Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of October 9th: CrowdStrike, Tanium, Netskope, and More
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William Jepma
, Writer, Editor, and Analyst at Solutions Review - Endpoint Security News, News,
The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring news from the week of October 9th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from CrowdStrike, Tanium, Netskope, 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 October 9th.
Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of October 9th
Cowbell Launches AI Risk Advisors to Policyholders
Cowbell, a provider of AI-native cyber and specialty insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has launched Risk Advisor, an individualized AI agent designed to provide policyholders with an evidence-backed plan to reduce their cyber risk. The new AI agents will operate within OMNI, Cowbell’s AI-native Decision Intelligence System, and leverage the policyholder’s internal cybersecurity posture and policy context to transform collected risk intelligence into a prioritized set of actions to strengthen cyber resilience.
CrowdStrike, AWS, and NVIDIA Announce the Fourth Annual Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator
CrowdStrike, in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA, has announced its fourth annual Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, a global program for startups focused on preparing cybersecurity for the agentic era. As part of this year’s program, participants will receive an accelerated path to build with CrowdStrike, including access to Falcon Foundry agent creation, Falcon APIs, opportunities to develop verified integrations, and publication in the CrowdStrike Marketplace. AWS and NVIDIA are also providing participating companies with hands-on guidance and technical training, among other resources.
Hexnode Introduces New Capabilities to Its XDR Solution
Hexnode, the enterprise software division of Mitsogo, has expanded the Hexnode XDR solution with new capabilities for threat detection, alert prioritization, and remediation, and has introduced support for macOS. These enhancements will provide security teams with integrated threat intelligence, sandbox analysis, anomaly detection, alert prioritization, asset scoring, and AI-assisted investigation features.
LastPass Details the Release of Its Virtual Private Network
LastPass, a secure access solution provider, has detailed the initial offering of a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) that aims to provide consumers with enhanced online privacy, more secure public Wi-Fi use, and faster service connections. The LastPass VPN is available through the new LastPass Plus offering, which also includes the company’s industry-leading password manager. While the VPN is now available on Windows Desktop, LastPass plans to expand its availability to iOS, Android, and macOS in the future.
Netskope Releases the AgentSkope Marketplace
Netskope, a modern security and networking company for the cloud and AI era, has announced the AgentSkope Marketplace, which will provide security and network teams with a single console to browse, deploy, and manage their AgentSkope AI agents. The Marketplace replaces per-agent procurement with a single catalog, a single pool of capacity credits, and a single view of consumption, enabling users to rapidly scale their agentic operations without restrictive administrative overhead.
Ontinue Expands Its Solution with Dark Web Monitoring Capabilities
Ontinue, an MXDR partner offering nonstop managed security operations via its Agentic SOC, has launched ION for Dark Web Monitoring (DWM), a managed add-on service that extends ION MXDR to continuously identify exposed credentials, detect brand impersonation attempts, and catch emerging external threats before attackers can exploit them. “Most dark web monitoring solutions stop at detection,” Moritz Mann, CEO of Ontinue, says. “ION for Dark Web Monitoring goes further by investigating findings, assessing risk, and helping customers take action before exposures become incidents.”
Radware is Leading a Solutions Spotlight Event on November 19th
For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with Radware, an application security and delivery solution provider. In the webinar, two Radware experts will examine how an integrated security strategy can help healthcare organizations secure applications and APIs, manage AI crawlers and sophisticated bots, and defend against increasingly sophisticated application and Web DDoS attacks.
Tanium Relaunches Its Security Operations Suite for an Era of AI Threats
Tanium, an Autonomous IT company, has relaunched Tanium Security Operations to better defend against a new kind of attacker. With AI enabling attackers to blend in and move at machine speed, the updated Tanium Security Operations suite will help companies detect threats by behavior, respond at scale, and make expert hunting a routine for all their analysts. Additionally, the relaunch will ensure that detection, response, and hunting are no longer separate steps handed from tool to tool, but one continuous loop.
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Cybersecurity Vendors Claim They’re “AI-Native.” Can They Defend It?
As part of Solutions Review’s ongoing coverage of the evolving AI-native cybersecurity market, our editors are examining how cybersecurity vendors use the “AI-native” title and whether they actually earn it. “Left alone, ‘AI-native’ will mean whatever the best-funded marketing team needs it to mean by next quarter. But that dilutes the term for buyers and quietly punishes the honest vendors who could defend the claim but watch it be spent by everyone who cannot.”
AI Ransomware Accelerates ─ Time to Hit the Brakes and Do More Than Just Backup
In a new article, Eric Herzog, Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, explains that, as AI ransomware accelerates, companies need to do more than just back up their data. He says, “You need to build cyber storage resilience into your data infrastructure to make rapid recovery from AI-powered cyber-attacks possible, restoring a known good copy of data and ensuring your enterprise’s business continuity. Make your storage estate cyber secure before it’s too late.”
Solutions Review Releases The State of AI-Native Cybersecurity Report, Reintroducing Its Vendor Map Series
Solutions Review has announced the official release of its inaugural The State of AI-Native Cybersecurity Report, a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence is reshaping security operations, team design, and vendor strategy across the enterprise market. The report, available now, also features commentary from thought leaders across the cybersecurity marketplace, pairing Solutions Review’s analysis with practitioner and executive perspectives on where the discipline is heading and what buyers should prioritize.
The CISO’s AI Priority List: What Changes and What Doesn’t
Grant Yacomeni, CISO at Gigamon, explains what is and isn’t changing in the CISO’s AI priority list. In his article, he says, “The current AI landscape can create the illusion that a CISO’s job is to choose between innovation and security, but with balance and strong governance, CISOs can build a security foundation that is both strong and adaptable enough to support both.”
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William Jepma
Writer, Editor, and Analyst
William Jepma is an editor and analyst at Solutions Review who aims to keep readers across industries informed and excited about the newest developments in the worktech, marketing, cybersecurity, and broader enterprise technology and AI categories. You can connect with him on LinkedIn or reach him via email at wjepma@solutionsreview.com.
