Halloween is 10 months away, but if you're up for some IT horror stories year-round, well, NinjaOne has the podcast for you.
The RMM company launched its
IT Horror Stories podcast this week, which the company says was created "to honor and assist the next generation of IT leaders as they look to advance in their careers (a career marked by constant change, adaptability, and evolution)."
Podcast host
Jonathan Crowe, NinjaOne's director of community, "will feature conversations with seasoned industry experts – including renowned CIOs (like Wawa’s John Collier and Netskope’s Mike Anderson), VPs of infrastructure, directors of IT, and more." NinjaOne said the podcast will have guests recounting the toughest single challenge they ever faced, unpack how they overcame those unique obstacles, and leave listeners with lessons learned and actionable advice to better fend off IT horrors of their own.
I can't wait to tune in!
Now, here's today's MSSP update. Drop me a line at
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Today's MSSP Update
1. Aryon Security raises $9M seed funding: Aryon Security came out of stealth today with a $9 million seed funding raise based on its Cloud Security Enforcement Platform that the company said prevents cloud risks before they are deployed in production systems. The company was founded by alumni of the elite “Matzov” unit in the Israel Defense Forces, and the seed funding round was led by Viola Ventures and Blumberg Capital. The company aims to disrupt the $44 billion global cloud security market by focusing on policy enforcement before rampant misconfiguration and data protection errors enter the cloud. Notable angel investors are also involved, including Shlomo Kramer of Check Point, Imperva and Cato Networks, Maty Siman, founder of Checkmarx, and Rubi Aronashvili, founder of CYE.
2. Stellar Cyber, RedSense CTI integration: Stellar Cyber today announced a strategic integration of RedSense Cyber Threat Intelligence into its Open XDR platform. This collaboration enables Stellar Cyber to provide better prioritization of incidents, smarter and richer alerts, and more accurate, actionable responses to cyberthreats and incidents. Organizations can either bring their existing RedSense subscription to Stellar Cyber’s OpenXDR or add RedSense to their current Open XDR instance as an additional service
3. Commvault unveils EHR restore capabilities: At the HIMSS25 global health conference, cyber resilience and data protection solutions provider
Commvault announced that its cyber resilience and recovery technologies can be used to recover Electronic Health Records (EHR), including from Epic and Meditech environments. These capabilities allow healthcare organizations to recover quickly from an attack, and also align with newly-proposed HIPAA guidelines that would require a 72-hour reporting window after a breach.
4. Kaspersky reveals the extent of infostealer malware: Kaspersky research lays out in stark terms just how prevalent infostealers are: According to the Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence unit, nearly 26 million devices were compromised by infostealer malware in 2023 and 2024, leading to the leak of more than two million unique bank card details. In fact, Kaspersky research said every 14th infostealer infection led to the theft of bank card details. And that's just the debit or credit card data -- infostealer malware will go after any information that could be deemed valuable (think healthcare data, for example). Yikes.
5. Cloudsmith raises $23 million to secure software supply chains: Cloud-native artifact management solutions provider Cloudsmith has raised a $23 million Series B to help secure software supply chains, the company said. The funding round was led by
TCV, with participation from
Insight Partners and existing investors. Cloudsmith is used by enterprises and is an alternative to JFrog and Sonatype. New capital from this oversubscribed funding round will go toward expanding sales, marketing, and customer success teams, new product features, and investing in AI R&D.
