News for today:
- [SonicWall] Endpoint security solution for MSPs. SonicWall launched a new endpoint security solution for its MSP partners selling into the SMB markets; there’s a standalone option and an MDR option. For MSPs and partners without an existing security practice, SonicWall Endpoint Security is also available as a fully managed MDR service through SonicSentry. SonicWall’s 24/7 SOC handles deployment, threat hunting, incident response and policy management, giving partners always-on protection and expert response without hiring additional analysts or carrying the operational burden of running a SOC themselves. SonicWall
- [Hexaware] Zero friction enterprise framework. Hexaware introduced a new delivery framework that attacks friction in a unified manner. The Zero Friction Enterprise unites Hexaware capabilities across modernization, cybersecurity, engineering, operations, quality, and enterprise software. By addressing friction across the estate as one connected system, the framework helps enterprises advance toward their North Star with greater speed, clarity, and control. Pillars: zero-trust, identity-first cybersecurity; modernization to reduce technical debt; AI-native engineering to remove backlog; zero defects through AI-led quality engineering; and more. Hexaware
- [Fortinet] Acquisition of Virtue AI. Fortinet announced the acquisition of Virtue AI, for the ability to protect more of an organization’s AI footprint. The acquisition complements what Fortinet is already doing via its FortiAIGate solution. FortiAIGate … safeguards large language models (LLMs) from prompt injections, data leakage, model poisoning, excessive resource consumption, and other emerging AI-specific risks. Virtue AI extends that security to AI models, applications, and agentic systems, from development through runtime, leveraging Virtue AI’s Guardian Agent abilities and key product capabilities, including agentic system red-teaming; agent protection, governance, and visibility; continuous AI validation; and real-time guardrails. Fortinet
- [CrowdStrike] Frontier AI risk protection for SMBs. CrowdStrike extended Project QuiltWorks, its risk protection framework for the cybersecurity implications of frontier AI, to SMBs. As frontier AI lowers the barrier to sophisticated attacks and collapses the window between vulnerability and exploitation, every organization becomes a target. Through global distributors, cloud marketplaces, and cybersecurity’s deepest channel partner ecosystem, CrowdStrike is bringing the only coordinated framework to secure every layer of frontier AI risk to SMBs worldwide. CrowdStrike