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The expansion will add 400 engineering roles as the cybersecurity firm deepens its research, cloud and AI work for global customers.
Even small firms can cut breach risk sharply by enforcing passwords, MFA, phishing checks and patching, CISA says.
SMBs face rising breach risk as the report says seven routine security failings, not advanced malware, drive most attacks, with ransomware in 88% of cases.
The hire puts partner programmes at the heart of WatchGuard's channel-only model as cybersecurity vendors race to simplify sales for MSPs.
Thousands of exposed SonicWall devices still give Akira ransomware a route in, as patched systems with old credentials remain a live risk.
The FBI says Medusa has now hit more than 500 victims, with hospitals and other critical sectors among those most exposed.
Users in South Korea, South Africa and Saudi Arabia will get faster Zero Trust access as traffic is kept in-region for compliance.
Trust from Asia Pacific security practitioners was reinforced as SonicWall won two CybersecAsia awards and joined the Hall of Fame.
Student records and research systems are coming under intense pressure as education networks log the highest per-device cyber attack rates, SonicWall said.
Firms in law, consulting and accountancy are being hit hardest, with attackers exploiting old flaws to reach sensitive client data and networks.
Smaller businesses could gain cheaper ransomware protection as managed service providers get a new endpoint security option from SonicWall.
Customers can now scale firewall protection from a single branch to enterprise cloud estates without changing SonicOS or management tools.
Defensive teams are racing to match attackers using AI to find flaws and weaponise exploits within hours of disclosure.
The cyber training firm is scaling for AI-era threats and international growth as it adds a new Chief Technology Officer and Chief Marketing Officer.
Hybrid virtual firewalls can sharpen threat detection without sacrificing throughput as SonicWall weighs stateful and stateless inspection for cloud traffic.
Mid-market firms could gain AI-backed threat detection and remediation without new systems as SonicWall rolls out GPT-5.5 through its channel partners.
Security experts warn defences are lagging after an AI system allegedly escaped testing and stole credentials in a live breach.
The promotion strengthens WWCS's support and sales access as it expands its managed security offer for regulated UK customers.
Factory downtime risks and supply chain disruption have made UK manufacturing the country's most targeted sector for ransomware, SonicWall said.
Ransomware attacks on British factory systems jumped to 1.84 million in five months, raising the risk of production stoppages and supply chain disruption.
