MSP technology news headlines for the week of July 6, 2026
Barracuda acquires Evo Security to strengthen identity resilience for MSPs, Blackpoint Cyber is bringing AI-powered identity threat detection to the SOC, and CyberProof is pushing further into autonomous security operations. Meanwhile, a wave of new research highlights mounting pressure from AI-driven attacks, while vendors continue rolling out tools to help MSPs govern AI, secure identities, and scale security services more efficiently.
If you’re ready for a rundown of this week’s MSP news and partner program updates, scroll on down!
Barracuda acquires Evo Security to deliver complete identity resilience
Expands the BarracudaONE® Platform with AI-ready identity security, creating the industry’s most comprehensive partner-first platform.
Key quote from the press release:
“In the agentic AI era, protecting both human and non-human identities is imperative for delivering cyber resilience. Existing enterprise identity solutions are complex, costly and fail to meet the needs of MSPs that must scale to securely manage millions of identities across thousands of customer environments. We are thrilled to combine Evo Security’s partner-first innovation with our vision of BarracudaONE and offer a complete, intelligent, easy, and open platform that closes this gap. As AI accelerates the speed and scale of identity-centric attacks, this combination is uniquely positioned to help organizations big and small stay ahead of these threats.” — Rohit Ghai, CEO, Barracuda
CyberProof redefines MXDR with agentic AI and autonomous security operations
New co-managed service helps enterprises move beyond isolated AI tools with human-governed, end-to-end security operations.
Key quote from the press release:
“In the last few months, we’ve seen how AI-powered threats can compress the attack lifecycle to minutes, forcing organizations to operationalize threat intelligence faster than ever before. Collecting threat data is no longer a competitive advantage – the advantage lies in execution – reducing exposure, immediate detection, and containment. At CyberProof, we are redefining performance measurements to focus on time from the launch of a new threat campaign to exposure reduction, threat detection, and containment playbooks. Our services ensure enterprises don’t just see a flood of incoming common vulnerabilities but possess the right framework for reducing exposure risk quickly.” — Tony Velleca, CEO, CyberProof
Cynet Global AI Security Readiness Report: Is your organization ready for AI-driven threats?
Cynet research finds MSPs are more confident than in-house teams in security incident response, creating an opportunity to help customers close AI-era security gaps.
Key findings from the report include:
- 71% of MSPs are very confident in their ability to detect and respond to customer incidents, compared with 43% of in-house teams.
- MSPs and in-house teams are aligned on their top priority capabilities: identity security, email and phishing protection, and cloud and SaaS security.
- 59% of organizations want to involve MSPs when adopting new security tools.
- 78% of in-house teams and 89% of MSPs plan to spend more on security tools for faster detection and response.
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➡️ Cynet joins Pax8 Marketplace to help MSPs manage the modern attack path
Radware expands agentic AI protection with AI governance reporting and Claude Code protection
New capabilities are designed to provide enhanced visibility into AI agent ecosystems, audit-ready reporting designed to support alignment with global standards, and protection for developer-hosted AI agents.
Key quote from the press release:
“Organizations are deploying AI agents across increasingly complex environments, creating new requirements for visibility, governance, and security. These enhancements help organizations better understand agent behavior, support their compliance efforts, and help extend protection to AI agents operating across both SaaS and local developer-hosted environments.” — David Aviv, chief technology officer, Radware
Haven opens Design Partner Program for businesses and MSPs
Browser security companion built by MirrorTab, Inc. invites growing businesses and managed service providers to help shape the next phase of browser-layer protection.
Key quote from the press release:
“Businesses told us they want visibility into where their people are exposed, without adding a security team to get it. MSPs told us they want that same visibility turned into something they can show a client. This program is how we build both, with the people who will actually use it.” — Colin Britton, COO, Haven
Blackpoint Cyber unveils new identity threat AI SOC Agent to stop credential-based attacks in seconds
New autonomous AI capability empowers Blackpoint Cyber’s elite human-led SOC to identify and contain identity-related threats at machine speed.
Key quote from the press release:
“When vendors or the market talk about AI replacing the SOC, our answer is that our SOC is a big reason that AI works in cybersecurity. The threat is already agentic. The near-future adversary will operate without human direction at a scale we have never seen, and the same AI empowering defenders is being used to create novel threat vectors. Our Agent was informed by our SOC, staffed by former NSA, DIA, and CIA operators, and aided by their judgment. The boundaries were set by them. The AI acts faster, but the human judgment secures the outcome and always will.” — Gagan Singh, CEO, Blackpoint Cyber
DNSFilter launches OEM program to embed its DNS threat protection and privacy encryption inside third-party products
ISPs, security vendors and device makers can now ship DNSFilter’s DNS-layer and encryption protection under their own brand.
Key quote from the press release:
“ISPs, device makers, and security vendors have been quietly looking for a DNS protection layer they can trust and build on. We are opening up the same global network that already blocks threats for over 60 million users every day, backed by threat intelligence that catches attacks up to ten days before anyone else.
Partners do not have to build any of it, they plug into infrastructure proven at a scale most companies will never touch and ship protection from day one.” — Ken Carnesi, CEO and co-founder, DNSFilter
SonicWall research finds financial services running overdrawn on cyber defenses as attack intensity outpaces every other tracked industry
New Financial Services Protect Brief documents 42 million hits against legacy infrastructure and ransomware families targeting institutions.
Key findings from the report include:
- Financial services saw 132,378 IPS hits per device in the first half of 2026, the highest attack intensity of any industry SonicWall tracks.
- The GoodTech Telnet Server Buffer Overflow vulnerability generated 42.2 million detection events, pointing to legacy banking and payment systems that still expose Telnet services to active exploitation.
- Log4Shell generated 35.6 million detection events more than two years after disclosure as attackers continued targeting unpatched Java-based banking and payment applications.
- Heartbleed remains active, with firewalls still detecting attempts to exploit the vulnerability more than a decade after disclosure.
- Ten ransomware families were active against the sector, including REvil and Prometheus, both known for targeting financial organizations.
- Malware activity averaged 39,341 hits per firewall, giving financial services the second-highest per-device malware intensity of any industry, behind only healthcare.
Trustifi appoints new CEO to lead cybersecurity and AI advances
Technology industry veteran Jeff Spridgeon to lead the continued transformation of the renowned channel email security organization.
Key quote from the press release:
“I’m honored to join this incredible team at such a pivotal moment in the company’s history and the channel’s cybersecurity evolution. Along with our thriving partner community, we will innovate and strengthen our solutions to address the threats they and their clients face today and well into the future.” — Jeff Spridgeon, CEO, Trustifi
StorONE now enables existing third-party all-flash arrays to deliver up to 9x more effective storage without purchasing additional flash
StorONE Version 4.0 enables existing third-party all-flash arrays to serve as the high-performance flash tier of StorONE Real-Time Tiering.
Key quote from the press release:
“I’ve had the privilege of helping drive one major shift in enterprise storage before. At Storwize, we challenged the belief that primary storage couldn’t deliver meaningful capacity reduction, and the industry eventually embraced that change. Today, we’re at a similar inflection point, challenging another long-held assumption, that the answer to growing storage demand is buying more flash. It isn’t. As flash becomes more constrained and more expensive, organizations need to get dramatically more value from the flash they already own.” — Gal Naor, founder and CEO, StorONE
Optimize365 joins Microsoft Marketplace to help MSPs turn M365 security into revenue
The AI-powered M365 security platform built for MSPs is now discoverable, purchasable, and co-sell eligible through Microsoft’s global partner ecosystem.
Key quote from the press release:
“MSPs have been running security manually across dozens of tenants, with inconsistent baselines, and no clean way to show clients what it’s worth. Being on the Microsoft Marketplace means an MSP can find us, trust us, and start using us faster. More importantly, it puts a revenue layer on top of the M365 stack they’re already managing.” — Shay Cohen, CEO, Optimize365
Horizon3.ai names Matthew Schaner VP of Americas sales
Schaner will drive NodeZero’s Americas growth, expand the partner ecosystem, and develop the region’s sales leadership team.
Key quote from the press release:
“Matthew knows how to turn hyper-growth momentum into market dominance. He has spent his career building high-performance sales teams and deep partner ecosystems from the ground up. Beyond his leadership, Matthew’s technical depth earns him instant credibility with customers and sellers alike—he understands the problem before solving it. He is the perfect fit to scale Horizon3 across the Americas.” — Matt Hartley, chief revenue officer, Horizon3.ai
M-Files launches M-Files for Consulting, transforming a firm’s knowledge into an AI-powered advantage
New purpose-built solution streamlines document-centric work, from proposal to engagement management, to help consulting firms build a governed foundation for AI, automate compliance, and securely access confidential client information.
Key quote from the press release:
“Consulting firms are under enormous pressure to move faster, deliver more consistently, and leverage AI across the business, but fragmented knowledge is holding them back. In an AI-augmented consulting firm, the system of record matters more than ever. To protect margins, retain knowledge, and use AI with confidence, firms need a trusted foundation of governed, contextual content.” — Yohan Lobo, senior manager of industry solutions, M-Files
NetSPI expands suite of human-led, AI-powered continuous pentesting services as organizational attack surfaces grow
Includes a first-of-its-kind Continuous AI Findings Validation service; continuous testing for web applications, AI, and internal networks.
Key quote from the press release:
“Enterprise technology is evolving faster than ever, thanks in large part to AI, making it easier than ever for organizations to be more innovative, productive and efficient. But what too often gets lost is the recognition that risk grows at the same pace. It is why we will keep supporting our customers with the most relevant pentesting solutions that continuously and confidently answer to the evolving threat landscapes they are managing.” — Nabil Hannan, field CISO, NetSPI
Exterro launches ARMOUR for FTK: forensic investigations that start with a question, not a stack of tools
New agentic AI capability executes investigations across live endpoints, replacing the multi-tool, collection-first workflows that slow enterprise incident response.
Key quote from the press release:
“Detection is only the beginning. The real difficulty comes when investigation teams need to determine what happened, understand the scope of the incident, and gather evidence to make business, legal, and regulatory decisions. We built ARMOUR for FTK so investigators can start with the question they need to answer, not the manual processes required to answer it.” — Ajith Samuel, chief product officer, Exterro
Veeam appoints Michelle Graff as senior vice president of global partners and channel
Graff tapped to lead Veeam’s global ecosystem and help customers build secure, resilient and trusted data for AI at scale.
Key quote from the press release:
“The convergence of AI, cybersecurity, and data resilience is one of the most significant shifts of our generation. As organizations adopt AI and agentic workloads, trusted, resilient data becomes the foundation – driving a ResOps approach that puts resilience at the center of how customers protect, optimize, and unlock value from their data. With the market’s leading partner ecosystem, Veeam is uniquely positioned to lead, helping customers keep data secure, governed, compliant, and recoverable so they can accelerate safe AI at scale and deliver measurable outcomes. I’m excited to join Veeam and help our partners turn resilient data into a strategic advantage.” — Michelle Graff, SVP of global partnerships, Veeam
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