technologyreseller.co.uk 37 in the Highlands, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Argyll and Bute, Angus and Perth and Kinross. The rollout forms part of an £800 million agreement with Openreach, announced last August, to deliver gigabit broadband to rural and remote areas across Britain. Under this agreement, work is already underway to connect more than 227,000 premises in Wales and England. In Scotland, delivery will be a joint effort between the UK Government, Scottish Government and Openreach. … AnywhereNow has enhanced its Dialogue Cloud Contact Centre for Microsoft Teams (see last month’s issue), with the launch of Dialogue AI Assist, a collection of more than 30 ready-made AI assistants designed to automate tasks and empower human agents to work more efficiently and confidently. Powered by the company’s AI assistant platform Deepdesk and based on applications used by existing customers, they provide a range of capabilities including intelligent routing, transcription, sentiment analysis, summarisations, knowledge assistance and best next action recommendations. AnywhereNow CEO Will Blench said: “Organisations can now access Agentic AI capabilities without complexity and risk, at an affordable price, fully embedded within our market-leading Dialogue Cloud Contact Centre for Microsoft Teams.” www.anywhere.now … Kaseya, the global provider of AI-powered cybersecurity and IT management software, has enhanced its Kaseya 365 platform with the addition of Kaseya 365 Ops. Applying AI and automation to help MSPs scale efficiently, improve operations and boost service delivery and performance metrics, Kaseya 365 Ops is claimed to save customers an average of 160 hours per month. Also announced at April’s Kaseya Connect 2025 conference in Las Vegas was the new Kaseya SIEM, which correlates endpoint and cloud telemetry threat data from RocketCyber and SaaS Alerts to deliver unified, faster and more actionable threat detection. www.kaseya.com … WatchGuard Technologies is advancing its efforts to become a net-zero carbon cybersecurity provider by signing The Climate Pledge. Co‑founded by Amazon and Global Optimism in 2019, The Climate Pledge commits companies to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. As a signatory, WatchGuard will measure and report greenhouse gas emissions; implement decarbonisation strategies to reduce Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions; and neutralise remaining emissions with quantifiable offsets. To start with, WatchGuard aims to ensure its logistics, manufacturing and cloud infrastructure suppliers align with its sustainability goals and contribute to an overall reduction in carbon output. WatchGuard.com Following its spin-off from Veritas Technologies in December 2024, data management company Arctera has launched a new Channel Partner Programme for FY2026. The enhanced programme features specialised rewards, rebates and resources for each of its three business units – Data Compliance, Data Resilience and Data Protection. Partners working across all three business units will see revenue thresholds tailored specifically to each one, enabling them to quickly move through partner tiers to unlock their optimum rewards status. www.arctera.io … Huntress is advancing its mission to democratise enterprise-grade security for businesses of all sizes with the launch of a fully managed SIEM that offers threat detection, investigation, response and compliance support, without the complexity, costs and inefficiencies of traditional SIEMs. The Huntress Managed Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is fully managed by the company’s 24/7 Security Operations Centre (SOC), which already monitors threats 24/7 for millions of endpoints and identities. Huntress says this effectively gives customers herd immunity from emerging threat actor tradecraft as anything caught for one organisation helps Huntress’ SOC shut it down faster for the next. Another claimed benefit is predictable, stable and industry-disruptive pricing due to Huntress’ ability to store only data necessary for threat hunting, investigation and compliance. … WithSecure is rebranding its cybersecurity consulting unit Reversec and launching it as a separate business. Scott Reininga, Executive Vice President of Reversec, said: “Launching Reversec as a new company allows us to focus on being a nimble, research-led cybersecurity consultancy with an aim to redefine offensive security. We adopt a hacker mindset, simulating the tactics and strategies used by cybercriminals so we can turn complex security challenges into clear solutions and make cybersecurity a strategic advantage for our clients.” www.reversec.com … Global cybersecurity provider Hornetsecurity is partnering with Amazon to provide Vade Advanced Email Security as an add-on to Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) Mail Manager. Amazon SES Mail Manager is a comprehensive email management solution for businesses that use Amazon’s cloud-based email service to automate high-volume email communications, giving them control and oversight of their email campaigns. The Hornetsecurity email security add-on provides them with automated, real-time protection against spam, malware and phishing attacks through advanced threat detection, behaviour analysis, patented AI technology, real-time scanning and seamless integration. Hornetsecurity CEO Daniel Hofmann said: “We are thrilled that Amazon has chosen to partner with Hornetsecurity Group to provide their SES Mail Manager customers with a seamless and powerful email security solution within the AWS environment. This will be a game‑changer for the security of businesses that use Amazon SES for email transactions and marketing.” TECHDIGEST Axiom GRC strengthens international ambitions with launch of full-service GRC platform Axiom GRC, created last year when the risk software and services division of Marlowe PLC was acquired by European private equity firm Inflexion, is building on the latter’s £500 million investment in the venture, with the launch of a business resilience platform that gives businesses of all sizes everything they need to manage their Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). The full-service platform provides a gateway to more than 50 compliance products from eight Axiom GRC brands that together have 1,200 GRC professionals, 40,000 clients and 2 million users. They include WorkNest (employment law, HR and health and safety), Vantify (health and safety, computer aided facility management and supply chain compliance), VinciWorks (compliance eLearning, software and advice), CoreStream GRC (governance, risk & compliance), IMSM (ISO certification), Bulletproof (cyber security, information security and data protection), Pentest People (cyber security, information security and data protection) and Barbour EHS (regulatory intelligence). As well as meeting the needs of UK businesses, the platform is a key element in Axiom GRC’s international ambitions. CEO Alex Dacre said: “GRC is high on the agenda in many regions – such as the Middle East due to its rapidly growing infrastructure and global supply chains – and across much of the USA. We plan to take our sophisticated technology and services international, including continued growth in North America where we already have a strong foothold. Our ambition is for Axiom GRC to be recognised as the GRC platform of choice – the gold standard for business resilience.” https://www.axiomgrc.com/ Alex Dacre continued...
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