News for today:
- [Project Watershed 250] Protecting water facilities. The Office of the National Cyber Director at the White House and multiple cybersecurity companies are working together to harden critical infrastructure organizations against AI-enabled attacks, among others. The program is being trialled in Texas over the next six months. Partners include:
- [CrowdStrike] Fal.con 2026 Conference – this week. CrowdStrike’s annual user conference is on this week in Texas; there’s more than 10,000 attendees and more than 150 partner sponsors. Integragions and partnerships with CrowdStrike were announced by:
- Nile – network events, policy-driven security alerts, and audit logs of access activity now flow into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.
- Aembit – AI agent access and MCP transactions flow through Falcon AI Detection and Response; for identity-based access policies and protecting AI interactions.
- SailPoint – identity governance and access data from SailPoint SecOps Identity Intelligence flows into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM; aids correlation and better context.
- Sublime Security – email security data flows into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM; for correlation of email signal data with other data streams, e.g., identity, endpoint, cloud, etc.
- [Cohesity] Managed Clean Room. Cohesity extended the HCLTech VaultNXT offering with a managed clean room capability, for post-cyberattack recoverability. HCLTech … [offers] policy-driven cyber vaulting, immutable clean recovery copies, governed access, and audit-ready processes specifically addressing DORA, NIS2, and other resilience and regulatory requirements. This latest enhancement integrating the Cohesity Clean Room solution and AI-powered data security capabilities into the VaultNXT framework delivers a fully managed, isolated recovery environment with secure investigation, containment, validation, and recovery capabilities. Cohesity
- [KnowBe4] Defend for Google Workspace. KnowBe4 launched Defend for Google Workspace, bringing email and collaboration security capabilities to users of Google Workspace. Defend is all about threat detection and real-time employee coaching. At the core of Defend for Google Workspace is a multi-engine behavioral AI model, trained on KnowBe4’s proprietary telemetry of more than 1.15 billion daily event signals and 16 years of behavioral insight. The platform evaluates messages across multi-layered intent signals simultaneously, catching advanced BEC, zero-payload phishing, and prompt injection attacks that native Google controls often miss. Available mid-September. KnowBe4
- [Varonis] Varonis + Snowflake. Varonis announced that it’s a premier partner with Snowflake, and its solutions are available via the Snowflake Marketplace. On the second: Snowflake customers can now find Varonis on the Snowflake Marketplace and put a portion of their committed capacity toward Varonis through the Snowflake Marketplace Capacity Drawdown (MCD) program. Varonis