brought together federal research leaders to talk about how AI and automation are being leveraged to address mounting cyber risks across the U.S. critical infrastructure landscape.
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#213 - Building cybersecurity products with Jonathan Haas, Product at Vanta

May 8, 2025 By LimaCharlie In LimaCharlie
On this episode of the Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast we speak with Jonathan Haas, Product at Vanta, about building cybersecurity products. Jonathan’s work focuses on making security compliance faster and more accessible, helping teams move from months-long processes to efficient workflows that take just days. Before Vanta, he was the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup ThreatKey, and before that he held key roles at Snapchat, DoorDash, and Carta, where he built and refined compliance systems during times of rapid growth.
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If you can't patch perfectly, patch programmatically

May 8, 2025 By The Editor In WatchGuard
In every quarterly security report we’ve ever released, we consistently find that threat actors primarily exploit old vulnerabilities, often fixed months, if not years, prior. The prevalence of zero-day exploits pales in comparison to these well-known, outdated vulnerabilities. This reality underscores our repeated advice: regularly and swiftly patch your software to yield significant returns on your security work investment.
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GhostGPT, the new malicious chatbot and its impact on cybersecurity

May 7, 2025 By Ryan Estes In WatchGuard
At this juncture, it is no surprise that cybercriminals are leveraging the potential of generative artificial intelligence to strengthen their attacks. However, the emergence of new models specifically designed to generate threats quickly has made this task even easier for bad actors. At the end of 2024, researchers discovered a new AI chatbot created for cybercriminal purposes.
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WatchGuard Wins 2025 SC Award for Best Authentication Technology

May 6, 2025 By The Editor In WatchGuard
We’re proud to share that WatchGuard Technologies has been named the Best Authentication Technology winner at the 2025 SC Awards! This recognition celebrates the innovation behind AuthPoint, our multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution that brings enterprise-grade identity protection to organizations of all sizes, especially those relying on lean IT teams or managed service providers (MSPs).
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