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blueAPACHE launches world-first Human Risk Management as a Service, powered by Mimecast. New managed capability addresses the growing human side of cyber risk for mid-market organisations, with Mimecast as the technology platform partner SYDNEY, 26 June 2026 blueAPACHE, Australia's most awarded mid-market IT services provider, has announced it is launching a Human Risk Management as a Service powered by Mimecast, the human, data, and AI security platform. Believed to be a world-first managed capability that brings together awareness training, policy visibility, behavioural controls, and incident remediation into a single, repeatable outcome-based service for mid-market organisations, blueAPACHE is the first Mimecast channel partner globally to bring this model to market. The service is designed for organisations with between 50 and 1,500 seats that are managing the competing pressures of regulatory compliance, security framework alignment, and the rapid adoption of AI and cloud-based tools. For these businesses, human risk has historically been addressed in fragmented ways across multiple service lines. Human Risk Management as a Service consolidates that into a clear, per-user monthly model that sits alongside blueAPACHE's managed services and managed detection and response bundles, giving customers a structured blueprint across the three core pillars of modern managed security. "In the mid-market, customers are buying an outcome, not a product," said Michael Zuppa, CEO of blueAPACHE. "What they need is a managed service that takes responsibility for awareness, cultural uplift, visibility, and remediation as a continuous, consistent capability. We have been delivering parts of this for years across our vCISO, email security, and awareness training services, but the structure was not clear enough for customers to engage with it as a whole. Human Risk Management as a Service changes that." The need for a dedicated human risk service reflects a persistent and growing reality in Australian organisations. The biggest security incidents continue to originate from email-based threats, phishing campaigns, and human error, including employees unintentionally breaking policy or moving sensitive data without realising the risk. The rapid adoption of AI tools has compounded this exposure, with individuals already using public AI services while data classification and DLP policies are still being developed. For mid-market organisations, the gap between current maturity and adequate protection is a live and immediate risk. "Human risk has always been the hardest part of the security equation to operationalise at scale," said Mimecast ANZ Partner Leader Lizelle Hughes. "blueAPACHE has developed something that will make meaningful change for Australian organisations. The reality is that 8% of employees generate 80% of risk, and AI agents now operate with the same access and none of the judgment that a human brings. Mimecast was built to detect and respond to that exposure across every channel where humans and AI agents work. This is the kind of outcome-focused thinking that moves the whole industry forward, and Australian organisations stand to benefit directly." As organisations progress through data classification and AI governance maturity programmes, blueAPACHE's Human Risk Management capability provides visibility, enforcement, and protection from day one, covering how data is being accessed, moved, and used across corporate and public AI environments while formal policy based frameworks and rules are in place. "Time is the risk," Zuppa said. "Organisations are already on an AI journey whether they are ready or not. We need to ensure the visibility and controls we have in place are protecting the customer while they are still working through their maturity. That is what this service is designed to do." Mimecast was selected as the platform technology partner underpinning the service following a structured assessment of MSP-aligned security platforms. blueAPACHE identified Mimecast as the leader in the category based on its human risk command centre capability, the breadth of its visibility layer, the strength of its structured training and reporting tools, and its demonstrated commitment to MSP operational requirements including flexible subscription models, licence management, and service delivery at scale. The Human Risk Management as a Service offering is now live with customers. The partnership also reflects blueAPACHE's broader relationship with Mimecast as both a managed service delivery partner and a credible resell and implementation partner across its enterprise customer base, drawing on deep operational experience with the Mimecast platform built over many years. About blueAPACHE blueAPACHE is Australia's most awarded mid-market IT services provider. Founded in 1998, it is an Australian owned organisation specialising in Managed Services, cloud, security, and modern workplace solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers. blueAPACHE delivers outcome-driven services underpinned by strong security standards and operational discipline, supporting highly regulated and rapidly scaling organisations across multiple industries. About Mimecast Mimecast protects the work of every person in the organization, across every channel, from every actor, human and AI. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in London, Mimecast serves more than 42,000 organizations and 27 million users worldwide. Mimecast analyses 24 trillion behavioural signals annually across email, collaboration, and AI agent workflows, drawing on a 20+ year behavioural baseline that no competitor matches. blueAPACHE secure humans, data & AI.

Mimecast has extended its Governance, Compliance & Insights platform to cover enterprise AI conversations, beginning with integration of Anthropic's Claude Compliance API. The move allows organisations to archive, search and preserve Claude Enterprise conversations using the same workflows they employ for email and collaboration tools. The integration addresses growing regulatory pressure, with the EU AI Act enforcement deadline approaching in August 2026 and IBM reporting that 63% of organisations experiencing AI-related breaches had no governance policy in place. Mimecast customers can now apply legal holds, conduct eDiscovery requests, monitor sensitive data and archive Claude Enterprise conversations alongside other enterprise data sources. The connector is available to existing customers through their account teams, with self-serve setup for administrators.

Top product launches at RSAC 2026. RSAC 2026 showcased a wave of innovation, with vendors unveiling technologies poised to redefine cybersecurity. From AI-powered defense to breakthroughs in identity protection, this year's conference delivered a glimpse into the future. Here are the most interesting products that caught its attention, and could shape what's next. Astrix Security has revealed a major expansion of its AI agent security platform, covering every layer where AI agents operate in the enterprise: from managed AI platforms to shadow deployments running on managed devices, detecting both agent existence and unauthorized access to enterprise resources, and enforcing policy over what agents are allowed to do. Bonfy.AI announced Bonfy Adaptive Content Security (Bonfy ACS) 2.0, a platform built to secure enterprise content across all systems, applications, and AI agents - anywhere data moves, resides, or is processed. Bonfy delivers real-time, contextual protection across email, SaaS apps, collaboration tools, browsers, cloud and on-prem file stores, AI systems, and agent frameworks, so enterprises can safely accelerate AI adoption without flying blind. The Vellox suite showcases how AI-native cyber defense can counter growing threats to U.S. national security and critical infrastructure. The product suite is fueled by more than 30 years of technology, tradecraft, and adversarial insights. Booz Allen's cyber operators are engaged at the center of nearly all major commercial and federal cyber missions, enabling singular insight when developing and deploying military-grade offensive and defensive products for U.S. federal, defense, and intelligence customers as well as Fortune 500 and Forbes Global 2000 companies. Black Duck has announced the general availability of Black Duck Signal, an agentic AI application security solution purpose-built to secure AI-generated code in autonomous development workflows. Signal introduces a new model for application security: agentic AI augmented by decades of human-curated security context. Delivered as an agentic AI solution, Signal enlists a coordinated system of specialized AI security agents that draw on ContextAI, Black Duck's application security model, to analyze code, assess impact and guide remediation actions in real time. Cisco has introduced solutions to address AI security issues and remove a top barrier to agent adoption. By establishing trusted identities, enforcing strict zero trust Access controls, hardening agents before deployment, enforcing guardrails at runtime, and giving SOC teams the tools to stop threats at machine speed, Cisco is building security into the foundation of the emerging AI economy. Mimecast has announced a major expansion of its Incydr offering with new data security capabilities and a preview of the Agent Risk Center. These enhancements deliver runtime data security through a unified approach to detect, govern, and remediate data exposure in real time, whether driven by employees or agents acting on their behalf. Novee introduced AI Red Teaming for LLM Applications for its AI penetration testing platform, designed to uncover security vulnerabilities in LLM-powered applications before attackers can exploit them. Unlike conventional application security tools built for web and infrastructure testing, Novee's AI pentesting agent is specifically designed to continuously probe AI-enabled applications. The agent autonomously simulates real-world, sophisticated attack scenarios and chaining techniques together to identify vulnerabilities that manual testing or static scanners often miss. Dashlane has unveiled Omnix AI Advisor, a natural-language AI security assistant embedded into the Dashlane Omnix platform. Built upon Omnix's advanced credential protection and visibility capabilities, Omnix AI Advisor accelerates enterprises' transition to a proactive security posture by turning real-time credential risk data, such as dark web exposure and phishing logs, into contextual, actionable intelligence. Palo Alto Networks has advanced its AI security platform with Prisma AIRS 3.0, securing the agentic AI lifecycle and enabling enterprises to move from observation to safe autonomous execution. Prisma AIRS replaces fragmented point solutions with a single platform to manage the primary threats and risks of AI apps and autonomous agents. The new capabilities allow teams to future-proof their operations as agent ecosystems evolve. Stellar Cyber has introduced agentic AI to cut alert noise and speed investigations, changing how SOC teams operate. The enhancements advance its autonomous SOC platform, shifting teams from reactive alert handling to outcome-driven security operations. Straiker has launched Discover AI and expanded Defend AI to secure coding agents, productivity agents, and custom-built agent platforms. Agents are operating across enterprise systems with broad access, growing autonomy, and zero security oversight. That's why Straiker built Discover AI and Defend AI: to give security teams visibility into what agents are running and protection against what they might do. Teleport announced Beams, a trusted runtime designed to solve the security and IAM challenges blocking teams from designing and running AI agents in production infrastructure. Beams runs each agent in an isolated Firecracker VM with built-in identity. Each Beam is connected to infrastructure and inference services without secrets, with audit and access control. More about