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Identity, not the SOC, is where the next MSSP premium sits
Integrity360 has bought its way across three continents in nine months, but the CyberIAM deal is the first about capability rather than geography. A UK MSSP without an identity practice will now be priced on its SOC alone
Microsoft’s October CSP changes pay for growth, not renewals
A 5% uplift on monthly-billed server licenses and new growth margins both land on 1 October. For MSPs whose Microsoft income rests on renewing small customers, the base is about to earn less
GCSE computer science entries fall 7% as the digital pipeline narrows
Entries for GCSE computer science in England fell again in 2026, even as A-level entries and the longest-running digital T Level grew. The gap matters most to employers that hire school leavers
Lanarkshire’s £202m guarantee is the real price of sovereign compute
Lenders backed DataVita’s Lanarkshire data centers only once the state covered 80% of their tranche. That prices the risk in ‘UK AI infrastructure’, and with every megawatt leased to CoreWeave, partners should sell residency rather than racks
Telecoms security review should end the limbo for smaller providers
The government has opened its statutory review of the Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021. But the smallest providers it covers, those under £50m turnover, still have legal duties and no specific guidance of their own
TalkTalk Business can buy an MSP faster than it can become one
TalkTalk Business and ARO are merging into a £200m group, or £180m depending on whose release you read. The deal is the easy part; getting 70,000 connectivity customers to buy cloud and security is the hard one
Beacon breach shows what supplier questionnaires miss
Beacon CRM says the probable cause of its breach was a cloud key potentially exposed in public code. But for the charities that bought it, the harder lesson is about what they handed over
Cytix raises $7m to govern the risk in AI-era software changes
The Manchester startup is betting that security teams need to judge the risk in every code change, not just scan for flaws, as AI-assisted development speeds up release cycles
The gap between two suppliers is where breaches live
The ICO’s reprimand of ACRO describes an MSP that patched the servers, a developer contracted to patch the website and nobody tasked with watching for updates or reading the alerts. The regulator now reads the contract before the logs
G-Cloud 15 rewards SME suppliers that sell like a catalog
G-Cloud 15 promises smaller suppliers a fairer shot at a £14bn framework. But on past form, being listed is the easy part, and winning depends on how a service is filed and priced
Altnet consolidation is coming, but it will not be tidy
Rajiv Datta told Mobile Europe that without consolidation more altnets will fail. The summer’s evidence says the failures will be messy either way, and they land first on whoever signed the wholesale contract
Treasury puts £100m behind first-time VC managers beyond London
The next phase of the British Business Bank’s Investor Pathways Capital program could create up to 10 new funds. Founders hoping for a first round from them will need patience