COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 7 October 2026 – Heimdal today officially launches the “Cyber in 60” weekly video series in which Adam Pilton, a former cybercrime detective and now Cybersecurity Advisor at Heimdal, breaks down one cybersecurity term or concept in under 60 seconds. This series solves an old tech to human translation problem. The people who […]

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London, UK, 1 October 2026 – Heimdal, a global cybersecurity provider, today announced a partnership with Elovade, a European IT security distributor with 250 experts across five countries, to bring its unified security platform to managed service providers (MSPs) across the DACH region: Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The move extends a relationship that began a […]

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Two things happened last week, one day apart, and almost nobody connected them.  On 11 September, the EU Cyber Resilience Act’s vulnerability reporting obligations came into force. Companies covered by the regulation now have to report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours and provide a fuller notification within 72.   On 12 September, Anthropic CEO Dario […]

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London, UK, 30 July 2026 – New data from Heimdal’s telemetry measures the gap between execution of the MediaArena adware and the completion of quarantine. The same pattern has been confirmed across more than 40 client environments. MediaArena is a browser-modifier adware family that Microsoft has tracked since 2023. It is low-severity, and that is […]

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Heimdal did not start as a traditional cybersecurity company. It started with two Danish cybersecurity researchers, a piece of innovative technology and a challenge. Could they create something that could identify vulnerabilities, intercept malicious activity and help protect machines before threats could take hold? That technology went on to compete at the Defcon CTF world […]

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 1 July 2026 – Heimdal today announced the launch of MSP Onboarding Wizard, a new capability that helps managed service providers onboard Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) customers inside the Heimdal platform faster and with less manual work. Built for MSPs managing multiple Microsoft tenants, MSP Onboarding Wizard reduces customer onboarding from around […]

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London, UK, 16 June 2026 – Heimdal today published The State of AI Risk Management in 2026, a survey of 1,000 IT professionals across the United Kingdom and the United States. The report’s headline finding is a divide inside the same organizations: the closer a person sits to the day-to-day running of AI, the less […]

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 8, 2026 – Heimdal has achieved ISAE 3000 SOC 2 Type II certification for the sixth consecutive year, reflecting the company’s continued focus on operational security, accountability, and data protection. The 2026 audit covered the period from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 and examined Heimdal’s controls across access management, data […]

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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, 12 May 2026 — Heimdal’s managed SOC processes three million alerts a month. In the year ahead, fewer than 500 of those, less than 0.02%, are expected to need a human analyst. That’s the forecast from Heimdal founder Morten Kjaersgaard, based on the trajectory of AI Wingman SOC as it absorbs the bulk […]

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 21 April 2026 — Heimdal today unveiled the next phase of its AI strategy, expanding AI Wingman with three new layers – Assist, Triage and SOC – alongside the introduction of Third-Party AI Containment. Together, these capabilities build on Heimdal’s existing AI-powered protection and give organisations a clearer way to manage AI safely, speed […]

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Copenhagen, Denmark – 18 March 2026 – Heimdal has appointed Elovade as its official distributor in the Nordic region. The move gives MSPs and resellers across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland direct access to Heimdal’s consolidated cybersecurity platform through a local value-added distributor. Most Nordic MSPs are running disconnected security tools: separate vendors for […]

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London, UK, February 16, 2026 – Heimdal today announced an industry-first approach to Cyber Essentials readiness by publishing a Cyber Essentials control mapping for Privilege Elevation and Delegation Management (PEDM), helping organisations and MSPs enforce least privilege and evidence stronger control over administrative access. Privileged access remains one of the most exploited paths in modern […]

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Christmas is the time where we allow our imaginations to run wild, it’s the season of goodwill, high spirits and Christmas joy. However, cybercriminals don’t take holidays. We still have to be on our guard, and question what is real and what is not. Common Holiday Scams Fake Online Stores Around this time of year, […]

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The world in which there are three groups of people, technical, not technical and those in between, is dead. AI just killed it, And if you’re a business leader still hiding behind “I’m not technical”, your time is up! Who are these groups? Well, the technical group are those who speak in acronyms, hide behind […]

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The Heimdal 5.1.0 RC (Release Candidate) dashboard update is now live, bringing a powerful lineup of improvements designed to make IT management faster, safer, and more intuitive. From pre-built scripting and compliance dashboards to simpler agent management and refined privilege controls, this release takes another major step toward a fully unified cybersecurity experience. Smarter Automation […]

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