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The agreement gives Pax8 partners something they’ve long wanted, the distributor says: the ability to sell Intuit’s popular cloud-based financial management software to their SMB customers.

The cloud management and security vendor plans to roll out functionality that will let users of its SaaS security module view and take immediate action on threat notifications from Microsoft and Google by the end of the month.

Maryann Nwude (pictured), the 2022 winner of an award from CompTIA and ChannelPro for young women starting a career in IT, aspires to introduce more people of color like herself to the worlds of hackathons and AI research.

There are stranger things than this week’s ChannelPro Weekly episode, but little else as fun or informative. Joined by security expert and returning guest host Angela Hogaboom, the Cloud Chick herself, Matt and Rich discuss the new Surface for Business hardware at D&H, the new intrusion prevention and container security options from Trend Micro, and the new industry trend data from ConnectWise’s Service Leadership unit.

Called Incubiz, the offering aims to make becoming a provider of security and managed services to SMBs easier for people with the drive to launch and run a business but limited startup capital or experience.

The agreement arms partners to include devices like Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Go 2 (pictured) in solution bundles alongside Microsoft 365 and accompanying services for the first time.

Unveiled today at Amazon’s re:Inforce conference, FortiCNP draws on input from Fortinet’s Security Fabric and integration with the new Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection solution to provide prioritized, actionable information on vulnerable assets.

Enhancements to the vendor’s Cloud One platform introduced ahead of Amazon’s re:Inforce security conference let end users shift hosting and processing burdens from their own environments to Trend Micro’s.

CaaB (Cloud as a Business) is a channel-only public cloud infrastructure and service provider.

The partner program that the security awareness training vendor launched last week, its first, is part of a broader effort to adopt a partner-led sales model, according to channel chief Tim Acker (pictured).