Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of January 30th: LevelBlue, Swimlane, Ivanti, 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 January 30th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from LevelBlue, Swimlane, Ivanti, 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 January 30th.

Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of January 30th

Cloudbrink Introduces New Features to Improve Hybrid Workforce Security

Cloudbrink, a provider of high-performance secure connectivity solutions, has expanded the security and performance benefits for its AI agents and online AI services. The expansion introduces the Safe AI BrinkAgent, custom AI agent definitions, unified visibility, and a built-in definitions database that can recognize a wide range of AI agents, online AI service protocols, and platforms. Additionally, the BrinkAgent component is equipped with AI technology that recognizes and understands traffic from AI Agents and browser-based AI services, helping it identify cases of sensitive data leakage.

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Forward Networks Debuts a Capability for Accelerating Network Operations

Forward Networks, a network digital twin technology provider, has announced Forward AI, a new capability that accelerates network operations by enabling network, security, and cloud teams to ask complex questions, understand network behavior, validate outcomes, and safely automate workflows with confidence. The new feature is built on a mathematically accurate digital twin of the network, which allows IT teams and AI agents to act on trusted data rather than assumptions. Forward AI will be included in the Forward Enterprise platform when it launches in April 2026.

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HackerOne Announces an Agentic Pentest as a Service Offering

HackerOne, a global provider of Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), has announced Agentic Pentest as a Service (Agentic PTaaS). Agentic PTaaS combines autonomous-agent execution with elite human expertise to deliver continuous security validation and pentesting for fast-changing enterprise environments. Nidhi Aggarwal, Chief Product Officer at HackerOne, says, “Agentic PTaaS uses agentic execution to scale the parts of pentesting that slow teams down, enabling testing at a scale that would otherwise take days of manual effort to be completed in hours.”

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Ivanti Launches New AI Capabilities for the Ivanti Neurons Suite

Ivanti, a global enterprise IT and security software company, has revealed AI advancements for the Ivanti Neurons platform. New features include additional agentic AI capabilities for Ivanti Neurons for IT Service Management (ITSM), built on Ivanti’s Conversational AI Framework and introducing several persona-based agents directly into the Neurons for ITSM solution suite. The update also adds autonomous endpoint management (AEM) and next-generation asset visibility to Ivanti Neurons for Discovery. These additions will equip IT and security teams with the AI-driven intelligence they need to unlock scaled efficiency, deeper insights, and reduced risk.

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Keeper Security Releases an Integration with Slack

Keeper Security, a zero-trust and zero-knowledge Privileged Access Management (PAM) software provider, has announced a new integration with Slack. The integration will extend Keeper Security’s secure, policy-driven access governance to one of the most popular collaboration platforms. Specifically, it allows organizations to request and approve access to Keeper Vault resources, including shared folders, service accounts, credentials, and protected applications, from directly within Slack.

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LevelBlue and Fortra Expand Their Strategic Partnership

LevelBlue, a pure-play provider of managed security services, has announced a strategic partnership with Fortra, a global cybersecurity solution company. The collaboration will integrate Fortra’s solutions with LevelBlue’s elite managed services to deliver a comprehensive security offering that can combat the evolving threat landscape. LevelBlue will also acquire the managed services of Fortra’s Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), and Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions. In parallel, Fortra will become a LevelBlue cybersecurity partner and make its software and platforms available to LevelBlue’s global client base.

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Mesh Security Raises $12 Million in a Series A Funding Round

Mesh Security, a Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA) platform, has announced a $12 million Series A funding round led by Lobby Capital, with participation from S Ventures (SentinelOne CVC), and Bright Pixel Capital. The funding will help Mesh Security advance its autonomous, agentic capabilities, further expanding how the platform can reason over cross-domain attack paths and enabling system-level remediation, all while scaling sales and customer support to meet growing enterprise demand.

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Nozomi Networks’ Acquisition by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation is Complete

Nozomi Networks—an OT, IoT, and cyber‑physical system security company—has announced that its acquisition by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has been completed. As a wholly owned subsidiary, Nozomi Networks will continue to support its OT/ICS ecosystem with the same open, multi-vendor approach that customers know it from. Nozomi Networks CEO Edgard Capdevielle says, “We will continue to advance the highest levels of quality and excellence in our platform and relationships that we always have moving forward as an independent subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric, and we’re excited about the opportunities this brings.”

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Swimlane Reveals Details on Its New AI Agent Workforce

Swimlane, an agentic AI automation provider for every security function, has announced its AI Agent workforce, a suite of powerful Hero AI agents. These agents are now available in Swimlane Marketplace and aim to deliver enterprise-ready intelligence in a scalable, simple, and cost-effective manner. The new features include AI-powered reasoning integrated with structured workflows, intelligent microservices driven by AI agents, and playbooks that serve as orchestrators and guardrails. The new Swimlane Hero AI Agents are available to customers now.

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Upwind Completes a Series B Funding Round

Upwind, a runtime-first cloud security company, has raised $250 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to $430 million. The Series B funding was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Picture Capital. With this funding, Upwind will continue to invest in its customer support and global growth efforts while also expanding its platform across three critical areas: data, AI, and code. Those expansions will also include advancements to the company’s AI security capabilities within its cloud security platform.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Insight Jam Launches Mesh Lab to Frame Learning and Work for AI

Insight Jam officially announced the launch of its Mesh Lab, a year-long, monthly series of expert panel discussions focused on re-engineering how humans learn and work as artificial intelligence becomes embedded across society. The forum launched today with episode 1 and will run through December 2026. “AI is moving faster than our frameworks,” said Solutions Review President Doug Atkinson. “The future of work and learning depends on whether we redesign the models that shape human development before the technology defines them for us.”

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Guarding Against Over-Reliance on AI in Business Decisions

In this video excerpt from the Insight Jam LIVE! 2025 panel, “AI & Economic Value: Where AI Challenges (& Expands) Human Expertise,” a group of industry experts explores how companies can guard against cognitive offloading and over-reliance on AI, from restricting models to proprietary knowledge and recognizing that we don’t need smarter models, we need better users of existing ones.

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