MSP Technology News Headlines for the week of 2/23/2026
Keeper’s move to introduce quantum-resistant encryption leads this week’s headlines, but don’t miss a load of program changes and announcements (particularly in the AI space) and some interesting industry research. Plus, there are many other interesting news tidbits, stories, reports, 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!
Keeper Security Introduces Quantum-Resistant Encryption to Protect Against Future Quantum Threats
The leading enterprise security platform strengthens defenses against today’s cyber threats while preparing customers with quantum-resistant encryption for the quantum computing era.
Key quote from the press release:
“Cybersecurity cannot be reactive. Waiting for quantum computers to arrive before acting would leave organizations dangerously exposed. Keeper’s deployment of Kyber is about foresight – helping our customers build resilience that spans both the threats they face today and the seismic changes on the horizon. We are ensuring that sensitive systems, credentials and secrets remain secure for decades to come.” — Darren Guccione, CEO and co-founder, Keeper Security
Veeam Introduces Agent Commander to Confront Agentic AI Risk at Enterprise Scale
The first unified solution to safely detect AI risk, protect AI systems and undo AI mistakes with precision
Key quote from the press release:
“AI happens at machine speed, which means organizations must understand what data is being used, by what agent, and how in real-time. If an error occurs, organizations not only need to understand what data was impacted, but they also need the ability to undo any damage rapidly. With Agent Commander, organizations know what data is powering AI, and it gives them the power to detect, protect, and, when necessary, undo AI actions with speed and precision. It represents the future of what’s expected from data security and data resilience, and it’s only possible with Veeam’s unified platform.” — Anand Eswaran, CEO, Veeam Software
Domino Unveils Winter Release 2026 to Accelerate Safe, Governed Agentic AI at Enterprise Scale
New Winter Release expands the Domino platform with a fully governed agentic AI development lifecycle for rapid build, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
Key quote from the press release:
“Building and deploying agents in production requires both rapid experimentation and robust governance. Domino’s Winter Release gives enterprises the agility and control they need to deliver agentic systems that drive real business impact.” — Nick Elprin, co-founder and CEO, Domino
All Covered Launches Vulnerability Remediation Service to Close the Gap Between Managed IT and Managed Security
New ongoing managed service unifies continuous vulnerability identification and expert-led remediation to reduce exposure across organizations
Key quote from the press release:
“Too many organizations are frustrated, trying to manage vulnerabilities across disconnected tools and providers, with no one fully responsible for closing the loop. That fragmentation creates delay, increases risk, and leaves known issues open far longer than they should be.” — Tara Swart, director of defensive security & compliance, All Covered
Zenarmor Launches Industry-First Architecture-Driven SASE Channel Partner Program
Global partner program enables MSPs, MSSPs, ISPs and security-focused partners to deliver, operate, and monetize distributed SASE services with a single-stack, partner-operated architecture
Key quote from the press release:
“Zenarmor gives us the ability to deliver SASE as a distributed service without sacrificing performance or control. Eliminating forced backhaul and accelerating deployment has reshaped how we deliver differentiated managed security services to our customers.” — Bugra Gumus, CEO, Silvercloud Security and Technology Solutions
Arctic Wolf Acquires Exposure Assessment Platform Visionary Sevco Security
Acquisition to strengthen proactive security by adding next-generation asset intelligence and exposure assessment to the Aurora Platform.
Key quote from the press release:
“You cannot take a proactive approach to security without managing exposure and risk. In our view Sevco’s recognition as a Visionary by Gartner validates the approach they have taken to asset intelligence and exposure assessment. By adding Sevco to Arctic Wolf’s portfolio of solutions, we intend to give customers and MSPs the clarity and context they need to act earlier, prioritize effectively, and verify that risk is being reduced.” — Dan Schiappa, president of technology and services, Arctic Wolf
Wildix Launches Wildix eSIM, Bringing Mobile Conversations Back into Enterprise Control
New AI-powered Fixed Mobile Convergence capability connects native mobile calls to enterprise workflows, preserving identity, context and customer insight without requiring an app
Key quote from the press release:
“Work is fluid, and conversations move with it. Mobility Cloud ensures that context moves too. We built it so conversations do not reset every time someone changes device, location or role, but instead continue with the business, intact and actionable.” — Dimitri Osler, co-founder and CIO, Wildix
Zero Networks Builds a High-Velocity Global Partner Engine
New “Zero to Sixty” partner program focuses on fast-start enablement for containment and identity-driven segmentation.
Key quote from the press release:
“Partners are central to how we go to market. The Zero to Sixty program is designed to help partners move quickly while delivering real cyber resilience. By starting with containment and identity-driven segmentation, our partners help customers limit blast radius immediately, reduce operational risk, and prevent incidents from escalating into business disruptions.” — Adam Hofeler, VP of channels, Zero Networks
VAST Data Expands Cosmos Community to Unify Global Partner Ecosystem
New partner program within VAST’s Cosmos Community creates a single, clear path for technology alliance, cloud and channel partners to build, validate, sell, and deliver AI-ready solutions on the VAST AI Operating System.
Key quote from the press release:
“Cosmos was created to transform how organizations build and advance AI by bringing AI practitioners together in a comprehensive, supportive community that nurtures innovation, collaboration, and growth. Now, with the addition of the Cosmos Partner Program, we’re expanding that mission by giving technology, cloud, and channel partners a unified framework to build and validate solutions, differentiate service offerings, and bring the VAST AI Operating System to customers – across the data center, cloud, and at the edge.” — John Mao, vice president, global technology alliances, VAST Data
The CISO Report: From Risk to Resilience in the AI Era
Splunk’s annual report surveys 650 global CISOs on AI adoption, risk, talent, and the evolving security leadership mandate
Key findings from the report include:
- 95% of CISOs cite the growing sophistication of threat actor capabilities as their greatest risk, while 92% say improving threat detection and response is a top priority.
- 92% say AI enables their teams to review more security events, and 89% report improved data correlation with AI.
- 39% of CISOs who have partially or fully adopted agentic AI strongly agree it has increased reporting speed, compared to 18% of those still exploring it.
- More than three quarters of CISOs are worried about personal liability for security incidents, up sharply from the previous year.
New DruAI Agents Process Days of Forensic Reporting in Minutes
Deep Analysis Agents now automate complex investigations and introduce multimodal, context-aware AI across cyber resilience workflows
Key quote from the press release:
“IT teams are drowning in evidence collection and manual reporting. This release turns AI from a conversational assistant into a partner that completes work. We are enabling teams to delegate multi-day investigations to agents that finish in minutes and deliver a final report that can be immediately shared with security, compliance, or operations teams.” — Stephen Manley, chief technology officer, Druva
State of Digital Transformation 2026: Enhancing Digital Strategy
Annual TEKsystems report on digital transformation trends, priorities and insights shaping strategies for 2026.
Key findings from the report include:
- Enhancing employee productivity (39%) now ranks ahead of improving customer experience (32%) as the top digital transformation priority.
- Only 27% of organizations expect digital transformation ROI within six months in 2026, down from 42% in 2025.
- Nearly half of organizations (49%) say generative AI has the most potential to improve operations over the next 12 to 24 months.
- The share of organizations investing $10 million-plus in transformation efforts increased to 27% in 2026, up from 22% in 2025.
GTIA Launches Innovate Awards to Honor IT Service Providers for AI Innovation
GTIA opens applications for the inaugural Innovate Awards recognizing deployed AI solutions with measurable business impact, with finalists to present at ChannelCon 2026.
Key quote from the press release:
“Leveraging AI is perhaps the biggest opportunity today for ITSPs, but identifying and implementing real-world solutions has been a challenge. Through the GTIA Innovate Awards, our goal is to recognize ITSPs that are already achieving measurable results with AI, provide them with a platform to share their success stories, and furnish the wider community with credible, peer-validated proof points for learning and development as this technology continues to mature.” — Dan Wensley, CEO, Global Technology Industry Association
UniFi and Deep Sentinel Integration Turns the World’s Most Popular Cameras into Live-Guard Security Systems
Deep Sentinel, the pioneer of AI-enhanced live-guard security surveillance, today announced its integration with UniFi, giving thousands of UniFi Protect users instant access to Deep Sentinel’s real-time, human-verified crime prevention system.
Key quote from the press release and more from their info page:
“Deep Sentinel is driving a new era in security by uniting advanced AI with real-time live-guard intervention. With UniFi joining our ecosystem and giving us early access to its new API, we’re expanding proactive protection to even more customers and partners. Together, we’re transforming cameras from passive recorders into active guardians that stop threats in their tracks.” — David Selinger, CEO, Deep Sentinel
Beachhead Solutions Launches ComplianceEZ 2.0 for MSPs, Delivering Cybersecurity Compliance Lifecycle Management with AI-Powered Expertise
MSPs gain the industry’s first complete, 24/7/365 solution for enforcing and documenting controls, educating on mandates, and alerting whenever clients fall out of compliance.
Key quote from the press release:
“Compliance isn’t a one-and-done checkbox exercise, particularly amid rapidly changing requirements from CMMC to HIPAA to FTC Safeguards and beyond. ComplianceEZ 2.0 gives MSPs what they need to understand these complex regulations, document and prove cybersecurity compliance, and manage it all continuously. No other solution combines enforcement, education, and ongoing management for MSPs this way, and we’re including it at no additional cost to show just how valuable this differentiation can be.” — Cam Roberson, vice president, channel, Beachhead Solutions
Todyl Launches Janus, Agentic AI for Incident Investigation
New agentic AI capability within the Todyl Platform provides rapid, natural-language incident context, enrichment and response guidance.
Key quote from the press release:
“We’ve been working on AI for several years now, improving how our platform and teams operate behind the scenes. Janus now brings that capability directly to our partners and users. It gives teams immediate clarity on what happened, why it matters, and what to do next, in plain language, right inside the incident. That means faster collaboration with Todyl’s MXDR experts, fewer handoffs, and customer-ready explanations that build trust and prove value.” — John Nellen, founder and CEO, Todyl
Dell PowerEdge XR9700 Brings Cloud RAN and AI to Harsh Edge Environments
New rugged, liquid-cooled outdoor server expands Cloud RAN, Open RAN and edge AI workloads to extreme outdoor conditions with a zero-footprint form factor.
Key quote from the press release:
“Operators and enterprises shouldn’t have to compromise when deploying compute in challenging environments. The Dell PowerEdge XR9700 brings Cloud RAN, Open RAN, and edge AI capabilities to places they’ve never been able to go before, opening up new possibilities for network expansion and edge applications.” — Andrew Vaz, vice president, Dell Technologies
OutSystems Launches Elevate Partner Program to Redefine Ecosystem Excellence for the Agentic Era
New value-based global partner program rewards technical expertise, customer impact, and market growth across a performance-driven framework.
Key quote from the press release:
“Our partners deserve a program that rewards all the ways they engage with OutSystems to drive value & ROI for our joint customers. Our partners are the architects of the agentic future, and they need a program that moves at the speed of their innovation. Elevate rewards our partners for technical excellence, while helping them accelerate their global scale.” — Ben Yerushalmi, SVP of partner and alliances, OutSystems
Versa Introduces World’s First Sovereign SASE-as-a-Service
New fully cloud-delivered sovereign SASE offering ensures data, control and management planes operate entirely within regional legal jurisdictions.
Key quote from the press release:
“Many enterprises invested in sovereign cloud strategies, only to discover their security and networking control planes were outside their jurisdiction. Deploying a cloud SASE provider’s appliance on customer premises does not make a solution sovereign. True sovereignty requires control over where policy is enforced, where control and management occur and who controls and governs that data while it is in motion.” — Kelly Ahuja, CEO, Versa
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