Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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BreachRx launches Mobile Command app to empower executives during cyber incidents

Incident response startup BreachRx Inc. today announced the launch of BreachRx Mobile Command, a cyber incident response management app built specifically for C-suite and business leaders. BreachRx Mobile Command has been designed to solve what the company says is a critical challenge for today’s organizations: giving executives and security teams a direct, unified channel to communicate crucial ...

Reflectiz raises $22M to protect enterprise websites from third-party and open-source risks

Web exposure management platform startup Reflectiz Ltd. revealed today that it has raised $22 million in new funding to expand its current product offering. The company plans to use the money to provide comprehensive continuous threat exposure management for websites, as well as support its growing partner and alliances network and go-to-market acceleration. Founded in ...

Commvault launches Conversational AI and Data Rooms to unify cyber resilience and responsible AI

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced two innovations — Conversational AI and Data Rooms — that are designed to transform how enterprises manage, protect and activate their data in the age of artificial intelligence. The announcements, made ahead of the company’s SHIFT 2025 conference, are said by Commvault’s to underscore its mission to unify cyber ...

Acronis Cyber Protect Local brings cloud-grade security to local and sovereign deployments

Cybersecurity and data protection company Acronis International GmbH today announced the launch of Acronis Cyber Protect Local, a new solution that delivers natively integrated cyber resilience for on-premises, sovereign private cloud, and air-gapped information technology and operational technology environments. Cyber Protect Local is designed for organizations where cloud deployment is not an option and combines ...

Opaque introduces confidential AI platform with end-to-end privacy and compliance guarantees

Confidential artificial intelligence platform provider Opaque Systems Inc. today announced the launch of Opaque Studio, a new service for accelerating the secure development of Confidential AI agents. Confidential AI involves systems that can process sensitive or proprietary data within secure, hardware-attested environments while ensuring provable privacy and policy compliance at every stage of execution. The concept allows ...

Cybersecurity stocks diverge as Commvault disappoints and Check Point surges on AI-driven results

Commvault Systems Inc. and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. reported earnings early today, to widely different investor reactions: Commvault shares plunged more than 16%, while Check Point shares rose more than 6% in regular trading. Commvault Commvault, for its fiscal second quarter ended Sept. 30, reported adjusted earnings per share of 91 cents, up from 83 cents per ...

Xage extends zero trust to AI agents and data centers through Nvidia BlueField integration

Zero-trust cybersecurity company Xage Security Inc. today announced the integration of the Xage Fabric Platform with the Nvidia BlueField data processing unit to deliver advanced security controls for AI factories and critical infrastructure. With the integration, Xage will scale identity-based access controls across massive data centers and mission-critical environments, ensuring exceptional performance and resilience. The ...

Fortanix and Nvidia team up to enable confidential AI in healthcare, finance and government

Data security company Fortanix Inc. today announced a new joint solution with Nvidia Corp. that offers a turnkey, on-premises platform for running secure and sovereign, agentic artificial intelligence in AI Factories and highly regulated environments. The new solution allows enterprises to run AI on sensitive data with verifiable trust and compliance that includes a confidential ...

Palo Alto Networks introduces Prisma AIRS 2.0, Cortex Cloud 2.0 and AgentiX to secure the agentic enterprise

Palo Alto Networks Inc. today announced upgrades to its cybersecurity lineup with three major releases, Prisma AIRS 2.0, Cortex Cloud 2.0 and Cortex AgentiX, that aim to secure the fast-growing world of agentic artificial intelligence and autonomous cloud operations. Leading the list is the launch of Prism AIRS 2.0, an upgrade that expands the company’s security ...

Socratix AI raises $4.1M to build autonomous coworkers for fraud and risk teams

Socratix AI Inc., a startup building autonomous artificial intelligence coworkers for fraud and risk teams, announced today that it has raised $4.1 million in funding to expand participation in fraud and risk industry organizations and support product research and development. Founded earlier this year, Socratix AI is focused on developing autonomous AI coworkers designed specifically ...