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Anomalix Appoints Cybersecurity Veteran Fred Bement to Advisory Board

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CHICAGO, Feb. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Anomalix, a leader in Identity and Access Management solutions, is pleased to announce that Fred Bement has joined its Advisory Board. With over four decades of experience in enterprise sales and cybersecurity leadership, Bement brings a wealth of expertise to support Anomalix’s mission of securing non-employee identities and improving identity lifecycle management.

Anomalix, a leader in Identity and Access Management solutions, announces that Fred Bement has joined its Advisory Board

Bement’s career includes leadership roles at industry-leading firms such as Securonix, Fidelis Cybersecurity, Pathlock, RSA Security, and VeriSign, Inc. He has been pivotal in driving business development, forging strategic partnerships, and delivering cutting-edge security solutions to enterprise clients. His deep understanding of start-up GTM strategies and enterprise sales makes him an incredibly important contributor to Anomalix’s vision and more importantly, execution.  His expertise in identity and access management, coupled with his track record in helping organizations mitigate cyber threats, will be invaluable in shaping Anomalix’s strategy.

“Identity Security, particularly as it has to do with managing non-employees (contractors, consultants, etc.), has become a board-level concern,” said Fred Bement. “Imagine the situation where an employee of a third-party service provider leaves their company and then maintains access to your key applications and data. The risk is enormous. I can tell you that I’m really excited to join Anomalix’s Advisory Board, to contribute to their unique mission—help organizations improve security while reducing third-party access risk & simplifying non-employee identity management.”

“I’m thrilled to have Fred as an Advisor. Fred’s industry expertise and sales leadership make him an outstanding addition to our Advisory Board,” said Mo Elkhatib, CEO of Anomalix. “His insights into IAM, cybersecurity, and enterprise sales will be essential as we continue to expand our AI-driven Identity Security solutions and support organizations in securing their most critical assets.”

About Anomalix 

Anomalix is a leading provider of identity and access management services and solutions, specializing in non-employee identity lifecycle management, access governance, and risk-based authentication. By automating identity processes and enhancing security controls, Anomalix helps organizations protect sensitive data, improve compliance, and reduce cyber risks.

For more information about Anomalix and its identity management solutions, contact info@anomalix.com or visit anomalix.com.

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Wolfbox MegaFlow 200 Pro Air Duster Combines Precise Control with One-Tap Turbo Power

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With a 1–100 speed range and airspeed of up to 87.5 m/s (196 mph), the cordless handheld air duster moves easily between electronics cleaning, post-wash car drying, garage cleanup and outdoor use.

DALLAS, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Wolfbox, a leader in automotive electronics and off-road gear, has launched the new MegaFlow 200 Pro, a compact cordless air duster made for jobs that require anything from a careful stream of air to maximum airflow. Its high-efficiency brushless motor delivers airspeed of up to 87.5 m/s (196 mph), while intuitive, adjustable controls let users dial it back for more delicate work.

From Gentle Dusting to Turbo

Speed settings that can be adjusted in the 1–100 speed range, visible via the built-in smart display, make the MegaFlow 200 Pro a useful tool in many scenarios.

At lower settings, the nifty air duster excels at removing dust from keyboards, PC cases and other electronics. Around the house, it can clean air conditioner filters or move dust behind furniture. And since it is rechargeable, it does away with disposable cans of compressed air.

Turned up, it can clear small debris from equipment and tight corners in a garage or workshop. When a job calls for full power right away, a one-press turbo button takes the air duster directly to maximum airflow.

Quick Vehicle Maintenance and Outdoor Versatility

Anyone who has washed and dried a car by hand knows how long water can continue to seep from behind mirrors, trim and body seams. The MegaFlow 200 Pro can blow that remaining water out before the final wipe-down, without the inconvenience of bringing out a full-size blower.

Outdoors, it can be used to blow away leaves and other light debris. On camping trips, the MegaFlow 200 Pro can assist with fire-starting, and can handle light inflation tasks such as air mattresses and swim rings. The device also includes a built-in LED for steady lighting after dark, with a flashing light mode to attract attention when additional visibility is needed.

Long-Lasting Power

Built with two 3,000 mAh 3.7V cells to form a powerful 3,000 mAh 7.4V battery, the MegaFlow 200 Pro supports up to 200 minutes of use at the lowest speed setting. The removable battery design gives users the option of swapping in a separately purchased backup for longer jobs or trips away from a power outlet. The device also includes smart overheat protection.

Charging is handled through USB-C at 10W and 5V/2A, with a full charge taking approximately 150 minutes.

Four swappable nozzles are included for different types of work. Long, short, blade and wide attachments let users adjust the reach and shape of the airflow, to better handle jobs in confined spaces or across broader areas. The air duster and its attachments fit together neatly in the included carrying bag for storage and travel.

The Wolfbox MegaFlow 200 Pro retails for $139.99 through the Wolfbox official website and Amazon.

About Wolfbox

Since 2019, Wolfbox has provided more than 2.5 million drivers across 94 countries with reliable dash cam technology and automotive solutions. Winner of awards from SEMA and TWICE, the brand has also expanded its driving ecosystem with the new GEARS line, bringing rugged bed covers, power steps, and high-output lighting to off-road enthusiasts.

For more information, visit wolfbox.com and gears.wolfbox.com.

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Industry Report Shows 64% of Life Sciences Leaders Taking Action to Establish AI Governance

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Research points to trust as the real barrier to scaling agentic AI, with 58% saying the industry still lacks clear standards for responsible AI

TORONTO and NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Life sciences organizations are putting governance in place to scale agentic AI across commercial, medical, and patient-facing work, according to the Responsible AI in Life Sciences (RAIL) Report 2026. The new industry research is based on roundtables and a survey of senior leaders at pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies. Two-thirds (64%) surveyed say their organization has an AI governance process either fully established or in development.

The research, from ACTO, finds an industry ready to use AI but still working to trust it. Governance is the AI concern leaders cite most often. It is also the one they admit they have most neglected in practice. More than one-third still either have no defined governance or rely on a one-time IT approval.

Trust is the barrier to adoption at scale

The findings suggest trust will decide how far and how fast life sciences scales AI. Technology no longer appears to be the main obstacle. Leaders rank regulatory, legal, or compliance hesitation (21%) as the biggest internal barrier to scaling AI, while technical readiness ranks near the bottom (9%). Asked which measure matters most when judging an AI pilot, leaders put trust and adoption (24%) ahead of efficiency (23%), a signal that expectations are evolving.

Leaders trust AI more in their own hands than in their organizations’. More than two-thirds of leaders (68%) are involved in an AI project at their organization, and 69% rate their personal comfort with AI as high. But more than half (54%) remain concerned about how AI is being used in their own organizations. Fifty-eight percent say life sciences has no clear industry standard for responsible AI.

“The discussions reflected a wide range of perspectives and experiences related to AI understanding, adoption, and oversight across the industry,” said Lisa DeMarco, general counsel and chief business officer at Arctic Therapeutics and a moderator at the RAIL roundtables hosted by ACTO. “An important theme in the conversations was the need for practical guidance to help organizations assess AI trustworthiness while maintaining a focus on patient safety.”

Governance builds the foundation for trust

Leaders described governance as an ongoing operating model that continues well past initial approval. It needs named business owners, clear escalation paths, and standard operating procedures (SOPs), as well as the ability to deploy and revoke an AI agent and governance enforced at both the agent and sub-agent level. A challenge is that ownership is still unsettled. Asked who should be held ultimately accountable for the actions an AI agent takes, leaders name the end user (34%), legal and compliance (28%), the third-party AI vendor (22%), and IT (16%).

The data suggests responsibility falls to the end user because so much AI use happens outside approved systems. Nearly a quarter of organizations (23%) don’t monitor or discuss employee use of unauthorized AI agents, and roundtable leaders described employees already building their own agents with no governance in place. The gap between AI adoption and AI oversight is where trust seems to be breaking down across the industry.

Industry quickly moving from where to start to what to build next

Leaders want AI to raise performance and to be judged fairly. Four in five (79%) agree AI risk and ROI should be measured against how people do the work today, with its own error rate. Improved results and outcomes (29%) ranked as the top expected benefit, well ahead of budgetary savings (10%) and reduced risk (8%).

The leaders furthest along with AI sort each use case by its value and how hard it is to govern. Most start with easier-to-govern work such as review and approval cycles, pre-call preparation, insight logging, triage, and coaching. With two-thirds already running AI projects, attention is turning to harder work: connecting systems, supporting a full product launch, and chaining multiple agents together. An agent supporting a field rep or medical science liaison has to work across many systems and with the AI agents already built into each one. That raises new questions about what to trust and who answers for the result.

People remain the hardest part of adoption. The issue of change management was a common challenge raised at every roundtable. Asked which skill humans most need to keep, 45% chose judgment, followed by human connection (31%) and strategy (24%). The report recommends redrawing roles in detail, separating what an AI agent handles from what the human keeps.

Introducing a Common Standard for Trust: The RAIL Score

To give the industry a shared bar, the RAIL Score provides a rubric that grades any agentic AI system on six components of responsible AI, including governance, security, testing and certification, human centricity, value creation, and orchestration. Each component is scored “high” and trustworthy enough for use in life sciences, “medium” with specific gaps to close first, and “low” and not fit for use. The report also includes tools to put the score to work. These include a self-grading scorecard, a vendor-grading checklist, an AI agent job description template, and a 90-day launch checklist.

“The industry has moved past whether to use agentic AI. Leaders now want to know which systems they can trust enough to scale, and today there’s no shared bar to answer that,” said Parth Khanna, co-founder and CEO of ACTO. “Any agentic AI system has to get security and governance right. The RAIL Score gives teams a consistent way to grade systems against the standard a regulated industry demands, so trust can rest on evidence instead of vendor claims.”

Methodology

The Responsible AI in Life Sciences (RAIL) Report 2026 draws on eight in-person executive roundtables with 80 senior leaders across North America and Europe, held February through April 2026, as well as an online survey of 135 leaders at pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies, fielded June 8 through July 17, 2026. Nearly all survey respondents (97%) hold director-level roles or above across commercial, medical affairs, legal and compliance, learning and development, and marketing functions.

The complimentary RAIL Report 2026 and related tools are available now at acto.com/RAIL.

To hear more about the findings, register for the upcoming webinar, “Responsible AI in Life Sciences: What Leaders Say About Scaling Agentic AI,” on Wednesday, November 4 at 11:00am Eastern.

About ACTO

ACTO helps life sciences companies bring therapies to patients after regulatory approval. Its AI-powered Field Excellence Platform and AI SuperAgents speed product launches, strengthen field execution, and deepen customer engagement for commercial and medical teams. ACTO elevates training and coaching and agentifies up to 30% of the work in customer-facing roles. That frees reps, medical science liaisons, and their leaders to focus on human connection, judgment, and strategic execution. Fourteen of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies use ACTO, along with high-growth biotechs and leading medtech organizations. ACTO is FDA 21 CFR Part 11 validated, SOC 2 Type II certified, and a Veeva Gold Product Partner. Learn more at www.acto.com.

Research Highlights
Responsible AI in Life Sciences (RAIL) Report 2026

The RAIL Report 2026 draws on eight executive roundtables with 80 senior leaders across North America and Europe and an online survey of 135 leaders at pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies. Nearly all respondents (97%) are director level or above. The research examines how life sciences organizations evaluate, govern, and scale agentic AI in commercialization.

Governance Is the Defining Issue

Nearly two-thirds (64%) say their organization has an AI governance process fully established (22%) or in development (42%).More than a third (36%) have no defined governance (21%) or rely on a one-time approval gate (15%).Governance was the most-cited AI concern across the roundtables, and leaders called it the most neglected in practice.Accountability is unsettled. Leaders are split on who owns an AI agent’s actions: the end user (34%), legal and compliance (28%), the AI vendor (22%), and IT (16%).Nearly a quarter (23%) don’t monitor or discuss employee use of unauthorized AI agents. Another 37% view it as a severe security violation.

Trust May Be the Real Barrier to Scale

Over half (58%) say the life sciences industry lacks clear standards for responsible AI.More than half (54%) are concerned about how AI is used in their organization, even though 69% report high personal comfort with AI.Leaders define responsible AI as validated (81%), ethical (79%), and safe (75%). Fewer chose compliant (46%), auditable (45%), or controlled (40%).Four in five (79%) agree AI risk and ROI should be measured against today’s human-led baseline.Trust and adoption (24%) narrowly lead efficiency (23%), risk (21%), and ROI (18%) as the most critical measure of a pilot’s success.

From Where to Start to What to Build Next

Two-thirds (68%) are already involved in an AI project at their organization.Start now (high value, easy to govern): review and approval cycles, pre-call prep, insight logging, triage, coaching.Build next (high value, harder to govern): connecting systems, supporting a full product launch, chaining multiple agents.Defer or constrain: anything that could reach a patient or regulator without a human in between.Improved results and outcomes (29%) lead efficiency (25%) and productivity (24%) as the most important expected benefit. Budgetary savings (10%) rank far lower, and reduced risk ranks last among the listed benefits (8%).

Barriers Are Organizational

The top barriers to scaling are regulatory, legal, or compliance hesitation (21%) and a lack of comparative ROI metrics (20%). Technical readiness ranks near the bottom (9%).Leaders named three pressures driving AI adoption: more to commercialize, tighter budgets, and pressure to adopt AI even without a clear strategy.Workforce redesign is the real bottleneck to scaling. Leaders say judgment (45%), human connection (31%), and strategy (24%) are the skills humans most need to keep.

The RAIL Score

The RAIL Score grades any agentic AI system on six components: Governance, Security, Testing & Certification, Human Centricity, Value Creation, and Orchestration.Each component is scored from 1 to 3, for a total out of 18: High (16–18), Medium (12–15), or Low (below 12).Security and Governance are hard floors. A score below 3 on either caps the system at Low.

The complimentary RAIL Report 2026 and related tools are available now at acto.com/RAIL.

To hear more about the findings, register for the upcoming webinar, “Responsible AI in Life Sciences: What Leaders Say About Scaling Agentic AI,” on Wednesday, November 4 at 11:00am Eastern.

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Netrio Recognized on the CRN® AI Innovators List for 2026

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Company spotlighted for AI Advisory practice helping mid-market enterprises build structured, scalable AI capabilities and NetrioNow, its human-led, AI-powered service delivery platform

MCKINNEY, Texas, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Netrio, a global managed service provider (MSP) helping mid-market enterprises modernize and secure their IT environments, announced it has been named to the 2026 AI Innovators list by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company.

CRN’s inaugural AI Innovators list celebrates North American solution providers at the forefront of the AI revolution. The companies featured on this list have recognized the vast opportunities of AI and have integrated AI technologies into cutting-edge solutions for their customers.

AI has quickly evolved from an emerging technology to a strategic business imperative. Solution providers are increasingly deploying AI solutions to help businesses improve customer experiences, enhance employee productivity, strengthen decision-making and uncover new opportunities for growth. As a result, the AI market has become a major catalyst for innovation across every sector of the IT channel. Each 2026 AI Innovator has shown dedication to building creative and unique AI solutions that deliver valuable business enhancements to customers.

“Mid-market enterprises are struggling to keep up with the rapidly changing AI landscape and are looking for a trusted advisor to help them navigate it,” said Al Calabrese, VP of AI Services at Netrio. “Being named a CRN AI Innovator affirms our commitment to being that advisor, giving our clients the strategy, platform and governance they need to turn their AI investments into measurable operational impact.”

In May 2026, Netrio launched its new AI Advisory and Transformation practice, which helps mid-market enterprises move from fragmented experimentation to AI capabilities that scale across the business. In September 2025, the company introduced NetrioNow, which fuses AI, automation and governance in one unified experience to deliver faster resolution, proactive security and executive-ready visibility.

“Our 2026 AI Innovators honorees are helping shape the next generation of business transformation through the imaginative use of artificial intelligence,” said Jennifer Follett, vice president, U.S. content and executive editor at CRN, The Channel Company. “By delivering forward-thinking solutions that create value for their customers and technology partners alike, they are pushing the industry forward and setting a high standard for innovation. We are honored to recognize their contributions.”

To view the 2026 CRN AI Innovators list, visit https://www.crn.com/rankings-and-lists/ai-innovators-2026.

About Netrio
Netrio is a full-service IT managed service provider (MSP) changing the way small- to mid-market enterprises think about technology’s role in driving innovation, efficiency and growth. We provide our customers with the skills, experience, tools, infrastructure and best practices to cost-effectively modernize their operations, capitalize on opportunity and thrive in today’s digital marketplace, while reducing costs and improving operational efficiencies from their technology investments.

Our end-to-end portfolio of services includes managed IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, connectivity and voice, and custom application development. With offices in Minnesota, New York, Texas, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Pune, India, Netrio supports more than 1,000 customers with 500 employees across the globe. For more information, visit www.netrio.com.

About The Channel Company 
The Channel Company (TCC) is the global leader in channel growth for the world’s top technology brands. We accelerate success across strategic channels for tech vendors, solution providers and end users with premier media brands, integrated marketing and event services, strategic consulting, and exclusive market and audience insights. TCC is a portfolio company of investment funds managed by EagleTree Capital, a New York City-based private equity firm. For more information, visit thechannelco.com.

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