AI adoption is happening faster than most organizations can track. With N-Able’s Adlumin Shadow AI Visibility, you gain instant insight into every AI tool being used across your environment, including ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and more, without deploying new agents or infrastructure. Empower your team to enforce policy, strengthen compliance, and reduce risk with real-time visibility, governance, and audit-ready reporting. N-Able is positioned for an AI future strategy.

Centralized management enables you to coordinate lifecycle operations — including upgrades, patching, policy distribution and configuration enforcement — from a common plane. In addition, automation capabilities can turn those actions into repeatable, auditable workflows.

Platforms like SUSE Rancher Prime are designed to facilitate this kind of coherence. They help you centralize your multi-cluster management while still supporting diversity of infrastructure.

PHASR uses behavior-driven intelligence to block tools attackers might exploit, closing unnecessary risks without relying on rigid application control.

Running in autopilot, PHASR enforces hardening and reveals patterns of tool usage, giving the IT team insight into everyday activity and potential exposure.

Sophos AI Defense helps organizations bring AI out of the shadows by discovering and controlling sanctioned and unsanctioned AI use across the business, reducing the risk of sensitive data exposure, compliance violations, and unmanaged AI activity. By combining AI visibility, policy enforcement, risk assessment, and threat response in a single solution powered by Sophos Fusion, companies can confidently accelerate AI adoption while maintaining security and governance.

As ransomware attacks continue to evolve and bypass traditional security controls, organizations are looking for additional layers of protection to strengthen their cyber resilience. That’s where Halcyon comes in. Designed specifically to combat ransomware, Halcyon serves as a complementary solution that enhances existing endpoint protection, EDR, and XDR investments rather than replacing them.

Halcyon focuses exclusively on detecting, disrupting, and defeating ransomware across the entire attack lifecycle, from initial compromise through encryption and data exfiltration. Using behavior-based detection and ransomware-specific AI models, it helps identify threats that may evade traditional security tools.

What makes Halcyon particularly valuable is its ability to integrate seamlessly into existing security environments, providing an additional layer of defense without introducing operational complexity. The platform also includes access to Halcyon’s 24×7 Ransomware Operations Center (ROC), offering expert monitoring, response, and recovery assistance to help organizations minimize downtime and business disruption.

For organizations seeking to strengthen their ransomware defense strategy, Halcyon delivers a purpose-built solution that complements current security investments while improving operational resilience and business continuity.

When It Comes to Data Storage Security, You Need the Best. In this age of rampant malware and more remote work than ever, security may be the most important factor in your data storage decision. Not all storage is the same.

Cloudian offers the most complete array of cyber-security certifications found in object storage. Get the best…and save money with the industry’s lowest total costs (up to 2/3 less), whether you’re looking for flash or disk.

The Three Doors Nobody’s Watching: OpenText Cybersecurity

Picture your customer’s business as a house. Most security spend guards the front door — firewalls, endpoint protection. But three doors usually go unwatched.

Door #1: Who has a key. Employees, contractors, service accounts, AI agents — every one of them is a key to the house, and most customers have no idea how many keys are floating around or who still has one they shouldn’t. OpenText NetIQ governs identity and access for every one of them, human or machine, with least-privilege control and full lifecycle management.

Door #2: The code. AI coding assistants have roughly doubled how much code gets written this year — but security teams reviewing it haven’t grown. OpenText Fortify finds and fixes vulnerabilities in custom code, open source, APIs, and AI-generated software before it reaches production. Gartner has named it a Magic Quadrant Leader for Application Security Testing 11 years running.

Door #3: The data leaving the building. Every time data goes to Salesforce, ServiceNow, an outsourced vendor, or an AI tool, it usually leaves in plain, readable form. OpenText Voltage locks it first — encryption and tokenization that keep the data usable but mean a third party’s breach doesn’t become your customer’s breach.

Why now: most customers are doing all three at once — adding AI agents, writing AI-assisted code, and feeding more data into SaaS and AI tools. That’s real budget opening up in nearly every account you have.

Want to talk through how this fits one of your accounts? Reach out to the Climb Opentext Team — Opentext@climbcs.com

Cybersecurity Starts with Resilient Data

As cyberattacks become more sophisticated, backup alone is no longer enough. A modern cybersecurity strategy must ensure critical data remains protected, immutable, and recoverable, even if attackers breach the environment. That’s where Wasabi helps organizations strengthen their cyber resilience.

Built for Cyber Resilience, Wasabi’s secure cloud object storage includes multiple layers of protection designed to defend against ransomware, unauthorized access, and accidental or malicious deletion. Data is protected with encryption at rest and in transit, with support for customer-managed keys through SSE-C. Wasabi Object Lock provides WORM-based immutability, preventing data from being altered or deleted during a defined retention period, while Covert Copy creates a hidden backup accessible only to the root user for an added layer of protection.

Strong security controls such as MFA, SSO, bucket policies, and granular access permissions help organizations reduce risk and limit unauthorized access to critical data. And because Wasabi offers recovery without retrieval fees, customers can regularly test backups, validate recovery plans, and conduct ransomware response exercises without worrying about unexpected costs.

While the 3-2-1 backup strategy remains a best practice, true cyber resilience requires more than simply maintaining multiple copies of data. Organizations need 3 copies of critical data, stored across 2 different media or locations, with at least 1 offsite, immutable copy that cannot be altered or deleted by attackers. Wasabi provides the secure, immutable cloud storage foundation that helps make this strategy a reality.

For partners, cybersecurity conversations don’t have to start with security products. Instead, start with the customer’s data. Ask questions such as: What happens if ransomware encrypts your primary environment? Can compromised credentials delete your backups? How often are recovery procedures tested? Where is your immutable copy stored? What would recovery cost? These conversations naturally lead to discussions around cyber resilience, backup modernization, and cloud storage strategy.

Help customers build a stronger recovery strategy with Wasabi’s secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud storage platform. In today’s threat landscape, it’s not just about backing up data, it’s about ensuring it’s ready when you need it most.

Protect it. Lock it. Recover it.

FortiAI revolutionizes cybersecurity with AI-powered innovations embedded across the Fortinet Security Fabric. Unlike siloed solutions, FortiAI delivers intelligent, autonomous protection, streamlining operations and enhancing security. With real-time, always-on threat detection and response, FortiAI empowers organizations to stay ahead of cyberthreats, ensuring seamless business continuity and productivity. Secure your organization with FortiAI’s advanced automation and AI-driven defense.

Acronis makes it easy to protect what matters most—your data, systems, and business—without added complexity. With backup and AI-powered cybersecurity built into one solution, you can prevent attacks, recover fast, and stay productive. Whether you’re an individual, a growing business, or a service provider, Acronis scales with your needs and works right out of the box. Start your free trial today and get complete protection in minutes.

Delinea + StrongDM: Redefining Identity Security for the Agentic AI Era

As AI agents, service accounts, and machine identities increasingly outnumber human users in the enterprise, traditional session-based PAM was never built for continuous, machine-speed access. Delinea’s acquisition of StrongDM brings together enterprise-grade privileged access management with StrongDM’s just-in-time, runtime authorization — giving organizations a single platform to govern privileged access across human, machine, and AI-agent identities, without a rip-and-replace migration.

The combined solution enables continuous, runtime policy enforcement through a Cedar-based policy engine (rather than access control that stops at login) and operationalizes Zero Standing Privilege across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. This directly addresses the gap left by legacy PAM tools that weren’t designed for non-human identities operating at scale — a compelling competitive story against vendors still relying on static, session-based access models.

As Stephen Davis, CISO at Hubbell Incorporated, put it: “Bringing together Delinea and StrongDM will give us a unified way to monitor, authorize, and govern privileged access for IT teams, developers, and AI agents across on-prem and cloud environments – all in a single platform.”

This quarter, Climb has focused on expanding Thales security opportunities by building on existing Imperva relationships and identifying new customer security needs.

By leveraging our relationships across key partners such as CDW, SHI, Insight, WWT, ePlus, and GuidePoint Security, we’ve been able to identify where customers already have a security need and introduce additional Thales capabilities that can strengthen their overall security strategy.

This approach has helped turn existing relationships into new opportunities while giving our partners a more complete security story to take to their customers. Rather than simply selling a product, Climb is helping partners identify opportunities to consolidate, strengthen, and expand their security posture through the broader Thales portfolio.

Modern File Data Starts Here: Cloudian and CTERA Together

CTERA provides the global file services and access layer, while Cloudian delivers the secure, scalable S3 storage foundation underneath it.

Here’s an easy way to identify the opportunity, a few questions to ask, and a simple pitch you can use with customers and sales teams. Together, CTERA and Cloudian help organizations modernize how they manage, access, protect, and scale distributed file data.

If You Hear This… Think Cloudian + CTERA

• “We have data everywhere.”
• “Our NAS is running out of capacity.”
• “We have too many file servers.”
• “Our remote offices are difficult to manage.”
• “Our data is growing too quickly.”
• “Storage costs are getting out of control.”
• “We need better ransomware protection.”
• “We want to modernize our file infrastructure.”
• “We want to keep our data on-prem/private.”
• “We need to scale to petabytes and beyond.”

Ask These 5 Questions

1. Where is your file data stored today? Are you using traditional file servers, NAS, branch storage, or multiple cloud platforms?
2. How are remote offices and users accessing their files? Are users relying on VPNs, local file servers, or other legacy solutions?
3. How are you handling data growth? Are storage capacity and infrastructure costs becoming a challenge?
4. How confident are you in your ability to recover from ransomware or a major data-loss event?
5. Are you looking to consolidate or modernize your file and storage environment?

The 30-Second Pitch

“CTERA and Cloudian work really well together because CTERA provides the global file services layer, while Cloudian provides the secure, scalable S3 object storage underneath it. If you’re dealing with distributed file data, legacy NAS or file servers, rapid data growth, ransomware concerns, or the need to modernize your storage environment, this combination can provide a scalable and cost-effective path forward.”