Sectigo Taps Clint Maddox to Lead Global Field Operations
Sectigo announced Clint Maddox as president of global field operations, tasking him with overseeing sales, marketing and channel functions worldwide. The move follows a record year in which the certificate‑lifecycle manager posted over 20% organic ARR growth and completed the Entrust public‑certificate acquisition. Sectigo also doubled its enterprise and partner business, introduced a Certificates‑as‑a‑Service model and launched PQC Labs for post‑quantum cryptography testing. Maddox’s mandate is to accelerate global expansion and deepen the partner ecosystem amid rising demand for automated, quantum‑ready digital trust solutions.
The Rise of Teen Hackers ‘Makes for a Good Headline’, but Cyber Crime Activities Peak Later in Life
Orange Cyberdefense’s analysis of 418 public law‑enforcement cases from 2021 to mid‑2025 shows cyber‑crime activity peaks among adults aged 35‑44, who account for 37% of incidents. Combined, individuals aged 25‑44 represent 58% of all reported cases, while teenagers and young...
Acer Launches New Channel Partner Portal on 50th Anniversary
Acer unveiled its new Channel Partner Portal during its 50th‑anniversary event in Milan, creating a unified digital hub for European resellers. The platform bundles training documentation, product catalogs, pricing tools, bid opportunities, marketing assets, loyalty programs and warranty information. It...
Canon imageFORMULA DR-C350 Review: A Swift and Compact Desktop Document Scanner
Canon’s imageFORMULA DR‑C350 is a compact A4 desktop scanner aimed at small‑office and front‑of‑house use. It features a 100‑sheet automatic feeder, dual CIS sensors and a 600 dpi optical limit, handling up to 8,000 scans per day. In independent testing the...
Building Resilience in Global Tech Trading: Lessons From Leading Circular Markets
The global tech supply chain faced unprecedented turbulence in 2023‑24, with nearly 80% of organizations reporting disruptions and new tariffs adding pressure. At the same time, the circular tech economy—repairing, refurbishing, and reselling secondary devices—is projected to reach $262 billion by...
Darktrace Names Ed Jennings as New President and CEO
Darktrace announced Ed Jennings as its new president and chief executive officer, effective March 23. Jennings brings over 25 years of technology leadership, most recently doubling revenue as CEO of Quickbase and serving as COO of Mimecast during its IPO and...
Datadog Announces Local UK Storage for Regulated Industries
Datadog will open a UK‑resident data centre later this year, offering local storage for operational data. The move targets regulated sectors such as finance, healthcare, government and higher education, where data‑governance rules are tightening. Local hosting reduces latency and lets...
“If You Wanted to Have Civil Disobedience and Start the Process of Unraveling a Society, We're a Pretty Big Target”:...
National Gas, the operator of the UK’s critical gas transmission network, has partnered with Palo Alto Networks to secure its cloud‑first transformation. The collaboration delivers a full‑stack security stack covering network firewalls, Prisma Cloud, and emerging XDR capabilities while preserving...
How to Build Trust Into Automation at Scale
Autonomous robots are moving from pilot projects to large‑scale deployments across warehouses, retail and healthcare, turning robotics‑as‑a‑service into a core managed‑service offering. As fleets grow, each additional machine widens the attack surface, blurring IT and OT responsibilities and exposing misconfigurations,...
In-House IT Builds Are Falling Flat and Going Way over Budget – Here's Why
A new Exclaimer survey reveals that fewer than three‑in‑ten in‑house IT builds are delivered on time and on budget, with 71% of leaders eventually abandoning such projects. In regulated sectors the abandonment rate climbs to 83%, while only 8% of...
LastPass Issues Alert as Customers Face Second Major Phishing Campaign of 2026
LastPass warned customers of a new phishing wave that mimics internal email threads and uses display‑name spoofing to appear legitimate. The messages, sent from unrelated domains, direct recipients to a fake verify‑lastpass.com site and its numbered variants to harvest credentials....
Your Customers Aren’t Keen on that Customer Service Chatbot You Introduced – Here's Why
A YouGov survey for Pega reveals deep consumer mistrust of AI‑only customer service, with 68 % lacking confidence in how businesses use generative AI and half reporting unsuccessful outcomes. While 80 % say human agents achieve better results, only 2 % prefer exclusive...
How to Use Cyber-Deception in Your Security Strategy
Cyber deception is gaining prominence as AI‑driven threats rise, prompting the UK NCSC to champion its wider use. The approach relies on high‑fidelity decoys—honeypots, fake credentials, and canary tokens—to generate early breach signals and expose lateral movement. While plug‑and‑play tools...
Enterprises Still Can't Get a Handle on Software Security Debt – and It’s only Going to Get Worse
Enterprises are wrestling with a surge in software security debt, with 82% reporting heightened vulnerability backlogs—a rise of 11% year‑over‑year. Critical flaws now account for 60% of that debt, and high‑risk, highly exploitable issues jumped 36% in the same period....
CrowdStrike Says AI Is Officially Supercharging Cyber Attacks: Average Breakout Times Hit Just 29 Minutes in 2025, 65% Faster than...
CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report reveals AI‑enabled cyber attacks surged 89% year‑over‑year, making AI systems a prime target for criminals. Prompt‑injection techniques are now being used to subvert AI‑driven security tools, while threat actors exploit vulnerabilities in AI development platforms....
Pure Storage Snaps up 1touch in Data Management Pivot
Pure Storage announced the acquisition of data‑intelligence firm 1Touch and a corporate rebrand to Everpure, signaling a strategic pivot from pure flash hardware to comprehensive data‑management solutions. The deal will embed 1Touch’s orchestration capabilities into Pure’s Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC)...
Babble Turns to NinjaOne to Unify Legacy IT Stack
UK‑based managed service provider Babble has migrated from a patchwork of five legacy IT tools to NinjaOne’s unified management platform. The switch supports over 12,000 client devices, including those in regulated public‑sector environments, and aims to improve productivity, scalability, and...
Using AI to Generate Passwords Is a Terrible Idea, Experts Warn
Cybersecurity firm Irregular found that popular AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini generate highly predictable passwords with low entropy. Tests showed repeated strings and narrow character selection, yielding only about 27 bits of entropy for a typical...
Watch Your Tone at Work, Atlassian Warns: Poor Communication and Blunt Messages Are Confusing Colleagues – and It's Having a...
Engaging with colleagues via email or chat platforms wastes time and hampers team alignment
How the Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill Could Impact MSPs
The UK Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill (CSRB) cleared its first two parliamentary readings, extending the 2018 NIS Directive to cover Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with at least 50 employees and €10 million turnover—roughly 1,100 firms. The legislation forces these MSPs to...
Westcon-Comstor and UiPath Forge Closer Ties in EU Growth Drive
Westcon‑Comstor has signed a pan‑European distribution agreement to become UiPath’s strategic distributor, creating a unified route‑to‑market for AI‑powered automation services. The partnership equips channel partners with professional services, presales expertise, and a flexible Flex financing solution to speed deal closures....
Harnessing AI to Secure the Future of Identity
Artificial intelligence is reshaping identity management, with machine and AI agents now surpassing human users in many environments. This surge creates a broader attack surface, as each automated identity demands governance yet often appears outside IT‑approved systems. Channel partners are...
