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In an interview during ConnectWise’s IT Nation Secure event today, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin (pictured) discussed the origins and implications of the nation’s first regulation for MSPs and MSSPs.

The new addition to the vendor’s lineup of IT Nation conferences seeks to help partners tackle an enormous challenge with equally enormous revenue potential.

Now known as ScalePad, the company has turned a management solution for PCs, servers, and network gear into a comprehensive lifecycle management system for both hardware and the software running on it, according to CEO Dan Wensley (pictured).

At its CloudBlue Innovators Forum event this week, Nimesh Dave (pictured) and other speakers urged channel pros to get in on a digital economy growing even faster this year not so much despite the global coronavirus pandemic as because of it.

The new system joins appliance-based BDR and image-based endpoint backup components in Axcient’s x360Recover platform, enabling MSPs to serve multiple customer needs through a single integrated platform.

Ransomware operators are increasingly organized with schemes to auction stolen data and rent attack tools.

Provided at no extra cost, the new functionality turns Cloud Optix into an unusual hybrid mix of security system and remote management tool.

Endpoint protection products from Panda Security, which WatchGuard bought in March, are now available to all of the company’s partners while membership in the WatchGuardONE partner program is now open to former Panda resellers.

One new offering walks partners through the process of creating NetSuite-based solutions for customers in narrowly defined industries. The other gives resellers of products like NetSuite’s email marketing system and PSA solution an easier route into the vendor’s channel.

Based entirely online, Linksys Cloud Manager 2.0 comes with a free license good for the life of the product as well as a new no-cost tool for creating customized guest network splash screens.