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SureCloud Launches “The Temperature is Rising” at Gartner’s Enterprise Risk, Audit & Compliance Conference with a free AI Governance promotion

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As the risk and compliance temperature keeps rising, CEO Nick Rafferty says the GRC capacity gap needs to change

LONDON, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SureCloud, the governance, risk and compliance platform, today launches The Temperature is Rising, a hot campaign with a free AI governance offer debuting at the Gartner Enterprise Risk, Audit & Compliance Conference in London, 28-29th September 2026

In May, SureCloud CEO Nick Rafferty argued that boards had spent two decades asking GRC functions to do more with less, and that the request had quietly become mathematically impossible. In response, SureCloud launched Gracie AI. Since then, that same equation has only gotten worse. Now, Nick has asked again for risk and compliance leaders to keep their composure, to “stay cool” as the temperatures rise.

Nearly half of UK enterprises are managing 5 or more major regulatory frameworks and standards at once, and after a positive year of decline the global average cost of a data breach has now risen to its highest figure yet at $4.9 million, according to IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report. There’s more work to be done, and even higher consequences. Whilst supply chains grow everyday and sit as the backbone of each business, investment in TPRM programmes is dropping with responsibilities ever stretched between security and procurement. Finally AI tools are spreading through the business faster than any risk register can track with IBM saying that 92% of organisations that reported an AI-related breach also llacked proper AI access controls

Nick says this is all something programme leaders know how to solve, they’ve built the expertise, they just don’t have the capacity to get ahead of it.

“To deal with the rising temperatures, modern GRC capability should scale with the volume of work arriving, rather than with the size of the team processing it.” Rafferty wrote.

Since Gracie AI launched in May, SureCloud has extended its capability to meet this need:

An expanded Skills library. Gracie AI now ships with more than 85 out-of-the-box Skills codifying the most common GRC tasks, from SOC2 review to monte carlo analysis that can be activated within a workflow, or at a click of a button. Whatever a user’s specialism or wherever a business sits in their GRC journey, they have more time back to focus on the growing heat.Build-your-own Personas. SureCloud launched with 7 specialist Personas designed around common GRC roles but now customers can codify their own roles, job titles and permissions, capturing a specific team member’s expertise and keeping it inside the business even as people move on. Personas look across your user context, record context and carry market context to inform your decisions with insight and suggest recommendations.Confidence-scored actions. Each action or output following one of Gracie AI’s Skills now carries a confidence score, giving teams a clear signal to trust a given result before they act on it, or approve Gracie AI to act for them.

This is just the start of more major innovations being released by SureCloud in their new financial year.

SureCloud is exhibiting at Gartner eRAC at booth 117, showcasing these updates and announcing their new campaign ‘The Temperature is Rising’ to draw attention to these issues. 

Their first step towards helping leaders ‘stay cool’: announcing a free 12-month AI Governance application for the first 50 attendees who visit and talk to SureCloud about their experience with rising GRC temperatures. 

In return, customers will be able to record their AI use cases, and models, conduct screening and assessments aligned to the EU AI Act, track remediation, and use Gracie AI and an AI Governance Persona knowledgeable in the NIST AI RMF, emerging US state laws, and the EU AI Act to interpret their register and identify risk gaps in the context of their wider programme.

From 28th September, visit surecloud.com/stay-cool for practical guidance on today’s GRC pressures, plus further campaign content and event appearances to come. When the temperature rises, Stay Cool.

About SureCloud

Founded in 2006, SureCloud Ltd. has two decades of experience as a leading provider of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) solutions. Headquartered in the UK, SureCloud supports a global portfolio of organisations with its event-driven platform that connects risk, compliance, audit, third-party risk, and data privacy in one place. Whether addressing cyber risk, regulatory concerns or third-parties, SureCloud has a proven record of using Gracie AI and its virtual GRC team to reason and act across an organisation’s whole programme, allowing them to do more with less, and do it better.

Media contact : Daniel Spicer; daniel.spicer@surecloud.com

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Resonant Link Medical Launches Next-Generation Vivigo™, the Industry’s Most Advanced Wireless Power Platform for Implantable Medical Devices

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The universal wireless power and data platform combines innovative technology, validated engineering tools, and rapid integration services to help implantable device companies reduce development risk and accelerate commercialization.

BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Resonant Link Medical, an innovative medical technology company redefining wireless power and data transfer for implantable devices, today announced the launch of Vivigo™ 2.0, its next-generation wireless power platform for implantable medical devices. Built on Resonant Link Medical’s proven Aurion WPT™ technology, Vivigo™ gives device developers a ready-to-integrate platform for wireless power that reduces risk, accelerates development, and helps bring life-changing technologies to market faster. The platform delivers ultra-fast wireless energy transfer over an extended range, enabling a new generation of implantable technologies that are smaller, smarter, and longer lasting. It supports both rechargeable implants, with charging in as little as 20 minutes, and battery-free devices requiring uninterrupted wireless power.

Vivigo™ gives innovators an advanced wireless power platform that enables smaller, smarter implantable devices designed for MRI compatibility while reducing development risk and accelerating the path to commercialization

For decades, most implantable medical devices were intentionally designed around the limitations of non-rechargeable batteries because developing safe, reliable, and patient-friendly wireless power systems was too complex, too risky, and too difficult to integrate. Today, implantable devices are evolving beyond simple therapy delivery to incorporate continuous sensing, high-speed data transfer, artificial intelligence, and closed-loop algorithms. Together, these capabilities require substantially more power than previous generations of implantable devices, making advanced wireless power an essential enabling technology. Vivigo™ changes the equation by providing a wireless power platform that reduces development risk and gives innovators the confidence to build the next generation of smaller, smarter, longer-lasting implantable medical devices.

“Implantable devices are becoming dramatically more intelligent, but they can’t become more intelligent without fundamentally rethinking how they’re powered,” said Omari Bouknight, CEO of Resonant Link Medical. “Vivigo™ gives innovators an advanced wireless power platform that enables smaller, smarter implantable devices designed for MRI compatibility while reducing development risk and accelerating the path to commercialization. Medical device companies shouldn’t have to become wireless power experts to bring breakthrough therapies to patients. With Vivigo™, they can build on our platform and focus their time, energy, and innovation where it matters most: creating the next generation of intelligent implantable medicine.”

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Rachel Allard, Resonant Link Medical, 1 802-448-8220, rallard@rlmedical.com, https://rlmedical.com/

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CyberRatings.org and NSS Labs Announce 2026 Cloud Network Firewall Test Results

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Security Effectiveness Ranges from 0% to 99.95%

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CyberRatings.org (CyberRatings), the non-profit organization dedicated to providing confidence in cybersecurity products and services through independent testing, today announced the results of its latest Cloud Network Firewall (CNFW) evaluation. Tests were conducted by NSS Labs and are now available at no cost on the CyberRatings.org website.

Only 4 out of 9 were Recommended. Native cloud firewalls were far less consistent than dedicated 3rd party offerings.

Of the nine products tested, only four earned a Recommended rating and native cloud firewalls were far less consistent than dedicated third-party offerings. Each of the Recommended products achieved 99.7% or higher in Security Effectiveness:

Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation FirewallHPE Juniper Networking vSRX Next Generation FirewallPalo Alto Networks VM-Series Next-Generation FirewallVersa Networks Next Generation Firewall

Check Point CloudGuard Network Security Next-Gen Firewall earned a Neutral rating despite the highest Security Effectiveness at 99.95% due to its above-average price per Mbps.

AWS Network Firewall and Microsoft Azure Firewall both received 0% for Security Effectiveness, resulting in their Caution ratings. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) NGFW Enterprise at 77.45% Security Effectiveness and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual at 66.10% Security Effectiveness also placed them in Caution.

Products from cloud service providers and third-party security vendors (the latter deployed on Amazon Web Services) were evaluated under identical conditions using the NSS Labs Cloud Network Firewall Test Methodology v4.1, with real-world exploits, evasion techniques, malware, false-positive samples, and sustained enterprise traffic loads.

Evasions were tested with 5,004 attacks spanning 43 techniques across OSI Layers 3, 4, and 7. Attackers use evasions to disguise malicious traffic and bypass inspection; one successful evasion can enable an entire class of exploits or malware, so strong evasion handling is essential.

“With attackers routinely using evasion techniques to slip past inspection, the products that earned a Recommended rating this year proved they can hold up under real conditions,” said Vikram Phatak, CEO of CyberRatings.org. “Buyers should weigh evasion resistance and TLS inspection as heavily as raw block rates.”

Recommendations for Buyers

Test regularly. Agile development and CI/CD pipelines let vendors ship improvements quickly, but rapid change can also introduce regressions that quietly erode protection.Treat native cloud firewalls as a baseline, not a finish line. Validate exploit blocking, malware blocking, and evasion resistance against organizational requirements before relying on a native offering as a primary control.Require TLS inspection and weigh evasion resistance heavily. A firewall that cannot inspect encrypted traffic leaves a substantial blind spot, and a single successful evasion can enable an entire class of attacks.Re-evaluate firewall requirements for AI and agentic workloads. Local AI models and agentic workflows will consume more network resources and drive larger, more complex policies, including east-west agent-to-agent traffic.Hold vendors accountable and demand transparency. No product is perfect; what matters is how a vendor responds when a gap is found. A lack of transparency should be treated as a red flag.

NSS Labs is the Official Testing Partner of CyberRatings, generating the test results and reports for CyberRatings publications. NSS Labs proprietary technologies and Keysight’s CyPerf tool were used to test the security, performance, TLS functionality, and stability of Cloud Network Firewalls.

The Cloud Network Firewall Test Reports, Comparative Report and Security Map are available at CyberRatings.org.

About CyberRatings.org

CyberRatings.org is a 501(c)6 non-profit organization dedicated to providing confidence in cybersecurity products and services through our research and testing programs. We provide enterprises with independent, objective ratings of security product efficacy to make informed decisions. To become a member, visit www.cyberratings.org and follow us on LinkedIn.

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Pye-Barker Fire & Safety Acquires Union AlarmTronic, LLC, Continuing Security Alarm Service Expansion in the Northeast

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ATLANTA, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Pye-Barker Fire & Safety — the largest fully integrated and full-service fire protection, life safety and security services provider in the United States — has acquired Union AlarmTronic, LLC, a security alarm company based in Springfield, New Jersey. The acquisition adds to Pye-Barker’s growing presence in the state by deepening operational security capacity, expertise and local service.

Union AlarmTronic, LLC, established in 1989, has built over 20,000 security installations. The company provides a wide range of security systems and services, including access control and video surveillance, as well as intercom, integrated security, and alarm systems. Union AlarmTronic is led by industry veteran Fred Rosenfeld, who got his start in the business with his father, Len Rosenfeld.

“We have proudly protected people and property and provided high-caliber service to customers in New Jersey for decades,” said Fred Rosenfeld, owner of Union AlarmTronic. “With Pye-Barker, we will continue our commitment to install and maintain security systems that protect customers while being able to offer expanded full-service fire protection.”

“When we met with team members at Union AlarmTronic, their passion for customers and their community stood out,” said Bart Proctor, CEO of Pye-Barker Fire & Safety. “Incorporating their expertise, service and team approach into the Pye-Barker family enables us to protect even more people in the state.” 

The Union AlarmTronic team of highly trained technicians will continue to serve customers in New Jersey. Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP represented Pye-Barker. Mesirow Investment Banking was the exclusive advisor to Union AlarmTronic.

About Pye-Barker Fire & Safety

As the U.S. leader in fully integrated life safety systems, Pye-Barker Fire & Safety provides complete fire protection and security systems nationwide. With over 250 locations and 9,000 team members, Pye-Barker is Great Place to Work® Certified™ and is also listed on the Inc. 5000 and ranks No. 3 on the SDM 100.

Visit pyebarkerfs.com/acquisitions to learn why we’re the industry’s acquirer of choice.   

Contact:
Philip H Gardner
EVP, Business Development – M&A
philip.gardner@pyebarkerfs.com

Media Contact: 
James Taylor
jtaylor@fulltiltconsulting.com

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