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Some essential strategies to help optimise cybersecurity

Irvin Shillingford - Regional Manager Northern Europe at Hornetsecurity, discusses the results from the company's annual Ransomware Impact Report, with a rise in ransomware attacks the headline finding. Irvin explains that end users need to do more to implement effective cybersecurity strategies – with email security, security awareness solutions, immutable backup storage and increased and improved cybersecurity training among his key recommendations.

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Axians and Nokia partner to deliver next-generation networking solutions

Chris Gilmour, CTO of Axians UK, explains how Axians, the ICT brand of VINCI Energies, and Nokia are deepening their strategic collaboration to drive the next phase of communications infrastructure and mobile network development in the EMEA region. The combined solutions are targeted to meet the growing demand for high-performing connectivity and digitalisation across industries. Axians and Nokia will now scale their joint efforts to support European organizations with resilient, high-performance networking solutions. The collaboration will focus on delivering next-generation connectivity, including optical transport, data centre networking, IP routing, private 5G, fixed network access, and secure communications technologies – with both AI and quantum computing driving the need for IT infrastructure innovation.

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Q-Day - are you ready?

Paul Savill, Global Practice Leader for Network and Edge at Kyndryl. Spends his time helping major organisations modernise their infrastructure to make the most of AI, strengthen security and prepare for the disruption of quantum computing. Here he discusses the approach of Q-Day, the point when quantum computers will be able to break today’s encryption. Despite the urgency, only 39% of leaders believe their IT infrastructure is ready for threats such as quantum enabled cyber-attacks. Paul shares insights as to how organisations can prepare both for the current challenges around AI adoption and the prospect of quantum computing.

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AI pacesetters likely to increase their business advantage in the near future

Rob Lay, Cisco, discusses the results from the third annual Cisco AI Readiness Index. A small but consistent group of companies surveyed — the ‘Pacesetters,’ about 13% of organizations for the last three years — outperform their peers across every measure of AI. The Pacesetters’ sustained advantage indicates a new form of resilience: a disciplined, system-level approach that balances strategic drivers with the data and infrastructure needed to keep pace with AI’s accelerating evolution. Rob explains what sets apart the Pacesetters and also offers advice to the majority of organisations who are caught in the gap between AI ambition and operational readiness.

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Delivering digital transformation, without the elephant sandwich

Matthew Irish, General Manager, Digital Services at Apogee Corporation, explains how and why many companies still find the idea of digital transformation overwhelming with multi-year projects that cost a fortune and never seem to end. Too often, businesses try to swallow the entire ‘elephant’ at once, leading to a massive, expensive, company-wide overhaul that creates more chaos than it solves. Matt outlines an alternative, smarter, less stomach-churning way to approach digital transformation. Instead of a huge, high-stakes project, he recommends a step-by-step approach that tackles one process at a time, making it easier to manage, less disruptive, and way more effective.

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General disillusionment with GenAI, but (other) AI can help

Maxime Vermeir, Senior Director of AI Strategy at ABBYY, discusses the results from ABBYY’s State of Intelligent Automation: GenAI Confessions 2025 survey, which reveals challenges in implementing Generative AI (GenAI) – prompting the use of other AI to improve outputs. He explains that businesses are spending money on GenAI tools that promise more than they can provide and advises that before moving forward with leveraging GenAI tools for agentic AI, companies need to first evaluate their current processes and create a visibility map of their workflow with data analytics tools such as process intelligence.

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Metadata emerges as the cornerstone of cyber defence

Mark Jow, Gigamon Technical Evangelist, discusses the company’s recent report, “CISO Insights: Recalibrating Risk in the Age of AI”, which reveals how global CISOs are reshaping 2026 cybersecurity strategies as they seek to effectively secure and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure in the AI era. Mark explains that, as AI accelerates digital transformation and intensifies cyberattacks, data visibility and quality have become mission critical to defending hybrid cloud infrastructure. To keep pace, CISOs now need to gain a deeper level of insight, as increasing traffic volumes add complexity.

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Delivering digital transformation without the elephant sandwich

Matthew Irish, General Manager, Digital Services at Apogee Corporation, explains how and why many companies still find the idea of digital transformation overwhelming with multi-year projects that cost a fortune and never seem to end. Too often, businesses try to swallow the entire ‘elephant’ at once, leading to a massive, expensive, company-wide overhaul that creates more chaos than it solves. Matt outlines an alternative, smarter, less stomach-churning way to approach digital transformation. Instead of a huge, high-stakes project, he recommends a step-by-step approach that tackles one process at a time, making it easier to manage, less disruptive, and way more effective.

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General disillusionment with GenAI - but (other) AI can help

Maxime Vermeir, Senior Director of AI Strategy at ABBYY, discusses the results from ABBYY’s State of Intelligent Automation: GenAI Confessions 2025 survey, which reveals challenges in implementing Generative AI (GenAI) – prompting the use of other AI to improve outputs. He explains that businesses are spending money on GenAI tools that promise more than they can provide and advises that before moving forward with leveraging GenAI tools for agentic AI, companies need to first evaluate their current processes and create a visibility map of their workflow with data analytics tools such as process intelligence.

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Tool overload driving agent fatigue and missed threats

Adam Pitton, Heimdal Security cybersecurity advisor and former UK cyber detective, discusses the findings of the company’s recent survey 80 North American MSPs, showing that fragmented security stacks drive fatigue, missed threats, and business inefficiency. Security tools meant to protect managed service providers are instead overwhelming them. Adam explains what’s going wrong and what needs to happen in order to ensure that MSPs can make agent fatigue a thing of the past.

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Cybersecurity and AI – helping SMEs understand an exciting future

Mike DePalma, VP, SMB Business Development, OpenText Cybersecurity, discusses the continuing evolution of cybersecurity alongside rapidly emerging AI solutions - with agentic AI gaining significant momentum - explaining where Endpoint Detection + Response (EDR) sits in this rapidly evolving landscape and how OpenText is developing its Partner Program to ensure that MSPs and MSSPs can best position themselves to deliver expert advice and technology solutions to address SME concerns around many of their current pain points.

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Chainguard launches Global Partner Program to accelerate trusted open source software adoption

Rob Finn, VP International Sales at Chainguard, discusses the company’s new Global Partner Program, offering flexible incentives, technical enablement, and go-to-market support to empower channel resellers and distributors to lead in secure software delivery. He also provides updates on Chainguard’s recently announced partnerships with both Azul and Orca Security, as well as sharing some insights into the company’s future plans.

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How to deliver better outcomes for SMB’s business continuity and disaster recovery priorities - Pt 6

Adam Salley, Sr. Director, Solutions Specialists, Kaseya, shares his thoughts on the future direction of BCDR and advice for MSPs to develop an optimised, comprehensive BCDR offering for SMBs.

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How to deliver better outcomes for SMB’s business continuity and disaster recovery priorities - Pt 5

Adam Salley, Sr. Director, Solutions Specialists, Kaseya, outlines the importance of service productisation and MSP enablement.

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How to deliver better outcomes for SMB’s business continuity and disaster recovery priorities - Pt 4

Adam Salley, Sr. Director, Solutions Specialists, Kaseya, examines the shift to cloud workloads and as well as the importance of commercial flexibility.

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