Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of November 13th: Orca Security, Flashpoint, Bishop Fox, 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 November 13th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Orca Security, Flashpoint, Bishop Fox, 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 the launch of the SR Expert Network, we’re putting expert perspectives first. Each week, our Expert Insights section brings you thought leadership from the SR Expert Network, Contributor Network, and Insight Jam community, alongside our latest virtual events and original editorial—including conversations about the human impact of AI on education. With that in mind, here is some of the top endpoint security and network monitoring news and industry thought leadership from the week of November 13th.

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SRX: A Forbes Council Alternative for Enterprise Tech Experts

Solutions Review recently announced the Solutions Review Expert Network (SRX), a Forbes Council alternative for enterprise technology thought leaders. The Solutions Review Expert Network (SRX) is a monetized contributor membership built around enterprise technology expertise. Members can contribute up to three original pieces of unique perspectives or best practices per year, sharing their perspectives through a publication focused on the issues influencing how organizations evaluate, adopt, and implement technology in this AI moment.

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The Next Great Open-Source Battle is Over AI Context

“For three years,” Dremio’s Alex Merced says, “the AI conversation has been a horse race among labs and providers who were focused on developments such as which one of them released the smartest model this quarter? Which benchmark moved? Which context window grew? That race still matters to each group, but for the enterprises building on top of them, it matters less every month.”

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Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of November 13th

A-LIGN and Cranium Announce a Strategic Partnership

A-LIGN, a cybersecurity compliance provider, has announced a strategic partnership with Cranium AI, an AI security and governance platform. The partnership will provide security and compliance leaders with a vendor-level view of AI governance gaps and the certification required for each. Andrew Steioff, SVP of Global Partnerships & Business Development at A-LIGN, says, “Security and compliance leaders can’t govern AI risk they can’t see, and most still rely on vendors’ self-reported answers. Together, Cranium and A-LIGN show customers which vendors use AI and where those vendors fall short.”

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A Security Debuts Its Continuous Internal Infrastructure Testing Capability

A Security, an autonomous offensive security and remediation platform, has launched Continuous Internal Infrastructure Testing, a capability that extends its autonomous testing, remediation, and exploit validation capabilities from the perimeter into the network and private cloud. The update will enable organizations to autonomously assess how an AI-powered adversary could exploit their infrastructure, measure the business impact of a potential compromise, and then address the identified attack chains at machine speed, all while continuously validating the fixes.

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Cogent to Acquire Specular

Cogent, an enterprise platform for autonomous cyber defense, has acquired Specular, a Google-backed AI security company. The acquisition will strengthen Cogent’s ability to discover, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities, helping enterprises move closer to a fully autonomous Cyber Defense Factory. Vineet Edupuganti, CEO and co-founder of Cogent, says, “Specular strengthens our ability to see the enterprise through an attacker’s eyes and take action before those weaknesses are exploited.”

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Expel Extends Its MDR Coverage for Claude Code and Claude Cowork

Expel, an agentic MDR provider, has detailed its early access MDR coverage for Anthropic’s Claude Code and Claude Cowork. Additionally, the company announced that Claude Chat is now generally available as a new coverage option for Expel Managed Detection and Response (MDR) customers, and released a free AI Risk Framework to help security leaders scoping AI risk better understand and map AI risk across multiple domains.

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Flashpoint Releases an Agentic AI Solution Suite

Flashpoint, a global threat intelligence provider, has announced Flashpoint Agentic AI. This new offering is powered by Flashpoint’s proprietary, primary-source intelligence and is purpose-built to bring AI agents into a company’s threat intelligence workflows. Included in the release is the Agentic Hub, a new environment within Flashpoint Ignite that combines chat and purpose-built agents with product-specific agents in Echosec.

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GoTo Debuts an Enhanced Mobile Device Management Experience

GoTo, a cloud communications and IT company, has announced an enhanced, unified mobile device management (MDM) experience for its LogMeIn Resolve IT management and support platform. With this release, IT teams and managed service providers (MSPs) can manage their Android and iOS mobile devices natively alongside Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoints, all from a single Resolve console. Additionally, with Resolve’s AI-powered Dynamic Insights, teams can use natural-language prompts to answer questions about their fleet and to build custom reports.

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Kai Expands Its Platform with External Attack Surface Management

Kai, an agentic AI cybersecurity platform, has announced External Attack Surface Management (EASM), now available on the Kai Autonomous Defense Platform. The key capabilities of Kai’s EASM offering include discovery and attribution, API visibility, attacker-style investigations, and an exposed AI infrastructure that makes it easier for teams to find LLM endpoints, MCP servers, and vector databases. The company also announced Kai Labs, an expanded research team focused on the hardest open problems at the intersection of AI and security.

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Mindgard Announces Enhanced Support for Guardian Agents

Mindgard, an AI security company, has announced that its AI security testing platform can now work alongside customers’ defensive “guardian agents.” With this release, Mindgard is reinforcing its ability to deliver validated attack findings and actionable mitigation strategies, including code-level fixes and guardrail rules, directly to guardian agents, providing runtime protection across AI attack surfaces.

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Neo Launches a Security Intelligence Engine

Neo, an AI security control platform, has launched Neoverse, a security intelligence engine designed to research AI apps, MCP servers, agent skills, desktop apps, browsers, and IDE extensions to inform security teams about what they can do, the risks they may pose, and whether they should run in their environment. Within the Neo platform, Neoverse intelligence drives enforcement: when Neo identifies an AI component as malicious, Neo blocks it wherever it appears.

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Optiv Updates Its Threat Exposure Management Services

Optiv, a pure-play cybersecurity company, has expanded its Threat Exposure Management Services to its existing enterprise vulnerability management practice. With this extension, clients can run exposure management across cloud and on-premises environments as a single managed program, with fixes confirmed through retesting. These services include expert-led operations, risk-based prioritization, Optiv-built AI agents, verified remediation, and connected security operations.

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Orca Security Introduces New Capabilities for Tracking Shadow AI Applications

Orca Security, a cloud and AI security company, has announced new capabilities to help organizations discover and secure the AI-generated applications and autonomous agents active in their cloud environments. With the expansion to Orca’s AI Security offering, the company is helping security teams uncover previously unknown AI applications, evaluate the risks associated with autonomous agents, and provide users with deeper visibility into AI-generated code.

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Picus Security Details Its Autonomous Penetration Testing Capability

Picus Security, an Autonomous Exposure Validation company, has announced Picus Autonomous Penetration Testing, an agentic pentesting capability that puts AI agents on the offensive. The release empowers AI agents to think like attackers, chain real exploits toward an organization’s most valuable data, and demonstrate what a breach could look like, all with governance the agent cannot bypass.

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Qualys Expands Its Global mROC Program

Qualys, a cloud-native cyber risk management company, has expanded its global mROC program to include strategic technology alliance partners across every major attack surface. Telemetry from these additional partners will bring risk insights from some of the least-measured parts of the enterprise into Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM), enabling organizations to gain a holistic view of their cyber risk across their environment. Qualys also announced two new partner authorization tracks: Authorized mROC Advisor and Authorized mROC Delivery & Implementation Partner.

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Vanta Reveals Several New Products

Vanta, a Trust Platform, has announced several new products, including: AI Governance by Vanta, Risk Quantification and Autonomous Vendor Assessment, and the latest evolution of the Vanta Agent. These products and features are designed to give security, risk, and compliance teams an enhanced, single, and current view of every AI system, risk, and vendor in their company. Additionally, the Vanta Agent can take on entire jobs, helping teams keep projects moving forward while keeping human employees in control.

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