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The $860 million deal is the latest step in OpenText’s ongoing efforts to build an end-to-end family of cyber protection products encompassing security, backup, and high availability solutions for SMBs and consumers.

At the distributor’s annual partner event, global technology solutions president Paul Bay (pictured) pointed to a new end-to-end lifecycle management interface for as-a-service solutions as an example of further investments in automation to come.

To prevent more breaches of the kind that struck IT management solutions in the last year, the company says, MSPs must embrace cyber hygiene best practices and vendors must embrace independently audited security frameworks like BSIMM.

How much money are you making on wiffy these days? I mean, I assume you’re in the wiffy market. It’s huge! Take it from Matt, Rich, and this week’s guest host, Paco Lebron, of MSP ProdigyTeks and the MSP Unplugged podcast.

The new functionality automatically classifies, prioritizes, and routes tickets, and can also resolve mundane tasks like password resets and onboarding new users on its own.

Three new APs introduced today are the first such products to be supported along with WatchGuard’s firewalls, endpoint protection products, and MFA software by the centralized WatchGuard Cloud interface.

The new feature is designed to help users assemble a more complete picture of assets and asset vulnerabilities by collecting information from hardware running Ubuntu and Debian Linux.

Feel free to tackle only simple challenges, channel pros. Just don’t expect to make much at it. Take it from this week’s guest host, podcaster and industry analyst Dave Sobel, it’s the hard stuff that produces big money. Dave, Matt, and Rich have plenty to say about that topic, as well as the news from Acronis’s CyberFit Summit, and Dave has a few thoughts to share about Kaseya’s efforts to harden its software against future breaches too.

A survey of MSPs conducted in partnership with ChannelPro shows that using fewer security and BDR vendors saves nearly $230,000 on average and that using integrated security and BDR products cuts breach recovery times by an average of five hours.

The ransomware functionality is a down payment on what OpenText says will be an extensive list of security features in Carbonite solutions that draw on expertise and threat intelligence from the company’s Webroot unit.