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Illumio unveiled its solution to deliver agentless visibility and breach containment across both data center and cloud environments. Illumio Insights ingests real-time telemetry and policy data from Check Point and Fortinet firewalls, converting existing firewall information into real-time traffic maps to provide agentless visibility across the hybrid environment. This extends Illumio Insights into data center and endpoint estates, providing end-to-end view and analysis of network posture. By ingesting native firewall telemetry, Insights can map data … More → The post Illumio Insights brings agentless visibility and breach containment to hybrid environments appeared first on Help Net Security.

AuthMind has announced that its platform offers enhanced capabilities to address the fast-growing security concerns surrounding vaults, secrets managers, and AI-driven workloads. Since its founding, AuthMind has focused on securing identity access and execution paths across agentic AI, non-human identities (NHIs), and human users, enabling enterprises to observe what identities actually do across cloud, network and infrastructure environments. As adoption of agentic AI and automation accelerates, the identity-to-secret attack surface has expanded, increasing the urgency … More → The post AuthMind enhances identity observability to secure vaults, secrets, and NHIs appeared first on Help Net Security.

Oculeus has launched its new Two Factor Network (2FN) solution. The 2FN solution provides a framework for telcos to trace the origin of traffic, verify caller identity, determine the roaming status of inbound calls, and prevent Caller Line Identification (CLI) spoofing. The landscape of fraud has been changed by cybercrime-as-a-service with the evolution of specialized criminal gangs that subvert communications networks at scale, then sell their services to less technically skilled scammers worldwide. The services … More → The post Oculeus 2FN authenticates calls in real time to stop CLI spoofing appeared first on Help Net Security.

N-able expanded its Anomaly Detection capabilities in Cove Data Protection to combat the surge in identity-driven cyberattacks targeting backup environments. The new functionality delivers real-time alerts when suspicious or unauthorized changes to backup policies are detected, giving customers an early warning system against the credential-based tactics attackers use to disable or corrupt backups before deploying ransomware. Identity-based attacks have become a major driver of successful cyberattacks, with AI making these schemes even more convincing. With … More → The post N-able’s Anomaly Detection feature identifies credential-based threats appeared first on Help Net Security.

Varist launched the Hybrid Detection Engine, creating an AI-scale malware detection solution that detects both known and zero-day threats. Built on proven technology used to perform more than 500 billion file scans per day for global customers, the Varist solution surpasses conventional detection by scanning every file and simulating suspicious components in real time. By combining unknown threat detection, lower costs and hyperscale scanning, the Varist Hybrid Detection Engine meets the exponentially growing data demands … More → The post Varist Hybrid Detection Engine protects against AI-assisted malware appeared first on Help Net Security.

Versa released Sovereign SASE-as-a-Service, a cloud-delivered SaaS offering in which the data, control, and management planes operate entirely within a region’s legal jurisdiction. Digital sovereignty has moved from a compliance consideration to a board-level decision. Across Europe and other regions, governments are asserting stronger authority over data residency and protection. The European Union’s GDPR, NIS2, and DORA frameworks are tightening enforcement standards, and data residency alone is no longer sufficient. Most SASE offerings fall short … More → The post Versa introduces cloud-based sovereign solution for enterprises of all sizes appeared first on Help Net Security.

Backblaze announced two new tools for Backblaze Computer Backup designed to give IT teams greater control, consistency, and automation across endpoint deployments: the Advanced Installer and the Backblaze Command Line Interface (bzcli). Backblaze Computer Backup has long been known for its simplicity. Install it, and it runs quietly in the background protecting data. While this works well for many organizations, IT teams managing large or distributed environments have increasingly asked for deeper configuration control during … More → The post Backblaze launches two tools to automate endpoint backup management appeared first on Help Net Security.

Anthropic has acquired Vercept to help push Claude’s computer use capabilities further. People are using Claude for increasingly complex work, including writing and running code across entire repositories, synthesizing research from dozens of sources, and managing workflows that span multiple tools and teams. Computer use enables Claude to do all of that inside live applications, the way a person at a keyboard would. That means Claude can take on multi-step tasks in live applications and … More → The post Anthropic acquires Vercept to expand the capabilities of AI computer use appeared first on Help Net Security.

Lightrun has announced real-time AI SRE built on live, in-line runtime context. This enables AI agents and engineering teams to dynamically generate missing evidence without redeployments, prove root causes with live execution data (“ground truth”), and validate fixes directly in live environments. The mass adoption of AI agents and coding assistants has accelerated code generation, outpacing reliability. This has shifted developer time from writing code to verifying and fixing issues, and moved the development bottleneck … More → The post Lightrun brings live runtime context to AI site reliability engineering appeared first on Help Net Security.

Intellicheck announced the roll out of its enriched Desktop Application. The new Desktop Application allows any sized organization to immediately stop identity theft and fraud losses. Implementation is immediate. No system integration is needed. This comes at minimal cost. The technology solution works with the scanners most organizations already have in place. Intellicheck’s Desktop Application is designed for customers of all sizes. The application ensures a superior, frictionless and rapid customer authentication experience. Businesses can … More → The post Intellicheck Desktop Application helps organizations combat identity theft appeared first on Help Net Security.