News for today:
- Agentic AI governance from AvePoint. AvePoint added new agentic AI governance and data protection capabilities to its Confidence Platform, for risk scoring of AI agents (posture, remediation) and support of multi-SaaS backup. In addition to new AI governance features, the Confidence Platform now supports additional multi‑SaaS backup sources—which include Okta, Confluence, Jira, DocuSign, Monday.com, GitHub, and Smartsheet—as well as new IaaS and PaaS sources, including Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft SQL Server, and Azure VMware. Each of these critical data sources are now captured in the Data Resiliency Command Center, so organizations have a quick view of where risk lies and how to mitigate it. AvePoint
- Gen Agent Trust Hub. Gen launched its Agent Trust Hub, to support safer adoption of autonomous AI agents by consumers. The Hub currently offers AI Skills Scanner, and the AI Skills Marketplace. e.g., AI Skills Scanner: A free diagnostic tool that allows users to scan any OpenClaw skill URL before installation. The Checker analyzes instructions for hidden logic, unauthorized data access, and malicious behavior, stopping compromised skills before they are deployed. Gen
- Avast Deepfake Guard. Avast (a Gen brand) launched Deepfake Guard, for detecting malicious audio in video content. Avast Deepfake Guard is designed to run on Windows PCs, delivering powerful protection on today’s devices while shining on the latest generation of AI PCs from Intel and Qualcomm. By bringing AI-driven deepfake scam detection to devices people already own, Avast is expanding access to advanced protection at a time when scam deepfakes are becoming more convincing and widespread. Gen
- Semperis acquired MightyID. Semperis announced the acquisition of MightyID, for its identity resilience capabilities. MightyID’s capabilities span backup, restore, migration, and failover for cloud identity platforms and are designed to ensure that authentication and access continue even when primary systems experience problems. Semperis
- Claude for thinking, not advertising. Anthropic committed to keeping conversations with Claude ad-free. Our analysis of conversations with Claude (conducted in a way that keeps all data private and anonymous) shows that an appreciable portion involve topics that are sensitive or deeply personal—the kinds of conversations you might have with a trusted advisor. Many other uses involve complex software engineering tasks, deep work, or thinking through difficult problems. The appearance of ads in these contexts would feel incongruous—and, in many cases, inappropriate. Anthropic
- Detectify Internal Scanning. Detectify launched a new capability for scanning internal applications for vulnerabilities; works on internal networks and across private apps. Detectify Internal Scanning is an internal vulnerability scanning solution that brings Detectify’s proprietary crawling and fuzzing engine behind your firewall. Built for AppSec and DevOps teams, it enables authenticated testing of internal applications, admin panels, staging environments, and microservices, all from a single, unified platform. Teams can now monitor both internal and external vulnerabilities side by side, without slowing down release cycles. Detectify