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NETSCOUT®, a provider of observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, announces enhancements to its Arbor Edge Defense (AED) solution that helps enterprises maintain the availability of revenue-generating and mission-critical applications against sophisticated DDoS attacks that evade or bypass content delivery network (CDN) DDoS defences. The enhancements identify malicious sources concealed behind shared CDN infrastructure and apply precise, service-specific c...
Fortinet® , the global cybersecurity pioneer driving the convergence of networking and security, announced the FortiGate 1200G series, the newest addition to the FortiGate G series with FortiSASE Outpost, which brings cloud-delivered security services into customer-controlled environments. By combining high-performance threat protection, modern connectivity, hardware-rooted platform security, and cloud-delivered security capabilities, the solution gives organizations the flexibility to enf...
Permiso Security, the unified identity security platform, announces the Permiso Risk Score Engine, a proprietary model that assigns continuous, multi-dimensional risk scores to every identity in an organization's environment. The Risk Score Engine is powered by Permiso's Universal Identity Graph and produces three distinct scoring outputs: Identity Risk Scores that prioritise which identities carry the most risk, Session Scores that highlight which activity needs immediate investigation, and Or...
WatchGuard Technologies, a global pioneer in unified cybersecurity for MSPs, today announced a new generation of Firebox rackmount appliances designed to help Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and enterprise organizations scale security performance without adding operational complexity. The new Firebox appliances deliver industry-best firewall performance, built-in high-speed connectivity and enterprise-class reliability for large, distributed environments and modern networks. “MSPs and IT...
Zimperium, the world pioneer in mobile security, outlined its new AI-empowered mobile security vision, including the availability of two new AI-powered agents that provide a force multiplier in the battle to harden the mobile attack surface. Globally, cybercriminals have moved to a mobile-first attack strategy, weaponizing AI coupled with highly sophisticated social engineering campaigns. The result is that mobile apps and devices now represent the most vulnerable attack surface in most organiz...
Teleport, the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, announced the Teleport Agentic Identity Framework, an AI-centered framework that provides organizations with a clear roadmap for securely deploying agentic AI in production cloud and on-premises environments. The framework will evolve alongside the industry and needs of the community, defining the policies, practices, developer tools and reference architecture required to operate autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents as trusted id...
WatchGuard® Technologies now announced the WatchGuard Zero Trust Bundle – a streamlined solution that finally makes zero trust achievable for organizations of all sizes. For years, businesses have struggled to piece together identity, endpoint, access, and network tools, creating high costs, operational friction, and daily disruption. The WatchGuard Zero Trust Bundle solves this by unifying these capabilities into a simple, continuously validating, cloud-delivered framew...
Teleport, a pioneering provider of identity security solutions for engineering and infrastructure teams, has been named an IDC Innovator in the IDC Innovators: Security for Agentic AI, 2025 (doc # US53737325, September 2025) report. According to the report, “Teleport brings a pragmatic approach to securing agentic AI by embedding AI identity and access controls directly into its Infrastructure Identity Platform. For CISOs navigating the complexity of AI adoption, this means AI agents are...
Commvault, a major provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, announced its intent to acquire Satori Cyber Ltd (Satori), a data and AI security company. Enterprises are facing a perfect storm of AI adoption, data growth and sprawl, and regulatory pressures globally. The need to manage these challenges across hybrid and multi-cloud environments is paramount for security, IT, and business pioneers, as well as boards. Control access to sensitive data By...
Commvault, a pioneering provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, announced the general availability of Clumio Backtrack for Amazon DynamoDB, an advanced offering that transforms how organizations recover data from one of the most widely used cloud-native NoSQL databases in the world. Amazon DynamoDB has become a foundational technology for cloud-first development teams, especially those building high-scale, latency-sensitive applications such as rea...
Cisco has made several transformative innovation and partnership announcements that will help security professionals secure and harness the power of AI. An increasingly sophisticated threat landscape combined with an expanding talent shortage means the need has never been greater for machine scale security and response. According to Cisco’s upcoming 2025 Cybersecurity Readiness Index, companies worldwide underestimate the complexities of securing AI, with 86% saying their organizations ha...
Rapid7, a pioneer in extended risk and threat detection, announced the launch of Intelligence Hub, an integrated threat intelligence solution designed to provide security teams with meaningful context and actionable insights for accelerated detection and response. Data overload is a major problem for security teams; two-thirds of SOC analysts responding to a recent survey said the number of security alerts they receive had “significantly increased” in the last three year...
Illumio, the breach containment company, announced the launch of Illumio Insights, the industry’s first cloud detection and response (CDR) solution powered entirely by an AI security graph. A key part of Illumio’s breach containment platform, Insights can observe and protect every workload and resource, spanning hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It provides AI-powered observability into the organization’s traffic, flows, and connections, surfacing risk throughout the connec...
Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, recently commissioned IDC to conduct a major ransomware and disaster preparedness survey, which revealed the extent to which backup-related issues are currently failing organizations across the globe. These backup-related issues are currently the number one cause of data loss —responsible for 32% of incidents — despite the fact that backup and recovery was cited as the number one priority for IT software investment this year. Data...
Acronis, a pioneer in cybersecurity and data protection, is pleased to introduce Acronis XDR the newest addition to the company’s security solution portfolio. Easy to deploy, manage, and maintain, Acronis XDR expands on the current endpoint detection and response (EDR) offering and delivers complete natively integrated, highly efficient cybersecurity with data protection, endpoint management, and automated recovery specifically built for managed service providers (MSPs). Acronis XDR Cyb...
Automation Anywhere, a pioneer in AI-powered automation, announced its new AI + Automation Enterprise System that puts AI to work with automation to drive exponential outcomes. Unveiled during Imagine 2024, the company's new offering is infused with its second-generation GenAI Process Models to speed up the discovery, development, and deployment of AI process automation. AI Agents The company also launched new AI Agents to manage complex cognitive tasks and automate more than ever before poss...
Illumio, Inc., the Zero Trust Segmentation company, announces its partnership with pioneering cloud security provider Wiz and joins Wiz Integrations (WIN) Platform. Illumio enhances WIN by bringing the power of Illumio’s Zero Trust Segmentation platform to the partner ecosystem, so that customers can seamlessly integrate Wiz into their existing Illumio workflows. Benefits of security findings WIN enables Wiz and Illumio to share prioritized security findings with context including inven...
VIPRE Security Group, an award-winning cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection business, for the first time, is named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Small Businesses 2024 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US50521424, March 2024). Improves security outcomes The report notes, “Squarely focused on small and midsize businesses and VARs that service these businesses, VIPRE Security is actively enhancing its EPP capabilities, expanding into EDR and MDR,...
Global technology solutions provider Arrow Electronics, Inc. announced that it has launched an initial release of ArrowSphere Assistant, an AI-powered cloud business companion built to unearth new business opportunities, increase efficiencies, and discover new revenue potential for channel partners managing their cloud business through ArrowSphere Cloud. Powered by Microsoft Azure AI, ArrowSphere Assistant streamlines workflows, enabling channel partners to make informed decisions faster, act p...
Working with the world’s largest enterprises and global policymakers to address the complexities of optimizing software supply chain with SBOMs (Software Bill of Materials), Sonatype announced SBOM Manager. This industry-first solution provides an integrated approach to managing SBOMs from third-party vendors, alongside those SBOMs created for their software, powered by Sonatype’s unique data and security research. Compliance and cybersecurity By enabling comprehensive optimi...
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd., a pioneering AI-powered, cloud-delivered cyber security platform provider, introduced Harmony SaaS, one of the most advanced solutions for safeguarding against SaaS-based threats. Designed to revolutionize Software as a Service (SaaS) security, Harmony SaaS offers exceptional protection by seamlessly integrating into customers’ existing infrastructure and providing real-time threat prevention. Unprecedented challenges “With the exponent...
Acronis, a global pioneer in cyber protection released the findings of its benchmarked cyber threats report for the second half of 2023. Cyberthreat report Titled “Acronis Cyberthreats Report, H2 2023: Alarming rise in cyberattacks, SMBs and MSPs in the crosshairs,” the report provides an in-depth analysis and prescriptive outlook on key security issues and prevalent cyberthreats worldwide. By leveraging data collected from over 1,000,000 unique endpoints across 15 key countries,...
Veeam® Software, the #1 pioneer by market share in Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery announced several updates and enhancements of its Veeam ProPartner Network program aimed at helping partners around the world to benefit from the growing adoption of Veeam technology to help companies become radically resilient in the face of growing cyber threats and other outages. Veeam ProPartner Network The program updates are focused on supporting partner profitability in a more predictable...
Acronis, the pioneer in cyber protection, announced it had been identified as a pioneer in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cyber Recovery 2023 Vendor Assessment (doc #US49787923, November 2023). This is the first IDC MarketScape report about cyber recovery which illustrates the growing importance of both proactive defense and reactive recovery within an organization’s ability to deal with cyberattacks. The IDC MarketScape report cites Acronis’ key offerings, including a single a...
Acronis, the global pioneer in cyber protection announced the Acronis CyberApp Standard a groundbreaking integration technology. This innovation broadens the Acronis ecosystem to third-party vendors, offering them the means to seamlessly integrate their products and services into Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, equipping service providers with essential tools necessary to drive efficiency and profitability. Acronis CyberApp Standard Acronis CyberApp Standard is the only framework...
Malwarebytes, a pioneer in real-time cyber protection, is revolutionizing endpoint protection for IT-constrained businesses with EDR Extra Strength, a new solution that combines the company's deep historical threat intelligence knowledge with endpoint detection and response (EDR) and AI-driven tools for attack surface reduction and accelerated response. Even with standard endpoint security deployments, successful attacks are rampant—83% of organizations have had more than one data breach...
Zimperium, the only mobile-first security platform for mobile devices and mobile apps, released its highly anticipated Global Mobile Threat Report 2023. This year’s report reveals a continued growth toward mobile-powered business, along with the increasingly sophisticated security risks facing it, including spyware, phishing, and ransomware. The Global Mobile Threat Report 2023 examines the most important trends that shaped the mobile security landscape over the last year and d...
Commvault®, an enterprise data protection pioneer for current global businesses and the first data protection vendor to introduce cyber deception, announced new security capabilities across its entire portfolio. Secure, defend, and recover data Signaling the next phase in its evolution, Commvault is helping businesses secure, defend, and recover their data to meet increasingly sophisticated cyber threats head-on. As part of these capabilities, Commvault has expanded its security ecosystem...
Lacework, the data-driven security platform, has announced new CIEM functionality to address the complex and growing challenges in managing identity threats and unnecessary risks within public cloud environments. With over 35,000 granular permissions across hyperscale cloud providers, organizations can struggle to maintain an overview and manage access and identities securely. Most cloud users and instances are granted far more permissions than they require, exposing unnecessary vulnerab...
Acronis, the global pioneer in cyber protection announced the general availability of Acronis Advanced Security + Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) for Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud. Comprehensive security and data protection With new capabilities such as AI-based attack analysis, Acronis EDR reduces complexity and simplifies workflows for a more streamlined operation, making it easier than ever for MSPs and the businesses they serve to deploy comprehensive security and data protection. W...
