Channel Brief: Cloudflare Blocks AI Bots, Integrity360 Adds Darktrace Services

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Web Hosting Provider Cloudflare has introduced a new tool This will prevent AI crawlers from scraping website content. The tool is free and available to all customers, even those using Cloudflare’s free service tier.

Lyra Technology Group and Breach Secure Now (BSN) Partner to Bring BSN’s Cybersecurity Training Platform to the Lyra Family of Companies and Integrity360 Adds Darktrace’s AI Security Platform to customers.

Finally, the IT and business consulting firm CGI acquired Celero’s Canadian credit union armwhich includes framework services agreements covering managed services, core banking services, digital banking services and associated IT services.

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Today’s Tech News, Channels & MSPs

1. Cloudflare blocks AI web scraping bots: Last week, Cloudflare Launches Tool to Block AI Bots Hackers can scrape website content and use the data without permission to train machine learning models, according to The Register. The free, one-click tool lets customers block all AI bots and Cloudflare said in a statement The service is available to all customers, including those who take advantage of its free web hosting service. Cloudlfare’s bot detection approach relies on digital fingerprinting, The Register explained, a technique that is also commonly used to track people online and deny privacy. Crawlers, like individual internet users, often stand out from the crowd because of technical details that can be read through network interactions.

2. Integrity360 adds Darktrace services to its portfolio: Integrity360 announced last week the addition of Darktrace services to its managed security services portfolio.. Integrity360 will act as a channel partner offering the entire Darktrace ActiveAI security platform to customers, the company said in a statement, including its AI-powered solutions: PREVENT, DETECT, RESPOND and HEAL with DETECT and RESPOND network services also available as part of Integrity360’s MDR offering. Darktrace technologies will be offered across three progressively advanced managed service tiers. The managed service will see DETECT and RESPOND telemetry data fed into Integrity360’s security operations centers (SOCs) and supplemented by support services. Integrity360 plans to add the integrated Darktrace/OT offering to MDR later this year, the statement said.

3. CGI acquires Celero’s credit union operations: CGI IT and Business Consulting acquired Celero’s Canadian credit union armwhich includes master service agreements covering managed services, core banking, digital banking and related IT services. This strategic acquisition complements and expands CGI’s core banking and digital banking offerings to the Canadian credit union sector, the companies said in a statement. Under the agreement, CGI acquires the managed services operations of more than 90 credit unions and adds Credit Union Central of Manitoba (CUCM), Alberta Central and SaskCentral. More than 150 Celero employees will join CGI.

4. Lyra partners with Breach Secure for cybersecurity training: Breach Secure Now (BSN) and Lyra Technology Group Partner to Improve MSPs’ Cybersecurity Posture by offering BSN’s automated breach prevention and productivity training platform to all MSPs in the Lyra Technology Group family. This platform for Lyra Technology Group will include unlimited phishing simulations, weekly training content, dark web monitoring, policy and procedure templates, security risk assessment tools, an employee security score dashboard, AI fundamentals training, AI cybersecurity training, AI acceptable use policy templates and much more.

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