The Daily Byte 👾
Pax8 is pairing with Cork to fuse cyber risk insights with embedded insurance for MSPs. Translation: new revenue and stickier clients if you're ready to share telemetry and meet underwriting. Audit controls, map data-sharing boundaries, and line up renewals before sales knocks.
ChannelE2E coverage on Cork + Pax8
Hot Headlines 🔥
🔒 Security & Threats: Ransomware payments are rising even as reported attack counts “drop.” That’s a budgeting and claims headache. Update IR comms, rehearse negotiation playbooks, and set client expectations on coverage gaps and legal. Read MSSP Alert’s report on payments trend.
➡️ Vendor Moves: Microsoft’s FY26 incentives payout timing for indirect resellers could nudge cash flow. If your SPIFF math assumes monthly, adjust — and warn finance about lags. Check out Sherweb’s FY26 incentives timeline explainer.
🤖 Cloud & AI: CRN highlighted 20 “coolest” cloud monitoring/management companies (Atlassian, Datadog, Dynatrace, Drata, Kion, etc.). Treat this as a shortlist for stack refresh and partner outreach. View CRN’s Cloud 100 monitoring list.
☁️ Cloud/Edge: IO River wants to virtualize the edge to break CDN lock-in. For app-heavy clients, multi-CDN orchestration could cut cost and latency without rewrites. Pilot on noncritical workloads and watch vendor SLAs. Read Network World’s IO River deep dive.
MSP Ops Corner
3-minute SOP: Insurance-ready ransomware response ⬇️
First 15 minutes: isolate impacted systems, preserve evidence, engage legal/insurance hotline.
Telemetry: capture immutable logs (EDR, firewall, backup events) and snap configs before changes.
Comms: one exec voice; no promises, no technical detail outside the IR team.
Privilege: move responders to just-in-time admin; kill standing access until postmortem.
Payments: never discuss amounts; route negotiations through counsel and insurer.
Documentation: contemporaneous timeline, decisions, artifacts — insurers will ask.
The Channel Rumor Mill 💬
The street is whispering… Microsoft will lean harder on AI-first partner metrics in FY26. Copilot seat activation, usage, and cloud consumption will outweigh old-school pipeline counts. Expect competencies and benefits to tilt accordingly. Align motions now.
Tools We Love 🩷
Just-in-time admin tied to alerts:
Hook SIEM high-severity events to PAM to grant 15-minute privileged access.
Require MFA step-up and session recording; auto-revoke on ticket close or TTL.
Outcome: faster incidents, fewer standing privileges, happier auditors and underwriters.
Meme of the Day 🗓️
Source: Kaspersky on X
