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M&A & Deals · Claire Bennett · Mar 21, 2026
Charter-Cox Is One State Away From Closing. Here's What That Means for You.
New York approved the $34.5B merger Thursday. California is the last holdout. Partners who wait for the close to pick a side are already behind.
From the Field · Danny Brunson · Mar 21, 2026
Ransomware Crews Were Inside Cisco Firewalls 36 Days Before Anyone Knew
Amazon's honeypot caught Interlock ransomware exploiting a max-severity Cisco Secure Firewall bug six weeks before Cisco patched it. CISA issued a three-day patch deadline. Your customers are probably still exposed.
Strategy & Disruption · Jaxon Navarro · Mar 21, 2026
Your MSP Tools Are Someone Else's Attack Chain
Interlock ransomware used ConnectWise ScreenConnect as a persistence mechanism after owning Cisco firewalls via a zero-day. The toolstack problem is structural, and most MSPs have no answer for it.
From the Field · Danny Brunson · Mar 20, 2026
D&H Grew 70% in Cloud. Now They Want to Teach You to Sell.
D&H Distributing just posted 70% Cloud IaaS growth and added 3,200 new MSP customers in 2025. Their NEXT+ conference in June is the next move. Here's what it actually signals about where distribution is headed.
Strategy & Disruption · Jaxon Navarro · Mar 20, 2026
Fortinet Raised Prices 20%. Its Partner Program Got Harder. Both Are the Right Move.
Fortinet's Accelerate 2026 event confirmed FortiOS 8.0, 5-20% firewall price increases, and a partner program overhaul tied to customer lifecycle value — not transaction volume. Here's why this matters more than the sticker shock.
M&A & Deals · Claire Bennett · Mar 20, 2026
OpenAI Just Built Its Own Channel. It Runs Through Private Equity.
OpenAI is forming a $10B PE-backed joint venture to push enterprise AI through portfolio companies — routing around traditional channel partners. Anthropic is doing the same thing.
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