TD SYNNEX-backed Cyber Range Simulates Ransomware for Mid-Market Customers, Driving Measurable Readiness

TD SYNNEX-backed cyber range simulates real ransomware threats for mid-market customers

TD SYNNEX partners with Datalink Networks to deliver a sold-out, two-day Cyber Range in Gilbert, Arizona, placing 20 mid-market clients inside live, instructor-led ransomware attack simulations designed to harden operational readiness. The immersive program gives IT teams hands-on experience detecting, investigating and responding to ransomware in real time, using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Intune and Copilot for Security. Organizers emphasize practical skill transfer: attendees run guided incident investigations, exercise AI-driven security workflows and receive prioritized roadmaps to modernize identity, endpoint and cloud protections.

The event stresses measurable improvements rather than theoretical preparedness, with participants leaving with concrete improvement plans and investment guidance that tie technical detection and response capabilities to governance, risk and compliance objectives. Don Wisdom, president of Datalink Networks, says cybersecurity readiness "can't be theoretical," noting the value of seeing, feeling and responding to a real attack in a controlled environment. The program also provides a repeatable method for organizations to quantify gaps, prioritize spend and accelerate time-to-contain incidents, which organizers present as a path to operational resilience for mid-market IT environments.

TD SYNNEX’s role focuses on channel enablement and co-delivery, leveraging its distribution and services reach to bring cyber exercises to customers across regulated sectors. The partnership model pairs Datalink’s hands-on labs with TD SYNNEX’s go-to-market scale, positioning the distributor as a facilitator of practical security modernization programs that combine vendor tooling, professional services and compliance guidance.

Compliance session links NIST framework to reduced audit burden

A featured compliance session by Romeo Farinacci of Core Insights frames NIST as a foundation for lowering audit complexity and cost, showing customers how to map security controls to regulatory and governance requirements. Organizers say this alignment helps reduce audit burden while improving the ability to demonstrate controls during regulatory reviews.

Sector reach and immediate business outcomes

Attendees from financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, tribal government and professional services report leaving with clear next steps: prioritized improvements, measurable roadmaps and guidance for strengthening identity, endpoint and cloud security. Organizers present the Cyber Range as a practical channel-led offering that addresses both technical operations and business risk.