Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of October 31st: Palo Alto Networks, Cognizant, Zscaler, 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 October 31st. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Palo Alto Networks, Cognizant, Zscaler, 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 October 31st.

Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of October 31st

Auvik Launches Its ASM Platform on the Pax8 Marketplace

Auvik, an IT solutions provider, has launched its SaaS Management (ASM) platform on the Pax8 Marketplace, becoming one of the first SaaS management tools on the platform with capabilities for shadow IT and shadow AI discovery. The addition follows Auvik Network Management’s 2024 arrival on Pax and will help MSPs gain comprehensive SaaS visibility and control amid growing SaaS and AI adoption in enterprises. With ASM’s availability on the Pax8 Marketplace, partners can procure Auvik Network Management and Auvik SaaS Management solutions through a single trusted platform.

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Bitsight Launches a Unified Cyber Risk Command Center

Bitsight, a cyber risk intelligence company, has introduced the Cyber Risk Command Center, a new dashboard that offers security and risk leaders a consolidated view of their external attack surfaces, including risks from third- and fourth-party providers. The solution is designed to reduce the complexity and fragmentation often found in cyber risk data, making it easier for CISOs and security executives to make faster decisions. Bitsight’s Cyber Risk Command Center is now available to all customers. Future updates will expand the platform with advanced reporting, trend analysis, and CISO-level dashboards.

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Censys Launches an Internet Intelligence Solution

Censys, a leader in Internet Intelligence and insights, has launched a new solution to enhance security operations centers (SOCs) and incident response with comprehensive Internet intelligence. The tool will scan the internet for up-to-date, validated data on hosts, services, and malicious infrastructure to enrich threat feeds with context on adversary assets, such as command-and-control servers and malware. It can also integrate with SOC workflows to automate enrichment and threat correlation, enabling security analysts to reduce manual triage, accelerate detection and response efforts, and improve prioritization and investigation speed.

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Cognizant and Rubrik Expand Their Collaboration

Cognizant has announced an expanded partnership with Rubrik, a company specializing in security and AI operations. The expanded collaboration will focus on providing Business Resilience-as-a-Service (BRaaS) to mutual customers through a global offering that utilizes a subscription-based, pay-as-you-go model. Enterprises can use the solution to quickly recover from cyber incidents and ransomware attacks, while aligning recovery objectives with critical business outcomes. Bipul Sinha, CEO, Chairman, and Co-founder of Rubrik, says, “Bringing together Rubrik’s AI and security platform with Cognizant’s global delivery scale, our joint customers can quickly recover from cyber incidents with confidence–all with a flexible, consumption-based model.”

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Intel 471 Expands Its Verity 471 Platform with Geopolitical Intelligence

Intel 471, a provider of cyber threat intelligence-driven solutions worldwide, has introduced the latest release of its Geopolitical Intelligence solution to its Verity 471 platform. The enhanced offering provides users with structured, actionable insights on countries and global issues, helping organizations manage the impact of these dynamics on business operations, assets, stakeholder safety, and strategic endeavors, all within its unified cyber intelligence platform. Additional capabilities of the solution include an organized intelligence framework, actionable insights into global events, contextualized views of an organization’s threat landscape, picture intelligence summary (PICTINSUM), security assessments, and country-specific baseline threat ratings.

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NETSCOUT Expands Its End-Through-End Monitoring Functionalities

NETSCOUT, a provider of observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, has extended its continuous end-through-end monitoring to enhance attribution for audit controls and incident reports, prove zero-trust network policies, and shorten time to detect, contain, and document incidents. These enhanced monitoring features are built into NETSCOUT’s Omnis KlearSight Sensor for Kubernetes to help address the complex compliance demands faced in Cloud environments related to both security and regulatory requirements.

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Palo Alto Networks Launches Prisma AIRS 2.0

Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity company, has released Prisma AIRS 2.0, a comprehensive AI security platform designed to safeguard the entire AI application lifecycle—from model development to autonomous agent operation. The Prisma AIRS 2.0 solution combines deep model inspection, real-time defense, and continuous autonomous red teaming to protect AI models, agents, data, and user interactions. This innovation supports enterprises seeking to scale AI adoption while fostering innovation in AI-driven environments.

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Palo Alto Networks Reveals Cortex AgentiX

Palo Alto Networks also announced the launch of Cortex AgentiX, a secure platform designed to help teams develop, deploy, and govern the AI agent workforce of the future. With this offering, organizations can build custom no-code agents, orchestrate complex workflows across the entire enterprise, govern autonomous actions with enterprise-grade guardrails, and deploy experienced security agents for various use cases, including email investigations, threat intelligence, network security, endpoint investigations, cloud security, and IT operations.

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Reflectiz Closes a $22 Million Series B Funding Round

Reflectiz, a web exposure management platform, has closed a $22 million Series B funding round led by Fulcrum Equity Partners, with participation from Capri Ventures, YYM Ventures, AFG Partners, among others. The new capital will help Reflectiz expand its product offering with Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) for websites, alongside support for the company’s growing partner and alliances network and go-to-market acceleration. It will also support the establishment of the company’s global headquarters in Boston, where Reflectiz is rapidly expanding its team.

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Seemplicity Details Four AI Agents for Exposure Management

Seemplicity, an agentic Exposure Action Platform, has announced four AI agents to help companies automate and enhance enterprise exposure management. These agents bring actionable intelligence to identify risk areas, prioritize mitigation, and streamline response efforts across complex organizational environments. They work by embedding AI into exposure management workflows to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and expedite decision-making for security teams, while also addressing the challenges enterprises face in managing digital and attack surface exposure in real-time.

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Zscaler Announces Several Zscaler Digital Experience Innovations

Zscaler, a cloud security company, has unveiled new Zscaler Digital Experience innovations to help enterprises monitor and fix performance issues faster, achieve real-time insights across the internet and endpoint, cut issue detection by 98 percent, and resolve problems in minutes to strengthen SLAs and minimize downtime. These enhancements aim to deliver the visibility teams need to ensure a seamless Zero Trust experience and optimal productivity for users everywhere. Dhawal Sharma, EVP of Products, Zscaler, says, “These innovations give enterprises end-to-end visibility and control to keep users productive, resolve issues in minutes instead of days, and ensure reliable app experiences globally.”

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month Quotes and Commentary from Industry Experts in 2025

As part of this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we invited the best and brightest minds in the enterprise technology market to share their best practices, predictions, and personal anecdotes about the impact of artificial intelligence on their careers, companies, and more. The experts featured represent some of the top influencers, consultants, and solution providers with experience across industries, and each projection has been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value.

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What to Expect at Solution Review’s Solution Spotlight with Broadcom on November 18th

For the next Solution Spotlight event, Solutions Review’s team has partnered again with Broadcom, a global provider of infrastructure technology. In this hour-long webinar session, Alec Pinkham—a Product Marketing Manager for AppNeta at Broadcom—will explain how to establish performance baselines with synthetic monitoring to identify bottlenecks and improvement areas before migration.

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AI Compliance Without Borders: How Companies Can Navigate Global AI Regulations

In a recent article, TELUS Digital’s Jeff Brown shared some commentary on AI compliance without borders and how companies can navigate global AI regulations. He says, “Our heightened understanding of the risks and detrimental real-world implications of not ‘doing AI right,’ along with the need to ensure transparency and accountability in how these technologies are created and used, is increasingly guiding how we approach AI development.”

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