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Options Technology, a leading provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global financial sector, today announced it has achieved a Microsoft Solutions Partner specialization for Threat Detection. The achievement reinforces Options’ leadership in delivering secure, compliant, and private cloud services engineered for enterprise clients in the financial industry.
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This achievement follows earlier Solutions Partner designations in Private Cloud, Modern Work, Data and AI, Security, Infrastructure Solutions, and Digital & App Innovation(Azure). Together, these six designations underscore Options’ global leadership in delivering cutting-edge cloud solutions and integrated technology for the world’s most demanding financial markets.
Microsoft's Solutions Partner specialization for Threat Detection recognizes partners who demonstrate deep knowledge, extensive experience, and proven success deploying Microsoft Threat Protection, Microsoft Cloud App Security, and Microsoft Sentinel, formerly Azure Sentinel workloads; a key differentiator for Options customers. The Threat Protection specialization demonstrates expertise in implementing and managing security solutions. Partners with this specialization have demonstrated proficiency through their partner capability score, which is based on performance, skilling, and customer success, signifying their ability to provide customers with advanced security and compliance services.
Danny Moore, President and CEO, commented, “Securing our Microsoft Solutions Partner specialization for Threat Detection is a landmark achievement that speaks directly to our core mission: protecting our clients. In the financial sector, the integrity and security of data are non-negotiable. This recognition validates our team's deep expertise in deploying next-generation security solutions to counter emerging threats. It further strengthens our longstanding relationship with Microsoft and reinforces our position at the forefront of financial technology innovation and cybersecurity excellence.”
Options currently serves over 600 global firms, delivering high-performance trading infrastructure and cloud-enabled managed services with investment bank-grade cybersecurity and SOC-accredited compliance. AtlasWorkplace, its flagship managed IT platform is engineered to transform and support Hedge Funds, Private Equity firms, Asset Managers, and Financial Services organizations with secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure.
The announcement follows a series of recent developments at Options, including its achievement of Microsoft Solutions Partner status for Private Cloud, the expansion of its private AI capabilities through a new data center deployment in Iceland and its recognition in VMware by Broadcom’s Global Partner Program.
Options Technology:
Options Technology (Options) is a financial technology company at the forefront of banking and trading infrastructure. We serve clients globally with offices in New York, London, Paris, Belfast, Cambridge, Chicago, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Dubai, Sydney and Auckland. At Options, our services are woven into the hottest trends in global technology, including high-performance Networking, Cloud, Security, and AI (Artificial Intelligence).
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Options Bolsters Security Leadership with Microsoft Solutions Partner Specialization for Threat Detection
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s second term has been eventful. You wouldn’t know it from his approval numbers.
An AP-NORC poll from January found that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults approve of Trump’s performance as president. That’s virtually unchanged from March 2025, shortly after he took office for the second time.
The new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research does show subtle signs of vulnerability for the Republican president. Trump hasn’t convinced Americans that the economy is in good shape, and many question whether he has the right priorities when he’s increasingly focused on foreign intervention. His approval rating on immigration, one of his signature issues, has also slipped since he took office.
Here’s how Americans’ views of Trump have — and haven’t — changed over the past year, according to AP-NORC polling.
Call it a gift or a curse — for all his unpredictability, Trump's approval numbers just don't change very much.
This was largely the case during his first term in office, too. Early in his first term, 42% of Americans approved of how he was handling the presidency. There were some ups and downs over the ensuing years, but he left office with almost the same approval.
That level of consistency on presidential approval numbers could be the new normal for U.S. politics — or it could be unique to Trump. Gallup polling since the 1950s shows that presidential approval ratings have grown less variable over time. But President Joe Biden had a slightly different experience. Biden, a Democrat, entered the White House with higher approval numbers than Trump has ever received, but those fell rapidly during his first two years in office, then stayed low for the remainder of his term.
Most Americans have held a critical view of Trump throughout his time in office, and Americans are twice as likely to say he's focused on the wrong priorities than the right ones. About half of U.S. adults say he’s mostly focusing on the wrong priorities one year into his second term, and approximately 2 in 10 say he’s mostly focused on the right priorities. Another 2 in 10, roughly, say it’s been about an even mix, and 14% say they don't have an opinion.
The economy has haunted Trump in his first year back in the White House, despite his insistence that “the Trump economic boom has officially begun.”
Just 37% of U.S. adults approve of how Trump is handling the economy. That’s up slightly from 31% in December — which marked a low point for Trump — but Trump started out with low approval on this issue, which doesn’t give him a lot of room for error.
The economy is a new problem for Trump. His approval rating on this issue in his first term fluctuated, but it was typically higher. Close to half of Americans approved of Trump’s economic approach for much of his first White House stint, and he’s struggled to adjust to this as a weak point. Americans care a lot more about costs than they did in Trump’s first term, and, like Biden, he’s persistently asserted that the U.S. economy is not a problem while the vast majority describe it as “poor.”
About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say Trump has done more to hurt the cost of living in his second term, while only about 2 in 10 say he’s done more to help. About one-quarter say he hasn't made an impact.
When Trump entered office, immigration was among his strongest issues. It’s since faded, a troubling sign for Trump, who campaigned on both economic prosperity and crackdowns to illegal immigration.
Just 38% of U.S. adults approve of how Trump is handling immigration, down from 49% in March. The poll was conducted Jan. 8-11, shortly after the death of Renee Good, who was shot and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.
But there are signs that Americans still give Trump some leeway on immigration issues. About half of U.S. adults say Trump has “gone too far” when it comes to deporting immigrants living in the country illegally, which is unchanged since April, despite an immigration crackdown that spread to cities across the U.S. in the second half of the year.
Nearly half of Americans, 45%, say Trump has helped immigration and border security “a lot” or “a little” in his second term. This is an area where Democrats are more willing to give Trump some credit. About 2 in 10 Democrats say Trump has helped on this issue, higher than the share of Democrats who say he's helped on costs or job creation.
Trump has focused his attention more on foreign policy in his second term, and polling shows most Americans disapprove of his approach.
But much like Trump's overall approval, views of his handling of foreign policy have changed little in his second term, despite wide-ranging actions including his push to control Greenland and the recent military capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
About 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling the issue of foreign policy, and most Americans, 56%, say Trump has “gone too far” in using the U.S. military to intervene in other countries.
Trump’s continued focus on global issues could be a liability given its sharp contrast with the “America First” platform he ran on and Americans’ growing concern with costs at home. But it could also be hard to shift views on the issue — even if Trump takes more dramatic action in the coming months.
The AP-NORC poll of 1,203 adults was conducted Jan. 8-11 using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
President Donald Trump holds a bill that returns whole milk to school cafeterias across the country, in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
FILE - President Donald Trump waves after arriving on Air Force One from Florida, Jan. 11, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
