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Corporate Technologies Publishes Q2 2026 SMB Technology & Cyber Resilience Index, Built on Operational Data From ~1,700 Managed Businesses

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New edition finds 96% of ransomware victims are small and mid-sized businesses and that tested backup recovery remains the widest gap, even as the managed client base absorbed 9.19 billion security events with zero ransomware detonations.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Corporate Technologies, a managed IT, cybersecurity, and cloud services provider serving small and mid-sized businesses since 1981, today released the Q2 2026 edition of its SMB Technology & Cyber Resilience Index, an operational benchmark of small-business IT resilience drawn from platform instrumentation across roughly 1,700 managed businesses rather than from self-reported surveys.

The report is built to close a gap the company argues defines the SMB technology market: the distance between how secure businesses believe they are and what their operational data shows. Veeam’s 2026 research found that 90% of security leaders are confident they can recover from an attack, while only 28% of organizations hit by ransomware actually restore their data in full.

Among the Q2 2026 findings:

Across the managed client base, the environment absorbed 9.19 billion analyzed security events over the quarter, producing 215 verified incidents and zero ransomware detonations.A typical managed client experienced approximately 2.6 hours of unplanned downtime for the year, against a 14-hour industry average, with critical issues resolved in an average of 8.5 hours.Documented recovery objectives and tested backup restores held at just 5% of clients, unchanged across two editions and identified as the single widest gap in the index.The report also recalibrated its patch-compliance measure to a stricter, device-level standard, which read 65.3% where a legacy roll-up had reported 94%, a change the company published in full rather than omit.

The edition also documents the shift to identity-based attacks. Citing Sophos and Verizon research, the report notes that 79% of ransomware attacks now begin with a compromised identity, and that where victim size was known, 96% of ransomware victims were small and mid-sized businesses.

“Most SMBs don’t lack awareness, but measurement,” said Jim Griffith, CEO of Corporate Technologies. “This index exists to replace assumptions with operational evidence, and to give business owners a benchmark they can actually act on.”

“The uncomfortable part of instrumenting everything is that the numbers get worse before they get better,” said Ben Silver, Chief Operating Officer of Corporate Technologies. “A device-level patch assessment will always read lower than a policy roll-up. We publish the stricter number because that’s the one an attacker interacts with.”

The Q2 2026 edition spans five pillars, availability and downtime, backup and disaster recovery readiness, cyber resilience, operational maturity, and financial impact, with each figure sourced and every retired or unverifiable statistic disclosed. Business owners can download the full report to benchmark their own environment. Current and prior editions are available on the SMB Technology & Cyber Resilience Index resource page.

About Corporate Technologies

Corporate Technologies is an award-winning managed IT, cybersecurity, and cloud services provider founded in 1981 and headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Named to the Channel Futures MSP 501 list, the company supports thousands of small and mid-sized businesses across 21 markets in 18 states, delivering managed IT, layered cybersecurity, compliance, cloud, and backup and disaster recovery services. Learn more at gocorptech.com.

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Corporate Technologies
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Action1 Expands Endpoint Management with New Configuration Management and Enrollment and Provisioning Modules

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New capabilities help IT teams bring endpoints under management faster, respond to emerging threats, and continuously maintain secure configurations

HOUSTON, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Action1, a leading provider of autonomous endpoint management (AEM) solutions, today announced two new endpoint management modules: Endpoint Configuration Management and Endpoint Enrollment and Provisioning. The separately licensed modules extend Action1’s endpoint management capabilities, helping organizations rapidly bring Windows endpoints under management and continuously maintain them in line with approved security configurations.

Action1 adds new endpoint management modules to accelerate onboarding, remediation, and secure configuration management.

As AI accelerates the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities, the time available for IT teams to respond is shrinking. Action1 Endpoint Enrollment and Provisioning is built to help reduce that gap by allowing organizations to quickly enroll selected Windows endpoints through Microsoft Intune and immediately apply the software, vulnerability remediation, and configuration policies required to bring them into a managed state.

Once an endpoint is enrolled, the provisioning feature runs assigned automations to deploy software, patch vulnerabilities, and apply configuration policies, while allowing IT teams to monitor the results – all from a single console. This helps organizations shorten the path from discovering exposure to taking remediation action across affected endpoints.

Action1 Endpoint Configuration Management addresses another persistent endpoint security challenge: configuration drift. Organizations can define configuration policies using established security frameworks and benchmarks, including Microsoft Security Baselines, CIS, DISA STIGs, NIST, and others, or select individual security controls based on their requirements.

Policies can be assigned to endpoint groups in either assessment-only or assessment-and-remediation mode. Action1 automations assess endpoints for configuration drift, remediate settings that have moved outside the approved baseline, and report the resulting compliance status.

“Endpoint security increasingly comes down to speed and consistency,” said Mike Walters, President and Co-founder of Action1. “When new threats emerge, organizations need to bring endpoints under management quickly but also ensure they remain securely configured afterward. Action1’s Enrollment and Provisioning and Configuration Management address both sides of that challenge: accelerating the path to a secure, managed state and continuously keeping them there.”

Together, the new modules broaden Action1’s endpoint management capabilities around three critical security outcomes: rapidly establishing management coverage across endpoints, reducing the window between exposure and remediation, and preventing configuration drift from creating new security gaps.

The new Endpoint Enrollment and Provisioning module enables organizations to:

Enroll selected Windows endpoints into Action1 through Microsoft IntuneAutomatically deploy the Action1 Agent during enrollmentAssign provisioning automations to newly enrolled endpointsDeploy required softwareRemediate vulnerabilitiesApply configuration policiesMonitor provisioning results in Action1

The new Endpoint Configuration Management module enables organizations to:

Create and maintain secure Windows endpoint configuration policiesBuild policies from established security baselines or individual controlsApply policies to selected endpoint groupsAssess endpoints for configuration driftAutomatically remediate configuration deviationsMonitor and report configuration compliance

Both Endpoint Enrollment and Provisioning and Endpoint Configuration Management are available as separately licensed modules and are not included in the standard Action1 platform license.

For more information, visit www.Action1.com.

About Action1

Action1 is an autonomous patch management platform trusted by many Fortune 500 companies. Cloud-native, infinitely scalable, highly secure, and configurable in 5 minutes—it just works and is always free for the first 200 endpoints, with no functional limits. By pioneering autonomous OS and third-party patching with peer-to-peer patch distribution and real-time vulnerability assessment and remediation without needing a VPN, it eliminates routine labor, preempts ransomware and security risks, and protects the digital employee experience.

In 2026, Action1 was recognized by Inc. 5000 as the fastest-growing founder-led cybersecurity company in America. At the helm of Action1 are industry veterans Alex Vovk and Mike Walters, American entrepreneurs who founded Netwrix, which has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry-leading cybersecurity company. 

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Greenberg Traurig Deploys the Next Generation of CoCounsel Legal

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AmLaw 20 firm’s four-year collaboration with Thomson Reuters culminates in the rollout of agentic AI built to work through the stages of a legal matter

NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has deployed the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, Thomson Reuters’ agentic artificial intelligence (AI) for legal professionals. The rollout gives lawyers across the firm’s global offices access to AI that can plan, research, and draft across a matter.

The deployment builds on four years of collaboration in which Greenberg Traurig attorneys received early access to CoCounsel Legal, participated in beta testing, and helped shape product development and integrations.

“What distinguishes Greenberg Traurig is not technology alone, but the talented professionals who use it to help solve complex challenges for our clients. We have historically embraced innovation where it can create meaningful value, and the deployment of CoCounsel Legal reflects that philosophy. By combining this technology with the experience and judgment of our lawyers, we are enhancing our ability to deliver efficient, forward-looking, and client-centered legal services,” Greenberg Traurig Chief Executive Officer Brian L. Duffy said.

Built for how legal work actually gets done

The next generation of CoCounsel Legal plans an approach, retrieves authoritative content, reasons through the issues, and drafts with citations, adapting mid-workflow as new facts emerge. Every output is grounded in Westlaw and Practical Law content, guided by 35 million West Key Number classifications and 3.9 million Precision Research attributes, with reasoning and citations attorneys can inspect rather than simply accept. Brief Builder extends this further, turning that grounded research and reasoning directly into a structured, court-ready draft brief.

“Our longstanding work with Thomson Reuters and our involvement in CoCounsel’s development gave us a clear understanding of the platform’s capabilities,” Greenberg Traurig Chief Pricing and Innovation Officer Matthew N. Beekhuizen said. “Its integration with DeepJudge, Westlaw, and Practical Law will help our lawyers access firm and legal knowledge more effectively while maintaining the quality and professional judgment our clients expect.”

“The legal industry is moving beyond AI that simply generates answers, and Greenberg Traurig’s deployment shows what that shift looks like in practice,” Thomson Reuters President, Legal Professionals Raghu Ramanathan said. “The next generation of CoCounsel Legal helps its lawyers turn insight into action by combining trusted legal content, agentic intelligence, and workflow execution in a single experience, grounded in the transparency and accountability of our Fiduciary-Grade AI™ standard. That’s a fundamentally different approach to legal AI, and Greenberg Traurig is helping lead the profession in putting it to work.”

Innovation with guardrails

Innovation is part of Greenberg Traurig’s DNA and core values. The firm has long been an early adopter of transformative technology, and its approach to AI is no different: actively shaping the tools its lawyers use rather than simply adopting them. Clients are made aware that lawyers use AI on their matters, and AI-generated work products are reviewed by lawyers handling the matter and by supervising shareholders before they reach a client.

Greenberg Traurig maintains a governance framework centered on the responsible use of AI. The firm’s commitment to responsible AI reflects a core tenet of firm culture, supported by rigorous information security and due diligence protocols that are applied to each AI tool deployed. These protocols are specifically designed to help ensure that AI models utilized by the firm do not train on client data, and that data rights and confidentiality obligations are respected at every stage. Greenberg Traurig is committed to bringing the efficiencies and advantages the best AI tools have to offer to its clients without compromising the protection of the data entrusted to it. 

About Greenberg Traurig: Greenberg Traurig, LLP has approximately 3,200 lawyers across 51 locations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm’s broad geographic and practice range enables the delivery of innovative and strategic legal services across borders and industries. Recognized as a 2025 BTI “Best of the Best Recommended Law Firm” by general counsel for trust and relationship management, Greenberg Traurig is consistently ranked among the top firms on the Am Law Global 100, NLJ 500, and Law360 400. Greenberg Traurig is also known for its philanthropic giving, culture, innovation, and pro bono work. Web: www.gtlaw.com.

About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. The company serves professionals across legal, tax, audit, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Its products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world- leading provider of trusted journalism and news. For more information, visit thomsonreuters.com.

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Capital Group Announces Appointment of New Chief Information Officer

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Guillermo Veiga joins in November from Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Capital Group, the world’s largest global active investment manager, announced the appointment of Guillermo Veiga as Chief Information Officer. He will join the company in November, succeeding Marta Zarraga, who will retire at the end of the year. Guillermo will relocate to California from Singapore, where he currently serves as Group Chief Information and Operations Officer at Standard Chartered Bank.

“Technology, data and AI play an increasingly important role in how we deliver investment excellence, serve clients globally and scale our business,” said Rob Klausner, Chief Operating Officer, Capital Group. “Guillermo brings a rare combination of deep technology expertise, operational leadership and global transformation experience. His track record leading large, complex organizations makes him the right leader to help advance Capital’s long-term strategy and position us for the opportunities ahead.”

Born in Uruguay and raised in Spain, Guillermo began his career as a hands-on technologist and has held senior leadership roles across Europe and Asia at Amazon Web Services, Cisco and Banco Santander, pairing deep technical fluency with strong operating experience.

“I was drawn by Capital Group’s long-term commitment to its people and culture paired with its client-centric mindset,” said Guillermo. “Capital is on the cutting edge of technology, and the opportunity to help lead during a period of global expansion for the company, amid the growing ability of data and AI to transform ways of working, is exciting.”

About Capital Group

As Capital Group approaches its 100th anniversary in 2031, its long-term strategy remains firmly rooted in its mission to improve people’s lives through successful investing. With over 9,000 associates and 34 offices around the world, Capital Group manages $3.6 trillion in assets for millions of wealth management and institutional clients around the world*.

*As of June 30, 2026.

© 2026 Capital Group. All rights reserved.

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Caroline.semerdjian@capgroup.com
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