5 Channel Partner Updates: Friday 25 October 2019 -

Here five (actually, far more…) technology news updates, insights, chatter, and plenty more to start your day for Friday, October 25, 2019.

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A. What’s Hot Today

1. ConnectWise IT Nation – Complete Coverage: It's all here.

2. M&A - MSPs: ImageNet Consulting has acquired I.T. Guys, uniting two managed IT services providers (MSPs) in Oklahoma City.

3. Data Protection: Axcient has unveiled AutoVerify, an enhancement to Axcient's BRC and Replibit's nightly BootVM check feature, providing validation of the recoverability of the backup snapshots and protected environment, the company says.=

4. Cybersecurity Certification: CompTIA is beta testing an exam for the CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) credential.

B. Partnerships and Strategic Alliances

1. Internal MSP Security: Blackpoint Cyber has unveiled an MSP Protect program, which offers special pricing to all MSPs to help secure their own internal networks, the company says.

2. Cisco Security Partner Strategy: New clues about Cisco's security partner strategy emerged here ahead of Cisco Partner Summit 2019.

3. ServiceNow Partner: FylForm of the United Kingdom has earned ServiceNow Elite Partner Status.

4, IoT Partnership: Eseye and Gemalto are partnering to deliver a "family of pre-integrated modules that will simplify IoT device design, cloud connectivity and accelerate time-to-market," the two companies say.