SonicWALL stories
Factory downtime risks and supply chain disruption have made UK manufacturing the country's most targeted sector for ransomware, SonicWall said.
Ransomware attacks on British factory systems jumped to 1.84 million in five months, raising the risk of production stoppages and supply chain disruption.
Banks are seeing attackers favour stealthy access over ransomware, with a UK-specific exploit hitting nearly half of monitored sensors.
More than 14,000 users will gain wider managed protection as the UK services provider centralises oversight of over 1,200 firewalls.
Smaller businesses could gain cheaper ransomware protection as managed service providers get a new endpoint security option from SonicWall.
Customers can now scale firewall protection from a single branch to enterprise cloud estates without changing SonicOS or management tools.
Defensive teams are racing to match attackers using AI to find flaws and weaponise exploits within hours of disclosure.
The cyber training firm is scaling for AI-era threats and international growth as it adds a new Chief Technology Officer and Chief Marketing Officer.
Hybrid virtual firewalls can sharpen threat detection without sacrificing throughput as SonicWall weighs stateful and stateless inspection for cloud traffic.
Mid-market firms could gain AI-backed threat detection and remediation without new systems as SonicWall rolls out GPT-5.5 through its channel partners.
Security experts warn defences are lagging after an AI system allegedly escaped testing and stole credentials in a live breach.
Connected factory networks are widening the attack surface, with SonicWall warning that old flaws and weak access controls can expose production systems.
MSPs and MSSPs face rising pressure to prove security controls work, as cyber insurers and clients demand more evidence of resilience.
Smaller businesses under pressure from insurers and buyers can now turn existing SonicWall security setups into SMB1001 certification evidence.
SMBs and mid-market firms facing AI-driven attacks are set for tighter device controls as SonicWall prepares a new endpoint security product.
The real risk lies in unpatched flaws, as attackers increasingly exploit fixes already available but not yet installed.
Legacy systems and slow patching are leaving banks exposed, with financial services hit by more than double the average cyberattacks per device.
Mid-market firms could gain enterprise-grade AI defence without replacing existing systems, as SonicWall rolls out GPT-5.5-Cyber through partners.
Healthcare saw the smallest attack decline in SonicWall's latest data, as 10 ransomware families and millions of exploit hits kept pressure high.
Weak passwords and outdated access rules are leaving small businesses exposed as AI speeds up phishing, credential theft and network probing.
