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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Feedzai raises $75M at $2B valuation, secures key role in digital euro fraud prevention

Fraud and financial crime prevention platform company Feedzai Inc. revealed today that it has raised $75 million in new funding on a valuation of more than $2 billion. The company also said it has signed a framework agreement with the European Central Bank to provide the central fraud detection and prevention mechanism for the digital ...

Alation launches Agent Builder to bring enterprise-grade AI agents to structured data

Data intelligence company Alation Inc. today announced the launch of Alation Agent Builder, an artificial intelligence platform that gives enterprises the ability to deliver production-ready agents. The new offering, announced at the company’s annual revAlation user conference, gives organizations the ability to build, manage and deploy metadata-aware, configurable AI agents for structured data that have dramatically higher ...

Exabeam Nova update lets SOC teams measure security maturity against industry peers

Security intelligence and management solutions company Exabeam Inc. today announced new capabilities in the Exabeam Nova Advisor Agent and Outcomes Navigator. The features allow security leaders to compare their security posture anonymously against similar organizations based on configurable parameters like industry, region and company size. The release is designed to help security teams prioritize resources, justify investments, prove ...

Bonterra Que brings agentic AI to nonprofits for smarter fundraising and grant management

Nonprofit technology provider Bonterra LLC today announced the launch of Bonterra Que, a full agentic artificial intelligence platform purpose-built for the “social good sector,” spanning the entire ecosystem of funders, nonprofits and supporters. Que has been designed to be different from generative AI tools by not just analyzing or advising, but also acting and helping ...

Marigold sells enterprise business to Zeta Global in deal worth up to $325M

Marketing technology firm Zeta Global Holdings Corp. announced today that it will acquire the enterprise software business of Marigold in a deal valued at up to $325 million. Under the terms of the deal, Zeta will acquire several enterprise-focused platforms of Marigold, officially named Iris Holding LP. They include Cheetah Digital, Selligent, Sailthru, Liveclicker, Grow and Marigold ...

Fortanix and BigID team up to automate discovery and protection of sensitive data

Multicloud security firm Fortanix Inc. today announced a new integration with data protection firm BigID Inc. that automates discovery, classification and protection of sensitive data. The integration sees Fortanix’s Data Security Manager and BigID’s data discovery and classification capabilities working together to trigger protection actions automatically whenever sensitive data is classified. The result eliminates manual intervention while ...

‘Gemini Trifecta’ vulnerabilities in Google AI highlight risks of indirect prompt injection

A new report out today from network security company Tenable Holdings Inc. details three significant flaws that were found in Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence suite that highlight the risks of prompt injection and the growing need for dedicated AI security practices. The vulnerabilities, dubbed the “Gemini Trifecta,” were discovered in Gemini Cloud Assist, Gemini Search ...

Microsoft expands Sentinel and Copilot to secure AI-driven enterprises

Microsoft Corp. today unveiled a set of security innovations designed to help enterprises defend in an era where artificial intelligence is both a tool and a target. Leading the list of announcements is a major expansion of Microsoft Sentinel, its cloud-native security operations platform, which is evolving from a cloud-native security information and event management ...

Permiso expands identity security platform to cover AI users, builders and agents

Identity threat detection and response startup Permiso Security Inc. today announced an expansion of its platform to include protection for artificial intelligence identities, including users, builders and agents, to give enterprises a single platform to protect all digital identities against cybersecurity threats. Permiso is pitching the expanded solution as being unique in the market in that it ...

Dope.security debuts DOPAMINE DLP to modernize data loss prevention with AI

Cybersecurity startup dope.security Inc. today announced the launch of DOPAMINE DLP, a large language model-powered endpoint data loss prevention solution that allows enterprises to monitor and block sensitive file uploads with higher accuracy by understanding content context rather than relying on regex or pattern matching. The new offering, built into dope.security’s existing agent, has been designed to ...