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WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified cybersecurity, has been recognized as a 2026 CRN Annual Report Card (ARC) Award winner in the Security: Network Security—SMB category by CRN, a brand of The Channel Company. The recognition is based on direct feedback from solution providers across North America, who evaluated technology vendors on product innovation, support, partnership, and managed and cloud services. WatchGuard achieved an overall score of 92.8, ranking first in the category.

We are proud to announce that Frost & Sullivan has named CrowdStrike as the strongest overall leader in the Frost Radar: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2026. CrowdStrike earned the highest scores in Innovation and Growth among 18 companies benchmarked from a field of more than 45 qualified participants. Today’s cloud attacks are designed to hide in plain sight.

Today, we’re excited to announce a few developer experience improvements to Cloudflare AI Search to make it easy to manage a search solution out of the box. Previously, you had to stitch together components of the Cloudflare primitives (Workers AI, AI Gateway, Vectorize, R2, Browser Run) but now, AI Search can do this automatically, and better. Our goal is to give your agents their own search engine, where they can easily find data to provide better answers for themselves and their humans.

A few years ago, when Michael and I started Zenity, most of the industry was not ready to hear what we believed. Software itself was changing. AI would let millions of people, not just engineers, build and automate real work. And securing that world would take a completely new approach, because we would no longer be protecting software. We would be protecting systems that think, decide, and act on their own.

Software Analyst Cyber Research (SACR) just published its 2026 AI SOC Market Report, offering an independent assessment of vendors competing in what has rapidly become the most consequential category in enterprise security. Torq features prominently, and the report’s framing is worth unpacking because it illuminates what makes the AI SOC category hard to evaluate and why Torq’s approach is consequential.

Midmarket security teams face the same adversaries as the largest enterprises, often with a fraction of the staff and budget. Alert volumes keep climbing, AI-driven threats are accelerating, and lean teams are expected to do more with fewer resources. What these organizations need is world-class AI-led security operations that are actually within reach.

We’re proud to announce that two WatchGuard leaders have been named to CRN’s Top 100 Executives list for 2026, recognizing their leadership, innovation, and commitment to the channel. This year’s honorees are: Each year, CRN’s Top 100 Executives list celebrates leaders who are shaping the future of the IT industry through their vision, business leadership, and commitment to the partner ecosystem.

Omdia once again named Acronis a Champion in its Global Managed BDR Leadership Matrix for backup and disaster recovery. Acronis was one of only four vendors in 2026 to retain its Champion status from the previous edition of the matrix. For managed service providers (MSPs), the honor provides recognition from an independent analyst firm of Acronis’ consistency, continued innovation and sustained commitment to partner success. Analyst report Omdia Global Managed BDR Leadership Matrix.

Learn how five years of security innovation from cloud-native threat detection to AI security and an autonomous SOC earned Elastic the newest recognition from AWS.

We are going to try something risky here: humility in a blog post about winning an award. Let us start by saying a badge DOES NOT change how Astra-nauts show up for work on a Monday, but when 211 people (as of July 10, 2026) take the time to log into G2 and talk about whether Astra Security holds up to its commitments, months after their engagement closed, we take a minute. This quarter, that added up to a 4.6 out of 5 rating and 72 badges across 19 Grid Reports.