MSP Technology News Headlines for the Week of 3/23/2026
There’s no shortage of AI-fueled security buzz heading into RSA. This week’s news cycle proves that “agentic” is officially the word of the moment. Vendors are racing to prove they can operationalize AI. Arctic Wolf, Palo Alto Networks, and SentinelOne are doubling down on AI-driven SOCs and autonomous defenses. Plus, a wave of platforms is aimed at turning visibility into actual remediation. If you’re ready for a rundown of this week’s MSP news and partner program updates, scroll on down!
Arctic Wolf Launches Agentic SOC to Accelerate AI-driven Security Operations
New Aurora Agentic SOC combines AI agents with human expertise to deliver faster, more scalable security outcomes.
Key quote from the press release:
“Customers are clear: They’re frustrated with AI and agentic SOC solutions that are complex to deploy, difficult to operationalize, and impossible to fully trust. What organizations really want is a partner who unlocks AI’s benefits for them—with a turnkey, built-in, and accessible approach. That’s exactly what the Aurora SOC delivers.” — Nick Schneider, president and CEO, Arctic Wolf
Barracuda Advances Cybersecurity Platform and Partner Program to Boost Channel Enablement
Enhanced Partner Success Program delivers new incentives, tools, and AI-powered capabilities for MSPs and resellers.
Key quote from the press release:
“Email and identity-based attacks are intensifying at an unprecedented pace, and generative AI is introducing an entirely new layer of risk. With our newest BarracudaONE and partner program enhancements, we’re accelerating innovation and delivering on our commitment to provide a platform that is easy to buy, deploy and use as well as being partner-first and partner-only.” — Rohit Ghai, CEO, Barracuda
Dell Technologies Expands Cybersecurity and Resilience for the AI Era and Emerging Quantum Risks
New capabilities strengthen device trust, cyber resilience, and threat detection across AI data platforms.
Key quote from the press release:
“Quantum computing will break the encryption and digital signatures protecting data today, while agentic AI raises the stakes by increasing the value of data and autonomously shares it across teams and organizations. We’ve been preparing for both shifts for almost a decade through our investments in post-quantum cryptography and our approach to cyber resilience and security by design.” — John Roese, global CTO and chief AI officer, Dell Technologies
SecurityScorecard Unveils TITAN AI to Transform Third-party Risk Management
New platform automates vendor risk workflows and enables continuous, threat-informed supply chain security.
Key quote from the press release:
“We pioneered cybersecurity ratings to give organizations a clear, measurable way to understand and improve their cyber hygiene. Today, we’re still redefining what’s possible. Many teams still spend too much time stuck in manual, compliance-driven processes that don’t actually reduce risk. TITAN AI is our answer to that problem.” — Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, CEO and co-founder, SecurityScorecard
Exclusive Networks Brings Ignition to North America to Accelerate Cybersecurity Channel Innovation
New incubation and growth engine helps partners access and scale emerging cybersecurity vendors faster.
ey quote from the press release:
“Disruptive lighthouse vendors need more than visibility; they need the right support structure to scale fast and win early. Ignition provides that engine by combining deep channel expertise, hands-on enablement, and integrated hyperscaler pathways that accelerate how high-growth vendors enter and expand in the market. We have created a launchpad where innovators can strengthen their business models, sharpen their go-to-market strategies, and reach partners at the pace today’s market demands.” — James Walters, vice president of strategic partnerships and alliances, Exclusive Networks, North America
ChannelCon 2026 Registration Opens as GTIA Highlights ‘The Channel Effect’
Annual event will bring IT leaders together in San Diego to drive growth, collaboration, and innovation.
Key quote from the press release:
“ChannelCon … is the catalyst that amplifies everything that ITSPs need to grow and scale their businesses. Through this annual event, we empower IT channel professionals and organizations with expert-driven, vendor-neutral guidance so every attendee walks away with practical solutions, strategic clarity, and stronger relationships built on trust and shared purpose that they can implement in the business immediately. This is where member benefits come to life.” — MJ Shoer, chief community officer, GTIA
Proofpoint Redefines Email and Data Security for the Agentic Workspace
New integrated architecture and AI-led data governance capabilities strengthen protection across human and agentic workflows.
Key quote from the press release:
“Data risk no longer sits in one place. It moves across cloud services, on-prem systems, human users, and AI agents. We’re bringing data access governance and hybrid DSPM together within a single platform so organizations can see where sensitive data lives, understand who and what can access it, and take action based on meaningful behavioral signals. In the AI era, data governance ultimately depends on understanding not only the access, but also the intent behind it.” — Mayank Chaudhary, executive vice president and general manager, data security group, Proofpoint
Mondoo Launches Agentic Managed Vulnerability Service to Accelerate Remediation and Improve Outcomes
New expert-led offering combines AI-native platform and security professionals to shift focus from detection to remediation.
Key quote from the press release:
“Most security teams aren’t short on vulnerability data; they’re short on the capacity to act on it. We built the Agentic Managed Vulnerability Service because we believe the industry needs to shift focus from reporting to outcomes. Our customers shouldn’t need to hire more people just to keep up with the influx of vulnerabilities.” — Soo Choi-Andrews, CEO and co-founder, Mondoo
Keepit Annual Data Report 2026 Highlights the Path From SaaS Adoption to Proven Recovery Readiness
Report reveals how organizations are moving beyond backup toward validated, repeatable recovery capabilities.
Key findings from the report include:
- Organizations are progressing from basic SaaS adoption toward structured, tested recovery readiness.
- Everyday restore activities help build confidence but do not validate readiness for large-scale incidents.
- Recovery maturity depends on structured testing and guided recovery processes, not just backup tools.
- Resilience is driven by repeatable processes that ensure the right data can be restored in the correct order under pressure.
Auvik IT Trends Report 2026 Highlights Gap Between AI Ambition and Operational Reality
Study reveals that limited time, visibility gaps, and governance challenges slow IT execution despite rising budgets and AI optimism.
Key findings from the report include:
- Strong AI optimism contrasts with low adoption. Only about 5% of organizations using AI in core operations.
- Significant disconnect exists between leadership and staff on AI governance. 76% of leaders versus 42% of frontline workers said they believe policies are in place.
- Time, not budget, is the biggest constraint. Nearly half of IT teams cited lack of time for new initiatives.
Flashpoint Showcases New Capabilities to Operationalize Threat Intelligence at RSA Conference 2026
New innovations connect threat data to business priorities, helping security teams move from visibility to actionable risk reduction.
Key quote from the press release:
“The industry has reached a tipping point where security teams are drowning in data that fails to align with their most important business requirements and decisions. Visibility alone is no longer a victory; it’s a baseline. By connecting underground adversary activity to an organization’s specific attack surface and strategic requirements, Flashpoint is raising the bar beyond passive observation. We are enabling defenders to stop asking, ‘What do we own?’ and start answering, ‘What do we fix first and why?’ turning raw data into an engine for risk reduction at speed.” — Josh Lefkowitz, co-founder and CEO, Flashpoint
Darktrace Brings AI-native Service Delivery to MSSPs with New Managed Email Security Offering
New managed service and partner program enhancements help MSSPs deliver email security at scale.
Key quote from the press release:
“Our partners are at the forefront of helping organizations defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. By expanding MSSP capabilities within the Darktrace Defenders Partner Program and introducing AI-native email security services, we’re enabling partners to bring innovative AI-powered protection to market as managed services, helping them protect customers, scale their operations, and unlock new revenue opportunities.” — Dan Monahan, chief partner officer, Darktrace
NetWitness Extends Threat Detection Across Converged IT and OT Environments
New integration with DeepInspect delivers unified visibility and detection across industrial and enterprise networks.
Key quote from the press release:
“Organizations can no longer treat IT and operational technology as separate security domains. By extending NetWitness visibility into industrial environments, security teams gain the context they need to detect and respond to threats that span enterprise and operational networks.” — John Pirc, chief product and technology officer, NetWitness
Pax8 Research Finds Small Businesses Race Ahead with AI Adoption Without Matching Strategy
New survey highlights a growing gap between rapid AI uptake and the governance, alignment, and planning needed to manage it effectively.
Key findings from the report include:
- 62% of SMBs were already using AI tools. Another 25% were actively experimenting.
- 67% expected their AI usage to increase over the next 12 months.
- 74% said they believe AI enables small businesses to compete with larger organizations.
- There’s a 14-point gap between operational leaders and owners on AI urgency. This is creating alignment challenges.
HP Reimagines the Future of Work with AI-powered Devices and Intelligent Workflow Solutions
New innovations span AI PCs, security, and workflow automation to help organizations thrive in a modern workplaces.
Key quote from the press release:
“As we look ahead, the future of work is about making work simpler in a world that’s getting more complex. At HP, we’re focused on using AI to create more connected experiences that help organizations move faster and help people do their best work.” — Bruce Broussard, interim CEO, HP Inc.
RAD Security Launches Unified Security Data Layer for AI-driven Security Operations at RSA Conference 2026
FusionAI expansion introduces a data foundation for correlating signals, automating workflows, and accelerating investigations.
Key quote from the press release:
“Security teams are stuck in a maturity trap. They keep adding tools, detections, workflows, hoping the next layer will bring clarity. Instead, relationships between signals spiral beyond human scale. Doing more starts to mean understanding less. FusionAI’s expansion breaks that cycle by preserving context, reasoning across signals, and carrying investigations through to defensible action.” — Brooke Motta, CEO, RAD Security
SentinelOne Unveils New AI Security Offerings to Give Defenders a Decisive Advantage
New innovations span AI security, agentic investigations, and data pipelines to help organizations secure and operationalize AI at scale.
Key quote from the press release:
“Many of the world’s largest and most critical organizations trust SentinelOne’s AI Security portfolio to safeguard AI use and amplify human defenders. With these new innovations, they can now ingest and sanitize security source data on the fly into the Singularity Platform, and have complete human supervised agentic investigations to bring their security operations to machine speed today. These new innovations build on our proven and production-grade foundation, to ensure customers can confidently harness the full power of AI today, knowing their initiatives are secure, well-governed, and resilient against future threats.” — Tomer Weingarten, CEO, SentinelOne
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Cribl Introduces Background Detection to Uncover Hidden Sensitive Data in Real Time
New capability in Cribl Guard identifies unknown sensitive data patterns in-flight to reduce risk and improve compliance.
Key quote from the press release:
“Security and IT teams don’t want to enable AI and agentic assistants on sensitive data and face costly, time-consuming cleanups. By analyzing data flowing through pipelines, background detection catches sensitive information in flight before it even gets to a data store. This helps organizations transition from static policy enforcement to continuous, AI-driven risk discovery and mitigation.” — Dritan Bitincka, co-founder and chief product officer, Cribl
Cork Cyber Expands Financial Protection with Automated Asset Analysis
New AI engine helps MSPs eliminate visibility gaps and shift from risk visibility to continuous remediation.
Key quote from the press release:
“The automation journey at Cork is about moving from simple observation to active remediation. Asset Analysis is the brain that identifies the ‘Zombie Assets’ and ‘Whitespace’ that lead to breaches. By delivering instant, automated reconciliation across an entire fleet, we’re eliminating manual effort, improving consistency, and helping partners prevent issues before they turn into incidents, which saves time and reduces risk.” — Marcus Recck, head of product and engineering, Cork Cyber
Armor Launches Dash to Give Executives an Unfiltered View of Cybersecurity and AI Risk
New executive dashboard delivers real-time, API-driven visibility into security posture, compliance, and AI readiness.
Key quote from the press release:
“Every month, CEOs ask how security is going. The answer usually depends on someone pulling data from multiple consoles and hoping the numbers are current. Dash eliminates that. Leadership gets a real-time, honest answer directly from the security tools, and no one in the chain can adjust what the board sees.” — Chris Drake, founder and CEO, Armor
Cisco Reimagines Security for the Agentic Workforce
New innovations extend Zero Trust, identity, and SOC capabilities to secure AI agents as they become digital co-workers.
Key quote from the press release:
“AI agents aren’t just making existing work faster. They’re a new workforce of co-workers that dramatically expands what organizations can accomplish. Projects shelved for lack of resources are now within reach. The only limit is imagination, and security teams are the key to unlocking this opportunity by making the agentic workforce safe enough to trust.” — Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer, Cisco
Snyk Launches Agent Security Solution to Protect the Full AI Lifecycle
New offering introduces governance and enforcement controls for autonomous agents from development through production.
Key quote from the press release:
“Agentic architectures turn governance into a software supply chain problem. Our value is confirming which findings are real and exploitable, using ground truth data from a decade of enterprise deployment that no AI model can produce alone. Claude finds. Snyk confirms. The agent fixes only what’s real.” — Manoj Nair, chief innovation officer, Snyk
Fenix24 Debuts Argos99 SaaS Platform to Strengthen Enterprise Resilience and Recovery Readiness
New platform delivers continuous asset visibility and recovery intelligence across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Key quote from the press release:
“You can’t architect resiliency in peacetime or recover rapidly after a ransomware attack without understanding your technical estate. Argos99 gives organizations continuous intelligence about their assets and dependencies, enabling them to architect resilience in advance and then, if an incident occurs, immediately understand the blast radius and know exactly what to restore first to ensure business critical operations come back online fast.” — Mark Grazman, CEO, Fenix24
Palo Alto Networks Unveils Industry-leading Agentic Security Solutions
The new set of security innovations help enterprises safely deploy agentic AI and scale workflows.
More from Palo Alto Networks announcements:
- Prisma Browser for Business: A secure workspace for small businesses that lets teams safely use apps and AI tools from any device while blocking AI‑driven phishing, ransomware, and fraud — and preventing sensitive data leaks.
- Prisma AIRS 3.0: A comprehensive new platform to secure the full agentic AI lifecycle. New capabilities like Agent Artifact Security, MCP Gateway, and Agentic Endpoint Security help enterprises discover, assess, and protect AI agents from design to runtime.
- Agentic SASE innovations: Significant updates to Prisma SASE. Among them, an evolution of Prisma Browser supports secure, AI-driven workflows. The platform integrates secure browsing, autonomous operations, and data protection to enable organizations to scale without increasing risk.
- Next-Generation Trust Security (NGTS): New capabilities to automate certificate lifecycle management and support post-quantum readiness. It includes integration with CyberArk’s machine identity intelligence to help prevent outages and strengthen identity security.
N-able State of the SOC Report 2026 Highlights Challenges and Opportunities for Security Operations Teams
Report examines how resource constraints, tool sprawl, and evolving threats are reshaping SOC performance and effectiveness.
Key findings from the report include:
- Security teams face staffing shortages and limited resources that impact their ability to respond effectively to threats.
- Tool sprawl and lack of integration create operational inefficiencies and slow detection and response workflows.
- Automation and AI are increasingly seen as critical to improving SOC efficiency and scalability.
- Many organizations struggle to balance alert volume with meaningful prioritization. This can lead to analyst fatigue.
Sectigo Introduces Multi-tenant Partner Platform for Certificate Lifecycle Management as a Service
New platform enables MSPs and partners to scale and monetize certificate lifecycle management with automation and multi-tenant control.
Key quote from the press release:
“Shorter SSL/TLS certificate lifespans and the proliferation of certificates for nonhuman, machine identity use cases are driving unprecedented certificate volumes to manage, creating a major opportunity for partners. With Sectigo Partner Platform, MSPs can turn certificate lifecycle management into a scalable, revenue-generating managed service, reducing customer risk, preventing outages, and keeping pace with accelerating certificate lifecycles through automation and true multi-tenant control.” — Jairo Fraile, vice president of global partner sales, Sectigo
Vectra AI Advances Network Observability with Proactive Exposure Management Built for AI Enterprises
New capabilities provide continuous visibility and risk prioritization to help organizations reduce exposure across hybrid and AI-led environments.
Key quote from the press release:
“The network is a single source of truth. With exposure management, we’re giving security teams the clarity and context they need to understand what’s in their environment, how it’s being used, and where the real risks lie so they can act before attackers do.” — Snehal Patel, chief product officer, Vectra AI
OpenText and Ponemon Report Finds Enterprises Rush into GenAI Without Security Foundations
Study reveals rapid AI adoption is outpacing governance, risk management, and security readiness.
Key findings from the report include:
- More than half (52%) of enterprises have fully or partially deployed generative AI, despite limited governance structures.
- Nearly 80% of organizations haven’t reached full AI maturity in cybersecurity operations.
- Only about 41% of organizations have implemented AI-specific data privacy policies.
- Fewer than half (43%) have adopted a risk-based approach to governing AI systems.
ControlUp Collaborates with Intel to Integrate Intel Device IQ with ControlUp for Desktops
New integration brings silicon-level telemetry and AI-powered insights to enable proactive, autonomous endpoint management.
Key quote from the press release:
“Autonomous Endpoint Management starts with complete visibility and intelligent action. With Intel Device IQ integrated into ControlUp for Desktops and our validation as an Intel vPro Certified Application, we extend our insight all the way to the silicon layer while ensuring optimized performance on Intel vPro-based PCs. This partnership helps customers eliminate blind spots, reduce support tickets, and protect productivity at scale.” — Bob Johnson, senior vice president of global alliances and partnerships, ControlUp
NCC Group Threat Pulse Highlights Rising AI Risks Amid Shifting Ransomware Landscape
Monthly report shows declining ransomware volumes but increasing complexity driven by AI adoption and geopolitical tensions.
Key findings from the report include:
- Global ransomware incidents totaled 635 in February 2026. This was down year-over-year but not indicative of reduced risk.
- Ransomware activity declined 8% month over month. This signals fluctuation rather than long-term improvement.
- The industrial sector was the top target, accounting for 31% of attacks.
- North America experienced over half (52%) of all ransomware attacks, followed by Europe at 21%.
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