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Enterprise Tech News & Insights | 04.04.2025

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Phil Moroni
April 04, 2025

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

Sorry I missed last week - admittedly I’m burning the candle at both ends. Lotta fall out happening around the Wiz deal, and Island just raised a huge round with a $5B valuation. Crazy times ahead and hopefully we see increased activity in funding and M&A in the coming months.

I’ve been working on a new piece I’ll be sharing with you shortly on the Business of ASPM. I’m excited about this piece and think it’s one of my better blogs. I’ll be posting it soon, so be sure to stay tuned if that sort of thing interests you.

Otherwise, I hope you’ve had a wonderful past couple weeks and that everyone in your life is safe, happy, and healthy.

Cheers to you and your continued progress. Thanks for taking time to hang out and read this.

Stay physically and digitally safe,

Phil

OEM News & Updates 📰

  • Cohesity is introducing an expanded version of its AI powered knowledge discovery assistant Gaia. The extension aims to provide secure access to AI driven insights while maintaining control over sensitive data. Does on prem.

  • OpenAI has introduced three new voice AI models available via API for devs. The models aim to enhance speech-to-text and text-to-speech apps.

  • Feature noise cancellation, semantic voice activity detection, and multilingual capabilities.

  • Cloudflare for AI has been released which addresses risks like toxic prompts, data leakage, and misuse of AI.

  • The platform includes automatic discovery and labeling of AI apps, governance tools, and safeguards against sensitive data scraping.

  • PortSwigger has unveiled Burp AI, the first AI powered version of Burp Suite Pro designed to enhance human-led web app and API security testing.

  • Burp AI offers capabilities like instant AI insights, automated issue validation, smarter false positive reduction, and AI enhanced authentication handling.

  • Codefresh has introduced GitOps Cloud, a streamlined solution enabling DevOps teams to promote appslication and environment changes securely and efficiently across multiple Argo CD instances.

  • It simplifies processes with a single control plane, minimizing the need for custom scripting and manual intervention. Devs can focus on app and environment promotion without deep expertise in K8s or GitOps.

  • SW has introduced Squadcast Incident Response, a tool that automates runbooks, integrates with MSFT Teams and Slack, and leverages AI to streamline alert management and resolution processes.

  • SW has bolstered its observability platform with features like AI powered Log Insights, RCA Assist, which leads to better analysis by IT teams across hybrid environments (including cloud Hyperscalers).

  • Also announced a new AI product aimed at the ServiceDesk.

  • JFrog recently released a report that reveals critical security risks in the software supply chain, including exposed secrets, mis-scored CVEs and increasing AI model attacks.

  • The report highlights the dangers of manual oversight for managing AI/ML workloads and models with nearly 37% of companies relying on manual processes for leading risk management.

  • GitLab has launched GitLab Duo with Amazon Q, integrating Q Developer directly into GitLab Workflows. This lets devs leverage AI for tasks like feature development, code reviews, unit testing, and multi-step task automation without switching tools. Neat

  • Very cool to hopefully see more quality improvements coming to software development processes.

  • Splunk (Cisco, ew) has launched a Service Inventory tool leveraging Open Telemetry to provide end-to-end visibility into service instrumentation across cloud and Kubernetes environments.

  • The Service Inventory simplifies setup with step-by-step configuration guides and highlights missing instrumentation to resolve visibility blind spots.

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

  • very cool to see. I believe more of this is needed.

Bleeping Computer | Oracle Data Health compromised

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

  • StormForge is a Massachusetts based company specializing in advanced data science, machine learning, and augmented intelligence.

  • I mean seriously? New trillion dollar company incoming by EOY.

  • Cyberhaven is an Israeli company focused on Data Lineage and Data Detection and Response. This is a very high multiple to be valued 10x your raising (valued at 1B).

  • Unframe is an Enterprise AI platform based in California that enables organizations to implement custom AI use cases in hours rather than months.

  • Logik.ai is a California based company specializing in Configure, Price, and Quoting solutions.

Meme of the week 🤣

Recommendations 👉🏻

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