There are several cybersecurity companies that offer managed EDR services in 2026. Here’s what actually separates them, and who each one suits. Most successful cyber attacks begin with a breached laptop, a smartphone or a server. Over the past 15…
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How to choose the best SOC platform in 2026 (and our top 4)
Without the right tools, no security operations centre (SOC) can do its job properly. A SOC platform brings together a range of security technologies that let your analysts rapidly identify threats, investigate them and implement fixes. There are many cybersecurity…
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 live persistence incident instead. In the case we timed, the payload finished writing its persistence 21…
Top 6 Managed Detection and Response Providers
There are several major managed detection and response (MDR) companies to choose from. We’ve compared the main offerings of the best MDR providers to help you decide which is right for your organisation. Maybe it was a near miss, or…
Cyber-Aware Customers Are Raising the Bar for MSPs and Other Vendors
Your client is no longer just buying your security advice. They’re auditing whether you live by it. That was the clearest message from the exclusive interview I had with Heather MacDonald, an MSP finance specialist and owner of Counting Creators. Heather’s exactly…
How to scale your patches without scaling your team (the patch wave)
Most breaches don’t start with a vulnerability nobody knew about. They start with one nobody patched in time. Vulnerability exploitation is now the single biggest way attackers get into a network. It has overtaken stolen credentials for the first time…
AI didn’t break patching. It showed us patching was already broken.
Claude Mythos, an AI model from Anthropic, has found 23,019 software vulnerabilities in the past month. Fewer than 1% of them have been patched. That gap is the story. Finding a vulnerability used to be the hard part, the thing…
Heimdal Launches MSP Onboarding Wizard to Help Partners Onboard Microsoft CSP Customers in 2 Minutes
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 1 July 2026 – Heimdal today announced the launch of MSP Onboarding Wizard, a new capability that helps managed service providers onboard Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) customers inside the Heimdal platform faster and with less manual work.…
How Dynamic Defense shuts an attacker out without shutting down the business
AI has handed hackers a resource advantage. Winning it back means spending your own resources far more precisely, and that’s the strategy we call Dynamic Defense. The principle is simple. Contain the threat just enough, for just long enough, until…
Static security has run out of road. The case for Dynamic Defense
AI has flipped the economics of cybersecurity in the attacker’s favor. For most of the last decade, defenders held the cost advantage, buying down their risk with a stack of largely static controls. That advantage is gone, and winning it…
Breaking the MSP Echo Chamber: The Power of Community
MSPs spend too much time talking to other MSPs and not enough time talking to the people they’re supposed to serve. That’s Paul Croker’s view of some of the channel’s biggest growth problems. While most industry events bring technology…
How attackers built a RAT on a Windows machine using its own .NET compiler
In May 2026 an attacker compromised a UK medical practice endpoint without delivering a single malicious file. They used PowerShell and the .NET compiler built into Windows to build a Remcos remote access trojan on the machine itself, so signature…
Attacker enables RDP, creates admin, erases evidence in ten seconds
At 06:34am on 2 June 2026, an attacker logged on to a customer’s network. In a single automated burst, they switched on remote desktop and created a rogue administrator account. And deleted the evidence behind them. The intrusion reached 34…
Protected: Attacker enables RDP, creates admin, erases evidence in ten seconds
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Your Next Insider Threat May Be an AI Coworker
Heimdal sysadmin Alex Panait spent weeks testing Claude Cowork inside the company. His verdict was blunt. It felt like onboarding a junior employee with no manager, no scoped access, and no clear accountability when something goes wrong. Except this one…
The OSI Model and Its Two Missing Layers
Cybersecurity failures now happen beyond the OSI stack. Faulty governance, the human factor, and AI tools create new attack surfaces. After seven years working across cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and Zero Trust architecture, Jayal Yadav explains how we got here and…
Heimdal® Marks Six Years of Consecutive ISAE 3000 SOC 2 Type II Certification
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 8, 2026 – Heimdal has achieved ISAE 3000 SOC 2 Type II certification for the sixth consecutive year, reflecting the company’s continued focus on operational security, accountability, and data protection. The 2026 audit covered the period from…
Protected: The State of AI Risk Management in 2026
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AI Will Absorb 99.98% of SOC Triage Within a Year, as 79% of IT teams brace for AI-driven workload shift
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, 12 May 2026 — Heimdal’s managed SOC processes three million alerts a month. In the year ahead, fewer than 500 of those, less than 0.02%, are expected to need a human analyst. That’s the forecast from Heimdal founder…
Heimdal Expands AI Strategy with AI Wingman and Third-Party AI Containment
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 21 April 2026 — Heimdal today unveiled the next phase of its AI strategy, expanding AI Wingman with three new layers – Assist, Triage and SOC – alongside the introduction of Third-Party AI Containment. Together, these capabilities build on…