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WatchGuard CEO Joe Smolarski Keynote | IMPACT Nashville 2026

Live from IMPACT 2026 in Nashville, WatchGuard CEO Joe Smolarski takes the stage to unveil the latest innovations shaping the future of cybersecurity. From Agentic AI and Shadow AI to the new Firebox T175, enhanced network management, and advancements across the WatchGuard Unified Security Platform, discover what's next for WatchGuard and its partners.

U.S. Government Disrupts FAMOUS CHOLLIMA Operation with CrowdStrike Assistance

In late September, 2026, CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations team collaborated with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to disrupt several laptop farms operating across the U.S. maintained by DPRK-nexus adversary FAMOUS CHOLLIMA to fraudulently employ operatives at American companies while concealing their true location and identity.

Acronis Cloud Storage adds a recovery warranty

Backup is not the outcome. Recovery is. When critical data becomes unavailable, businesses need more than a completed backup job. They need confidence that their data is protected, available and ready for recovery. That is why Acronis is introducing the Anti-Ransomware Recovery Warranty for eligible customers using Acronis Cloud Storage. The capability adds a clear recovery commitment to the secure cloud storage foundation customers already rely on.

Extortion Groups are Impersonating Help Desks to Gain Initial Access

Researchers at ReliaQuest have observed a surge in voice phishing (vishing) and Microsoft Teams phishing over the past several months, particularly from extortion groups like ShinyHunters. “Attackers overwhelmingly targeted users and their unmanaged devices to gain access to accounts,” the researchers write.

How to Choose a Penetration Testing Company: 6 Things to Check

We are sharing six things to check before you sign: who's actually testing, proof of exploit, cloud and API coverage, retesting, continuous testing, and report quality. Backed by 6.8M findings from the State of Pentesting 2026 report. Chapters Astra Security is a penetration testing company that combines autonomous and human-validated pentesting for web apps, APIs, cloud and AI applications.

Introducing Sophos AI Defense

Sophos AI Defense finds the AI tools employees and applications are using, including the ones security teams never approved, and enforces policy wherever they run. Every AI tool an organization can’t see is a potential gap in confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Delivered through Sophos Fusion, the AI-native cybersecurity defense system, Sophos AI Defense connects controls on the device, across the network, at sign-in, and in the browser into one line of defense, so teams can safely adopt AI faster without adding another disconnected tool to manage.

CIS Benchmarks: The Configuration Baseline Regulators Expect

Every major security regulation now asks the same question: can you prove your systems are securely configured? Few of them define what “secure” means. CIS Benchmarks fill that gap. Misconfiguration remains one of the easiest ways into an organisation. Default accounts, legacy protocols and inconsistent settings across thousands of servers hand attackers a foothold. Regulators have noticed.

CloudCasa and Dell Technologies: Disaster Recovery for Kubernetes, Built on PowerStore

Together, CloudCasa by Catalogic and Dell PowerStore provide a complete disaster recovery solution for Kubernetes environments — combining PowerStore’s native array-to-array replication with CloudCasa’s Kubernetes-aware orchestration. PowerStore handles the data path, synchronously or asynchronously, while CloudCasa discovers workloads, validates the DR plan, and rebuilds Deployments, StatefulSets, and KubeVirt VMs on the target cluster, reconnecting them to the recovered volumes.