Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of April 25th: Halcyon, Snyk, Endor 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 April 25th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Halcyon, Snyk, Endor 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 April 25th.

Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of April 25th

Action1 Expands Its Platform With New Features

Action1, an autonomous endpoint management (AEM) solution provider, recently introduced several significant upgrades to its platform. The additions include enhancements to its autonomous patching, advanced analytics, and exploit intelligence capabilities. Additional upgrades include granular role-based access control (RBAC) tools and comprehensive vulnerability reporting capabilities. These will help enterprises deliver the governance and security controls they need while maintaining ease of use.

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AgileBlue Updates Its Platform With New Features

AgileBlue, an AI-powered SecOps provider, has announced a series of major updates for its platform to streamline security operations, accelerate response times, and give clients greater control over their environments. Those updates include a new Autonomous Response feature, an enhanced Sapphire AI user experience, a bi-directional integration with ConnectWise, and new capabilities for the Sapphire AI SOC Analyst, which aims to provide users with actionable security insights across devices, alerts, cyber risk scores, and user activities.

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Arms Cyber Details Its New Preemptive Anti-Ransomware Capabilities

Arms Cyber, a patented stealth anti-ransomware platform provider, has announced a new capability tailored to companies with endpoints running on Linux or Windows. The new functionality will combine preemptive deception, movement, and hiding capabilities to help Linux and Windows users detect, block, and remediate issues from encryption and business interruption activities. Arms Cyber also announced additional support for various versions of the Linux operating system, bringing its anti-ransomware platform to the OS for mission-critical operations.

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AttackIQ Reveals a New Reporting Tool for Security Managers

AttackIQ, an Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) solution provider, has launched the Academy Enterprise, a new reporting capability for AttackIQ Academy that allows security leaders to monitor their team’s training progress and assess readiness across key cybersecurity topics. With Academy Enterprise, managers can identify where team members might be struggling, monitor course completions, track quiz scores, pinpoint skill gaps, identify opportunities for supplemental training, and export training data for performance reviews.

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BlinkOps Debuts a No-Code Security Agent Builder

BlinkOps, a security automation platform, has launched its No-Code Security Agent Builder. With this enterprise platform, security teams can create unlimited custom security agents tailored for their unique environments. The platform will also give organizations complete control over how those agents operate, what they can access, and how they make decisions. Additional capabilities include managed accessibility, seamless integration with existing workflows, collaborative tools, and future-ready interoperability.

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Cycode Introduces New Runtime Protection and Agentic AI Capabilities

Cycode, a Complete Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform, has announced details on two significant advancements to help companies proactively defend against software supply chain threats and the ever-expanding attack surface. The advancements include real-time runtime protection via CI/MON memory integrity monitoring, and an Application Security Agentic AI framework known as AI Teammates. The first cohort of those AI Teammates includes five agents capable of autonomously carrying out tasks across detection, prioritization, and remediation.

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Endor Labs Expands Its AppSec Platform With Agentic AI

Endor Labs, an application security company, has expanded its AppSec platform by launching dedicated AI agents built for application security. These agents are designed to reason about code like developers, architects, and security engineers by reviewing code, identifying risks, recommending fixes, and extending security teams’ capabilities without creating developer friction. The company also announced the closure of a $93 million Series B funding round led by DFJ Growth, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and existing backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, Dell Technologies Capital, Section 32, and Citi Ventures.

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Fenix24 Acquires appNovi

Fenix24, a cyber disaster restoration and recovery company, has acquired appNovi, a Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA) software company. The transaction will complement Fenix24’s recent acquisition of vArmour while bolstering its capability to provide business continuity, assured recovery, and rapid recovery through a single pane of glass across core infrastructure, security applications, and cloud/SaaS environments. Joe Schreiber, Co-founder of appNovi, says, “By joining forces with Fenix24, we are scaling that mission even further by providing security teams with actionable insights and helping organizations make faster, more informed decisions before, during, and after a cyber event.”

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Forward Networks Adds Endpoint Discovery and Collection Features to Its Platform

Forward Networks, a network digital twin technology provider, has added endpoint discovery and collection capabilities to its Forward Enterprise platform. The features will help security and operations teams meet growing compliance demands, reduce their reliance on disconnected tools, and gain unified visibility into all their network-connected devices. These features will allow users to automate the discovery of connected endpoints and provide them with rich contextual analysis of device connectivities, real-time reconciliation across data sources, proactive alerts for inventory discrepancies, and built-in compliance checks.

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Halcyon Reveals the Threat Research Incentive Program

Halcyon, a platform designed to defeat ransomware, has announced details on its new Threat Research Incentive Program (TRIP), a dedicated ransomware threat intelligence bounty initiative. With the launch of TRIP, Halcyon is committing $250,000 to reward independent researchers and ransomware hunters who responsibly disclose threat intelligence on ransomware operations. The program’s rewards are based on a tiered structure that ranges from up to $1,000 per accepted submission to $10,000 per accepted submission.

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Illumio Releases an Agentless Container Security Solution

Illumio, a breach containment platform, has launched an agentless container security solution to deliver deeper, real-time visibility into Kubernetes workloads without using in-container agents or sidecars. The solution will enable users to detect lateral movement risks, identify unauthorized communication paths, enforce segmentation policies to contain potential breaches, and visualize the intra-cluster traffic between pods, services, and namespaces. The offering can run across any Kubernetes environment, including managed services, enterprise platforms, and self-managed or on-premises Kubernetes clusters.

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Ivanti Launches a Ring Deployment Capability

Ivanti, an IT and security cloud-based platform, has launched Ring Deployment for the Ivanti Neurons for Patch Management offering. The new capability will help IT teams reduce the risks associated with patching systems by creating and configuring deployment rings. This enables businesses to group devices based on organizational needs or risk tolerance. Chris Goettl—the VP of Product Management, Endpoint Security at Ivanti—says, “By integrating Ring Deployment with Ivanti’s Deploy by Risk experience, our customers are able to manage the rollout of updates to address security and operational goals simultaneously.”

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iVerify Introduces the Sensitive Travel Solution

iVerify, an advanced mobile endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution, has launched Sensitive Travel, a new solution designed to make it easier for security teams to manage enterprise mobile threats while employees travel and connect to various mobile networks. The solution is built on a proprietary data set that maps the world’s malicious telecom infrastructure and operationalizes that data to help enterprise SOC and admin teams know when a device has connected to a network with high volumes of malicious activity.

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NinjaOne Expands Its Platform With New Vulnerability Management and Patching Capabilities 

NinjaOne, an automated endpoint management platform, has announced new capabilities that unify vulnerability management and patching workflows. The tools can automate the import of vulnerability data to give IT teams continuous visibility into vulnerabilities and enable them to prioritize and verify the successful application of patches. Additionally, since NinjaOne provides centralized visibility from a single console, IT teams can consider vulnerability data, manage patch administration, and leverage AI-driven patch sentiment to prioritize what matters.

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Skyhawk Security Adds Custom Cloud Applications to its Autonomous Purple Team

Skyhawk Security, the originator of Cloud Detection and Response (CDR), has expanded its AI-powered Autonomous Purple Team to include custom cloud applications. This addition allows companies to preemptively and continuously secure custom cloud applications and their cloud infrastructure without agents. For example, the Skyhawk platform can now analyze and detect application-layer vulnerabilities, evaluate exploit paths across application and infrastructure boundaries, and prioritize remediation based on real-time risk context, all without needing agents and their associated costs and complexity.

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Snyk Launches a Dynamic Application Security Testing Solution

Snyk, a developer security provider, has launched Snyk API & Web, a “next-generation” dynamic application security testing (DAST) solution designed to meet the growing demands of modern and increasingly AI-powered software development. The new offering results from Snyk’s acquisition of Probely’s DAST technology and integration into Snyk’s application security platform. Additionally, Snyk API & Web plans to include enterprise-grade capabilities through a Command-Line Interface (CLI) designed for organizations with extensive asset portfolios.

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SquareX Receives $20 Million in a Series A Funding Round

SquareX, a Browser Detection and Response (BDR) solution provider, has closed a $20 million Series A funding round led by SYN Ventures, with participation from existing investor Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital SEA). Vivek Ramachandran, CEO of SquareX, says, “Existing solutions often force a trade-off between security and usability. We built SquareX to eliminate this compromise in browser security, offering robust protection that works with the browsers users are already familiar with. This Series A funding, led by the team at SYN Ventures, validates our vision of everyone being able to be online without fear.”

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Swimlane Details Its New Compliance Audit Readiness Offering

Swimlane, an AI hyperautomation provider for security organizations, has released a Compliance Audit Readiness (CAR) Solution. The CAR offering will help organizations streamline compliance management and accelerate their audit readiness. Powered by the Swimlane Turbine AI Automation Platform and built on the Secure Controls Framework, CAR can automate compliance control mapping, streamline audit evidence gathering, and provide real-time risk-based reporting. Its other capabilities include audit evidence management, compliance controls inventory, audit-ready reporting, and a compliance audit readiness dashboard.

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Tufin Launches an AI-Powered Engine for Network Security

Tufin, a network and cloud security policy automation provider, has launched TufinAI, an AI-powered engine designed to transform how enterprises manage and protect their networks. TufinAI is a cross-platform, cross-technology intelligence engine that uses AI technologies to help companies simplify, optimize, and scale their network security. Its capabilities include proactive policy optimization, network segmentation, anomaly detection at scale, and a natural language-based AI assistant.

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Vanta Announces an AI Security Assessment Tool

Vanta, a trust management platform, has launched a new AI Security Assessment offering to help companies that use, develop, or build with AI improve their ability to address critical considerations and proactively strengthen their AI security posture. With this tool, users can demonstrate their AI posture, complete questionnaires faster, evaluate potential vendor AI risks, and better understand how these risks impact their overall security program. The AI Security Assessment tool is available now.

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Zenity Announces an Integration With OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API

Zenity, an end-to-end security and governance platform for AI Agents, has announced its integration with the OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API. The integration will enable enterprises to secure and govern how their AI Agents are adopted, developed, and used within ChatGPT Enterprise. It aims to equip enterprises with tools for continuous observability, preventing risks at the source, detecting real-time threats, and enforcing policy at scale.

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