Information Security

Delinea unveiled a fully refreshed channel program Wednesday as the identity security powerhouse looks to accelerate its growth with partners, including through delivering major increases to profitability, transparency and enablement, according to Channel Chief Scott Goree.

Microsoft’s unprecedented July security update—which potentially includes patches for more than 600 vulnerabilities—is confirmation that ultra-powerful AI models for discovering software flaws are already starting to signal massively bigger challenges in vulnerability management, according to MSP executives.

Cribl acquires CardinalOps in move to strengthen its presence in the cybersecurity space for threat detection, providing an alternative to legacy SIEM products.

The move by the U.S. Department of War to pause the next phase of requirements around the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program does not mean the program’s underlying data security obligations are being relaxed for U.S. defense contractors, MSP executives told CRN.

The idea of ‘fighting AI with AI’ is fundamentally the wrong approach for protecting against intensifying LLM-powered attacks, ThreatLocker CEO Danny Jenkins says in the inaugural episode of CRN’s new Security or Else! video series.

The proficiency of frontier AI models at discovering software vulnerabilities and exploits is shaking up application security in what can only be described as a coming “major storm” for cybersecurity teams, according to Apiiro co-founder and CEO Idan Plotnik.

Accenture acknowledged that it suffered a data breach, but said it has remediated it with no impact on operations or service delivery.

GuidePoint Security announced Tuesday that it has promoted company veteran Scott Rachford to serve as its new CEO, succeeding company founder Michael Volk in the role.

The hottest cybersecurity products of 2026 so far include AI security tools from CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler and SentinelOne.

The hottest AI security startups of 2026 so far include emerging vendors with capabilities for AI security posture management (AI-SPM), agent security, AI governance, runtime protection and AI red teaming.