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The 4 best managed EDR service suppliers (and how to choose)

23 July 2026 at 12:25

There are several cybersecurity companies that offer managed EDR services in 2026. Here’s what actually separates them, and who each one suits. Most successful cyber attacks begin with a breached laptop, a smartphone or a server. Over the past 15 years, endpoint detection and response (EDR) has gone from niche to a mainstream security solution. […]

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Top 4 Best SOC Platforms 2026 – Provider Comparison

22 July 2026 at 17:52

Without the right tools, no security operations centre (SOC) can do its job properly. A SOC platform brings together a range of security technologies that let your analysts rapidly identify threats, investigate them and implement fixes. There are many cybersecurity tools that an SOC can use, and there are many vendors selling comparable products. The […]

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Top 6 Managed Detection and Response Providers

10 July 2026 at 14:57

There are several major managed detection and response (MDR) companies to choose from. We’ve compared the main offerings of the best MDR providers to help you decide which is right for your organisation. Maybe it was a near miss, or a security team stretched too thin and drowning in alerts from dozens of tools. Whatever […]

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How to scale your patches without scaling your team (the patch wave)

3 July 2026 at 17:30

Most breaches don’t start with a vulnerability nobody knew about. They start with one nobody patched in time. Vulnerability exploitation is now the single biggest way attackers get into a network. It has overtaken stolen credentials for the first time in the 19-year history of Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report, with 31% of breaches now […]

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AI didn’t break patching. It showed us patching was already broken.

3 July 2026 at 13:14

Claude Mythos, an AI model from Anthropic, has found 23,019 software vulnerabilities in the past month. Fewer than 1% of them have been patched. That gap is the story. Finding a vulnerability used to be the hard part, the thing that limited how fast software got fixed. AI just closed that gap to almost nothing. […]

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How attackers built a RAT on a Windows machine using its own .NET compiler

22 June 2026 at 16:37

In May 2026 an attacker compromised a UK medical practice endpoint without delivering a single malicious file. They used PowerShell and the .NET compiler built into Windows to build a Remcos remote access trojan on the machine itself, so signature antivirus had no known sample to match. The thing that caught it was DNS filtering, […]

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Attacker enables RDP, creates admin, erases evidence in ten seconds

22 June 2026 at 10:28

At 06:34am on 2 June 2026, an attacker logged on to a customer’s network. In a single automated burst, they switched on remote desktop and created a rogue administrator account. And deleted the evidence behind them.Β  The intrusion reached 34 endpoints and was over in under ten seconds.Β  Heimdal Extended Threat Protection (XTP) and Ransomware […]

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The State of AI Risk Management in 2026

26 May 2026 at 16:06

Key findings US executives are more than four times as confident as their own practitioners that AI risk is under control, 29% to 7%. The UK gap runs the same direction, 18% to 11%. The board’s view and the team’s view aren’t the same view. ChatGPT sits in 7 in 10 IT estates and Microsoft […]

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Top 10 Cybersecurity Companies in Europe

5 May 2026 at 19:34

Over the last 10-15 years, the cybersecurity scene has gotten increasingly complex, as organizations adopt new technology and hackers evolve more innovative ways to target them. At the same time, data protection and compliance have become much more stringent across the world. Nowhere is this more true than in Europe. Today’s organizations have an ever-increasing […]

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ITDR Best Practices: How to Detect, Prevent, and Contain Critical Identity Threats

27 November 2025 at 17:28

Key takeaways: ITDR solutions monitor identity-based threats that traditional security tools miss, like hackers logging in with stolen credentials Effective ITDR requires integration with privileged access management and automated responses tailored to your specific environment Consolidating threat detection into a single dashboard dramatically improves response times and reduces the cost of managing multiple security tools […]

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When Buyers Discount MSPs With One Big Customer

27 November 2025 at 13:22

Your biggest customer loves you. Three years together. They trust you, pay on time, and refer others. From where you sit, that’s loyalty. From where a buyer sits, that’s a $$$ discount on your exit. This perception gap kills more MSP deals than bad financials. Sam Levy saw it constantly when he led tech mergers […]

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Tool Sprawl Taxes Your Business More Than You Think

25 November 2025 at 12:55

Ross Brouse has a name for what he sees every day. The Frankenstack. β€œThe lack of operational simplicity comes from piling on tools, building that Frankenstack, as I call it,” says Brouse, President and COO of Continuous Networks, an MSP serving healthcare clients. He’s watched it happen over and over. MSPs go to a conference, […]

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What is Managed ITDR? Key Definitions, Features, and Benefits

4 November 2025 at 16:50

Key takeaways: MITDR explained: Managed ITDR combines identity threat detection with expert-led response. Why it matters: Get better protection and lower costs without building a full in-house team. What to look for: Prioritize behavioral monitoring, real-time response, and expert oversight You’ve got the ITDR solution. That’s a good step towards effective account and identity-based threat […]

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Agent Fatigue Is Real and Your Security Stack Is to Blame

28 October 2025 at 13:08

Your senior analyst stares at alert number 47. It’s not even lunch. Another β€œsuspicious login detected.” They switch to the third dashboard of the morning, cross-reference the user activity, and confirm what they already knew. Bob from accounting is working late again. Meanwhile, three dashboards over, actual lateral movement is happening on a client’s network. […]

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