Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of August 2; Endari, Protect AI, Akamai, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy endpoint security and network monitoring news for the week of August 2. This curated list features endpoint security and network monitoring vendors such as Endari, Protect AI, Akamai, and more.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant endpoint security and network monitoring news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last month in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy endpoint security and network monitoring news items.

Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of August 2

Cybersecurity Industry Veteran Nils Puhlmann Launches Endari Platform

Endari, a cybersecurity solutions provider for startups and small businesses (SMBs), has announced this week its official launch from stealth mode by Nils Puhlmann, a seasoned cybersecurity veteran with over 30 years of experience. The company has also raised $4M in seed funding led by investors who recognize the critical need for effective cybersecurity solutions in the startup ecosystem. With this funding, Endari has created a proprietary and comprehensive cybersecurity maturity model that has been tested and validated with real customers. “I have been in security for a long time and have seen first-hand that most solutions and processes are only built for large enterprises, not startups,” said CEO and Founder of Endari, Nils Puhlmann. “Startups are left behind with a patchwork of solutions that can’t be implemented properly because they don’t have the right talent and are not looking at the big picture. Essentially, they are stuck with security gaps and limited visibility, leaving them vulnerable and exposed in the current threat landscape. I created Endari because somebody needed to step up and do something to tackle this major gap in the market. There’s just too much at stake when it’s the smaller companies that larger companies rely on by utilizing their technologies and solutions. All it takes is one big breach and a startup is done – most of them won’t survive it.”

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Appdome Unveils GenAI-Powered Mobile Threat Solution

Appdome, a leader in mobile defense, this week announced its new Threat Resolution Center, powered by GenAI. The new service enables mobile support teams to instantly identify mobile threats, generate context-specific resolution steps, and improve threat response for all stakeholders. “We’ve been evaluating LLMs and GenAI as part of the threat response lifecycle since GenAI came on the scene,” said Tom Tovar, co-creator and CEO at Appdome. “Threat Resolution Center leverages two new innovations at Appdome – our new ThreatCode and Threat Resolution Agent – with GenAI to quickly synthetize massive amounts of unstructured data into step-by-step instructions that stop cyberattacks, malware and other threats on mobile end user devices fast.” Appdome will be demonstrating the new GenAI powered Threat Resolution Center live at the upcoming Black Hat USA cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas Aug. 7 and 8.

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Sevco and VulnCheck Announce Partnership

Sevco Security, an asset intelligence platform, and VulnCheck, an exploit intelligence company, announced this week a strategic partnership. In conjunction with the partnership, Sevco launched significant enhancements to its vulnerability prioritization and exposure management capabilities by integrating VulnCheck’s unparalleled exploit and vulnerability intelligence with the Sevco platform. “With the exploitation of vulnerabilities increasing 180 percent over the past year, organizations must mature their vulnerability management programs as a strategic priority,” said J.J. Guy, co-founder and CEO at Sevco Security. “Our partnership with VulnCheck enables us to significantly build on the vulnerability hunting capabilities in the Sevco platform by adding the most complete exploit intelligence on the market. The combination gives security teams the only real-time threat visibility for software assets, enabling them to act faster and smarter in remediating vulnerabilities.” The companies will demonstrate their integration at Black Hat USA in Las Vegas, August 7-8, 2024.

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Protect AI Raises $60M in Series B Financing

Protect AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) security company, today announced it has closed a $60M Series B round of funding led by Evolution Equity Partners with participation from 01 Advisors, StepStone Group, Samsung, and existing investors Acrew Capital, boldstart ventures, Knollwood Capital, Pelion Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. To date, the company has raised a total of $108.5M to help organizations protect ML systems and AI applications from unique security vulnerabilities and emerging threats. This announcement came shortly after the acquisition of SydeLabs, which specializes in the automated attack simulation (red teaming) of generative AI (GenAI) systems. SydeBox will be integrated into the Protect AI Platform and rebranded as Protect AI Recon. “The combination of SydeLabs’ SydeBox and Protect AI’s platform provides customers a comprehensive defense-in-depth solution for building, managing, testing, deploying and monitoring LLMs,” said Ruchir Patwa, co-founder of SydeLabs. “We couldn’t be more excited about joining the Protect AI mission and the prospect of what we can achieve in terms of helping companies of all sizes adopt and deploy more secure LLMs and AI applications.”

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SecurityScorecard Report: “Cyber Risk Landscape of the Global Aviation Industry, 2024“

This week, SecurityScorecard released new cybersecurity research on 250 leading global aerospace & aviation companies, including 100 top commercial passenger airlines. In The Cyber Risk Landscape of the Global Aviation Industry, 2024 report, security researchers provide a detailed examination of cybersecurity vulnerabilities across the airline industry and its various supply chains. The report comes as regulatory bodies worldwide ramp up cybersecurity requirements for the aviation sector. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration introduced new mandates in March 2023, and the E.U.’s Implementing Regulation 2023/203 will take effect in 2026, setting a new standard for aviation information security risk management. The aviation industry has traditionally focused on physical security threats, but recent revelations about risks on Boeing’s supply chain have spotlighted the critical need to measure and mitigate supply chain risk. SecurityScorecard’s latest research aims to elevate the discourse on supply chain cyber risk in particular, emphasizing the need and best practices for comprehensive cybersecurity monitoring across the aviation sector.

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Network Security Services Provider Nitel Adds Versa Networks VersaONE to Portfolio

Nitel, a leading network-as-a-service (NaaS) provider, announced this week the addition of VersaONE, Versa’s Universal SASE platform, to its portfolio of network management and security solutions. The addition comes on the heels of Nitel’s recent WAN Dynamics acquisition that bolstered its NaaS offering. Nitel is continuing to accelerate its NaaS vision by adding innovative technology partners like Versa to expand its AI-powered, on-demand security and network management capabilities. “Our recent moves, including the WAN Dynamics acquisition, give us significant momentum and we’re not stopping there,” said Mike Frane, Nitel’s Chief Product Officer. “We are continuing to add innovative AI-powered network and security management technologies, such as what Versa delivers, to our NaaS solution to ensure we’re offering our partners and customers secure, high-performing access regardless of their device, network or location.”

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Akamai Releases Part One of Research on the Security Challenges of Modern Videogaming

With 2.58 billion video gamers around the world and an appraisal of US$184.4 billion, the gaming industry is only going to grow as each generation becomes more reliant on technology. In this three-part blog post series, Akamai researchers set to explore the wonderful world of videogames from a few different perspectives. In this inaugural post, they focus on the security challenges by reviewing the statistics from the past 18 months (January 2023 – June 2024).

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Lurking in the Deep: Submarine Domains Waiting to Activate

Elliot Champion of CSC Digital Brand Services dives deep into a look at submarine domains and the impact they can have on your business.

There’s plenty of focus today on what companies can do in advance to prepare against cyber-attacks– rightfully so. But, what about the strategies cyber-criminals are deploying to lay the groundwork for those cyber-attacks? How are we preventing these strategies from taking root? My team at CSC has been observing an increasing trend in domain security attacks that stem from what we call “submarine domain registrations” – domains that are registered by criminals but remain unused and inactive for extended periods until the day of an actual cyber-attack. “Submarine domains” is an analogy for the activity of these dormant domains, as they drop quietly within a domain ecosystem and then resurface again as a threat— just like a submarine.

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Solutions Review Partners with Cloudflare for Back-to-Back Solution Spotlights

Cloudflare will appear in the Solutions Review studio on Thursday, August 22. Join Brian Tokuyoshi, Director of Product Marketing, as he walks us through why traditional firewalls and network security methods are dated and expensive, and how shifting to the cloud is the future. Cloudflare will then be back exactly one week later on Thursday, August 29. Join Senior Zero-Trust Product Expert Michael Keane and Network Security Analyst John Grady as they examine the consensus from a recent survey and input their own thoughts on the biggest workforce risks related to internal system access, how agentless deployments can accelerate Zero-Trust adoption, which app types and user groups to prioritize offloading from VPNs first, and project focuses and time spent across initial rollout, expansion, and advancement phases.

Learn more about the August 22 event here.

Learn more about the August 29 event here.