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I cover the vendor and technology landscape for @ISMG_News including M&A, startups and key trends, with a focus on what’s relevant for CISOs. [email protected]

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Leon Jordan Novinson was born on Dec. 2, 2023, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. at 18 inches and 6.6 lbs. Our adoption of Leon was finalized Monday in Ballston Spa, N.Y. in front of Judge Michael Hartnett. Sonia's thrilled to be a big sister, and Joe and I excited to be Leon's parents!
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.@ClearspeedCorp Raises $60M to Scale AI Voice-Based Risk Platform: "You have to compromise between how fast you move through screening process or claims process and how much accuracy or fidelity you want to fight the fraud or deal with the threat.".
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Clearspeed will use its $60 million raise to build out teams and technology as it scales its AI-powered voice screening platform across finance, insurance and
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RT @ISMG_News: #Snyk acquires Swiss startup Invariant Labs to secure #AI native applications. The move brings cutting edge research into #A….
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To safeguard AI-native apps, Snyk has acquired Swiss startup Invariant Labs, whose experts pioneered research into vulnerabilities in agentic workflows. Snyk plans
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When DNS Fragments, Security Suffers: "If left exposed, somebody could just come in and find themselves on the receiving end of that pointer with a valid cert in the organization's name. There are estimates that there are around a million of these.".
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DNS fragmentation across multiple environments increases complexity and the corresponding misconfiguration risk, with an estimated one million dangling CNAMEs
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AI Is Moving From Hype to Practical Use Cases in Enterprises: "Clients are moving from a single AI platform that will sort of perform magic against their data or their risks or their security posture into a much more deliberate and mature identification".
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Enterprises are realizing that AI is no longer a one-size-fits-all solution. Dan Rice, global head of AI strategy and risk at Kroll, shares why organizations,
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Agentic AI Security Gets Fuel With @snyksec's @InvariantLabsAI Buy: "They're able to test MCP and all these new agents. We're able to find where it is in code. So you can start seeing the synergy and the dots there that are very complementary". @ISMG_News.
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To safeguard AI-native apps, Snyk has acquired Swiss startup Invariant Labs, whose experts pioneered research into vulnerabilities in agentic workflows. Snyk plans
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Unified Action Systems Critical to Reducing Cyber Risk: "Not everything is insight. The system of action is an aggregated view of what's the easiest and safest thing you can do to protect the vulnerable asset," #Zafran CEO Sanaz Yashar told @ISMG_News.
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Proactive crack detection, unified security tools and behavioral change are essential for minimizing risk in today's fast-evolving threat landscape, said Zafran
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.@AdaCoreCompany Merges With @CodeSecure_ for Unified Developer Tools: "We didn't have a sincere, prosperous solution for static analysis and CodeSecure just seemed to be the perfect company to partner with to complete the portfolio," said Quentin Ochem.
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The merger between New York-based AdaCore and Washington D.C.-area CodeSecure fills a strategic gap in static analysis for C and C++ programming, giving embedded
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Judge Axes Flight Disruption Suit Tied to @CrowdStrike Outage: "This is not akin to an employment discrimination suit or an environmental regulation, where courts have found only a tenuous or peripheral connection to airline services" Judge Pitman. $CRWD.
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A judge dismissed a suit against CrowdStrike over its 2024 outage, ruling the claims by airline passengers are preempted by the Airline Deregulation Act. The
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.@Bitdefender Buys @Mesh_Security to Boost Email Security and MDR Reach "We went out and looked at the market for a technology that Bitdefender wants to own and can further develop as part of the GravityZone XDR platform incorporated into our MDR service".
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Bitdefender’s acquisition of Irish startup Mesh adds native email protection to its XDR and MDR portfolios. Mesh’s dual-mode defense and MSP-friendly design
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.@Neovera Boosts Bank Fraud Defense With Greenway Acquisition: "I look at the joining of the hips between what we see with CISOs and with fraud risk managers within the banking industry," #Neovera founder and CEO Scott Weinberg told @ISMG_News.
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Neovera has acquired Greenway Solutions, a Charlotte-based fraud red-teaming vendor serving top banks, to expand its cyber capabilities. The Washington D.C.-area
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RT @LevelBlueCyber: Our Chairman and CEO, Robert McCullen, recently discussed LevelBlue's planned acquisition of @Aon_plc Cybersecurity and….
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Why the $32B @Google-@wiz_io Wiz Deal Caught the Eye of US Regulators Antitrust enforcers are reportedly pumping the brakes on Google's proposed $32 billion buy of Wiz, but it's unclear if it'll be a single speed bump or an unmovable roadblock. @ISMG_News.
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Antitrust enforcers are reportedly pumping the brakes on Google's proposed $32 billion buy of Wiz, but it's unclear if it'll be a single speedbump or an unmovable roadblock. Officials in the Justice...
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.@GuardzCyber Snags $56M to Grow AI Cybersecurity Platform for MSPs: "We did a plan of how we are going to grow into a bigger company in the next two-to-three years. And we decided that this is the right budget that we need," CEO Dor Eisner to @ISMG_News.
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Guardz has secured $56 million to deepen AI-powered threat detection and enhance automation for MSPs. The Series B funding will support platform engineering,
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RT @ISMG_News: Securonix acquires ThreatQuotient to enhance SOCs with threat intel and agentic AI aiming to cut alert fatigue, improve dete….
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Securonix has acquired ThreatQuotient to modernize SOC platforms with external threat intelligence and agentic AI. The combined solution aims to help CISOs manage
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.@LevelBlueCyber Buys @Aon_plc Cyber Unit for Global IR, Litigation Help: "I'm very familiar with incident response, and then leading into other managed services, which is ostensibly what LevelBlue is very strong at," CEO Bob McCullen told @ISMG_News.
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The acquisition of Aon’s 300-person cyber unit enhances LevelBlue’s incident response and managed security services. It brings legal experience, global coverage
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.@Securonix Buys @ThreatQuotient for Integrated Threat Intel: "This is a platform which is looking at all the threats outside and providing the visibility to the enterprises and managed security service providers," Prez, CEO Kash Shaikh told @ISMG_News.
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Securonix has acquired ThreatQuotient to modernize SOC platforms with external threat intelligence and agentic AI. The combined solution aims to help CISOs manage
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.@cyera_io Doubles Valuation With $540M Raise for AI Data Defense: "There's never been a true data security platform that can solve end-to-end the problem.And so, there's significant excitement over, 'Hey, this is the biggest problem in cybersecurity.'".
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Cyera’s latest $540 million Series E funding underscores growing urgency among global firms to secure sensitive data before feeding it into AI models. With demand
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