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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New Commvault and Kyndryl partnership focuses on hybrid cloud recovery and regulatory compliance

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced a new partnership with information technology consultancy Kyndryl Holdings Inc. to help customers recover faster, advance cyber resilience and navigate the evolving regulatory landscape. The partnership between the two companies will see Commvault augment Kyndryl’s portfolio of cyber resiliency services, encompassing Incident Recovery Services, including Cyber Incident Recovery, Managed Backup Services and ...

Kusari debuts AI-powered pull request security tool for software supply chain protection

Software supply chain security company Kusari Inc. today unveiled Kusari Inspector, an artificial intelligence-based pull request security tool that provides security risk analysis directly into developers’ daily workflows. The new service brings together a combination of industry standards, AI and dependency graph analysis to assist organizations to detect software supply chain risks early during the pull request ...

CrowdStrike launches Falcon for AWS Security Incident Response at re:Inforce 2025

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today unveiled a new incident response service for Amazon Web Services Inc. customers that offers cyber protection from the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform at preferred rates in the AWS Marketplace. Announced at the AWS re:Inforce 2025 conference, the new Falcon for AWS Security Incident Response offers AI-powered incident response and is designed ...

Cyolo updates privileged access platform with tools to monitor unmanaged vendor connections

Remote privileged access management company Cyolo Ltd. today announced a major update to its Cyolo PRO, or Privileged Remote Operations, platform, introducing new capabilities designed to improve visibility, security and operational agility in industrial and cyber-physical system environments. Leading the list of new features is Third-Party VPN Control, a capability that allows organizations to enforce access policies ...

Operant AI expands Gatekeeper platform with MCP Gateway for AI runtime security

Operant AI Inc., a startup that offers a runtime application protection platform, today announced the launch of MCP Gateway, an expansion of its AI Gatekeeper platform that offers comprehensive security for Model Context Protocol applications. The company says its MCP Gateway is the first enterprise-grade solution to secure MCP servers and AI agents across infrastructure ...

Clay reportedly raises new funding led by CapitalG on a $3B valuation

Artificial intelligence-driven sales and marketing startup Clay Labs Inc. has reportedly raised a Series C round of funding on a $3 billion valuation, just shy of a year after the company previously raised a Series B round of $46 million on a $500 million valuation. According to TechCrunch, which first reported the news, the round was led ...

New AuthZed tools enforce permissions in RAG and agentic AI systems

Permissions management startup AuthZed Inc. today announced new support for retrieval-augmented generation and agentic artificial intelligence systems, expanding its authorization infrastructure to address security challenges in enterprise AI. The expanded support is designed to give engineering teams the tools they need to ensure that AI systems respect permissions, prevent data leaks and maintain complete audit trails. The ...

Identity and access management failure in Google Cloud causes widespread internet service disruptions

An identity and access management failure within Google Cloud earlier today caused widespread service disruptions across a range of internet services, including portions of Cloudflare Inc., Google Workspace apps and third-party platforms reliant on Google infrastructure. The incident began late Wednesday morning PDT and was traced to a misconfiguration within Google Cloud’s IAM systems. The ...

Chime jumps 37% in Nasdaq debut after raising $700M in IPO

Investors in Chime Financial Inc. had much to cheer about today after the financial services company closed its first day of trading on the Nasdaq up more than 37% after the company’s shares made their debut on the exchange at the start of trading. The company, which revealed it had filed paperwork to go public with ...

Vanta launches AI Agent to automate compliance workflows

Cybersecurity compliance startup Vanta Inc. today announced the launch of Vanta AI Agent, a new agent designed to handle end-to-end workflows autonomously across a company’s entire compliance program. The new agent, powered by Vanta AI, contextually guides organizations through key tasks, accurately identifies issues and inconsistencies humans might miss and proactively takes action on their behalf, while ...