
Cisco Duo unveiled its Active Directory Defense solution, adding native multi‑factor authentication and granular visibility to on‑prem AD environments. The offering integrates with Cisco Identity Intelligence dashboards and SpecterOps BloodHound Enterprise to surface misconfigurations, risky service accounts, and attack‑path mappings. It also extends MFA to legacy protocols such as NTLM and Kerberos, addressing compliance demands for full authentication coverage. Duo positions the product as a zero‑trust upgrade that protects legacy identity infrastructure without costly replacements.

Contrast Security’s integration with ServiceNow Application Vulnerability Response (AVR) streams verified, runtime‑backed vulnerabilities directly into ServiceNow tickets, uniting detection and remediation workflows. The bidirectional sync supplies exploitability evidence, code location and environment context, eliminating manual validation steps. This enables security...

UpGuard announced a $75 million Series C round to expand its AI‑powered cyber risk posture management platform, grow its global go‑to‑market presence, and pursue acquisitions. The funding will accelerate continuous risk operations and enhance the company’s offering for security teams.

Cisco Duo unveiled Delegated Access, a feature that lets Managed Service Provider (MSP) technicians authenticate to client applications using a single Duo user account. The solution centralizes MFA policy, logs, and monitoring on the parent account while granting access to...

Cybersecurity startup Astelia announced a $35 million seed and Series A round, led by Index Ventures and Team8 with Holly Ventures participating. The capital will accelerate its AI‑driven exposure management platform, which translates network topology and controls into actionable attack‑path insights. Astelia’s...

Blumira has entered the Pax8 Marketplace, allowing managed service providers (MSPs) to purchase, provision, and bill a full‑stack security operations platform through the same portal they use for cloud services. The integration eliminates separate sales and onboarding steps, enabling MSPs...

Astelia, a New York‑based exposure management startup, announced a $35 million combined seed and Series A round led by Index Ventures and Team8, with participation from Holly Ventures. The funding will be used to expand its AI‑driven platform, scale deployments, and grow...

Palo Alto Networks announced its intent to acquire Koi, a provider of agentic endpoint security solutions, to integrate AI-driven capabilities into its Prisma AIRS platform and enhance visibility in Cortex XDR. The acquisition aims to fill a gap in AI...

Next Dimension has entered a strategic partnership with Todyl to migrate its managed security services onto Todyl’s cloud‑native platform, unifying SIEM, EDR and MXDR under a single console. The integration replaces fragmented toolsets with AI‑driven, contextual case management, cutting investigation...

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) serving healthcare, finance and legal sectors must embed regulatory expertise into every service layer to meet HIPAA, SEC, FINRA and related compliance mandates. The article outlines how MSPs can implement encryption, MFA, role‑based access, documentation and...

Sumo Logic announced the extension of its cloud‑native analytics platform into the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and an AWS data center in Switzerland. The move lets customers keep logs, telemetry, and security data within national borders, satisfying GDPR and other...

Cisco has launched the Cisco 360 Partner Program, an $80 million overhaul that replaces the legacy VIP program. The new structure introduces simplified tiering—Registered, Portfolio and Preferred partners—along with fresh rebates, a distributor development fund, and temporary CPI bonuses tied to One Cisco...

Identity attacks remain the top breach vector, yet only 33 % of leaders trust their identity providers to stop them. With 82 % increasing spend and 85 % shifting to security‑first identity strategies, execution gaps are widening. Modern identity now includes machines, APIs...