Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of September 11th: Zscaler, Hexnode, Zayo, 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 September 11th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Zscaler, Hexnode, Zayo, 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 September 11th.

Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of September 11th

BackBox Reveals Kilter AI, an AI-Powered Intelligence Layer

BackBox, a network cyber resilience company, has announced Kilter AI, a new AI-powered intelligence layer for its Network Cyber Resilience Platform, now named Kilter. Kilter AI will provide teams with a selection of connected capabilities that can turn raw vulnerability data into actionable remediation, while ensuring human teams review and approve before anything is implemented. Those capabilities cover enriched data aggregation, CVE workaround insights, automated creation assistance, and AI-curated workaround data that can be transformed into intuitive, visual, executable chains.

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Black Duck Joins Anthropic’s Project Glasswing

Black Duck, an AI-powered application security company, has joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, the industry initiative focused on helping secure critical software infrastructure with advanced AI for defensive cybersecurity. As part of this initiative, Black Duck will be applying Mythos across its application security portfolio, combining AI-accelerated deterministic vulnerability discovery with trusted remediation workflows, risk-based prioritization, and compliance-driven governance capabilities.

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CBTS Acquires Recovery Point Systems

CBTS—a provider of AI-ready infrastructure, cloud, and security services—has acquired Recovery Point Systems, a nationally recognized provider of fully managed and orchestrated Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and cyber resiliency solutions for enterprise IT environments. Kristin Russell, CBTS CEO, says, “With Recovery Point, CBTS delivers what enterprises increasingly demand: a trusted partner who can modernize their infrastructure, secure it, and recover it end-to-end, under pressure, with measurable outcomes.”

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Extreme Networks Announces the Extreme Agent ONE Coworker

Extreme Networks, an AI-powered cloud networking company, has announced the general availability of Extreme Agent ONE Coworker, the latest generation of its agentic AI for enterprise networking offerings. With Extreme Agent ONE, Coworker’s “Nudge” skill, teams can combine real-time network context, historical trend analysis, and agentic reasoning to utilize recommendations directly in their workflow.

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Gravwell Details the New Agents Available in Gravwell 5.10

Gravwell, a full-stack data analytics and security platform, has announced Gravwell 5.10, which introduces environment-aware AI agents that perform multi-step security and operational workflows directly in a customer’s deployment. The Gravwell agents are built to gather relevant context directly from a user’s environment, including live telemetry, searches, detections, system state, flows, and playbooks.

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Hexnode Introduces an Agentic Orchestration Layer

Hexnode, the enterprise software division of Mitsogo, has introduced Hexnode Synapse, an agentic orchestration layer for IT and security operations that turns requests and system events into coordinated, governed, and traceable actions. The Hexnode Synapse solution operates through specialized AI agents that reason about incoming requests and alerts, determine the appropriate next step, act within defined guardrails, and coordinate cross-product sequences when a workflow spans multiple systems. It launches with a Device, Identity, and Threat Agent.

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Rocket Software Debuts the Rocket z/Assurance Portfolio

Rocket Software, a global technology company focused on IT modernization, has announced Rocket z/Assurance, a unified portfolio for managing risk and compliance across mission-critical IBM Z environments. The new portfolio combines purpose-built capabilities with Rocket Software’s mainframe expertise to help organizations identify vulnerability and security exposures, validate security controls, monitor compliance readiness, prioritize remediation, and gain real-time visibility into risk. Companies can use these functionalities to modernize critical systems without compromising security or governance.

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Silent Push Releases New Enhancements for Its Platform

Silent Push, a preemptive cyber defense company, has announced several enhancements for its platform. With the release of Silent Push 6.1, the company is rebuilding its Brand and Infrastructure Impersonation capabilities, which are now fully automated, so the platform continuously hunts for impostors, keeps customers informed of what it finds on their behalf, and enhances extensibility, enabling analysts to seamlessly integrate with security telemetry and AI tools. New capabilities include advanced pivot controls, an expanded ecosystem reach, TLP Amber Reports, and more.

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Vectra AI and World Wide Technology Expand Their Collaboration

Vectra AI, an AI-native security and observability company, has expanded its collaboration with World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology solutions provider. The companies will work together to bring advanced behavioral detection, entity-level prioritization, and agentic investigation and response capabilities to WWT’s Defending at the Speed of AI initiative. Specifically, their collaboration builds on Vectra AI’s recent achievement of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High Authorization, extending the platform’s availability to U.S. federal agencies and high-impact federal environments.

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Zayo Unveils Agentic Networking for DynamicLink

Zayo, a digital network infrastructure provider, has launched Agentic Networking for DynamicLink, which brings AI agents directly into network operations. The Agentic Networking offering aims to bring network context and authorized network actions into the AI workflows enterprises are already building. This means agents can use DynamicLink’s product and network knowledge resources to understand network conditions, while retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) helps ground interactions in the DynamicLink knowledge base.

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Zscaler Announces an Agentic SOC

Zscaler, a cybersecurity platform for the AI era, has announced Zscaler Agentic SOC, introducing “a new approach” to security operations designed to reduce exposure, scale human expertise, and stop AI-driven attacks at machine speed. The new Agentic SOC integrates with a company’s existing security ecosystem, leveraging third-party data to contextualize risks and threats. It comes equipped with features such as data-rich context graphs, specialized AI agents, advanced detections informed by threat intelligence, continuous threat-hunting tools, and expert support from Zscaler and Red Canary security experts.

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