US-headquartered c/side, which specialises in securing vulnerable web dependencies, has launched its first-ever channel partner programme, and is targeting European MSPs and security consultants with it.
Through a unified management dashboard, partners can offer c/side’s web security solutions to their clients with “simplified” onboarding and security monitoring. Early partners will receive priority access to technical support, co-marketing resources, and exclusive onboarding benefits through to June 2025.
Web dependencies loading in website visitors’ browsers (such as first- and third-party web scripts used for payment processing, analytics, and chatbots) are a major security risk to organisations large and small. The most commonly deployed dependencies change weekly, often without a business knowing. When compromised, they can rewrite webpages, change crypto wallet IDs, redirect users to malicious sites, capture keystrokes, and more.
“Our channel partners are on the front lines helping clients across industries secure their websites and their customer data against increasingly sophisticated threats,” said Mike Kutlu, GTM operations at c/side. “Our new programme provides our partners with the tools, resources, and flexible business models they need to protect their clients from the quickly-evolving risks posed by compromised web scripts and other dependencies.”
With the PCI DSS 4.0.1 compliance deadline of March 31, 2025, organisations with websites that handle credit card data must implement tamper-detection mechanisms to mitigate increasingly sophisticated browser-side attacks. So c/side’s partner programme launches at an especially critical time, as businesses seek solutions that can detect unauthorised changes to HTTP headers, scripts, and other dependencies.
-Patrowl, a French specialist in pen testing as-a-service and continuous threat exposure management (CTEM), has announced the launch of its London office.
Designed to continuously monitor internet-exposed assets, Patrowl’s solution promises to deliver “reliable insights without false positives”, helping organisations stay ahead of evolving cyber risks.
"The UK is a vibrant hub for technology-savvy businesses with a strong focus on cybersecurity. It also shares a rich history of commercial ties with France," said Nicolas Mattiocco, co-founder and president of Patrowl. "To spearhead our London expansion, we’ve appointed Carla Boré, who has been instrumental in driving our success across France and the UK market over the past two years. Her deep understanding of Anglo-Saxon business culture makes her the ideal choice for this role."
She will oversee regulatory compliance to ensure Patrowl’s solutions meet UK standards while fostering connections within the local business community.
-ERP software provider IFS says it has achieved a valuation of over €15 billion, following a significant pivot to AI-driven growth. The valuation came as Hg increased its stake to become a “co-control shareholder” alongside EQT, with TA Associates remaining a minority shareholder.
New minority shareholders also include a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Hg and the new investors are acquiring shares in IFS from EQT, as well as from TA and other minority investors.
Mark Moffat, CEO of IFS, said: “IFS’s success and sustained growth is centred around a commitment and track record of rapidly delivering business value to our customers. We have a differentiated proposition that continues to drive momentum in the industrial setting, specifically with the agentic and generative capabilities of IFS.ai.”
-London-headquartered NexGen Cloud, a provider of “sustainable AI cloud solutions”, has secured $45m in Series A funding from high-net-worth individuals and family trusts.
The round brings the company’s valuation to $354m, we are told. The cash will be used to expand NexGen's infrastructure in response to high platform usage and increasing AI demands across Europe.
Founded in 2020, NexGen Cloud offers private clouds, that are used in specific regions to keep data and operations local, and Hyperstack, which gives access to graphics processing units (GPUs) on-demand. NexGen manages thousands of GPUs on behalf of over 10,000 users.
-According to the latest data from Canalys, total shipments of desktops, notebooks and workstations grew 9.4% to 62.7m units in Q1 2025.
Notebook (including mobile workstations) shipments hit 49.4m units, up 10% compared to a year ago. Shipments of desktops (including desktop workstations) rose 8% to 13.3m units.
Q1 volumes were boosted by OEMs ramping up shipments to the US in anticipation of the first round of the Trump administration’s tariff announcements.
-Portnox, a provider of cloud-native, zero trust access control solutions, has closed a $37.5m Series B funding round. The investment, led by Updata Partners, will be used to “accelerate” product innovation, expand market reach, and “further empower” resource-constrained security teams with accessible, enterprise-grade zero trust security, said the firm.
“Companies are replacing on-premise network access control (NAC) with cloud-native zero trust solutions, which we estimate to be a multi-billion-dollar market. Portnox is leading the charge with a best-of-breed unified access control (UAC) platform,” said Denny LeCompte, CEO of Portnox.
-TD Synnex has expanded its alliance with Exabeam, a specialist in intelligence and automation that powers security operations, giving UK partners the opportunity to benefit from the tech.
Previously available only through TD Synnex in Germany, the alliance is now being extended to the UK, with other EMEA countries due to follow later this year.
-Logpoint and STACKIT have sealed a new strategic partnership to help organisations bolster cyber defences while complying with European regulations, such as GDPR and NIS2. Organisations and managed security service providers (MSSPs) can deploy Logpoint SIEM on STACKIT’s European sovereign cloud to detect cyber threats efficiently while keeping data protected.
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