VENDOR

Arctic Wolf acquires exposure assessment management company Sevco Security (link)

  • The acquisition helps MSPs find unmanaged devices and hidden security gaps

  • Further Arctic Wolf platformization eliminates the need for MSPs to run both tools

  • Better visibility into the attack surface allows for more accurate risk reporting

Palo Alto Networks announces intent to acquire Agentic Endpoint Security company Koi (link)

  • Agentic AI is a rapidly growing attack vector. This move positions Palo to protect from it

  • Currently, AI agents are being given too much access and permissions

Lenovo warns partners of hardware price increases starting in March (link)

  • Driven mostly by increased memory costs

  • Expected to impact all hardware vendors

Anthropic launches Claude Code to automate secure coding (link)

  • Allows your internal developers to build automation scripts faster to streamline repetitive backend tasks

Todyl launches agentic AI to automate SOC investigations (link)

  • Allows MSPs to understand security incident investigations at a more basic level

Proofpoint launches new consolidated partner program (link)

  • Simplifies how MSPs use Proofpoint, but mostly this is just a marketing reorganization

SECURITY

Russian threat actor with “limited technical capabilities” uses AI agents to compromise 600+ FortiGate firewalls (link)

  • Highlights the asymmetry of AI in cybersecurity with cybersecurity trying to keep up with the latest increased effectiveness of threat actors

  • AI allows threat actors and groups with limited resources to launch attacks only previously well-resourced groups could do before

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