News for today:
- [Nutanix] +1 with ChronoScale. Nutanix announced a strategic partnership with ChronoScale, enabling joint customers to scale their AI investments – with the Nutanix Agentic AI software and the ChronoScale compute platform for AI workloads. Among other things: ChronoScale plans to leverage Nutanix software within its AI infrastructure platform to help deliver a broad portfolio of accelerated compute and AI services. The parties expect Nutanix software to help support customer onboarding, tenant management, service automation, virtualized infrastructure, managed Kubernetes environments, and advanced AI service offerings. ChronoScale’s platform is designed to support a broad ecosystem of technology partners. The companies also intend to jointly maintain demonstration and proof-of-concept environments to support customer evaluations and accelerate adoption of agentic AI solutions in the enterprise. Nutanix
- [Abnormal AI] More OpenAI inside. Abnormal AI will use more of OpenAI’s tech across its business and product development, with the intent of strengthening cyber defenses. The partnership starts with a shared commitment to using AI to protect and empower people. Abnormal’s mission is to stop cybercrime with AI. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. In cybersecurity, that means building advanced capabilities that protect people, strengthen defenders, and help organizations use AI to improve their security. Together, the companies can help customers accelerate the safe adoption of AI while achieving stronger operational and security outcomes. The goal is not simply to make AI available, but to help enterprises put it into production faster, apply it to meaningful business and security problems, and do so with appropriate visibility and control. Abnormal AI
- [Tufin] TOS upgrades. Tufin released v5.3 of its orchestration suite for organizations managing multiple security tools and vendors (most of them) facing impacts from accelerating AI change (again, most of them). There’s new goodies available, e.g., The new Tufin release extends the company’s Unified Control Plane with new integrations, AI-powered intelligence, and automation capabilities that help organizations consistently govern policy, continuously validate network security posture, and maintain continuous assurance across heterogeneous environments. Tufin
- [AppViewX] Identity security strategic appointments. AppViewX added several new people to its senior leadership bench to drive the company’s delivery of the next chapter of identity security solutions. The appointments strengthen AppViewX’s commercial execution and long-term strategy as the company scales beyond its roots in CLM, PKI, and PQC-readiness to address customer demand to secure machine identities, AI agents, and the cryptographic trust that underpins digital infrastructure. AppViewX
- [Pathlock] More DACH via mindsquare. Pathlock partnered with mindsquare (a tech consulting firm in the DACH region) for the delivery of AI-native access governance and GRC capabilities across the applications environment used by clients who are supported by mindsquare. Mindsquare is … adding to its portfolio a Converged IGA and GRC platform designed to work across multiple ERP and enterprise applications. Pathlock Cloud is an AI-native and multi-tenant platform that unifies identity governance, access risk analysis, elevated access management, application controls, and continuous monitoring into a single solution. By combining fine-grained access governance with real-time transaction-level analytics, Pathlock Cloud helps organizations to enforce controls, detect risky behavior, to help ensure compliance and auditability — all required to strengthen GRC processes in the AI era. Pathlock