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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

Industrial cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks Inc. today announced an updated cybersecurity solution that automates threat response in operational environments to give users robust, automated threat prevention capabilities for operational technology endpoints. The update to Nozomi Arc, which first launched in 2023, sees the introduction of three operational modules, Detection, Quarantine and Delete, that give users flexibility based ...

Shares in F5 Inc. fell more than 6% in late trading today after the application security firm reported earnings and revenue beats but gave weaker-than-expected guidance following a security breach in October. For its fourth quarter that ended on Sept. 30, F5 reported adjusted earnings per share of $4.39, up from $3.67 in the same quarter ...

Machine learning cybersecurity firm Darktrace PLC today announced a number of new innovations across its ActiveAI Security Platform to protect organizations from increasingly complex, multivector and novel attacks. Central to the update is the introduction of NEXT — a Network Endpoint eXtended Telemetry agent that natively combines full network packet data with endpoint process data using self-learning ...

Data center company Crusoe Energy Systems LLC has reportedly raised $1.3 billion to acquire advanced hardware and support the rapid buildout of large-scale artificial intelligence data centers. According to the Financial Times today, the funding was raised on a valuation of about $10 billion. Crusoe hasn’t yet announced the funding. Founded in 2018, Crusoe started ...

Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. revealed today that it has raised $280 million in new funding to help meet growing demand and accelerate its mission to make open-source software trustworthy by default. Founded in 2021, Chainguard helps organizations build, deploy and run open-source software with minimized risk from vulnerabilities and supply chain attacks. The ...