April Media Hits and Must Reads
From governance challenges and evolving third-party risk to more adaptive social engineering tactics, today’s threat landscape is being reshaped in real time. At the same time, new partnership and service approaches are emerging to help organizations keep up with the speed and scale of change.
Take a closer look at the latest trends, insights and stories that are happening in cybersecurity in today's edition of Headliners and Must Reads.
🗞️ What's Making Headlines
How Optiv Defined The Security Channel
Cybersecurity is a core growth engine in the channel, not an add-on, and solution providers are no strangers to the concept of the channel partner program, the mechanism through which technology vendors across the industry manage and govern their channel relationships.
But Optiv has taken the concept one step further by developing its own full-fledged partner program for the technology vendors it teams with.
Optiv One doubles down on transparency and predictability in ways that should only deepen the trust between Optiv and its partners amid the push to capture unprecedented AI opportunities ahead, according to CEO Kevin Lynch. "Servicing and securing agentic [AI] is going to be a massive business for us — it already is. I think we’ve set the stage with our partner program."
Services Shift As AI Reshapes Risk
AI is increasing security demands while legacy cyber risk persists. "The challenges in some ways aren’t changing, but the speed at which things need to happen is much faster now." In Channel Insider, CRO John Hurley discusses what that shift means for managed security service providers.
Here’s What Tax Scammers Are Up To
AI is making tax scams more convincing and harder to detect. "You've got threat actors ... posing as the [IRS] ... creating scripts that adapt in real time." In NBC Denver, James Turgal explains how tactics are shifting.
How Did Cybercriminals Breach GTA 6 Maker Rockstar Games?
Third-party cyber risk continues to expose gaps beyond direct control. "These attack vectors are extremely difficult to predict or proactively address." In Cyber Magazine, Aamil Karimi explains why it matters.
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The Governance Gap Organizations Can't Afford to Ignore
AI adoption is outpacing governance, leaving many organizations with limited visibility into how it’s used. In Unite.AI, Lina Dabit outlines how governance gaps expand risk and why safe use matters as much as control.
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