MSP Technology News Headlines for the week of 2/9/2026
NinjaOne expands its platform to lead this week’s headlines. Plus, Dell Private Cloud has more to offer partners and Sophos makes a key acquisition. And there are many other interesting news tidbits, stories, partnerships, and insightful data from all over the industry. If you’re ready for a quick rundown of this week’s MSP news and partner program updates, scroll on down!
NinjaOne Expands Platform with IT Asset Management to Reduce Cost and Risk
The unified asset visibility helps IT teams optimize spend, strengthen security, and simplify compliance.
Key partner benefits from the press release:
- Reduced Costs and Longer Asset Lifecycles: NinjaOne ITAM (IT Asset Management) provides real-time visibility into hardware and software usage. It also automates warranty tracking and license management. This simplifies budgeting and vendor management, prevents overspending, and maximizes the value of assets.
- Stronger Security with Complete Asset Visibility: IT teams can identify unmanaged and legacy devices, understand how they connect to the environment, and take action to reduce hidden risk.
- Simplified Compliance: By maintaining an accurate, real-time record of every device, license, and their dependencies, the solution provides documentation and insight. This simplifies audits and supports regulatory and internal compliance standards.
- Operational Intelligence and ITSM Enablement: IT teams can manage relationships and dependencies between assets, more easily integrate with IT service management (ITSM) workflows, and accelerate incident response, change management, and root-cause analysis. This enables faster decision-making, better service delivery, and a more resilient and productive IT operation.
Dell Private Cloud Expands Choice with Nutanix Support
Dell Private Cloud now supports Nutanix with external storage flexibility. Organizations can keep the simplicity they love while gaining the freedom to scale independently.
Key capabilities from Dell’s blog post:
- Match Resources to Requirements: Pair Nutanix AHV with Dell infrastructure to align compute and storage with your specific needs.
- Maintain Operational Continuity: Your teams continue using familiar tools like Prism UI without workflow disruption.
- Simplify Through Automation: Dell Automation Platform handles Day 0–2 deployment and lifecycle management, with solution-level support across automation, compute, storage, and hypervisor layers.
- Protect Your Investments: Reuse existing Dell infrastructure to scale workloads as needed—flexibility without replacing hardware.
Sophos Acquires Arco Cyber to Bring CISO-level, Agentic AI-powered Expertise to Every Organization
The acquisition enables Sophos to deliver AI-enhanced cybersecurity governance to an underserved market. This gives organizations the clarity, control, and decision-making needed to manage cyber risk.
Key quote from the press release:
“There is no shortage of exemplary security technology in the market. What’s missing for most organizations is the ability to govern those tools, understand whether controls are actually working, and make informed decisions about risk. Arco has built a platform and a team that offers clarity, accountability, and proof. That work directly supports our strategy, and it gives customers a stronger foundation for simplifying compliance and managing cyber risk with confidence.” — Joe Levy, CEO, Sophos
Arctic Wolf Advances MSP Momentum with Launch of Aurora Managed Endpoint Defense for MSPs
Innovations powered by the Arctic Wolf Aurora Platform enable MSPs to simplify operations, scale securely, and deliver world-class security outcomes.
Key enhancements from the press release:
- Aurora Managed Endpoint Defense for MSPs: Arctic Wolf’s AI-powered Security Operations Center (SOC) can now help MSPs manage customer deployments of Aurora Endpoint Security with 24×7 monitoring, alert triage, and response actions, providing enterprise-grade protection while reducing operational burden and expanding their endpoint security offerings.
- Rapid Response Add-on for JumpStart Retainer: Customers of MSPs who have the Arctic Wolf JumpStart Retainer can now activate a one-hour SLA for urgent incidents. The Arctic Wolf JumpStart Retainer helps MSPs land new accounts and deliver a trusted incident response capability through a low annual plan that includes a customizable incident response plan and preferred pricing for engagements.
- MSP Admin Portal: A new portal offers unified visibility across all customer environments so MSPs can monitor alerts, track agent deployments, and download reports in bulk to save time, reduce administrative overhead, and focus on delivering value.
Proofpoint Acquires Acuvity to Deliver AI Security and Governance Across the Agentic Workspace
The deal positions Proofpoint as the first cybersecurity platform to comprehensively address agentic workspace protection at the intersections of humans, data, and AI.
Key quote from the press release:
“Together, Proofpoint and Acuvity enable organizations to confidently adopt AI tools and agents with the governance, visibility and control required to manage risk. By securing humans, defending data and governing AI through a unified platform, Proofpoint is uniquely positioned to protect the agentic workspace end to end — something no other cybersecurity company delivers today.” — Ryan Kalember, chief strategy officer, Proofpoint
EnGenius ECW515 Brings Wi-Fi 7 Performance to In-room and In-unit Deployments
A wall-plate Wi-Fi 7 access point with integrated switching and PoE output, purpose-built for hospitality, multidwelling units, and high-density in-room environments.
Key features from the press release:
- Wi-Fi 7 dual-band performance delivers up to 3.6 Gbps aggregate throughput.
- Low-profile design provides reliable in-room wireless coverage for up to 1,000 square feet.
- 2.5 GbE PoE-in uplink with 802.3at PoE+ support enables simplified, flexible installations.
- Integrated 4-port Gigabit switch with PoE output helps connect and power in-room devices.
- Built-in traffic control and VLAN support isolates users and devices for added privacy.
- Cloud-managed configuration and policy control are optimized for mass multitenant deployments.
ExtraHop Powers the Agentic SOC with the Deep Context Agents Need to Operate Autonomously
New visibility and forensic capability bridges the critical intelligence gap to stop threats at machine speed.
Key quote from the press release:
“The perceived advancement of the agentic SOC is an illusion for most, as a lack of high fidelity, contextual data silently undermines the system’s efficacy and prevents enterprises from realizing any actual benefit from their agents. The network remains the immutable source of truth for the modern enterprise and ExtraHop unlocks that potential for the agentic SOC, driving agentic operations with robust and highly contextual insights. ExtraHop is providing holistic visibility into the most complex segments of the modern attack surface to help enterprises stop advanced threats with unprecedented speed and precision.” — Kanaiya Vasani, chief product officer, ExtraHop
Cork Cyber Introduces Cork Cyber Score
New inside-out risk signal was designed to inform and improve cyber posture for MSPs.
Key quote from the press release:
“Cork Cyber Score is meant to guide better decisions, not judge outcomes. It works more like an advisory signal that helps MSPs understand risk and improve it over time, rather than a gatekeeping score used to approve or deny coverage. By combining internal insight with existing outside-in views, MSPs get a more complete and more practical understanding of cyber risk.” — Dan Candee, CEO, Cork Cyber
➡️ Read more insights on the Cork Cyber Score from MSSP Alert.
NiCE Releases Agentic AI CX Frontline Research Report
Agentic AI is already live in enterprise CX. Frontline leaders share what’s behind real results.
Key highlights from the report:
- Enterprises are moving from scripted automation to goal-driven AI that can adapt across complex customer journeys.
- Cost per contact is dropping by double digits as AI resolves more interactions end to end.
- Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT) improvements reach up to 20% as systems respond to intent, context, and sentiment in real time.
Operant AI Launches Comprehensive Channel Partner Program to Lead AI and Agentic Security Revolution in 2026
Industry veteran Kat Mills to head new initiative empowering resellers to deliver cutting-edge AI security solutions.
Key quote from the press release:
“The AI security landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, and resellers need a partner who understands both the technology and the business of the channel. Having been a reseller myself, I know firsthand the challenges partners face and what they need to succeed. This program is built from the ground up with those needs in mind, providing not just world-class technology, but the education, incentives, and support that drive real business outcomes. We’re committed to ensuring our partners can confidently lead their customers into the AI-powered future while maintaining the security and responsibility that organizations demand.” — Kat Mills, head of channel partners, Operant AI
More from Operant AI Blog Post
➡️ Operant AI Empowers Resellers with New Channel Partner Program for AI Security
REPORT: BlackFog’s 2025 State of Ransomware
The report shows that ransomware activity has intensified. This was driven by the emergence of large-scale, AI-enabled attacks.
Key findings from the press release:
- Publicly disclosed ransomware increased by 49% year on year. The total number reached a record high of 1,174 incidents, nearly four times higher than in 2020.
- There was a 37% rise in undisclosed attacks from 2024–2025.
- 86% of all attacks in 2025 were never publicly disclosed. This underscores the growing gap between reported incidents and the true scope of global ransomware activity.
- 130 ransomware groups were active in 2025, including 52 newly emerged groups. That represents a 9% year-over-year increase from 2024.
Illumio Expands Strategic Partnership with Armis to Secure Converged IT/OT Environments
Integrated offering delivers unmatched visibility, control, and resilience to protect critical infrastructure.
Key quote from the press release:
“Securing the entire attack surface starts with knowing what’s connected and where risk lives,” said. “This partnership unifies visibility, asset intelligence, and enforcement. Together, we empower organizations to act decisively, stopping threats before there’s any impact and keeping critical operations resilient.” — Nadir Izrael, chief technology officer and co-founder, Armis
More News from Armis
➡️ Armis Launches Armis Centrix for Application Security to Secure the Code that Runs Organizations
SpecterOps Launches BloodHound Scentry to Accelerate the Practice of Identity Attack Path Management
Drawing on years of adversary tradecraft, SpecterOps experts work alongside customers to analyze and eliminate attack paths, protect critical assets, and stay ahead of emerging threats.
Key quote from the press release:
“The risks associated with identity security continue to grow with each new provider and technology adopted, creating unseen critical risk that can only be resolved through identity APM efforts. … For companies wanting a shortcut to gain identity APM expertise and resources, BloodHound Scentry can accelerate an identity APM program to better identify and protect an organization’s most critical assets.” — Robby Winchester, chief services officer, SpecterOps
Cybersecurity Innovators Xiid and Cytex Form Strategic Partnership
Powerful pairing provides added muscle to address security and compliance amid rising AI threats and increasingly strict regulations.
Key capabilities from the press release:
- Cytex’s AICenturion: This robust AI security and governance security layer actively discovers all AI, protects sensitive data, and enforces compliance. It also enables enterprises to move AI initiatives forward with confidence and amplifies their value.
- Cytex’s LEO: This embedded AI engine enables rapid risk discovery and remediation.
- Xiid’s Terniion: This revolutionary security platform erases pathways that attackers rely on, making infrastructure undiscoverable. Xiid’s patented SealedTunnel technology features outbound-only, triple-layer, quantum-secure encryption that provides immediate proactive protection for all environments, including AI agentic platforms.
Forcepoint X-Labs Researchers Release New Findings on Rise in ConnectWise ScreenConnect Attacks
The new analysis reveals a sophisticated attack chain that weaponizes legitimate remote monitoring tools to establish stealthy, persistent access inside enterprise environments.
Key highlights from the Forcepoint blog post:
“Attacks against ConnectWise ScreenConnect have increased recently because attackers are taking advantage of known vulnerabilities in unpatched systems. They use these weaknesses to gain initial access, then they install malware, backdoors, or even ransomware. In many cases, ScreenConnect is exploited as a legitimate remote access tool to stay hidden longer. Overall, ScreenConnect has become a more common target as attackers look for easy entry points into networks.” — Mayur Sewani, senior security researcher, Forcepoint X-Labs
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