Access Point: News Roundup For Midmarket IT Executives – Week Of Aug. 29, 2025

Access Point is a weekly roundup of major tech news for midmarket IT executives.

In this week’s roundup: You won’t believe how many enterprises are hit with ‘AI-related incidents,’ company announced its new AI agent-to-agent testing platform,

We’ve Created World’s 1st AI Agent Testing Platform: LambdaTest

LambdaTest, a company that provides AI-native testing solutions, recently announced that it has launched “the world’s first platform designed to validate and assess AI agents.”

95 Percent Of Enterprises Hit With AI-Related Incident: Survey

Ninety-five percent of enterprise executives report experiencing a problematic incident related to the use of AI in their organization.

Commvault Takes Data Resiliency To The Edge

Commvault, which provides cyber resilience and data protection solutions, announced two new capabilities in its HyperScale X solution.

Salesforce-Drift Breach Shows SaaS Platforms Are ‘High-Value Targets,’ A Head Hacker Says

“Organizations need to start treating SaaS platforms like Salesforce, Drift, Salesloft, and Workday as high-value targets,” said Matt Mullins, head hacker at Reveal Security, in an email shared with MES Computing.

SecureW2: Enhanced Platform Can Help With Short-Lived Certificates, Expand Digital Trust

By making certificates dynamic trust objects, the enhanced JoinNow platform “replaces both static life cycles and the industry’s emerging short-lived certificate model,” SecureW2 said.

Education Sector Is No. 1 Threat Target Worldwide In 2025: Check Point

For school districts and many other similar organizations, warding off threats is a continuous battle. There’s the underfunding, and there seems to be an infinite number of threats and bad actors.

Ready.Set.Midmarket! Podcast: ‘Q-Day’ Is Coming. What Midmarket IT Leaders Should Do Now.

“Harvest now, decrypt later.” This directive will be motivation for an expected surge in an emerging threat: quantum computing cyberattacks.

That is according to two experts on the matter who joined co-hosts Adam Dennison and Samara Lynn on the latest Ready.Set.Midmarket! podcast.