Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of May 8th: Proofpoint, Tanium, Extreme Networks, 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 May 8th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Proofpoint, Tanium, Extreme Networks, 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 May 8th.

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

Akamai Reveals a Security Posture Center and Code-to-Runtime Mapping Tools

Akamai, a cybersecurity and cloud computing company, has announced the Security Posture Center alongside enhanced APIs from code capabilities. Together, these innovations will enable teams to translate fragmented API findings into business-aligned controls, link live API activity directly to source code ownership, and measure, prioritize, and improve their security. Oz Golan, Vice President, API Security at Akamai, says, “By combining visibility across traffic, code, and configurations, Akamai helps organizations not only identify risk, but also act on it quickly and with confidence.”

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Extreme Networks Details the Extreme Agent ONE Solution Suite

Extreme Networks, an AI-powered cloud networking solution, has announced Extreme Agent ONE, which introduces “a new class” of AI agents for enterprise networking. Running on the Extreme AI stack and purpose-built for enterprise environments, Extreme Agent ONE is designed to move beyond prompt-based AI by combining advanced AI reasoning, live network context, and operational expertise. This will enable users to turn their enterprise networks into systems that detect, decide, and act autonomously within the established governance framework. As a result, customers can experience fewer disruptions, faster outcomes, and networks that operate at the speed of the business.

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Extreme Networks Debuts New Advancements for Extreme Platform ONE

Extreme Networks also announced several advancements for Extreme Platform ONE, the company’s all-in-one AI-powered networking platform. These advancements include expanded third-party device management and integrated security, which will deliver teams a more intelligent, scalable, and secure solution. Additional updates for the Extreme Platform ONE include support for flexible Wi-Fi guest access, multiple visitor onboarding options, built-in engagement analytics, a Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS), and real-time asset, employee, and visitor tracking with floor-level location resolution and behavioral analytics.

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Intel 471 Announces Retroactive Threat Detections (RTD)

Intel 471, a provider of high-fidelity threat intelligence-driven solutions, has announced Retroactive Threat Detections (RTD), a new capability within its Verity471 platform. The RTD capability will help security teams understand the impact of a new threat on their environment by turning static intelligence reports into answers in minutes. With this tool, teams can confirm past intrusions, escalate response against an active threat, or trigger a proactive threat hunt. And since RTD’s queries are built on Intel 471’s proprietary adversary intelligence, customers get actionable insights that can be operationalized immediately across their core EDR and SIEM platforms.

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Lumen Technologies to Acquire Alkira

Lumen Technologies, an AI-ready networking and secure cloud solution provider, has entered into an agreement to acquire Alkira, a cloud-native, carrier-agnostic networking platform. The acquisition will pair Alkira’s cloud-native control plane with Lumen’s fiber network, helping Lumen deliver cloud-like consumption for global enterprise networking. Amir Khan, CEO of Alkira, says, “By joining Lumen, we will pair our cloud-native orchestration with one of the world’s most expansive fiber networks and a proven commercial engine, setting a new standard for how enterprises build and run networks in a multi-cloud and AI world.”

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Megaport Limited Releases a DDoS Protection Capability

Megaport Limited, a global automated infrastructure platform, has launched Megaport DDoS Protection, a new, built-in security capability for Megaport Internet. The feature will help customers filter malicious traffic directly within the Megaport network, rather than routing it through a separate or external service, maintaining mission-critical uptime without introducing additional latency or routing complexity. Megaport DDoS Protection also provides fabric-native mitigations, rapid deployment, targeted protection, simplified pricing options, and pre-configured protection profiles that reduce the need for manual tuning.

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Netskope Unveils the Netskope One AgentSkope Solution

Netskope, a modern security and networking solution for the cloud and AI era, has announced Netskope One AgentSkope, an architectural foundation that enables organizations to easily deploy Netskope AI agents capable of executing end-to-end workflows. AgentSkope will serve as the new intelligent layer of the Netskope One Platform, supporting agentic operations for security and networking teams by automating onerous operational processes. The initial launch includes six agents—the Netskope DLP AISecOps, Insider Threat AISecOps, Private Access AIOps, DEM Data Intelligence, DEM Insights, and CCI Insights Agents—with more to follow over the coming months.

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Proofpoint Launches a New Investigations Solution

Proofpoint, a cybersecurity and compliance company, has announced a new investigations solution as part of its Digital Communications Governance (DCG) portfolio. Designed for highly regulated and highly litigious organizations, the Proofpoint Prism Investigator* platform aims to transform fragmented, manual investigations into a source-agnostic, AI-driven workflow capable of reconstructing events across human and AI activity, explaining risk, and producing defensible case narratives in minutes rather than weeks. The solution is built around three core innovations: a source-agnostic architecture, end-to-end autonomy, and explainability and defensibility by design.

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Radware Partners with Solutions Review for a Solutions Spotlight on May 19th, 2026

Radware, a global cybersecurity and application delivery solutions provider, has partnered with the Solutions Review team for a Solutions Spotlight event airing on May 19th, 2026. In the hour-long webinar, Eva Abergel, a Senior Solution Expert at the company, will lead a discussion on real-world challenges, trade-offs, and emerging best practices that security and infrastructure leaders need to know about. The event will also feature a live product demo and Q&A portion.

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Snyk Integrates Claude Models Into Its AI Security Platform

Snyk, an AI security company, has integrated Claude models into the Snyk AI Security Platform. The integration will enable Snyke to automate vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and developer-ready fixes across code, dependencies, containers, and AI-generated artifacts. Joint customers can utilize the integration of Anthropic’s Claude models in the Snyk AI Security Platform today, with expanded access planned to continue rolling out through 2026.

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Strike Graph Introduces Trust Chain, a Third-Party Risk Management Solution

Strike Graph, the AI-native compliance management platform, has launched Trust Chain, a Third-Party Risk Management solution that turns vendor risk assessments from self-reported questionnaires into AI-validated compliance evidence. The Trust Chain solution requires vendors to submit actual compliance documentation—i.e., security audits, penetration tests, and breach response procedures—and leverages Strike Graph’s Verify AI to automatically test and determine whether the provided evidence satisfies and mitigates the intended risk.

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Sysdig Reveals Its Headless Cloud Security Platform

Sysdig, a cloud security provider, has announced a cyberdefense platform built for the agentic AI era. The Sysdig Headless Cloud Security platform uses an operating model in which security is designed to be hyper-personalized, integrated with a user’s existing tools, and continuously learning from each interaction. Additionally, the solution’s headless model pairs with Sysdig’s recently announced security for AI coding agents. This means teams can run security through coding agents, while security for coding agents monitors agent behavior and detects risks across cloud and development environments.

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Tanium Announces an Autonomous Operating System for IT and Security Operators

Tanium, an Autonomous IT provider, has announced Tanium Atlas, a new autonomous operating system (OS) that gives a single IT or security operator the data, guidance, and reach they need to accomplish what once required an entire team. The OS is built on an endpoint data foundation that is complete, high-fidelity, real-time, and extensible, and runs on a curated ensemble of leading AI models from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. This enables it to cover every device in an environment, capture data directly from the source, respond in seconds, and remain open to any model, agent, or workflow.

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Tanium and ServiceNow Are Partnering on a Bundled Solution

Tanium also announced a new partnership with ServiceNow to deliver a joint Autonomous IT solution, ITOM AI Prime, powered by Tanium. The bundled offering will integrate Tanium’s Autonomous IT Platform and ServiceNow’s IT Operations Management (ITOM) AI Prime into a single solution. It will empower teams to move towards autonomous, outcome-based IT, where issues can be detected, resolved, and verified without manual intervention. Additionally, since Tanium can feed real-time endpoint data into ServiceNow CMDB, workflows can trigger based on accurate asset state, and AI agents can make decisions grounded in real-time telemetry and remediation.

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Trent AI Details Its AI Security Maturity Model

Trent AI, an agentic security company, today announced the availability of its AI Security Maturity Model (ASMM). The structured framework helps security teams to assess and improve enterprise security posture and mature organizational security programs for the AI era, while reducing unmanaged risk across AI and agentic systems. The ASMM is built on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and aligns with global standards, including the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the EU AI Act. With it, companies can evaluate how prepared they are to secure their agentic development lifecycles.

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WatchGuard Technologies Debuts an Agentic AI Workforce for MSPs

WatchGuard Technologies, the global unified cybersecurity provider for MSPs, has launched Rai, a new agentic AI digital workforce built specifically for MSPs that can proactively perform cybersecurity duties across client environments. As an always-on digital worker, Rai can operate as a “true extension” of the security team by detecting, correlating, and responding to threats before human intervention is required. It’s also built to continuously monitor environments, identify threats, and take authorized action in real-time to reduce user workload, speed response, and provide more comprehensive coverage.

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Zimperium Releases Two New AI Agents for Mobile Security

Zimperium, a global mobile security company, has outlined its new AI-empowered mobile security vision, focused on the availability of two new AI-powered agents that provide a “force multiplier” in hardening the mobile attack surface. The new agents include the Mobile SOC Agent, for enterprise SOC teams investigating mobile threats on employee devices, and the Mobile App Response Agent, which enhances the Mobile App Protection Suite (MAPS) to help SOC and Fraud teams assess and respond to threats within the mobile app.

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Andreas Welsch, the author of The Human Agentic AI Edge, joins Doug for a discussion that navigates the gap between AI promise and AI reality. They dig into why IBM reversed course and tripled its entry-level hiring after announcing 7,800 automated roles, why the DIY AI movement is quietly failing, and why the professionals most at risk this time — educated, screen-working, politically connected — are the first in history to face automation with actual power to push back.

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The Geopolitics of AI-Enabled Cyber Conflict: What Security Leaders Need to Understand Now

The offense-defense balance in cybersecurity is shifting, with AI as the lever and geopolitics as the fulcrum. This article, which expands on insights from a recent episode of The Cyber Circuit podcast, explains how “the offense-defense balance in AI-enabled cyber conflict is not fixed. Investment decisions, procurement standards, export policy, and evaluation infrastructure actively shape it. Security leaders who treat these as someone else’s problem are ceding influence over the environment in which they will have to operate.”

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What to Expect from the Solutions Spotlight with Object First on May 21st, 2026

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with Object First, an on-premises backup storage for Veeam customers. In the hour-long webinar, the company’s Senior Director of Solutions Marketing will delve into the latest research and trends around data resilience, provide an example of a real-life ransomware attack, share practical steps for preparing for a worst-case scenario, and use a live product demo to showcase how Object First can help teams protect themselves.

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