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Good morning and Happy Friday!
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Have a safe and relaxing weekend, and enjoy this weeks’ Tech News.
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!
What is this? This is a newsletter that provides updates and insights on the latest trends and developments in the technology industry. I am a professional who specializes in supporting IT leaders in evaluating, investing, and managing people, processes, and technology tools that support their businesses.
Each week, I summarize relevant industry updates from popular Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM's), software publishers, and managed providers. The goal of my research and newsletter is to keep you informed about current trends and events that may impact your business from a trusted and reputable source. It's just information I'm sharing, and I follow and work with hundreds of partners in the industry, keeping track of their growth, changes, and evolution so that you don't have to.
Bottom Line: As you focus on improving your business through digital initiatives, my commitment is to keep you informed of the fast-paced changes and trends taking place so that you can plan ahead and stay ahead of the game.
Key areas of focus for me are:
Cloud Computing, Security, Trends
Developer & Security Tools
Networking & Infrastructure Tools
End User Tools & Workspace Tech
Emerging Technologies and Future Concepts
If you have any questions, would like information about any specific vendors I follow, or would like to have a conversation about any topic that is challenging you, I invite you to engage with me! I value feedback immensely and would love to know what you find valuable about this newsletter so feel free to reach out!
Thank you for reading and stay digitally and physically safe!
Phil
OEM News & Updates 📰
Industry First Integration with SAST insights into the Wiz Security Cloud Platform.
Bi-directional integration aims to provide essential context and actionable insights for AppSec development, cloud, and ops teams.
Check out their webinar on 7/24 to learn more.
Strengthened partnership for enhancing security operations and managing identities in hybrid cloud environments.
Backslash | Backslash Unveils Extensive Enterprise-Grade Capabilities to its Reachability-Based AppSec Platform
New upgrades to the Platform from Backslash
Now integrates with various on-prem and CI/CD tools
Supports additional programming languages
New automation features for security workflows
Introducing CriticGPT for enhancing code reviews showing a 60% improvement in error identification
Could revolutionize code assisted review to streamline development and enhance software reliability
Talking DD once again!
They’re announcing a new service which is a Kubernetes autoscaling service that intelligently automates resource optimization by scaling environments based on real-time and historical data.
Monitors resource usages to optimize infrastructure performance and compute costs, ensuring apps have enough resources to perform and scale as needed.
Gemini 1.5 Flash is now GA.
This model boasts a 2-million-token context window and is faster and more cost efficient than its predecessor, 1.5 Pro.
new image generation model that offers 40% faster generation and multi-language support + new safety features.
Elastic has introduced Playground, a tool to facilitate experimentation with RAG.
Playground offers a low-code interface for RAG implementations and allows A/B testing of LLMs from different providers.
Integrates with ElasticSearch and the Open Inference API, aiding devs in creating GenAI experiences.
Dynatrace | Dynatrace Becomes the First AWS Partner to Integrate with AWS Application Migration Service
Dynatrace has integrated with AWS Application Migration Service becoming the first partner from an FSO perspective with native integration here.
This will allow customers to efficiently and securely migrate apps to the AWS Cloud while maintaining operations during the transition.
Now GA
Big fan of the NetApp platform
ONTAP is previewing an AI powered automated ransomware protection service with a 99% detection rate against ransomware attacks.
Service was tested by SE Labs
ARP/AI offers near real time detection of ransomware through various methods including file entropy changes and header manipulations.
Currently in preview
Purple team module now includes automated data capture and comprehensive reporting
new visual interface for designing and visualization of threat campaigns
EDR & SIEM integration: New integrations with EDR and SIEM systems featuring SMART tagging and improved reporting capabilities.
Beta feature that assess the risk of vulns in an orgs environment, providing a Harvest Score to prioritize mitigation efforts.
New tool, UiPath Autopilot uses GenAI and NLP to create workflows, generate expressions, and build automations with a high acceptance rate.
Autopilot for testers leverages GenAI to improve requirements, generate tests, and create coded automations to provide quality checks, test designs, automate things, and provide insights.
Integrates with M365. Integrates with CoPilot from M365 within MSFT Teams using a prebuilt automation library.
Cloudflare | Cloudflare adds the ability to create AI-generated captions for on-demand videos and recordings of live streams
Cloudflare introduces AI generated captions for videos on its Stream platform at no extra cost.
Feature simplifies captioning by integrating it into the video management workflow, eliminating 3rd party services.
Captions are generated within Cloudflare’s tenant and ecosystem, ensuring content privacy.
Built using Open-Source Whisper model.
Articles I Liked This Week 💡
NCN Online | New Commvault Survey Highlights Five Capabilities that Helped Companies Recover Faster from Cyberattacks
Bleeping Computer | Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only
Security Intelligence | ChatGPT 4 can exploit 87% of one-day vulnerabilities
wild story.
Help Net Security | Developer errors lead to long-term exposure of sensitive data in Git repos
Tech Funding & M&A 💸
Clay is a New York based AI driven sales and marketing platform that provides solutions such as no-code data enrichment and outbound automation for businesses.
Noetic | Rapid7 to Acquire Noetic Cyber
Noetic is a Massachusetts based cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as asset intelligence, vulnerability management, and cloud security orchestration for enterprises.
Redactive | Redactive AI Raises $7.5M USD in Seed Funding
Redactive AI is an Australia based GenAI platform that designs and develops LLMs for data retrieval and access control for enterprises.
Meme of the week 🤣
Recommendations 👉🏻
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