Two things happened last week, one day apart, and almost nobody connected them. On 11 September, the EU Cyber Resilience Act’s vulnerability reporting…
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Slow is a design principle, not a delay
Two things happened last week, one day apart, and almost nobody connected them. On 11 September, the EU Cyber Resilience Act’s vulnerability reporting…
AI adoption that pays off is built around keeping humans in the driver’s seat
I’ve spent enough time around AI adoption now to notice a pattern. Ask a business how AI is going for them and the honest answer is, lately, “we’ve got…
Phishing in 2026. Latest statistics and analysis
“You’ve been gifted a voucher!”. “Your account will be closed unless you act now”. “Late payment demand. Invoice # 207”. Phishing scams come in many…
AI adoption that pays off is built around keeping humans in the driver’s seat
I’ve spent enough time around AI adoption now to notice a pattern. Ask a business how AI is going for them and the honest answer is, lately, “we’ve got…
Phishing in 2026. Latest statistics and analysis
“You’ve been gifted a voucher!”. “Your account will be closed unless you act now”. “Late payment demand. Invoice # 207”. Phishing scams come in many…
Shift Browser is signed adware that fingerprints your endpoint before it drops payload
Heimdal’s SOC flagged a surge in detections tied to a program called Shift Browser on 2 September 2026. Our team confirmed activity on more than 50 client…
6 ThreatLocker alternatives that should make your shortlist
There are a few reasons that MSPs start looking for ThreatLocker alternatives. You might have had enough of the friction with end users. The high levels…
50+ insider threat statistics for 2026
In 2026, insider threats are probably a bigger risk than you think. In fact, they could cost your organization $19.5 million a year. But it’s not really a…
The Planting Seeds philosophy. Selling into schools takes years, not quarters
It’s tempting for MSPs to write off event sponsorship in education as a waste of money. You sponsor an event, hand out flyers, follow up with an email,…
What the DfE’s cyber security update means for multi-academy trusts
Before dawn on 10 July 2024, one ransomware attack took down ten schools inside the same multi-academy trust at once. Every control that eventually…
9 Proofpoint alternatives. Pros & cons of the leading options
Proofpoint catches malicious traffic and blocks data exfiltration well, with solid coverage for business email compromise, phishing, and malware. But it’s…
The risk awareness radar. A superpower every MSP needs to train
Most of the cyber incidents landing on our desks these days start with someone believing a lie. It’s not a brilliant piece of code that causes most…
How Heimdal grew from a bold idea into a global cybersecurity platform
Heimdal did not start as a traditional cybersecurity company. It started with two Danish cybersecurity researchers, a piece of innovative technology and a…
MediaArena malvertising: why a quarantine isn’t the end of the incident
If Microsoft Defender quarantines BrowserModifier:Win32/MediaArena on one of your endpoints, the alert reads like a win. Our SOC data says treat it as a…
Tools Change. Teach People How to Keep Up
“Make everyone one percent better and it compounds across the team.” That’s the line Joe Head wrote about his own job and when I read it back to him, he…
Heimdal data reveals MediaArena adware completes persistence before antivirus quarantine finishes
London, UK, 30 July 2026 – New data from Heimdal’s telemetry measures the gap between execution of the MediaArena adware and the completion of quarantine.…
How Heimdal grew from a bold idea into a global cybersecurity platform
Heimdal did not start as a traditional cybersecurity company. It started with two Danish cybersecurity researchers, a piece of innovative technology and a…
MediaArena malvertising: why a quarantine isn’t the end of the incident
If Microsoft Defender quarantines BrowserModifier:Win32/MediaArena on one of your endpoints, the alert reads like a win. Our SOC data says treat it as a…
Tools Change. Teach People How to Keep Up
“Make everyone one percent better and it compounds across the team.” That’s the line Joe Head wrote about his own job and when I read it back to him, he…