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Journalist covering cybersecurity and enterprise information technology. Contributing writer: Dark Reading https://authory.com/JeffreySchwartz www.linkedin.com/in/jeffaschwartz

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Quantum-Resistant Data Diode Secures Data on Edge Devices Forward Edge-AI's new Isidore Quantum is a compact, low-power hardware device that protects sensitive data on edge devices against quantum attacks.

Quantum-Resistant Data Diode Secures Sensitive Data on Edge Devices, Critical Systems - www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-secur...

04.03.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Zscaler-SquareX Deal Expands Zero Trust & Secure Browsing With merger, Zscaler will add the SquareX browser extension to the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform to boost its browser security capabilities.

Zscaler is the latest cybersecurity giant to snap up a secure Web browser technology provider with the acquistion of early-stage startup SquareX www.darkreading.com/remote-workf...

16.02.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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TransUnion's Real Networks Deal Focuses on Robocall Blocking The acquisition allows the credit reporting agency to add SMS spam and scam prevention to its robocall blocking capabilities.

TransUnion's Real Networks Deal Focuses on Robocall Blocking - www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/t...

12.02.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tenable Tackles AI Governance, Shadow AI Risks, Data Exposure The Tenable One AI Exposure add-on discovers unsanctioned AI use in the organization and enforces policy compliance with approved tools.

Tenable Tackles AI Governance, Shadow AI Risks, Data Exposure - www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/t...

30.01.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ServiceNow has agreed to acquire acquire Armis, an information technology/operational technology (IT/OT) cybersecurity platform provider for $7.75 billion. The deal is ServiceNow's largest purchase to date, and its fourth cybersecurity acquisition over the past year.

23.12.2025 23:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Microsoft to Bundle Security Copilot in M365 Enterprise License The move aims to expand the use of Security Copilot and comes with the launch of 12 new agents from Microsoft at the company's Ignite conference last week.

Microsoft Will Bundle Security Copilot With M365 Enterprise Licenses - www.darkreading.com/cybersecurit...

15.12.2025 21:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ServiceNow to Acquire NHI Provider Veza in Governance Play The deal, believed to be valued at $1 billion, will bring non-human identity access control of agents and machines to ServiceNow’s offerings

ServiceNow's Acquisition of NHI Provider Veza Strengthens Governance Portfolio

04.12.2025 21:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Varonis Acquires Email Security Provider SlashNext Varonis plans to integrate SlashNext's advanced phishing, BEC, and social engineering attack protection capabilities into its data security platform.

Varonis has acquired email security provider SlashNext and plans to add advanced phishing protection to its data security platform.
www.darkreading.com/endpoint-sec...

05.09.2025 19:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Quantum-Safe Alliance Aims to Accelerate PQC Implementation The new Quantum-Safe 360 Alliance will provide road maps, technology, and services to help organizations navigate the post-quantum cryptography transition before the 2030 deadline.

IBM Consulting, Keyfactor, Quantinuum and Thales are pooling their respective resources to provide enterprises with unified post-quantum cryptography (PQC) technology and services with the new Quantum-Safe 360 Alliance.

19.08.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Minimal, Hardened & Updated Daily: The New Standard for Secure Containers Chainguard provides DevSecOps teams with a library of "secure-by-default" container images so that they don't have to worry about software supply chain vulnerabilities. The startup is expanding its fo...

Chainguard is among the fastest-growing cybersecurity unicorns. Co-founder and CEO Dan Lorenc and newly appointed CISO Quincy Castro share their ambitious roadmap to expand its secure-by-default libraries to include Python, Java and a new Linux distro.

07.08.2025 16:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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LevelBlue Acquires Trustwave, Forms World's Largest Independent MSSP As the largest managed security services provider, the combined entity will offer cyber consulting, managed detection and response, and incident response services.

LevelBlue, the cybersecurity services business spun out of AT&T last year, announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Trustwave from The Chertoff Group-sponsored MC2 Security Fund for an undisclosed amount.

02.07.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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IBM Pushes for More Collaboration Between Security, Governance IBM is integrating its governance and AI security tools to address the risks associated with the AI adoption boom.

IBM has plans to integrate its watsonx.governance and Guardium AI Security offerings to help organizations integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their daily operations and to get security and governance teams on the same page.

25.06.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Securonix Acquires Threat Intelligence Firm ThreatQuotient The deal will combine Securonix's security information and event management (SIEM) platform with ThreatQuotient's threat detection and incident response (TDIR) offering to build an all-in-one security...

SIEM platform provider Securonix has acquired ThreatQuotient
to strengthen its breach detection and incident and response capabilities.

12.06.2025 16:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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F5 Acquires Agentic AI Security Startup Fletch Agentic AI technology will be integrated into the recently launched F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform.
06.06.2025 21:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tenable to Acquire AI Security Startup Apex Apex will enhance Tenable's AI Aware tool by mitigating the threats of AI applications and tools not governed by organizations, while enforcing existing security policies.

Apex Security will enhance Tenable's AI Aware by mitigating the threats and risks it finds, establishing best practices for AI security, and enforcing existing security policies.

02.06.2025 15:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Microsoft Readies Administrator Protection Option for Windows 11 Microsoft's David Weston describes the new feature as the most significant architectural Windows security change in a generation.

Microsoft's David Weston describes the new Administrator Protection feature it plans to roll out as the most significant architectural Windows security change in a generation. www.darkreading.com/endpoint-sec...

07.05.2025 16:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cisco Boosts XDR Platform, Splunk With Agentic AI Cisco joins the agentic AI wave with the introduction of advanced LLMs to autonomously verify and investigate attacks.

Among the new security capabilities that use agentic AI announced by Cisco at the RSA conference this week
Instant Attack Verification uses agentic AI to initiate and process incident investigations autonomously.

02.05.2025 16:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cloud Security recent news | Dark Reading Explore the latest news and expert commentary on Cloud Security, brought to you by the editors of Dark Reading

Palo Alto Networks has begun rolling out Cortex Cloud, the outgrowth of its efforts to provide a unified cloud security platform with automation and real-time detection and response capabilities for security operations centers (SOCs). www.darkreading.com/cloud-securi...

09.04.2025 18:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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Google Brings End-to-End Encryption to Gmail The new Google Workspace features will make it easier for enterprise customers to implement end-to-end encryption within Gmail.

New Google Workspace features will make it easier for enterprise customers to implement end-to-end encryption within Gmail.

02.04.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Microsoft Gives Security Copilot Some Autonomy New agentic AI capabilities in Microsoft Security Copilot will allow agents to triage threats and provide recommendations.

Microsoft is adding agentic AI capabilities to its Security Copilot, enabling the digital assistant to offload and automate specific processes now performed by security teams, such as triaging phishing alerts and vetting and remediating threats.

25.03.2025 16:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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HP Brings Quantum-Safe Encryption to Printers Starting this fall, HP's 8000 Series enterprise and commercial printers, which include Color LaserJet Enterprise MFP 8801, Mono MFP 8601, and LaserJet Pro Mono SFP 8501, will feature new quantum ASICs...

HP previewed enterprise and professional-grade printers resistant to quantum attacks at the company's annual Amplify partner conference in Nashville, Tenn. this week. The upgraded versions of the printers, which support the NIST PQC standards approved last year, are slated to arrive this fall.

21.03.2025 19:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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F5 Integrates API Security and Networking to Address AI Onslaught The new The F5 Application Delivery Controller and Security Platform combines BIG-IP, NGNIX and Distributed Cloud Services and new AI Gateway and AI Assistants.

At F5 AppWorld, the F5 Application Delivery Controller and Security Platform was launched. It combines BIG-IP, NGINX and Distributed Cloud Services and new AI Gateway and AI Assistants.

13.03.2025 18:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Armis Acquires Otorio to Expand OT Exposure Management Platform Armis will integrate Otorio's Titan platform with its cloud-based Centrix, bringing an on-premises option to the cloud-only offering.

Operational technology (OT) exposure management provider Armis has acquired OTORIO.

07.03.2025 21:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cisco's SnapAttack Deal Expands Splunk's Capabilities The addition of SnapAttack, a startup incubated by Booz Allen Hamilton’s Darklabs, will enhance Splunk with accelerated SIEM migration and proactive threat hunting.
04.03.2025 21:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Google Adds Quantum-Resistant Digital Signatures to Cloud KMS The new Cloud Key Management Service is part of Google’s new roadmap for implementing the new NIST-based post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards.

Google revealed its roadmap for implementing the National Institute for Science and Technology Standards’ (NIST’s) new post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards with the addition of quantum-resistant digital signature support to its Cloud Key Management Service (KMS).

20.02.2025 21:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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CyberArk Makes Identity Security Play With Zilla Acquisition CyberArk announces the Zilla deal on the same day leading identity service provider SailPoint returned to the public markets.
14.02.2025 17:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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7AI Streamlines Security Operations With Autonomous AI Agents Cybereason co-founders launch their second act with a security startup focused on offering a platform that uses agentic AI to offload repetitive tasks commonly performed by security analysts.
07.02.2025 18:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tenable to Acquire Vulcan Cyber to Boost Exposure Management Focus The deal, expected to close this quarter, will give Tenable One Exposure Management much-needed integration with over 100 third-party security tools and platforms.

Tenable is poised to fill significant gaps in its exposure management platform with its agreement to acquire Vulcan Cyber.

04.02.2025 19:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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CrowdStrike Highlights Magnitude of Insider Risk The impetus for CrowdStrike's new professional services came from last year's Famous Chollima threat actors, which used fake IT workers to infiltrate organizations and steal data.

A spike in activity by the group, known as Famous Chollima, was the impetus for the launch of CrowdStrike's Insider Risk Service, a set of professional services for detecting rogue IT workers and improving hiring practices. www.darkreading.com/insider-thre...

29.01.2025 21:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cisco Previews AI Defenses to Cloud Security Platform Set for release in March, Cisco AI Defense will provide algorithmic red teaming of large language models with technology that came over as part of the Robust Intelligence acquisition last year.

Cisco AI Defense, a new offering that will be available in March, was introduced last week. It is designed to provide automated model verification at that scale. www.darkreading.com/cloud-securi...

23.01.2025 17:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0