Information Security

Microsoft is doubling down on its efforts to uniquely provide comprehensive control for securing the adoption of AI agents with the expansion of its Agent 365 offering, top Microsoft security executive Vasu Jakkal tells CRN.

Optiv Security has completed the sale of its advisory, consulting and transformation (ACT) business to investment firm Vobis Ventures, which will create a new entity operating as Optiv Consulting, the company told CRN exclusively.

Identity will increasingly be the crucial area for solution providers to focus on when it comes to preventing the potential for significant cyber exposure through the use of AI agents, security experts told CRN.

The surging adoption of AI agents in the enterprise is prompting an unprecedented spike in demand for assistance with identity security, as organizations recognize the massive risk of powerful but over-permissioned agentic tools, according to Okta executives.

The expected spread of frontier AI capabilities for vulnerability discovery such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos means that organizations will need to prioritize patching based on the exploitability of software flaws, according to Optiv CISO Rob Gregory.

The emergence of powerful frontier AI models such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos is giving another massive boost to platformization in cybersecurity, creating huge opportunities for partners to help customers move as quickly as AI-powered threats, according to Palo Alto Networks executives.

Snyk is debuting a new services delivery program for partners as the company seeks to help unlock massive AI security opportunities in the channel, the vendor told CRN exclusively.

While updating your patching practices will be essential amid powerful AI vulnerability discovery technologies such as Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, preventing attackers from fully utilizing software flaws will require identity hardening as well.

As AI advancements continue to collapse the time for responding to cyberattacks, MSPs have a massive opportunity to solve critical challenges for their customers—provided they can up their game on security.

Amid the race to enable secure adoption of AI and agentic technologies, many organizations are discovering that the first step is not necessarily using more AI, according to top executives at solution provider Blackwood.