Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of August 8th: Cymulate, AttackIQ, SOCRadar, 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 8th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Cymulate, AttackIQ, SOCRadar, 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 August 8th.

Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of August 8th

Absolute Security Updates the Absolute Resilience Platform

Absolute Security, an enterprise cyber resilience provider, has introduced several innovations for the Absolute Resilience Platform. The updates are part of the Absolute Secure Endpoint 10 release, and include the Absolute AI Assistant, customizable dashboards, and the Required Applications tool. These features will help businesses accelerate remediation for issues that negatively impact their endpoint fleet, visualize essential information in ways that align with their unique processes, consolidate scattered data in a single view, and ensure critical applications, security controls, and management tools are deployed to maximize productivity, security, compliance, and software ROI.

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AirMDR Debuts an AI SOC Platform

AirMDR, an AI-native Managed Detection and Response (MDR), has unveiled the AirMDR AI SOC Platform. With this agentic-AI solution, companies can automate over 90 percent of Tier-1 alert triage, accelerate investigations to minutes, and dramatically reduce analyst fatigue and operational cost. The AirMDR AI SOC Platform is built specifically for the security operations center (SOC) of Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and Enterprise organizations. Capabilities include autonomous alert triage, multi-tenant operations for MSSPs, enterprise-grade transparency, and AI-powered investigation and remediation tools.

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AppOmni Introduces New Product Packages

AppOmni, an SaaS security company, has expanded its platform with additional AI-powered security product packages. These additions will give organizations increased control over their SaaS and AI applications and combat emerging risks. The new packages include Foundations, a starter offering for companies getting started with SaaS security; Advanced, for large organizations that need more sophisticated threat detection features; and Enterprise, for large companies requiring the highest level of SaaS security maturity.

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AttackIQ Details the AttackIQ Watchtower Solution

AttackIQ, a vendor of Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) solutions, has announced AttackIQ Watchtower, an AI-powered CTI Analyzer. By hyperlocalizing threat intelligence and auto-generating tailored emulation scenarios, the Watchtower solution delivers contextual insights typically only available to well-resourced threat intel teams at a fraction of the cost. The platform’s key benefits include exposure-focused defense, hyperlocal threat visibility, targeting testing tools, automated validations, and adaptive testing functionalities that don’t require manual effort.

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Cymulate Announces an Exposure Management Platform

Cymulate, an exposure management company, has announced the Cymulate Exposure Management Platform. The new platform can unify exposure data and integrate threat validation results to accelerate existing SecOps, detection engineering, and exposure management workflows. Its capabilities provide security teams with the insights and automation they need to optimize their security controls, improve threat resilience, accelerate detection engineering, demonstrate resilience against even the most advanced cyber-attacks, drive continuous threat exposure management, measure security postures, and prioritize vulnerabilities based on true environmental threat resilience and validation.

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Cyware Reveals a Model Context Protocol Server

Cyware, an AI-powered threat intelligence management, secure threat sharing, and hyper-orchestration and response company, has released the Cyware Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. The new open-source capability is “purpose-built” to advance AI-powered cyber defense by enabling generative AI-native workflows that allow for seamless integration between Cyware’s threat intelligence, security automation platforms, and large language models (LLMs). The Server’s capabilities include AI-powered orchestration tools, embedded AI assistants, and automated executive summaries of threat reports, alerts, and RSS feeds.

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ExtraHop Introduces Real-Time Identity Insights to Its Platform

ExtraHop, a modern network detection and response (NDR) provider, has updated its platform with features for capturing real-time identity insights. With these identity insights, SOC analysts can create a full picture of an attack based on the user identities involved, visibility into which devices were accessed, what protocols were used, and whether any detections were triggered. These insights will make it easier for teams to improve alert efficiency, remove an attacker’s advantage, and streamline operations from a single platform, eliminating the need to pivot between multiple tools.

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Infoblox Enhances Its Protective DNS Solution

Infoblox, a cloud networking and security service provider, has announced significant enhancements to its Protective DNS solution, Infoblox Threat Defense. The updates include asset data integration, token-based licensing, Protective DNS capabilities, and a detection mode that provides visibility into threats without requiring companies to change their existing DNS configuration. Unlike traditional security tools that have to wait for the first victim to detect and respond, Infoblox’s updated approach can preempt the attack entirely.

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Menlo Security Expands Its Product Suite with Two New Solutions

Menlo Security, a browser security provider, has launched Menlo Secure Storage and Menlo Adaptive Web. With these two new offerings, organizations can exercise greater control over user experiences and sensitive data while ensuring that files and interactions never touch the endpoint. Devin Ertel, the Chief Information Security Officer at Menlo Security, says, “By keeping sensitive files out of local environments entirely, organizations can confidently support hybrid work and third-party access, without increasing their risk surface.” Menlo Security will showcase these solutions as part of the Black Hat event in Las Vegas.

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Netskope Launches New AI Features for Its Platform

Netskope, a security and networking company, has introduced new AI-powered capabilities to the Netskope One platform. The new features include Netskope One Copilot for Private Access, an AI-powered assistant that optimizes universal zero-trust network access (UZTNA) deployment, and a preview of the Netskope Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The Netskope MCP server uses MCP technology to connect large language models (LLMs) like Claude Desktop, Microsoft Copilot, Google Vertex, and Amazon Bedrock with Netskope One policy controls.

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Noma Security Debuts an AI Agent Security Solution

Noma Security, an AI security company, has launched its AI Agent Security solution. The new release extends Noma’s security suite to address the unique risks introduced by agentic AI, equipping teams with the tools required to discover, monitor, and govern autonomous agents. Those tools include comprehensive agent discovery, a supply chain scanning MCP, risk management, excessive agency control, agentic red teaming, real-time runtime protection, built-in compliance features, and seamless integration with existing workflows and development environments.

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NTT DATA Announces a Business Unit for Microsoft Cloud

NTT DATA, a global provider of digital business and technology services, has announced its NTT Data business unit for Microsoft Cloud. The unit combines technical expertise in cloud-native development, cybersecurity, observability, and Agentic AI. Led by Aishwarya Singh, Senior Vice President and Head of the Global Business Unit for Microsoft Cloud, the unit builds on NTT DATA’s strategic alliance with Microsoft to elevate existing capabilities, expand its global reach, and reinforce NTT DATA’s role as a trusted enterprise transformation partner.

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Palo Alto Networks Details Its Cortex Cloud ASPM Offering

Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity company, has announced Cortex Cloud Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), a prevention-first application security module built to intelligently block security issues from reaching production. The Cortex Cloud ASPM solution also includes an open AppSec partner ecosystem, which enables organizations to consolidate their data from third-party code scanners into a single, centralized platform. Partners in the ecosystem include vendors like Black Duck, Checkmarx, GitLab, HashiCorp, Semgrep, Snyk, and Veracode.

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PointGuard AI Extends Its Platform With New Features

PointGuard AI, an AI security and governance provider, has announced new features and updates for its platform. The additions include AI discovery, threat correlation, and protection capabilities across AI stacks, including source code repositories like GitHub, MLOps pipelines, and critical AI resources such as models, datasets, notebooks, and agents. These updates enable PointGuard’s platform to scan GitHub and other source code repositories to identify AI-related components, helping organizations correlate risks across AI pipelines.

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Qualys Unveils New Agentic AI Capabilities

Qualys, a provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solutions, has unveiled several new Agentic AI capabilities for the Qualys platform. The additions include a Cyber Risk Assistant, pre-built AI agents, and a new AI fabric that provides a marketplace of Cyber Risk AI Agents. The marketplace will deliver real-time risk insights across all attack surfaces, prioritized by business impact. Additionally, it can reduce risk and operational costs by autonomously remediating with speed, scale, and accuracy, while powering a smarter, more efficient Risk Operations Center (ROC).

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Riverbed Releases AI-Driven Intelligent Network Observability Solutions

Riverbed, an AIOps for observability company, has launched new AI-powered intelligent network observability solutions built to enhance network visibility for enterprise IT teams and enable them to proactively identify and resolve problems in real-time before they escalate into business challenges. The launch includes the new Riverbed xx90 appliance series for AppResponse, NetProfiler, and Flow Gateway network observability offerings. Riverbed also announced that the Intelligent Network Observability Essentials bundle is now available with the purchase of AppResponse packet capture and analysis or NetProfiler enterprise-scale hybrid flow monitoring.

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Skyhawk Security and Wiz Release a New Integration

Skyhawk Security, a Cloud Threat Detection and Response (CDR) platform, has announced a new integration with Wiz, a cloud security solution. With this release, businesses can seamlessly integrate Skyhawk’s platform with Wiz and other security platforms to ingest findings and apply advanced adversary simulations. This will help teams dramatically reduce CNAPP alert fatigue, identify true weaponized threats, and prioritize the risks that matter most.

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SOCRadar Reveals the Agentic Threat Intelligence Solution

SOCRadar, an extended threat intelligence and cybersecurity company, has launched SOCRadar Agentic Threat Intelligence at Black Hat 2025. The new platform can automate threat intelligence by deploying autonomous AI agents that proactively detect, analyze, and respond to external threats with minimal human intervention and unmatched speed and accuracy. SOCRadar is also launching its first agentic workflow, Impersonating Domain Detection, which is available to users of the Extended Threat Intelligence product. This workflow will help customers fine-tune agent parameters, adapt to evolving impersonation tactics, and gain deeper visibility into the detection process.

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Upwind Completes Its Integration of Nyx Into Its Product Suite

Upwind, a cloud security provider, has announced the full integration of Nyx into its product offering, following its acquisition in April 2025. Now that Nyx’s function-level runtime visibility is fully embedded in the Upwind platform, customers will gain additional depth in threat detection and vulnerability prioritization, from the infrastructure to the application layer. For example, Nyx’s eBPF-based engine enables two key capabilities for Upwind users: function-aware vulnerability prioritization and application-layer threat detection. These features will equip teams with accurate views of real risk, support faster incident responses, and ensure better alignment between AppSec, DevOps, and cloud security teams.

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Vectra AI Announces the Vectra AI MCP Server

Vectra AI, a cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks, has announced the Vectra AI MCP Server. The new tool brings seamless, natural language access to the Vectra AI Platform through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It’s available now in early access to all customers and will allow security teams to engage with the Vectra AI Platform through AI assistants like Claude Desktop, Cursor, and others. Jeff Reed, chief product officer at Vectra AI, says, “The launch of our MCP Server is a major step in democratizing security expertise–empowering every analyst with instant access to powerful insights through the AI tools they already use.”

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