CHG-MERIDIAN’s Simon Harrsen explains how financing, leasing, device lifecycle management, and device-as-a-service models can help IT channel partners expand opportunities in 2026. Episode timestamps 00:00 — Introduction to leasing, financing, and device lifecycle management01:06 — What CHG-MERIDIAN does and how it supports channel partners02:43 — CHG-MERIDIAN’s global footprint03:59 — Why partners should rethink leasing as…
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AI, Global Security News
Novee launches Agentic Fix to automate vulnerability remediation
Agentic Fix addresses a critical bottleneck in the software development lifecycle where vulnerability discovery has been significantly accelerated, but the subsequent steps of triage, assignment, patching, and retesting remain largely manual.
AI, Endpoint, Global Security News, Network Security
AI traffic is getting bigger, louder, and less predictable
AI workflows need storage that supports repeated movement across the model lifecycle. Large datasets are ingested, transformed, exported for training, pulled back for evaluation, and refreshed as models evolve. Backblaze’s Q1 2026 Network Stats report says this creates a shift from diffuse internet-style traffic to large, high-bandwidth flows between fewer endpoints. Monthly view of all…
AI, Compliance, Global Security News, Risk Management
TLS Connect gives SMBs a right-sized automated tool to manage TLS certificates
GMO GlobalSign today launched TLS Connect, a Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool designed specifically for SMBs. TLS Connect automates public trust TLS certificate deployment and renewal, allowing SMBs to strengthen security, maintain regulatory compliance and reduce business risk. The introduction of TLS Connect comes on the heels of the first in a series of TLS…
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GitLab 18.11 brings agentic AI to security fixes, CI pipelines, and delivery analytics
GitLab has released GitLab 18.11, expanding agentic AI across the entire software lifecycle with security remediation, pipeline configuration, and delivery analytics. AI-generated code moves faster than the systems around it can keep up with, creating the AI paradox: faster code generation without faster delivery, security, or operations to match. As code volume grows, so does…
Global Security News
PTC warns of imminent threat from critical Windchill, FlexPLM RCE bug
PTC Inc. is warning of a critical vulnerability in Windchill and FlexPLM, widely used product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, that could allow remote code execution. […]
AI, Apps, Global Security News, Risk Management
Opkey Debuts Solution to Solve Enterprise SaaS Release Fatigue
Opkey, a provider of a cloud application lifecycle management (CALM) platform for Oracle, Workday, Coupa, UKG, and others, has announced the release of an agentic AI-powered solution to rapidly turn enterprise SaaS releases into tailored insights, impact analysis, and testing plans for unique environments. Speeding up Oracle and Workday release analysis The Opkey Release Advisor…
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Coro automates security operations with end-to-end threat detection and response
Coro has expanded AI-driven security operations capabilities that automate the full lifecycle of threat detection and response, enabling organizations to identify, investigate, and remediate security incidents without manual intervention. The announcement builds on Coro’s intrinsic use of AI across its platform and introduces deeper automation across security workflows, including cross-module response actions and SOC-level task…
AI, Apps, Cloud Security, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Endpoint, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
How to manage the lifecycle of Amazon Machine Images using AMI Lineage for AWS
As organizations scale their cloud infrastructure, maintaining proper lifecycle management of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) is a critical component of their security and risk management goals. AMIs provide the essential information required to launch Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, however; they present security and compliance challenges if not tracked and managed throughout their…
AI, Funding, Global Security News, Venture
Escape lands $18 million funding to scale AI-driven offensive security automation
Escape has raised $18 million in Series A funding to automate the entire security lifecycle with AI agents. The round, led by Balderton Capital with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures and existing investors Iris Capital and Y Combinator, will help lean security teams fight back at a time when code is being written and attacked. According…
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Red Hat Launches Red Hat AI Enterprise to Deliver a Unified AI Platform that Spans from Metal to Agents
Red Hat AI Enterprise bridges the gap from AI infrastructure to production-ready agents by unifying the AI lifecycle with the industry-leading foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift
AI, Apps, Compliance, Data Security, Global Security News, Risk Management
Opkey Debuts Design Studio Suite of Agentic AI Capabilities
Opkey, an agentic AI-native platform for cloud application lifecycle management, is launching the Opkey Design Studio to shorten enterprise application implementation timelines. Agentic AI tools automate application implementation to drive SIs forward The Opkey Design Studio is a suite of agentic AI capabilities that extend the company’s platform to automate and standardize enterprise application implementation…
AI, Cybersecurity, Global Security News
Attackers are moving at machine speed, defenders are still in meetings
Threat actors are using AI across the attack lifecycle, increasing speed, scale, and adaptability, according to the 2026 State of Cybersecurity report by Ivanti. The study compares perceived threat levels across common attack types with organizational readiness to respond and identifies persistent gaps between awareness and execution across security programs. Preparedness lags behind threat levels…
AI, Global Security News, Government & Policy
Nation-State Hackers Embrace Gemini AI for Malicious Campaigns, Google Finds
Google researchers found that government-backed hackers now use AI throughout the whole attack lifecycle