Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of May 1st: Entrust, Auvik, Suzu Labs, 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 May 1st. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Entrust, Auvik, Suzu Labs, 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 May 1st.

Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of May 1st

Auvik Unveils a Suite of AI-Powered IT Agents

Auvik, an IT management software provider, has announced Auvik Aurora, a suite of AI-powered IT agents to help IT professionals proactively manage, troubleshoot, and optimize their various networks. These agents are purpose-built for network and infrastructure management and work out of the box with no complex setup or AI tuning required. Additionally, the Auvik AI agents can leverage real-time network data—i.e., topology, device relationships, performance data, lifecycle status, and security vulnerability data—to deliver actionable recommendations, help teams prioritize alerts by impact, and guide them to faster issue and ticket resolution.

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AvePoint Introduces New Tools and Enhancements to Its Platform

AvePoint, an AI data protection company, recently announced several advancements for the AvePoint Confidence Platform that will help organizations move from AI visibility to active enforcement, accelerating adoption while mitigating risk. The enhancements include cross-tenant license visibility, additional disaster recovery capabilities within its Rapid Recovery System, support for Microsoft Azure PostgreSQL and Cosmos DB for infrastructure backup, a centralized policy vault, flexible baseline creation tools, similarity-based drift detection, a new workload-based CSPM model that allows MSPs to flexibly assign coverage, and more.

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BlueCat Networks Announces Several Innovations for Its Solution Portfolio

BlueCat Networks, an Intelligent NetOps provider, has launched several new portfolio innovations to enable agentic AI in network operations. These enhancements include a tech preview of its MCP Servers and the expansion of LiveAssist, its virtual engineer, across the BlueCat platform. The MCP Servers will connect BlueCat’s network data and capabilities to a growing range of AI agents and platforms, and provide teams with secure access to real-time and historical network context. LiveAssist will leverage BlueCat’s unified data foundation to move beyond basic queries, helping teams investigate issues, understand root cause, and act through a single, conversational workflow.

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Cynet Reveals New Capabilities for the CyAI Engine

Cynet, a unified, AI-powered cybersecurity platform, has announced new capabilities that aim to enhance its proprietary CyAI engine through automated analysis and input from CyOps, its 24/7 team of security experts. The new features and upgrades include the CyOps Recommendations feature, GenAI Console Explanations, and the CyAI Support Agent, an AI chatbot embedded in the Cynet console that allows users to ask plain-language questions about any alert and receive immediate, structured remediation guidance. These enhancements are available now, with CyAI Support Agent in beta.

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Datalink Networks and Arctic Wolf Announce a Partnership

Datalink Networks, an advanced networking solution, has announced a new partnership with Arctic Wolf, a global cybersecurity and AI company. The partnership will focus on delivering AI-led, outcome-driven security operations to help organizations navigate the increasingly complex and fast–moving threat landscape. Additionally, Datalink Networks customers will receive access to Arctic Wolf’s portfolio of security operations solutions powered by the Aurora Superintelligence Platform and delivered through the Aurora Agentic SOC.

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Entrust Details Its Collaboration with IBM Consulting

Entrust, a global identity-centric security solution provider, has announced a collaboration with IBM Consulting to help enterprises take control of their cryptography and embrace a governed transition toward quantum-safe security. The partnership will combine IBM Consulting’s ability to deliver quantum-safe transformation services with Entrust’s expertise in PKI, cryptographic security, and hardware security modules for financial institutions, governments, and enterprises, creating a joint solution that helps enterprises enable repeatable cryptographic governance, systematically lower cryptographic debt, support crypto-agility, and make measurable progress toward post-quantum cryptography (PQC).

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Fortinet Shares Findings From the 2026 Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report

Fortinet, a global cybersecurity company focused on the convergence of networking and security, has released the 2026 Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report. Findings from the report reveal emerging and persistent challenges organizations face as they grapple with ongoing cybersecurity skill shortages and an ever-evolving threat landscape. For example, the report says the lack of cybersecurity skills stems in part from insufficient investment in cybersecurity talent, and that, despite gaps in investment, efforts are being made to attract and retain top-tier cybersecurity talent.

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Intruder Debuts Its First AI Pentesting Agents

Intruder, an exposure management solution, has announced an AI Pentesting and released its first pentesting agents. This initial release is part of the company’s ongoing work towards enabling continuous, AI-powered pentesting and red teaming across web apps, external, and internal networks. These first pentesting agents are designed to actively investigate the vulnerability scanner findings identified in Intruder and will use the same methods as human pentesters and security experts. Free trial users and Intruder customers on the company’s Cloud, Pro, and Enterprise plans now have access to AI Pentesting credits.

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Kamiwaza AI Announces the General Availability of Kamiwaza 1.0

Kamiwaza AI, a secure AI orchestration platform, has announced the general availability of Kamiwaza 1.0, a solution purpose-built for the security and governance requirements of highly regulated industries. Kamiwaza 1.0 helps teams connect their enterprise data securely across distributed environments without moving or centralizing it, giving them the control and visibility they need to deploy AI with confidence. It’s based around three core capabilities: Kamiwaza Workrooms, a new governed collaboration environment; infrastructure built on Chainguard’s hardened, zero-to-low CVE container images; and Kaizen, the platform’s AI agent.

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Kaseya Releases an Agentic IT Management Platform

Kaseya, a global provider of AI-powered IT management and cybersecurity software, has introduced its first agentic IT management platform. Powered by Kaseya Intelligence, the new platform combines comprehensive data across IT operations, cybersecurity, and cyber resilience with an execution layer that autonomously triages tickets, contains threats, verifies backups, and optimizes workflows without manual intervention. Kaseya also announced that its SIEM solution is now generally available, as well as its Ticket Triage Digital Specialist, which Autotask Ultimate customers can take advantage of.

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Lookout Reveals an AI Visibility and Governance Solution

Lookout, a mobile-centric security company, has announced the launch of Lookout AI Visibility & Governance, a mobile-native solution that provides organizations with the visibility needed to discover, govern, and secure AI adoption across their mobile ecosystems. The platform is designed to offer real-time views of an organization’s AI footprint by identifying both sanctioned and unsanctioned AI use on mobile devices, helping expose activity that traditional endpoint and cloud-centric discovery tools might miss. Jim Dolce, CEO of Lookout, says the new solution is “giving organizations the ability to see, understand, and govern AI usage at the mobile layer, bringing mobile AI activity out of the shadows into full visibility and control.”

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Proofpoint Shares Findings From the 2026 AI and Human Risk Landscape Report

Proofpoint, a cybersecurity and compliance company, has released its 2026 AI and Human Risk Landscape report, which explores the widening gap between how organizations are operationalizing AI and how prepared they are to secure and investigate the risks that follow. The global study surveyed more than 1,400 security professionals across 12 countries and identified several key takeaways, including that AI deployment is outpacing security readiness, that collaboration channels have become the primary AI attack surface, that investigation readiness lags behind incident realities, that tool sprawl has become a structural barrier, and more.

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Ridge Security Reveals an Integration with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM

Ridge Security, an autonomous cybersecurity validation solution provider, has announced an integration that enables automated penetration testing insights from the RidgeBot platform to flow into the CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. With the integrations, teams can take automated penetration testing results from RidgeBot, plug them into the Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, and then correlate them with other security data to provide a centralized view of validated cyber risk. Lydia Zhang, co-founder and president of Ridge Security, says, “By integrating RidgeBot with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, we’re helping organizations bring validated attack insights directly into their workflows so they can prioritize and remediate threats faster.”

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Sevii Details Its New Cyber Swarm Defense Mode (CSD)

Sevii, an Autonomous Defense & Remediation (ADR) provider, has announced a new capability to stop high-volume, AI-powered cyber-attacks at machine speed and scale, without the burden of uncontrollable AI token costs. The capability, Sevii’s Cyber Swarm Defense Mode (CSD), is built around the company’s Myrmidon Defense Technology (MDT), which helps companies eliminate the reliance on usage-based AI token consumption, provide autonomous processing of all detections, put customers in control of when autonomous Cyber Swarm Defense Mode is activated, and more. Sevii’s Cyber Swarm Defense Mode is available across Sevii’s Autonomous Enterprise, Identity, Cloud, and Proactive Security modules.

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Suzu Labs Acquires Emulated Criminals

Suzu Labs, a cybersecurity and artificial intelligence firm focused on secure AI adoption, has acquired Emulated Criminals, a cybersecurity company specializing in adversary emulation and continuous red teaming. The acquisition will strengthen Suzu Labs’ ability to connect AI-driven security with human-led, continuous validation, helping teams move beyond point-in-time compliance and provide an unrelenting sparring partner for your defenses. As part of the acquisition, Suzu Labs has also established its new Continuous Adversarial Operations (CAO) practice, led by the former EC team and its leaders, Dahvid Schloss and Ann Rinaldi.

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Virtana Announces Support for AWS Bedrock Guardrails

Virtana, an observability platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, has announced it now supports AWS Bedrock Guardrails within Virtana AI Factory Observability (AIFO). With this support, Virtana can extend its behavioral observability across enterprise LLM deployments on AWS Bedrock. Additionally, AWS Bedrock Guardrails will provide the enforcement layer, blocking harmful content, masking PII, and defending against prompt injection, while Virtana AIFO delivers the intelligence layer.

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“Use It as a Lever, Not a Crutch” | The Human Conversation

Dr. Joe Perez, a data analytics expert and international keynote speaker, joins this week’s episode of The Human Conversation with a warning: if we let AI do all our thinking, we won’t be replaced by machines…we’ll become them. His conversation with Doug also follows the economic logic of mass AI adoption to its quietly terrifying conclusion, where companies eliminate every job, slash every cost, and discover too late that the people they fired were also their customers.

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AI Asset Management in Cybersecurity: Why Visibility Is the New Perimeter

For years, the foundational truth in cybersecurity has been simple to state and nearly impossible to act on: you cannot protect what you do not know exists. Every mature security program acknowledges this, although almost none have fully solved it. Asset management, the discipline of cataloging and governing every device, identity, configuration, and data flow in an enterprise environment, has been perpetually underfunded, underestimated, and under-executed, and AI is about to make that gap significantly wider.

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