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Shortlisted

ECP shortlisted for the Cybersec Europe 2026 Best Innovation award. Plus: a weekly client micro-learning newsletter.

Cybersec Europe 2026: ECP on the shortlist

Platform: co-branded micro-learning + signed bundles

Verizon DBIR 2026: the SMB pattern holds

CCB Q1: 635 incidents in 2025, +70% YoY

Easy Cyber Protection

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Cybersec Europe 2026: Easy Cyber Protection on the 'Best Innovation' shortlist

The Cybersec Europe 2026 jury has shortlisted Easy Cyber Protection for the "Best Cybersecurity Innovation Europe" award. The pitch is May 20 at Brussels…

What's being judged: a jury award (not a public vote) recognising European cybersecurity innovation. ECP's submission is the MSP audit-readiness engine — CyFun + NIS2 evidence work, structured as a partner workflow rather than a tick-box compliance product
When: the 5-minute pitch slot is Tuesday May 20 at 16:30 on the Cybersec Europe main stage. The award ceremony is Wednesday May 21 at 12:15. Both at Brussels Expo
The Belgian angle: CyFun is a Belgian framework, NIS2 transposition is Belgian-led at the CCB, and the audit-readiness problem is hitting Belgian SMBs every week. A made-in-Belgium product on the European innovation shortlist for an audit-readiness problem first felt in Belgium

See the shortlist on Computable.be → https://www.computable.be/awards/inzendingen/cybersec-awards/security-innovation-of-the-year/?awdy=2026

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Platform Spotlight: co-branded weekly micro-learning + Ed25519-signed audit bundles

Two things shipped this week that change the shape of an MSP engagement: a co-branded weekly micro-learning newsletter you send to your clients' employees…

Client micro-learning newsletter: one short issue per week (TL;DR + 3 bullets + a news bite) condensed from a /learn/ article. Branded with your logo and colour. EN/NL/FR per recipient. Subscribers auto-added when you invite new client users — no list to maintain by hand
MSP-scoped authoring: a partner UI to create, edit, preview, and send issues for your own clients only. Dedupe across overlapping client orgs (one email per recipient per issue), per-issue delivery log so you can prove who got what, one-click unsubscribe baked into every send
Ed25519-signed bundles: every exported .ecpbundle.zip is now signed with a per-server private key. The matching public key is published at /.well-known/bundle-pubkey.pem so an auditor (or another ECP instance) can verify the bundle reached them unaltered

Try the live demo → https://easycyberprotection.com/demo

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Verizon DBIR 2026 lands — the small-business pattern holds, the access vectors barely move

The annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report is the most-cited corpus in the industry, and the 2026 edition published this week. The headline is the…

Small businesses over-represented: SMBs continue to make up a disproportionate share of confirmed breaches relative to their share of the economy. The MSP-managed segment is exactly the cohort the report keeps describing
The human element is still the front door: stolen credentials, phishing, and social engineering remain the dominant initial-access vectors. Every "fancy new attack" headline lands on top of a baseline that has been the same for years
Web apps and email keep doing the heavy lifting: internet-facing applications and email remain the top breach pathways. The boring controls — MFA everywhere, patching, email auth — are where the gap-closing lives

Verizon DBIR → https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/reports/dbir/

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CCB published its 2025 annual figures — 635 incident notifications, +70% YoY

The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium's 2025 numbers, surfaced again this week alongside the post-April-18 NIS2 audit cycle: 635 incident notifications across the year, a 70% jump on 2024. The leading categories are…

Top category: account compromise. 144 cases — the MFA gap, the reused-password gap, the no-conditional-access gap. The control auditors will ask for first
Second category: ransomware. 105 cases — and the cadence so far in 2026 (one named Belgian SMB per week on a leak site) suggests the line is still going up, not down
The 70% jump is partly a reporting effect: NIS2 raised the obligation to notify and lowered the friction. The number going up does not (only) mean attacks went up — it means more attacks are now visible to the regulator

CCB Belgium → https://ccb.belgium.be/