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Ransomware Costs Surge as Quantum Computing Risks Loom: How Data Security Stocks Are Responding

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VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 2, 2024 /CNW/ — USA News Group News Commentary – Ransomware is on the rise, according to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024, with the global average cost of a data breach reaching $4.88 million this year, for a 10% increase over 2023. As computing power and technology advances, so too does the ability of cybercriminals to penetrate vulnerabilities, with 55% of companies reporting modern cybercriminals are now more advanced than their internal teams. With the rise of quantum computing the G7 Cyber Expert Group (CEG) recently advised the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors encouraging jurisdictions to monitor quantum computing development, and begin planning for the potential risks quantum computing poses on some current encryption methods. Several tech developers are currently working on AI-powered, and future-proof quantum computing security to protect data today and tomorrow, with recent developments coming from, including: Scope Technologies Corp. (CSE: SCPE) (OTCQB: SCPCF), Gen™ (NASDAQ: GEN), Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR), Veritone, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERI), and SentinelOne, Inc. (NYSE: S).

The article continued: Swedish multinational telecom Telia has warned that the rise of AI technology has increased the risk of cyber-attacks targeting businesses. The Federal Communications Commission addressed the need for better telecom security, forcing T-Mobile to pay $31.5 million in data protection and cybersecurity settlements after investigations into data breaches that impacted millions of US consumers.

Scope Technologies completes updates for Retail User Subscription Model for Fully Encrypted, Quantum-Resilient, and Decentralized Cloud Storage

Scope Technologies Corp. (CSE: SCPE) (OTCQB: SCPCF), a pioneering technology company specializing in quantum security and machine learning, today announced the successful completion of updates for its new retail subscription model, offering full access to its industry-leading encrypted, quantum-resilient, and decentralized cloud storage solutions. Having reached this key milestone, Scope Technologies is now in closed user group testing gearing up for the official launch, which will deliver top-tier data protection solutions to individual users and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

As the global demand for secure, immutable data storage continues to rise, Scope Technologies’ QSE (Quantum Security & Entropy) platform delivers enhanced protection through a combination of post-quantum encryption and decentralized storage, ensuring data is safeguarded against both current and future cyber threats. Unlike standard cloud backups, QSE’s decentralized approach ensures that data remains immutable and resistant to ransomware and denial of service attacks, among many others.

“Data protection should not be a luxury,” said Sean Prescott, Founder and CTO of Scope Technologies. “Having completed the updates to our decentralized storage network, we are excited to bring the power of quantum encryption and decentralized storage to a wider audience. This solution ensures that individuals and businesses can protect their data not only from current threats but also from the unprecedented risks posed by quantum computing and ransomware.”

With updates now complete, Scope Technologies is gearing up to launch its decentralized cloud storage service, QSE, for retail users. This service provides robust data security through quantum-proof encryption, utilizing quantum entropy to create unbreakable encryption keys, even against future quantum computing threats. The decentralized infrastructure ensures that data is immune to tampering, over-encryption, or corruption, offering far superior protection compared to traditional cloud backups. Additionally, the service is designed for seamless integration with existing systems, allowing for easy setup and scalability via simple APIs. Scope’s affordable subscription plans make enterprise-level security accessible to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses, ensuring comprehensive data protection at competitive rates.

The upcoming retail subscription model will offer tiered pricing plans based on storage needs, with access to additional services such as increased entropy calls for enhanced encryption. This flexible pricing structure allows users to scale as their storage demands grow, all while maintaining the highest level of data security available today. Unlike traditional storage services, QSE’s decentralized, immutable infrastructure ensures that data remains secure and untouchable by attackers, offering a significant improvement over centralized cloud backups.

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In other industry developments and happenings in the market this week include:

Gen™ (NASDAQ: GEN), a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted Cyber Safety brands, recently announced that its employee benefits division Norton Benefit Solutions has expanded its offerings to help employers in the US, EMEA, LatAM and Asia protect their employees’ digital lives with all-in-one Cyber Safety solutions available through their benefits programs.

“Over the past 16 years, our team has offered Norton and LifeLock products to employers and has become a leading employee benefit provider in the United States and Canada, helping more than 10,000 companies protect their employees with a 99.8% retention rate,” said Casey Cullinan, Head of Norton Benefit Solutions. “As a global leader in Cyber Safety, we are passionate about making online privacy and protection accessible for people around the world.”

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR), a leading provider of AI systems, was recently recognized as a top performer by Dresner Advisory Services in the 2024 AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning Wisdom of Crowds® Market Study, for a second year in a row. The recognition came just days after Palantir announced a contract awarded by the DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL) expanding Maven Smart System access across the military services to include the Army, Air Force, Space Force, Navy, and US Marine Corps, worth up to $99.8 million over five years. The Maven Smart System is part of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Maven AI infrastructure.

“To stay ahead of our adversaries, we must deliver software advantage at speed and at every level of the Department of Defense,” said Shannon Clark, Head of Defense Growth, Palantir. “NGA has been a leader in rapidly adopting the strongest AI capabilities to enable warfighters around the globe, and we are excited to support the program as it scales to meet critical infrastructure requirements across all of the services.”

Veritone, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERI), a leader in building human-centered enterprise AI solutions, recently announced a partnership with Midwest Public Safety, a premier provider of public safety technology solutions. As per the collaboration, Midwest Public Safety will offer its prospective and current customers across the Midwest Veritone Public Sector’s complete line of AI-powered applications for law enforcement and judicial agencies will help agencies streamline and automate manual workflows, accelerate investigations and improve public safety while providing greater transparency.

“We are excited to partner with Midwest Public Safety to expand the reach of our industry-leading technology across the Midwest,” said Jon Gacek, general manager, Public Sector, Veritone. “This collaboration underscores our commitment to providing law enforcement agencies with innovative AI-driven tools that streamline digital evidence management and protect privacy. By working with Midwest Public Safety, we are able to support agencies in their mission to serve and protect their communities more effectively and efficiently.”

SentinelOne, Inc. (NYSE: S), a global leader in AI-powered security, was recently named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) for the fourth consecutive year, and also took top honors winning both the Best Enterprise Security Solution and the Best Endpoint Security Solution at the 2024 SC Media Awards.

The accolades came just weeks after SentinelOne announced a collaboration with Lenovo to protect Lenovo PCs with SentinelOne’s industry-leading Singularity™ Platform and generative AI capabilities (Purple AI) in new PC shipments, as well as offer upgrades to existing customers to expand its ThinkShield security portfolio and autonomously protect devices from modern attacks.

“The endpoint remains a primary vector of cyberattacks and the most critical part of a business’ ongoing operations,” said Akhil Kapoor, Vice President Embedded Business, SentinelOne. “By working with market leaders like Lenovo, we can rapidly scale AI-powered security to millions of PCs and servers across the globe.”

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TeamLogic IT Honors Top Franchisees, Brings Leading Industry Experts Together at TeamLogic IT Owners Summit Convention

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MISSION VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TeamLogic IT, a national provider of managed IT services and technology support, celebrated the achievements of its franchise network at the company’s annual Owners Summit and Vendor Show, held October 5-8, 2026. The event brought together TeamLogic IT franchisees, vendors and partners for a week of learning, collaboration and connection, culminating in the recognition of the network’s top-performing franchisees.

“One of the things that makes TeamLogic IT so special is the strength of our franchisee community. Our TeamLogic IT franchise owners represent the very best of the managed services industry,” says Richard Lowe, president and CEO of TeamLogic, LLC. “Owners Summit gives us the opportunity to come together, exchange ideas and celebrate what we’ve accomplished as a network. Recognizing our top-performing owners is always a highlight. Their leadership and commitment to delivering high-quality technology solutions are helping drive our network forward and strengthen the TeamLogic IT brand nationwide.”

The sold-out vendor exhibition featured more than 70 leading companies in the technology industry, including Pax 8, the conference’s signature sponsor, Bitdefender, Blackpoint, Cytracom, Sophos, Kaseya, N-able, NinjaOne, Proofpoint, Rewst, Slide and more.

At a closing ceremony, the following awards were presented:

Franchisee of the Year: Arti Dutt – West Northridge, CA

Rookie of the Year: Reese Verschelde and Corey Gisondi – Bryn Mawr, PA

Technician of the Year: Federico Hansen – N. Palm Beach, FL

VIP (Volume Increase Percentage)
Larry Anderson and Tony Anderson – Montgomery, ALSteve Anderson – Johns Creek, GATop 15 (Based on 2025 sales)
Jim Hackett and Andrew Hackett – Woburn, MATodd & Linda Harrell – Morris Plains, NJTodd & Ruth Tolly – Santa Rosa, CAPaul Behrman & Nadia Pukhova – Lake Forest, CACory & Kathleen Boxall – Ashburn, VARob Fallows & Chris Kasten – Phoenix, AZKirk Gramoll and John Halama – Germantown, WICindy McPike, Cameron Nelson, and Jacob Harrington – Salem, ORBob Roloff – Ft. Myers, FLDwight & Allison Blankenship – Columbus, OHRick Higgins – Dunwoody, GADan & Becky Thomas – Durham, NCScott Daniels – Naples, FLEric Summers – Des Moines, IARandall Wilson – Decatur, ALMillion Dollar Club
Kyle Temple – Richmond, VAJeremy Mason – East Madison, WIJoseph & Joyce Tauras – Manchester, NHSandeep Kaushal – Vernon, CTJim & Mikki Young – Lake Arlington, TXSteve & Jamie McGlumphy – Aurora, ILMike Treiser and Danny Ramey – Denver West, COMayank & Jaimini Patel – Niles, ILAllen Chu – White Plains, NY

About TeamLogic IT
TeamLogic IT is a national provider of advanced technology solutions for companies of all sizes. Local offices provide clients with the IT support they need to run their businesses more efficiently by leveraging the latest technology solutions, including managed IT services, cybersecurity, business continuity, cloud, co-managed IT services, managed AI, and consulting and support. With more than 350 independently owned and operated locations across North America, TeamLogic IT helps companies minimize downtime, improve productivity and secure their IT infrastructure. Visit www.teamlogicit.com or www.TeamLogicFranchising.com for more information on the TeamLogic IT franchise network.

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Mili and Egnyte Partner to put Client Documents to work in Financial Advice

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The partnership brings Egnyte’s secure content platform and Mili’s AI agents together, so advice firms can deliver more comprehensive, personalized advice at scale.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Mili, an AI platform for wealth management firms, and Egnyte, a leader in secure content collaboration, intelligence, and governance, today announced a partnership that brings Mili’s AI agents to client documents in Egnyte. Advisors work from a file or a whole client folder alongside data from the firm’s CRM, portfolio and planning systems, under each advisor’s Egnyte permissions.

Kitces Research finds that reviewing client documents is the most common way advisors use AI. Its productivity research puts a new financial plan at 15 to 40 hours of team time.

Advisors use Mili’s agents to model the tax cost of moving a client’s accounts into the firm’s strategy, weigh a rebalance against unrealized gains, summarize a bonus agreement and build a financial snapshot from a statement. The agents link answers to their sources and flag what an analysis may still need.

David Ringler, Managing Director at Onyx Bridge Wealth Group ($1.6B+ AUM), said, “Egnyte and Mili are two valuable pieces of technology in our stack, and bringing them together has changed how our practice runs. Mili’s meeting prep and planning agents have become significantly better with Egnyte data behind them.”

Chirag Gandhi, Co-Founder and CEO of Mili, said, “How many clients an advice firm can serve well has long been capped. It is set by the work of understanding each client’s financial life. Agentic AI is changing that, helping advice firms uplift client capacity by accelerating the delivery of high-quality advice.”

Kyle Blair, Director of Global Financial Services at Egnyte, said, “Egnyte helps financial services firms accelerate critical business operations by turning document-heavy tasks into faster, connected, and revenue-generating workflows. Our partnership enables Mili’s AI agents to securely access and work on customer data within Egnyte for better business outcomes.”

The integration is live for mutual customers. Building on Mili’s work with hundreds of advice firms, it aims to put a firm’s full client knowledge into its advice.

About Egnyte

Egnyte is a leader in secure content collaboration, intelligence, and governance, trusted by more than 23,000 customers to increase employee productivity, drive operational efficiencies, and secure mission-critical content. Egnyte’s AI-powered platform empowers organizations to create, share, and protect their information at scale, with specialized solutions designed to meet the unique needs of organizations in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), financial services, life sciences, and other industries. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com.

About Mili

Mili is an AI platform for wealth management firms. Its specialized agents automate advisor workflows across meetings, prospecting, onboarding, planning, data management, document intelligence, and compliance. Mili is SOC 2 certified, ISO 27001 compliant, and works with RIAs and broker-dealers managing $250B+ in client assets. Learn more at getmili.ai.

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QUANTUM CONNECTIONS PROMOTES JAMES “JAMIE” GRIFFETH TO CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AND DIRECTOR OF THE DIALOGUE TRAINING INSTITUTE

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DALLAS, Oct. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Quantum Connections® has promoted James “Jamie” Griffeth to Chief Operating Officer. Griffeth joined the organization in September of 2025 as Chief Learning Officer and will continue to serve as Director of the Dialogue Training Institute in addition to his new responsibilities.

Since joining Quantum Connections, Griffeth has focused on the organization’s learning mission. He designed a four-tier practitioner credentialing framework, architected the Quantum Dialogue Profile behavioral assessment, led the migration to a new enterprise learning management system, and built the organization’s localization pipeline—delivering that training in French Canadian with Spanish and Chinese queued as next languages.

Griffeth’s expanded role brings together organizational operations and learning leadership around multiple goals: maintaining the company’s infrastructure in ways that align with its mission, expanding the certified leadership network, and continuing to make dialogue skills easier to access, practice, and apply in everyday life.

“Jamie has earned my complete trust and admiration thorough his exceptional leadership, strategic thinking, and ability to turn vision into execution.” Said Dr. Jonathan Thorp, Chief Executive Officer of Quantum Connections. “When I asked him to success me as Chief Learning Officer, I already knew he was capable of great things. His performance has only reinforced that confidence. I’m delighted to recognize his contribution with this promotion and look forward to partnering with him as we continue building the future of Quantum Connections.”

Griffeth will continue to support Quantum Connections’ mission by preparing the company for sustainable growth while maintaining the quality and consistency of its learning experiences. By linking program delivery to assessments and evidence, Griffeth aims to use technology to expand its reach to more partners and clients, helping them understand how to apply dialogue skills and the outcomes that follow.

About Quantum Connections
Quantum Connections, founded by renowned relationship experts Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D., leverages over 40 years of expertise to provide individuals and organizations with invaluable relational competency skills rooted in neuro and quantum social sciences. Quantum Connections serves small businesses, large corporations, global faith communities, educational institutions, and community organizations, as well as individuals, couples, and families, offering live and on-demand training, coaching certification, and resources to foster authentic connections through effective communication and skill development.

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