Topic: security
Linux Foundation to Use $12.5M in Grant Funding to Advance Open Source Security
The Linux Foundation has announced it will use $12.5 million in grants to develop long-term, sustainable security solutions that support open source communities worldwide. This is necessary, the foundation said in its announcement, because rapid advances in AI have created a more complex security landscape with vulnerabilities being found in much greater numbers, leaving security teams … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks Completes Chronosphere Acquisition, Unifying Observability and Security for the AI Era
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — As enterprises increasingly rely on AI to run digital operations, protect assets, and drive growth, success depends on one critical factor: trusted, high-quality, real-time data. Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Chronosphere addressing a core challenge of the AI era: the inability … continue reading
Userful’s Infinity Platform Achieves Breakthroughs in Security, Operational Awareness, and Response
Userful, creators of a software-defined platform for enterprise-wide operational awareness and response, today announced unification of observability, security, visualization, and critical event management into a single operational command layer, bringing together more than $60 billion in addressable market under one software-defined umbrella. Built on its Infinity Platform’s quad-play workflow are critical integrations and features enabled … continue reading
Nutanix Expands Capabilities for Distributed Sovereign Clouds
Orchestrated life cycle management and stronger security for sovereignty-aligned architectures are among new capabilities Nutanix announced today in its Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP). These new capabilities, the company said in its announcement, are designed to expand the choices customers can make as to how they run and govern their infrastructure, with a focus on … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Chronosphere, Next-Gen Observability Leader, for the AI Era
Cybersecurity provider Palo Alto Networks today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire observability platform provider Chronosphere for $3.35 billion in cash and equity, subject to changes in the deal’s value. The deal enhances Palo Alto Networks’ ability to help organizations build a unified data and security fouhdation required for today’s applications … continue reading
Report: AI gaining momentum in enterprises, but data issues hinder success
Some 98% of companies participating in Broadcom’s “Enterprise AI and the Data Problem” AI adoption survey say they are deploying AI solutions, yet challenges relating to data management, visibility, security and governance are hindering success. “AI is delivering real business value, but it isn’t without its challenges,” Aline Gerew, head of automation for the Agile … continue reading
Sumo Logic launches Dojo AI to bring agentic AI to security operations
Sumo Logic is launching a new AI agent for tackling security operations. Dojo AI, powered by AWS, can automate routine tasks, streamline investigations, and free up security teams to work on other tasks. “At a time when every vendor is bringing new AI tools to market, the C-Suite is asking which agents can deliver measurable … continue reading
Cisco announces Splunk-powered Agentic AI innovations
Splunk this week is announcing three new products around data fabric, security and observability powered by Agentic AI at its .conf25 event. The company, which was acquired by Cisco in March 2024, announced Cisco Data Fabric, designed to unlock siloed and fragmented machine data — from the edge, cloud and hybrid environments — to provide … continue reading
Cloudflare One gets new capabilities to secure Shadow AI
Cloudflare has added new capabilities to its zero trust platform Cloudflare One to help organizations securely adopt, build, and deploy generative AI applications. According to Cloudflare, employees are using AI for numerous tasks, from writing code to generating marketing copy to summarizing confidential documents. Unfortunately, generative AI interactions can involve sending company data to these … continue reading
SailPoint Accelerated Application Management facilitates application governance at scale
SailPoint, an enterprise identity security company, is introducing a new solution to help organizations discover, govern, and secure their growing number of applications. SailPoint Accelerated Application Management provides continuous application discovery to uncover inventory, ownership, user activities, and risky access patterns. According to the company, this visibility enables IT teams to identify high-risk applications, prioritize … continue reading
LightBeam.ai provides monitoring for sensitive data usage in Microsoft Copilot with latest updates
LightBeam.ai has announced its Summer 2025 product release, which adds new features to help enterprises secure Microsoft Copilot usage. Companies will be able to monitor Copilot prompts, responses, and file access to ensure that sensitive data is being properly safeguarded. It will be able to access all documents that are referenced, including Excel workbooks, CSV … continue reading
Bugcrowd launches new products for speeding up vulnerability remediation
Bugcrowd has announced two new products for helping IT and security teams remediate vulnerabilities more quickly. The first, AI Connect, is like a read-only “front door” for vulnerability data, Bugcrowd said. It allows customers to integrate Bugcrowd vulnerability data into their preferred internal AI stacks. Under the hood, it is built upon MCP to enable … continue reading
