Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of August 28th: Hexnode, Sonar, BreachLock, 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 28th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Hexnode, Sonar, BreachLock, 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 28th.

Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of August 28th

Alice Raises $140 Million in a Funding Round

Alice, an AI trust, safety, and security company, has completed a $140 million funding round. The round was led by the Apax Digital Funds, with participation from MoreTech and Phoenix Financial, alongside existing investors Resolute Ventures, Grove Ventures, CRV, Highland Europe, Vintage Investments, Norwest, NFX, and Claltech. Alice will use these funds to expand its team, scale its go-to-market organization, and further advance its AI platform by deepening its technology’s ability to test, defend, and monitor AI models across their lifecycle.

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BreachLock Launches an AI-Powered Autonomous Penetration Testing Solution

BreachLock, an offensive security company, has launched Breach360, an agentic AI-powered autonomous penetration testing solution. With Breach360, organizations can continuously validate their security controls, prove exploitability, and prioritize remediation efforts across modern attack surfaces. The solution comes equipped with autonomous penetrating testing, proof of exploitability, network pentesting coverage, real-time attack path visibility, threat-informed security validation, production-safe autonomous testing, prioritized mitigation guidance, and executive and technical reporting capabilities.

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Citrix Details Its Citrix UniconOS Dual-Boot Capability

Citrix, a Cloud Software Group company, has announced Citrix UniconOS dual-boot, a new endpoint resiliency capability to help organizations recover access to work without spare hardware, centralized reimaging, or prolonged business downtime. The new capability, available now in the Citrix UniconOS Release 7 2607, turns every compatible Windows endpoint into its own recovery device. This means those endpoints become isolated, hardened Citrix UniconOS environments that run alongside Windows on the device and can reconnect users to their applications via Citrix DaaS and Citrix SecurAccess with Chrome Enterprise.

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ExtraHop Launches a 400 Gbps Sensor for Its RevealX Solution

ExtraHop, a real-time network intelligence and modern network detection and response (NDR) provider, has debuted its 400 Gbps sensor. The sensor is designed to ingest and analyze traffic at line rate, anchoring a flexible detection framework for advanced threat detection that delivers an open, extensible real-time context substrate to power the agentic SOC. Chris Konrad, VP of Global Cyber and World Wide Technology (WWT) at ExtraHop, says, “AI-powered attacks move at record speed, and the AI-powered systems need to be able to tell the difference between a quiet network and a network they are only partially seeing.”

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Globalgig Expands Its MSSP Portfolio

Globalgig, a provider of managed security and network services for global enterprises, has strengthened its managed security services provider (MSSP) portfolio to deliver comprehensive coverage across the network edge, endpoints, identities, and AI systems through a single managed model. The company’s complete security stack now encompasses edge, endpoint, identity, and AI security, with capabilities for SASE, runtime protection, XDR, PAM, AI governance, IoT protection, zero trust, and 24/7 monitoring, detection, and response.

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Hexnode Announces the Hexnode Context Layer

Hexnode, the enterprise software division of Mitsogo, has announced the Hexnode Context Layer, an intelligence layer that powers Agentic AI for endpoint management via Hexnode Genie AI, the company’s conversational interface for IT admins. The new tool draws on live context from Hexnode’s Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) platform to help Genie AI translate natural-language requests into relevant endpoint workflows from a single conversational experience. Companies can use this to reduce the need for IT admins to navigate separate areas of the UEM console.

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Nucleus Security Introduces New Capabilities to Its AI Engine for Exposure Management

Nucleus Security, a unified exposure management platform, has announced a significant platform expansion for Nucleus Helix, the company’s AI engine for exposure management. The expansion introduces three new capabilities—Nucleus Discover, Nucleus Insights, and the Nucleus Helix AI Agent—that help security teams respond to vulnerabilities and reduce exposure in the age of AI. Scott Kuffer, co-founder and chief product officer of Nucleus Security, says the release aims to pair “the best of modern AI with fast, accurate, reliable execution, so teams remediate faster at enterprise-scale.”

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Sonar Announces the General Availability of an AI-Powered Security Agent

Sonar, a global AI code verification and governance company, has announced the general availability of SonarQube Hunter Agent, an AI-powered security agent designed to catch high-impact vulnerabilities that traditional pattern-based scanning isn’t built to find. Specifically, SonarQube Hunter Agent analyzes a project’s entire codebase to identify three categories of flaws that require reasoning rather than pattern matching: broken access control, business-logic vulnerabilities, and authentication or session management issues. The Agent is available now for SonarQube Cloud, with support for SonarQube Server coming soon.

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Trellix Expands Its Leadership Team

Trellix, the global provider of intelligence-led cyber resilience, has appointed David Pieterse as Chief Operating Officer – Go-To-Market (COO-GTM) and David Soto as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Pieterse will lead the company’s GTM efforts and focus on empowering front-line teams with the velocity and clarity to win. Soto, meanwhile, will spearhead Trellix’s enterprise security program, drive its shared resilience transformation, and serve as the executive steward of Trellix’s Customer Zero program.

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