Monday Morning Impact – August 24

Arctic Wolf, a Minnesota-based cybersecurity and AI company, has rolled out its new Cyber AI Readiness Accelerator, designed to help organizations better understand cyber risk and strengthen resilience in an increasingly AI-accelerated threat landscape.

Partners can work with existing vulnerability management solutions, including Arctic Wolf’s Aurora Attack Surface Management, to help organizations gain a complete view of their exposure landscape. By connecting security data, identifying the most critical risks, and prioritizing remediation efforts, the company promises to enable organizations to reduce risk proactively, strengthen cyber resilience, and prepare for the next generation of AI-powered threats.

“Organizations are navigating a rapidly changing risk landscape as AI accelerates both business transformation and cyber threats,” said Will Briggs, SVP, Global Channels at Arctic Wolf. “The Cyber AI Readiness Accelerator gives our partners a unique way to pair their services and expertise with Aurora Attack Surface Management to help customers understand exposure, prioritize risk reduction efforts, and build stronger cyber resilience. Together, we’re helping organizations move from identifying risk to actively reducing it.”

The strategy is built around a 30-day assessment engagement that combines Arctic Wolf technology and the partner’s expertise and services. Customers receive a prioritized roadmap to reduce risk and strengthen resilience for their environment that will help gain visibility into unmanaged, unknown, or exposed assets; reveal attack paths and areas of elevated risk; prioritize remediation activities; reduce breach potential; and establish a foundation for broader security operations and cyber resilience initiatives.

The Cyber AI Readiness Accelerator is currently available in beta.

Channel Impact^®
The Cyber AI Readiness Accelerator creates a new route to market for Arctic Wolf partners, enabling them to combine Aurora Attack Surface Management with their own consulting, advisory, and remediation services to deliver comprehensive exposure management and cyber resilience outcomes.

ConnectSecure, a Tampa-based company offering vulnerability and compliance management solutions, has announced that Microsoft 365 Auto Remediation and AI-powered Training Assessments are now live on the company’s platform.

The capabilities are intended to help managed service providers (MSPs) address supported M365 security findings, create and measure assessments, support client training and strengthen security posture from one platform.

M365 Auto Remediation helps teams act on supported Microsoft 365 security findings, while the training assessments streamline the creation, assignment and measurement of assessments for compliance, onboarding, third-party due diligence and security awareness.

“MSPs are under pressure to do more than point out problems. They need to help clients fix gaps, prove progress and build stronger security habits over time,” said CEO Peter Bellini. “M365 Auto Remediation and Training Assessments extend that mission by giving partners practical tools to close security gaps, demonstrate progress and make effective cybersecurity more accessible to the businesses they protect.”

M365 Auto Remediation supports a subset of ConnectSecure M365 Security Inspection findings that can be addressed through conditional access policy enforcement or reporting. The capability allows users to select supported findings, choose whether policies should be enabled or run in report-only mode and modify existing conditional access policies as needed.

Supported findings include administrative users with no multifactor authentication enforced, legacy authentication, risky sign-ins, user risk, device registration, security information registration, self-service password reset and Microsoft Secure Defaults.

Training assessments add an AI-assisted workflow for building and distributing assessments across companies. Users can generate assessments from a topic, pasted source text, uploaded content or templates, then review and edit the generated questions, answer choices and explanations before publishing.

The module includes configurable settings for question count, difficulty level, time limits, expiration settings, maximum attempts, pass thresholds and question types. Once an assessment is hosted, MSPs can assign it to companies, share links and review analytics, including performance by company, pass rates and question-level results.

Channel Impact^®
The initiative is designed to enable MSPs to move from visibility to action across configuration, training and patch management, thereby helping MSPs to stay ahead of threats.