Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of April 17th: Fortra, Cloudflare, Keeper Security, 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 April 17th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Fortra, Cloudflare, Keeper Security, 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 April 17th.

Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of April 17th

Axonius Expands Its Asset Cloud Suite with New Offerings

Axonius, an asset intelligence platform for unified security operations and exposure management, has expanded the Axonius Asset Cloud suite with new offerings and capabilities. The updates include Axonius Exposures, which introduce AI-powered remediation capabilities; Axonius Cyber-Physical Assets that extend the platform to IoT, OT, and industrial environments; and Axonius Verified Assets, which can help teams establish a new data trust standard. These additions will be rolled out in phases, with some capabilities available now and others released through the coming months.

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Bitdefender Debuts the GravityZone Extended Email Security Solution

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity company, has announced Bitdefender GravityZone Extended Email Security, which aims to unify email and endpoint protection within a single platform. The new solution is built for organizations, managed service providers (MSPs), and their customers. It leverages an Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) approach to deliver continuous protection before and after delivery against modern email-borne threats. Some of the specific threats these tools can combat include phishing, business email compromise (BEC), ransomware, impersonation, and insider-driven attacks.

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Cloudflare Launches a Private Networking Solution for AI Agent Lifecycles

Cloudflare, a connectivity cloud company, has announced Cloudflare Mesh, a private networking solution built for the rise of AI agents. The new solution aims to unify AI agents, humans, and multi-cloud infrastructure into a single secure fabric, providing the networking backbone that organizations need to build, deploy, and govern the next generation of AI applications. Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, says, “We are providing a secure bridge between agents and infrastructure—whether those agents are running on Cloudflare, in a private data center, or in another public cloud—ensuring every agent a team ships is secure from day one.”

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Cloudflare and Wiz Detail a New Partnership

Cloudflare has also announced a partnership with cloud and AI security company Wiz, now part of Google Cloud. The companies will focus on providing security teams with a unified way to analyze and protect AI-powered applications across their entire environment. Specifically, they will integrate Cloudflare’s AI Security for Apps directly into the Wiz Security Graph, giving organizations a comprehensive map of their entire AI footprint and helping them identify the tools needed to secure it.

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Cork Cyber Releases an Auto Mapping Capability for the Cork Vantage Platform

Cork Cyber, a cyber risk intelligence platform built for MSPs, has announced Auto Mapping, a new capability in the Cork Vantage solution that can lessen the manual burden of mapping clients, devices, and inboxes across integrations. Additionally, the new tool can help existing partners identify and correct mapping issues that accumulate over time. While Cork’s platform never overrides manual mappings made by the partner, it can surface suggestions when its mapping logic detects a stronger match, giving teams more control without forcing them back into fully manual workflows.

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Endor Labs Reveals an Agentic Code Security Benchmark

Endor Labs, an AI-native application security platform, has launched an agentic code security benchmark. The launch extends the existing SusVibes framework, developed by leading academic researchers, which evaluates 200 real-world tasks drawn from 108 open-source projects and covers 77 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) vulnerability classes. This extension will make it easier for Endor Labs users to evaluate how securely AI coding agents can generate code in real-world scenarios. Alongside the benchmark, Endor Labs also introduced the Agent Security League, a public leaderboard that tracks the performance of AI coding agents across functional correctness and security outcomes.

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Fortra Details Its Defense and Intelligence Unit

Fortra, an advanced offensive and defensive security solution provider, has announced its new Defense and Intelligence Unit (DIU), a dedicated business focused on providing advanced, integrated cyber capabilities to critical infrastructure, defense, intelligence, and national security organizations worldwide. The new business unit is led by John Grancarich, who will act as the unit’s EVP and Head of Defense and Intelligence. He says, “With the launch of the DIU, we are going all in on our mission of securing allied nations against cyber adversaries around the globe.”

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Oracle Expands Its Multi-Cloud Networking Capabilities

Oracle is expanding its multi-cloud networking capabilities to provide customers with enterprise-grade, high-performance connectivity between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS. The latest update will establish connectivity between Oracle Interconnect and AWS Interconnect, enabling multi-cloud customers to access a faster, private, and managed connection to run applications and move data seamlessly between OCI and AWS. Supporting full and split-stack multi-cloud deployments, the collaboration will also enable organizations to leverage the strengths of multiple cloud providers without the complexities of managing multiple network providers.

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Keeper Security Announces New Enterprise Governance Capabilities 

Keeper Security, a zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security and Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform, has announced new enterprise governance capabilities for its Endpoint Privilege Manager (EPM) offering. Keeper’s latest updates aim to strengthen centralized control while preserving the platform’s patented zero-trust security architecture. Additionally, the Keeper EPM solution now offers real-time visibility into privilege elevation activity. This means admins can monitor requests as they occur, with clearer status distinctions and expanded audit logging supported by correlation identifiers.

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N-able Unveils a Custom MCP Server

N-able, a global cybersecurity company, has unveiled a custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) server built to securely connect everyday AI tools directly to the live data inside N-able’s Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solutions. The company has also announced N-zo, an in-product AI assistant that delivers embedded guidance to help teams resolve issues faster. For example, the updates empower users to streamline daily operations, reduce tool hopping, accelerate time to resolution,  and quickly assess and prioritize security exposure across affected devices.

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SolarWinds Debuts an Agentic AI Teammate

SolarWinds, a provider of secure observability and IT management software, has introduced SW1. SW1 is designed to be an agentic AI teammate that uses a governed AI identity to help IT teams shift from reactive problem-solving to autonomous operational resilience across on-premises data centers, private cloud, public cloud, and the hybrid architectures that connect them. The SW1 tool is built on the SolarWinds Agentic Framework, grounded in AI by Design principles, and can provide organizations with a single, trusted interface to orchestrate AI across their environments.

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Synack Shares Details on Its Glasswing-Readiness Assessment

Synack, a provider of human-led and agentic AI-powered penetration testing services, has announced the Glasswing-Readiness Assessment, a focused offering that helps organizations identify and close critical gaps in their attack surface before they’re exploited. Specifically, the new assessment uses Attack Surface Discovery with Sara (the Synack Autonomous Red Agent) to explore environments at scale and identify real attack paths, while the Synack Red Team validates each finding. This will chain vulnerabilities and eliminate false positives so organizations see only what is real and exploitable.

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WitnessAI Partners with NTT DATA Japan

WitnessAI, an AI security platform, has expanded its global operations in Japan with a new partnership with NTT DATA Japan, a global AI, digital business, and technology services provider. As part of the partnership, NTT DATA Japan will act as a strategic reseller of the WitnessAI security platform, helping Japanese organizations accelerate their secure use of AI while mitigating risk and ensuring strict governance. Rick Caccia, CEO and co-founder at WitnessAI, says, “This partnership with NTT DATA will continue to help organizations across the region overcome AI security challenges and achieve higher return of investments on their AI deployments.”

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Insight Jam Launches New Mesh Awards to Spotlight Real-World AI Readiness

In collaboration with Solutions Review, Insight Jam announced the launch of the Mesh Awards, a new global recognition program designed to identify and elevate education and workforce initiatives that prepare people to work and think alongside artificial intelligence. Doug Atkinson, President at Solutions Review, says, “The Mesh Awards exist to identify and elevate the programs actually doing the work—helping people build the skills, judgment, and confidence required to operate in an AI-driven world.”

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The Waitlist for Donald Farmer’s Mesh Expert Group on Analytics Leadership in the AI Age is Now Live

In collaboration with Donald Farmer and Solutions Review, Insight Jam has announced that the official waitlist is now open for “The Last Mile: Analytics Leadership in an AI-Driven World,” an exclusive, year-long Mesh Expert Group led by Donald Farmer, a globally recognized analytics authority. Over twelve monthly sessions, participants will work collaboratively through the strategic and operational challenges shaping analytics leadership in an AI-augmented enterprise. Enrollment is strictly limited to eight members, with the waitlist open through the end of April. Don’t miss out!

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The AI-Native Endpoint Security Stack: Why Your Legacy Architecture Is Becoming Obsolete

The Solutions Review editors are offering commentary on AI-native endpoint security and how AI is forcing cybersecurity practitioners to recognize that their legacy architecture is becoming obsolete. We explain, “For years, the dominant model in endpoint security was layered defense: stack antivirus on top of EDR, bolt on threat intelligence feeds, and route telemetry through a SIEM that a human team (often understaffed) would eventually review. That architecture was designed for a threat landscape where attacks unfolded over hours or days. That landscape no longer exists.

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