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Pax8 has celebrated its top-performing partners and vendors with awards at Pax8 Beyond 2026, held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The awards honour companies that have empowered the SMB community to offer advanced technology solutions via the Pax8 Marketplace. Among the APAC winners, Otto IT was named Pax8 Champion, while ADITS was honoured as a Pax8 Hall of Fame inductee. The Peak Performance award went to Kaine Mathrick Tech.

The MSP Index Roadshow arrived in Brisbane yesterday, bringing together MSPs, technology partners and channel leaders for an afternoon of industry discussion, networking and practical insight. The event focused on which SMB business models and specialisations are paying off in 2026, where efficiency and automation gains are real, and how AI is influencing cost structures. A practical discussion on how MSPs are building a competitive edge in an increasingly crowded market also featured.

Accenture is taking a majority stake in operational technology (OT) cybersecurity provider Dragos, as well as full ownership of runZero and NetRise, at a combined enterprise value of approximately US$4.175 billion (A$5.96 billion). The move comes just under a year after Accenture acquired CyberCX, the company's largest cyber security acquisition to date.

The Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD) Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has issued a critical alert regarding a widespread malicious campaign against Fortinet Firewalls and VPN gateways. The campaign largely utilises exposed credentials and credential-based attacks, leading to potential compromise and further credential exposure.

Data management specialists Denodo has announced integrations with Amazon Web Services to help scale agentic AI across hybrid and multicloud environments. Denodo integrates with AWS data and AI services - including Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Amazon Quick - to extend access into operational and analytical data residing in on-premises, SaaS, and multi-cloud environments.

The Australian Government is doubling down on critical infrastructure security with new rules set to come into effect in 2027, with extended grace periods for the complex measures. Informed by "extensive consultation" with industry and stakeholders, the Enhanced CIRMP Rules introduce targeted uplifts to existing risk management requirements for a number of specified asset classes.

AI-powered data security firm Cohesity has expanded its long-running partnership with HPE,  introducing new resell agreements, deepened technical integrations and a strengthening of joint go-to-market execution. Cohesity will begin reselling HPE Zerto, offering customers continuous data protection (CDP) and near-instant recovery for virtualised and cloud workloads.

OpenAI on Thursday launched new usage ⁠analytics ⁠and updated spend controls for its ChatGPT Enterprise platform, designed to provide clients with greater visibility and management over their AI deployments. The ‌new features aim to help manage ‌costs ‌and track credit usage, as ‌growing adoption of the AI ⁠tools by power users in enterprises has drawn attention to the escalating costs associated with extensive AI consumption.

We are pleased to announce the 2026 techpartner.news Impact Awards finalists – technology partners, vendors, distributors and people that made a real impact for Australian organisations. They will gather on August 13 in Sydney for the inaugural techpartner.news Winter Ball, featuring the Impact Awards, a black-tie celebration recognising the projects, people, and partnerships shaping the Australian technology industry.

David Masters has joined Anthropic as its head of policy for ANZ. He previously spent nearly five-and-a-half years with Atlassian as its head of global public policy. He’s also a board member of Future Skills Organisation, as well as a volunteer board member of the Tech Policy Design Institute and a former chair of the ICT Industry Reference Committee.