by Kyle Alspach via CRN
At the start of 2026, World Wide Technology's Chris Konrad wrote a cybersecurity business strategy based, as usual, on his expectations for the year.
By July, the document was outdated.
"The strategy that we put in place at the beginning of this year, I just threw out, and I'm rewriting it," said Konrad, Vice President of Global Cyber at St. Louis-based WWT, No. 10 on CRN's 2026 Solution Provider 500. "No longer do I have one-year business plans. I have to do six-month business plans."
This new reality is one that many security-focused solution providers are facing today as two massive market shifts—each considered "once in a generation" in their own right—are converging on customers simultaneously and putting them at risk: the arrival of AI and the impending impact of quantum computing.