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Good morning and Happy Friday!
Yes, I’m back from my European travels with my family and feeling energized and recharged. There was a ton that happened in tech, and if your curious, I’ve updated the Airtable on www.fridaytechnews.com with updates from Blackhat and summaries of announcements from the edition on 8/9.
I learned a TON in Rome and in Munich about traveling with a family. If you’re eager to get out there with yours, let me know and I’ll happily share some tips on international best practices. Here’s a quick pick of me and the fam (mainly for me to commemorate the trip).
Anyway - I’ve summarized the last two weeks-worth of tech news below for your education over coffee. I hope you have a wonderful weekend with your family, friends, loved ones, and others!
Phil
OEM News & Updates 📰
Snyk has integrated their Analytics platform with Snowflake to enhance security analytics for devs, appsec professionals, and secops teams.
The integration aims to improve security posture and developer productivity thru better informed decision making.
No need for ETL tools which saves time and resources.
Love this integration - it incites collaboration between normally siloed organizational depts.
Snowflake has introduced Cortex Analyst, an AI system for self-service analytics. It allows users to ask business questions in plain old english and get accurate insights.
Uses multiple LLMs to achieve about 90% accuracy in delivering insights.
Cortex Analyst aims to improve the current BI dashboard ecosystem by providing instant, conversational access to data thereby reducing the dependency on analysts.
Available as REST API it can be fully integrated into apps.
Wallarm has launched API Attack Surface Management (AASM) LMAO ANOTHER ONE.
It's an agentless tech for identifying , analyzing, and securing API attack surfaces. Cool.
Offers automated API discovery, scanning for leaked API secrets, and testing WAF coverage.
Cribl Partners with Vijilan, Anvilogic, Securonix, and Anomali to tackle IT and data management challenges.-
Noteworthy, Data volumes are expected to reach 175 zettabytes by 2025, posing significant challenges for businesses and security professionals.
Great to see additional partnerships and cross functional technologies.
Dataiku has expanded its LLM Mesh ecosystem, enabling secure access to thousands of LLM gateways, supporting an overall multi-LLM strategy.
The new LLM registry helps organizations manage and qualify LLMs for regulatory readiness and effective governance.
Pretty neat - this therefore allows for organizations to switch between different models for cost, performance, privacy, and security management.
With the amount of leapfrogging happening in this space, this is an awesome innovation.
Zimperium and Okta have collaborated to enhance mobile device security by integrating each other’s products.
The integration provides continuous risk monitoring and automated threat response.
Now available for Workforce Identity Cloud customers.
LambdaTest | Enterprise Cloud Platform LambdaTest Unveils AI Test Agent KaneAI for Software Debugging
LambdaTest has launched KaneAI, the world's first end-to-end AI Test Agent which allows users to create, debug, and evolve tests using natural language.
KaneAI offers inteligent test planning, AI powered test healing, advanced conditional assertions, and real-time root cause analysis, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and minimal application downtime.
Supports two-way test editing (code and natural language) and multi-language code export so you can scale it easily and maintain it easily too.
Integrates with Jira, Slack, GitHub Actions, MSFT teams, etc."
GitHub's new tool uses AI to automate fixing software vulnerabilities to speed up the overall process of building things.
Devs fixed vulnerabilities 3 times faster with Autofix, with specific improvements for cross site scripting and SQL injection vulns.
Companies reported a 60% reduction in time spent on security related code reviews and a 25% increase in overall development productivity."
Cool. Love this. Elastic and LangChain are working together to enhance AI capabilities for security operations.
The collab has led to the development of features like Automatic Import, Attack Discovery, and Elastic Assistant for Security.
Elastic Security integrates with LangChain to improve context-aware reasoning and security analytics.
Workato introduces a low-code no-code platform called Workato Agentic to build and manage AI agents, known as Genies for BPO.
The Genie Apps are pre-built apps like ITGenie and SalesGenie that are designed to enhance respective productivity of each dept.
The platform allows AI agents to interact with apps like Slack, SFDC, and Jira.
Anthropic has introduced ""Prompt Caching"" for its Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku models aimed at reducing costs and improving performance.
The feature can potentially reduce costs by up to 90% and improve response times by up to 2x for specific apps.
Prompt Caching could democratize access to advanced AI capabilities to make them more affordable for smaller businesses.
Knowbe4 has launched a free resource toolkit for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, aimed at helping everyone in their individual hygiene and practices.
Includes interactive training modules, video series, character cards, posters, newsletters, and planning guides.
Very cool, glad it's out. Looking forward to seeing others!
BigID and Cohesity have expanded their partnership to enhance data security, compliance, privacy, and AI data management.
The integration provides orgs with unparalleled visibility, context, and control over sensitive data across backup and recovery processes - which everyone needs.
Aims to build proactive and automated remediation against data risks to improve DSPM.
Sway AI has integrated its no-code AI environment with Azure, allowing Azure customers to build and deploy AI apps directly in Azure.
Enhanced security, scalability, and accessibility for AI projects.
Super user friendly and seamless integration to other existing Azure Cloud Services.
Skyhigh Security | Skyhigh Security Announces New Cloud-to-Cloud Integration with Trellix
Skyhigh announced a new integration between their Secure Web Gateway for Cloud and Trellix's Intelligent Virtual Execution Cloud to enhance security.
Integration provides an additional layer of malware scanning, zero-day threat detection, and comprehensive data forensics.
Aims to improve threat detection capabilities to ensure robust protection for enterprises."
Articles I Liked This Week 💡
Bleeping Computer | CISA warns critical SolarWinds RCE bug is exploited in attacks
Tech Funding & M&A 💸
Sepio is a Maryland-based SaaS platform that provides solutions such as asset risk management and policy enforcement for enterprises.
Nunu AI is a Switzerland based AI research and development company that specializes in AI for businesses.
Aware is an AI platform that provides governance, compliance, monitoring and risk management solutions for workplace digital conversation tools.
Morpheus is a Colorado-based hybrid cloud management platform that offers solutions including container management and cloud cost optimization for enterprises.
Nucleus Security | Dcode Capital Makes Investment in Nucleus Security to Solve Critical Cybersecurity Challenges for Federal Organizations
Nucleus Security is a Florida-based vulnerability management platform that provides solutions such as application security and compliance reporting for enterprises.
Grafana Labs is a New York-based open observability platform that offers solutions such as composable monitoring, alerting, reporting and dashboard management for businesses.
Meme of the week 🤣
Recommendations 👉🏻
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Thank you so much for making this a part of your Friday morning coffee time. I'm Phil Moroni, and I'm an Account Executive in the Information Technology industry here with another edition of Friday Tech News!
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Phil
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