Friday Tech News

Insights & Trends in Enterprise Technology | 11/8/2024

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Phil Moroni
November 08, 2024

Good morning and welcome to another edition of Friday Tech News!

I hope you’ve had a great week despite the usual DLS changeover. Logo this week created using ChatGPT. Impressive results and these things are just getting better and better. What do you think? Should this one be the official one? I think so.

This week saw some nice announcements across AI with the release of lots of Agents into the workforce and of course, we had some noteworthy acquisitions, largely led by CrowdStrike with Adaptive Shield.

In the “Posture Management” discussion, CrowdStrike’s platform now has a leg up. Will we see other exits by AppOmni, Obsidian, etc.? I think so. Remember, Posture Management is broken up into several components (a lot of the time mixed in with CNAPP)

All the PM’s I can think of

I’m curious if we’ll see other trends around Network Security Posture Management, Infrastructure, Code, and so on and so forth. I’m sure Gartner or somebody else (maybe even me) will coin something new and emerging soon.

Anyway, if you’re doing anything fun this weekend, I wish you a wonderful time. If you’re recharging and staying at home, enjoy that too. I’ll be out running on Saturday and hanging with the family.

Enjoy the weekend, stay physically and digitally safe!

OEM News & Updates 📰

  • New, free, open source Attack Surface Assessment Tool for Microsoft Power Platform to help security teams identify and manage security risks.

  • Provides complete visibility into the Power Platform assets, identifies vulnerabilities such as apps created by deleted users, untrusted connectors, and potential data leakage in PBI reports.

  • Cool release. Thanks.

  • BrowserStack has introduced a new solution that allows anyone to create AI driven automated tests without coding skills,

  • Aims to overcome slow and manual testing cycles and archaic tools and processes associated it it.

  • The tool is designed to be accessible for newcomers and helps teams save time by automating test processes.

  • Microsoft will launch a public preview of a feature in Copilot Studio to create autonomous AI Agents for routine tasks.

  • These agents can run on various AI models

  • Users can view the internal logic of agents and access an “Activity” tab to monitor their actions and decisions.

  • Goal of this is to help orgs automate workflows and enhance business processes through programmable AI agents.

  • Cloudflare introduced Access for Infrastructure SSH, replacing traditional SSH keys with short-lived certs to enhance security and simplify management.

  • This approach allows for strong MFA, device context, and policy based access controls.

  • Emphasizes ZT principles for logging and tracking of SSH access commands.

  • Free for teams with fewer than 50 users

  • BigID has launched a DSPM starter app built natively in Snowflake to enhance data security and compliance for Snowflake customers.

  • The app integrates seamlessly with Snowflake providing rapid data discovery and classification, improving data security posture, and operational efficiency.

  • The app offers over 250+ classifiers for comprehensive visibility into sensitive data, allowing organizations to manage access and eliminate risks without complex integrations.

  • Major props to ProsperOps in general. These guys are doing great things.

  • They launched Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) for Azure Compute, allowing customers to automate rate optimization for Azure services just like they do for GCP and AWS.

  • The initial launch supports VMs, Dedicated Hosts, App Service, Azure K8s Service, Virtual Desktop, Functions, Container Apps, Container Instances and Spring Apps.

  • ADM helps FinOps Team see into azure and maximize savings and reduce commitment lock-in risk.

  • New service from CS - AI Red Team to enhance the security of AI systems including LLMs.

  • The service aims to address threats like model tampering, data poisoning, and sensitive data exposure. All new buzzwords.

  • Offers assessments, pen testing, and targeted evaluations to identify vulnerabilities.

  • Microsoft introduced Magnetic-One, a multi-agent infrastructure that allows a single AI model to manage various helper agents for complex tasks.

  • The framework and its evaluation tool, AutoGenBench, are OSS and available for commercial use under a custom MSFT license (of course).

  • Magnetic-One uses an Orchestrator Agent to direct other agents, manage tasks, and adapt to dynamic environments.

  • First of many frameworks for managing AI Agents to come.

  • Itential has launched a new Automation Service to help NetDevOps engineers standardize, execute, and securely share infrastructure automations across teams.

  • The service includes a redefined Itential Automation Gateway (IAG) for running Python Scripts, Ansible Playbooks, and OpenTofu plans.

  • The service offers secure authorization and RBAC, enabling teams to access and execute automations independently.

Articles I Liked This Week 💡

Tech Funding & M&A 💸

  • Bugcrowd is a California based cybersecurity platform that provides solutions such as penetration testing and attack surface management for enterprises.

  • Dash0 is a German based observability platform designed to centralize data from various systems and teams leveraging OpenTelemetry.

  • Perplexity AI is a California based AI chat based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using LLMs.

  • Adaptive Shield is an Israel based cybersecurity platform that offers solutions such as threat detection and security posture management for businesses.

  • AzireVPN is a Sweden based company focusing on privacy focused VPN services that offer several features for security for businesses.

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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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