Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of December 19th: CrowdStrike, LevelBlue, Cyderes, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring news from the week of December 19th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from CrowdStrike, LevelBlue, Cyderes, and more.

Keeping up with all the most relevant Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring news can be time-consuming. As a result, our editorial team aims to summarize some of the top headlines in the space by curating a collection of the latest vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy news. With that in mind, here is some of the top endpoint security and network monitoring news from the week of December 19th.

Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of December 19th

Apiiro Debuts an AI-Driven, Context-Aware SAST

Apiiro, an agentic application security platform, has introduced an AI-powered static application security testing (SAST) capability that ties vulnerability detection directly to an application’s software architecture, from code to runtime. The new offering utilizes AI to identify flaws, validate exploitability, and propose fixes within the context of real application flows, aiming to reduce noise and shorten remediation cycles for development teams. By correlating code issues with architectural and runtime context, this will help security and platform engineering leaders get deeper insight into how vulnerabilities actually impact production systems.

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Astra Launches a Cloud Vulnerability Scanner

Astra Security, an AI-powered continuous pentest platform, has released a cloud vulnerability scanner designed to continuously assess cloud-native environments for misconfigurations, exposed services, and compliance gaps. The scanner delivers agentless discovery across assets and services, with prioritized findings to help teams quickly identify exploitable risks rather than wade through generic alerts. With this feature, users can utilize continuous cloud visibility, guided remediation steps, an easy setup process, and IAM risk detection. Additionally, the tool works seamlessly alongside Astra’s other solutions, providing a unified dashboard for everything from cloud posture to app vulnerabilities.

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CrowdStrike Announces the General Availability of an AIDR Offering

CrowdStrike has announced the general availability of its Falcon AI Detection and Response (AIDR) offering, which extends its Falcon platform to protect the AI prompt and agent interaction layer across the enterprise. The new service targets prompt injection, jailbreaks, unsafe content, and data exfiltration by monitoring and enforcing policies on prompts, responses, and AI agent actions in real-time. Specifically, it provides teams with end-to-end security for AI development, alongside unified visibility, governance, and protection for AI usage from development to employee-facing tools.

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Cyderes to Acquire Lucidum

Cyderes, a global managed cybersecurity services partner, has acquired Lucidum, a provider of asset discovery and attack surface management solutions. The deal will bring Lucidum’s data-driven visibility and asset intelligence into Cyderes’ services, helping companies create a tighter integration between asset discovery, risk scoring, and operational response workflows. Chris Schueler, CEO at Cyderes, says, “Lucidum’s data fabric gives us the shared foundation necessary to unify that context across every environment we protect. This becomes the backbone for our Identity & Access Management, Exposure Management, and Managed Detection & Response capabilities, the base layer upon which we will build the SaaS offerings and AI-driven capabilities our clients need next.”

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Dux Emerges from Stealth with a $9 Million Seed Funding Round.

Dux, an agentic exposure management platform built for the speed of AI-driven cyber-attacks, has emerged from stealth with a $9 million seed round led by Redpoint, TLV Partners, and Maple Capital, with participation from leading cybersecurity executives from CrowdStrike, Okta, and Armis. The Dux platform is designed for security leaders who are dissatisfied with static, scan-based risk views and manual remediation processes, equipping them with AI-driven tools that continuously analyze exploitability across the entire environment to determine whether existing controls already block a potential attack path.

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LevelBlue and Tenable Expand Their Partnership

LevelBlue, a pure-play provider of managed security services, has expanded its partnership with Tenable, a cybersecurity company specializing in exposure management, to introduce unlimited enterprise-grade vulnerability scanning within LevelBlue’s USM platform, removing previous licensing constraints on scan volumes. The integrated offer will combine Tenable’s scanning technology with LevelBlue’s threat detection and response capabilities, giving customers a single environment to discover, assess, and monitor assets without worrying about per-asset or per-scan pricing.

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Netwatch to be Acquired by GI Partners

Netwatch, a global provider of AI-powered security services, has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by GI Partners, a private investment firm. Once the acquisition is complete, Netwatch will operate as an independent company within GI Partners’ portfolio. Mark Prybutok, Managing Director and Head of Data Infrastructure at GI Partners, says, “We are excited to support the Company in its next phase of growth through the application of AI technology, strategic capital investment, and deeper partnership with customers; continuing to expand its leadership in the remote video monitoring ecosystem.”

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Vectra AI Advances Continuous Hybrid Control

Vectra AI, a cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks, has unveiled an expanded platform vision that unifies proactive exposure management, 360-degree response, and value reporting to deliver continuous control across the hybrid attack lifecycle. The approach aims to help security teams shift from siloed tools and reactive workflows to a single operating model spanning data center, identity, multi-cloud, SaaS, and OT/IoT environments. Specifically, it targets enterprises and MSSPs that need measurable resilience and executive-ready reporting, not just detection feeds.

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WatchGuard Unveils a Unified Zero Trust Bundle

WatchGuard Technologies, a provider of unified cybersecurity solutions, has announced the WatchGuard Zero Trust Bundle, a streamlined offering that aims to make zero-trust achievable for organizations of all sizes. The bundle combines adaptive MFA, SSO, dark web credential monitoring, EPDR, and FireCloud Total Access, providing SMEs and MSPs with a practical, deployable path to zero trust, without the complexity or overhead of legacy enterprise solutions. WatchGuard is positioning the Bundle as a replacement for its Passport offering.

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XM Cyber Reveals New Capabilities

XM Cyber, a Continuous Exposure Management company, has announced new capabilities that integrate its External Attack Surface Management with internal risk validation to eliminate false positives in hybrid exposure management. With these updates, the platform can validate whether external exposures are exploitable in a given environment and use attack graph analysis to model how attackers could move laterally to critical assets. The two-step, attacker-centric validation is aimed at security teams overwhelmed by theoretical risk scores and unprioritized alerts, allowing them to focus remediation on exposures that genuinely pose a threat to the business.

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