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Big Announcements from Wiz, Microsoft, and Others | 11/22/2024

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Phil Moroni
November 22, 2024

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Good morning and welcome to another edition of Friday Tech News! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week.

First off, psyched that Morning Brew wanted to sponsor FTN. If you’re not reading their work, you’re missing out. Thanks for the acknowledgment!

Second, there was a ton of activity in the tech world this week, with Microsoft’s Ignite conference happening and AWS’s Re:invent to come in just two short weeks, we should expect to see additional product announcements and updates then a slow down for the EOY.

I want to take a moment to say congratulations to Merav, Tomer, Julie, and all my friends at Dazz on their merger with Wiz. Yinon, Assaf, and everyone at Wiz is spearheading a new era of cloud security in the market, but more so to me, this merger represents categorical validation that remediation is important, and the associated ASPM buzzword is coming for your AOPs. Game on, let’s go. Checkout my interviews with Merav, Tomer, and Yinon from Wiz to get a look at their lives in and outside of tech.

In the hype cycle, there’s always items that go by the wayside. According to my friend Richard Stiennon and the IT Harvest Dashboard, I counted 38 unique vulnerability and application security companies in the pure play space. I don’t think ASPM is going anywhere any time soon. I would imagine that we see other exits and consolidation in the space in the coming 2-3 years but the main security platform players (Cisco, PANW, and now, Wiz?) will eat DSPM up first though IMO.

Finally - thanks for taking time as usual to read my weekly news and continue your learnings and education in the enterprise IT space. If you have questions, comments, follow ups, ideas, just reach out. I’m available as a lot of you know.

Stay physically and digitally safe,

Phil

OEM News & Updates 📰

  • Azure AI Foundry introduces tools for managing AI agents at scale, ensuring they follow workflows and access only what they’re supposed to.

  • The SDK offers 25 templates and an integrated library of models.

  • AI Foundry portal provides a visual dashboard for evaluating models and managing app usage + it’s integrated with GitHub, VS, and CoPilot Studio.

  • Azure AI Content Understanding can process unstructured data, including documents, images, videos, and audio, transforming it into meaningful insights.

  • Service offers unified approach. tohandle various data types, reducing the need for multiple specialized APIs and lowering development costs for enterprises.

  • It can be used for post-call analytics, tax process automation, media asset management, insurance claims processing and highlight video reel generation.

  • NVIDIA envisions AI agents acting as digital employees, transforming productivity in industries like marketing, customer support, and supply chain management.

  • These AI Agents could also become personal companions/assistants, providing tailored help in areas like education and health…could even form a meaningful relationship.

  • NVIDIA is going absolutely nowhere.

  • Automates APM integration with K8s deployments.

  • Provides pre-configured dashboards and alert systems for faster IR and improved productivity for dev teams.

  • Offers full visibility across apps and k8s workloads.

  • Anthropic has introduced a “prompt improver” tool that automates the refinement of prompts to make it easier for devs to create reliable AI applications.

  • The new tools, including advanced example management aim to boost the accuracy of AI models by 30%.

  • These tools are designed to streamline AI development for Enterprise use cases.

  • Integrates seamlessly with MSFT Security Copilot to quickly identify vulnerabilities, benchmark security hygiene, and gain visibility across hybrid AD and Entra ID environments.

  • Utilizes GenAI and ML for continuous monitoring of user behavior and configs to reduce alert fatigue.

  • Supports cyber teams in a new way to encourage new users to learn AD security.

  • qTest copilot uses genai to automate test case generation for test coverage and software quality.

  • Automatically drafts test cases and steps based on source documents and user requirements.

  • Integrates with the qTest platform to provide scalable and unified test management.

  • GitHub Copilot now supports multiple AI models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini.

  • Launch of GitHub Spark: An AI driven tool that enables users to create complete apps using natural language prompts.

  • Introduction of Copilot Autofix, which uses AI to detect and resolve vulnerabilities in real time.

  • Launch of Differential Diagnosis DDx: a new trace analysis tool that simplifies troubleshooting in microservices-based systems, enabling rapid RCA without queries.

  • Lens Updates: Enhancements for cross-telemetry insights, providing a unified view of services and microservices for faster time to insight.

  • SLO Management: Upcoming capabilities for Service Level Objective management, aimed at aligning dev efforts with business objectives.

  • ServiceNow has introduced over 150 new GenAI features to its platform, enhancing Governance, Multilingual support, and tailored solutions for various use cases.

  • The new AI Governance and Compliance features include Now Assist Guardian for monitoring and responsible AI guardrails, Now Assist Data Kit for managing AI datasets, and Now Assist Analytics for visibility and performance monitoring.

  • Supported in multiple languages and offering specialized tools for configuration management, legal services, contract management, are all now part of the GenAI solutions.

  • Rafay’s platform advancements enable self-service consumption of GPU infrastructure to provide AI and ML tooling for cloud providers and enterprises.

  • The platform includes multi-tenancy enforcement, programmatic SKU definition, and robust security measures. toensure safe and efficient resource utilization of GPUs.

  • Offering purpose built AI workbenches and detailed chargeback features for precise resource tracking and cost management.

  • Splunk has announced GA of its enterprise security platform offerings on Azure.

  • Built natively on Azure and powered by Splunk AI, the solutions provide all the splunkness you need for Azure. At the same price point likely.

  • They’re allowing migration of on-premises or self managed cloud deployments to azure, reducing infrastructure requirements ant TCO.

  • The integration combines Exabeam’s AI powered analytics with Wiz’s comprehensive platform to improve threat detection, investigation, and response.

  • The coallb simplifies onboarding to the Exabeam New Scale Platform with some great guidance apparently.

  • More alerts being fed into Wiz to prioritize critical threats.

  • Kompass addresses challenges like costly over provisioning, slow node scaling, and storage scalability limitations by providing visibility and recommendations and multi-dimensional automation.

  • Kompass introduces HiberScale which hibernates nodes at scale and reactivates them in just 30 seconds! Down from 5 minutes.

  • Platform achieves up to 70% cost savings while maintaining application availability and SLAs due to the underlying tech and spot instances.

  • Arize AI now offers. anintegrated dev experience on Azure AI Foundry portal, SDK, and CLI.

  • The collab includes new integration points with Azure like prebuilt templates for monitoring models and LLM appslications.

  • Aims to overcome data privacy and accuracy issues.

  • Endor Labs advanced SCA capabilities are now integrated within Defender for Cloud, providing comprehensive security from code to runtime.

  • Offers function-level reachability analysis.

  • Consolidates application and cloud security programs and tools into a single platform for a unified view.

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

  • Dazz is an Israel based AI powered cloud security firm that provides solutions such as remediation and process automation and posture management for businesses.

  • Cyera is an Israel based cybersecurity platform offering DSPM for businesses.

  • Trustwave is an Illinois based cybersecurity company that provides services including managed detection and pen testing for businesses.

  • Datavolo is an Arizona based dataflow infrastructure that enables data engineers to capture unstructured data and build multi-modal data pipelines.

  • SuperAnnotate is a California based AI platform that enables enterprises to build, iterate, and manage LLM and GenAI models.

Spectro Cloud | Spectro Cloud Nets $75M

  • Spectro Cloud is a California based cloud infrastructure platform that allows enterprises to run k8s infra stacks in data centers.

  • Semperis is an NJ based security platform that offers solutions such as threat detection and disaster recovery for businesses.

  • Kong is a California based firm that develops software product solutions including API management and testing for businesses.

  • Cresta is a CA based AI powered platform that provides solutions such as real time intelligence, assistance, and sales enablement for contact centers.

  • Prompt Security is a GenAI security platform based in Israel.

  • Adlumin is a WA based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as pen testing and threat detection for businesses.

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