Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of August 21st: Fortinet, Strike Graph, Swimlane, 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 August 21st. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Fortinet, Strike Graph, Swimlane, 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 the latest vendor product announcements, 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 August 21st.

Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of August 21st

Brinqa Acquires PlexTrac

Brinqa, an exposure management provider for enterprise security teams, has acquired PlexTrac, the platform for offensive security validation, workflow, and reporting. With the acquisition, Brinqa’s capabilities can verify that remediation has worked, helping teams improve how they identify and prioritize the exposures that matter most. Dan Pagel, CEO at Brinqa, says pairing PlexTrac’s “expertise with our exposure assessment platform gives customers proof they can defend to a board, an auditor, or any AI system acting on that data.”

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Fortinet Announces Its Acquisition of Virtue AI

Fortinet, a global cybersecurity company focused on driving the convergence of networking and security, has announced its acquisition of Virtue AI, an innovator in AI runtime protection, automated AI validation, and security for autonomous AI systems. The acquisition will help Fortinet advance its broader Security for AI strategy, further its vision for securing the agentic enterprise, and build on its existing AI security solution portfolio, including its FortiGate Hyperscale Firewall. Virtue AI will also complement the FortiAIGate suite and boost Fortinet’s AI runtime security capabilities with automated validation and real-time protection.

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Harness Introduces New Security Capabilities to Its Solution Suite

Harness, an AI Software Delivery Platform, has announced a set of security capabilities to help security teams scan, prioritize, and ship a fix without waiting on a slower, disconnected process. The additions include AI SAST, LLM Scan Orchestration, agentic triage and remediation, virtual patching, and a dedicated Zero-Day Agent that monitors for newly disclosed zero-days around the clock, identifies every affected pipeline or artifact in an environment, and generates a validated fix ready for review. All new capabilities are now available on the Harness platform.

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IGEL Details Its Emergency Mode Capability

IGEL, a governed endpoint platform provider, has announced the general availability of Emergency Mode, a core management capability within the IGEL Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (IGEL BC&DR) suite. The new capability supports IGEL’s reboot, reconnect, resume approach by helping organizations prevent endpoint compromise, manage risks by moving supported devices away from at-risk Windows environments, and recover secure user access.

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Illumio is Doing a Solutions Spotlight Event with Solutions Review

Illumio, a breach containment platform and AI Cloud Detection and Response company, is participating in a Solutions Spotlight event on August 25th. In the presentation, Haider Jarral and Rachna Srivastava, two experts from the team at Illumio, will demonstrate how to get up and running in Illumio Insights with a free trial, showcase how the platform can deliver actionable insights into what’s at risk in your environment, and more. Bring a laptop, as this is a hands-on session, and you’ll get the most out of it by following along live.

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NETSCOUT Extends Its Adaptive DDoS Protection Solution

NETSCOUT—a provider of observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions—has announced an extension of its Adaptive DDoS Protection (ADP) solution. The addition will enable service providers to automatically detect and mitigate outbound DDoS attack traffic. Additionally, by extending its protection from the attack target to its source, NETSCOUT makes it easier for operators to prevent compromised subscriber devices from disrupting their own networks, consuming costly capacity, and attacking customers and organizations.

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NETSCOUT Enhances Its Arbor Edge Defense Solution

NETSCOUT also announced several enhancements for its Arbor Edge Defense (AED) solution. The updates will enable the solution to identify malicious sources hidden behind shared CDN infrastructure and apply precise, service-specific countermeasures to block attacks without denying access to legitimate customers who use the same CDN. Scott Iekel-Johnson, AVP, product management at NETSCOUT, says these enhancements will enable “enterprises to protect critical applications precisely while keeping legitimate customers connected.”

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ReliaQuest Details Its New Partner Initiatives with Anthropic

ReliaQuest, an agentic AI cybersecurity company, has announced several new AI initiatives with Anthropic to accelerate the development and deployment of AI for enterprise cyber defense. The collaboration will integrate Anthropic’s Claude core family of models into ReliaQuest’s GreyMatter platform. Additionally, ReliaQuest has joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and will apply Mythos to its systems for defensive cybersecurity work. This will enable ReliaQuest to benefit from Project Glasswing’s shared knowledge and gain a deeper understanding of how threat actors can leverage emerging AI models.

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Strike Graph Launches Atlas, a Compliance Posture Advisor

Strike Graph, an AI-native governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management platform, has announced Atlas, a new compliance posture advisor that leverages agentic AI to improve how organizations design, operate, and mature their compliance programs. Atlas, the latest addition to Strike Graph’s AI suite, introduces an action-oriented, continuous reasoning layer that can analyze an organization’s compliance posture, surface prioritized remediation plans, and coordinate with other AI solutions to turn those findings into fixes, all while integrating human approval at every step.

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Swimlane Expands the Swimlane AI SOC

Swimlane, an agentic AI automation provider for every security function, has expanded the Swimlane AI SOC with intelligent automation routing to support end-to-end agentic investigations. The new capability is designed to evaluate incoming alerts and direct them to one of three execution paths: deterministic automation, AI-assisted investigation, or fully agentic investigation. By linking the level of AI involvement to the amount of work required, the capability will help security teams optimize their investigative capacity without offloading their tasks to costly AI models.

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TopHat Security Completes a Series A Financing Round

TopHat Security, a provider of purpose-built cybersecurity solutions for operational technology, critical infrastructure, government, and artificial intelligence environments, has announced its Series A financing. The investment was led by Landolt Securities, which served as the lead investor and placement agent for the financing. TopHat Security will use the funds to further advance its enterprise product portfolio, expand customer delivery, achieve key growth milestones, and improve its ability to address the next generation of threats targeting government agencies and critical infrastructure operators.

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Zero Networks and Palo Alto Networks Grow Their Integration Partnership

Zero Networks, a provider of Zero Trust security solutions, has announced a significant expansion of its integration with Palo Alto Networks, extending its joint solution from automated microsegmentation and firewall policy orchestration to zero-touch containment and AI security. The updated offering will let customers use Zero Networks to identify and contain threats at the individual asset level, redirect selected traffic to Palo Alto Networks security services for deeper inspection, and manage enforcement through Strata Cloud Manager.

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