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LevelBlue is making a multi-million-dollar investment in a new local Security Operations Center (SOC) in Sydney, going live August 25, 2026. The Sydney SOC gives Australian organizations, with a particular focus on critical infrastructure owners and operators, access to onshore analysts and local escalation pathways, backed by the scale, threat intelligence, and 24/7 coverage of LevelBlue's global security operations.

Let me be direct about something the industry keeps dancing around: the vulnerability problem isn’t getting better. It’s getting structurally worse. The wave of AI-generated code and compression of time to exploit thanks to frontier AI models like Mythos is about to make “worse” look quaint. If your vulnerability and exposure management program is still built around scanner cycles, ticket queues, and CVSS scores, you’re not running a security program.

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.

TL;DR: Aikido now pentests Android apps. The same agents that test your web apps and APIs can now work through your APK, log into the app, and reason through it, alongside the backend it talks to, in a single assessment. Findings come back with reproduction steps and are ready for an AutoFix, the same as any other Aikido pentest. Aikido has been running autonomous pentests against web apps and APIs since November 2025.

Netwrix Auditor earned a spot on the 2026 Capterra Shortlist for Cybersecurity Software and Compliance Software, plus a 2026 Software Advice FrontRunners placement. The recognition is grounded in 200+ verified reviews, with a 4.5 out of 5 rating and 95% positive feedback. Auditor is used by professionals across 13,000+ organizations, including 120+ Fortune 500 companies, who use it to unify visibility across hybrid IT environments and produce audit-ready evidence in real time.

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.

Security leaders are rethinking what they expect from Managed Detection and Response (MDR) providers, prompting the market to enter a new phase of maturity. Organizations are looking beyond containment metrics and response times, evaluating providers based on their ability to deliver continuous risk reduction, operational accountability, and cyber resilience.