Cloud infrastructure automation company HashiCorp Inc. today kicked off its annual HashiConf in Boston with a range of new product announcements and enhancements focused on supporting enterprises as they scale up their platform teams with comprehensive infrastructure and security lifecycle management. The new capabilities address issues, including so-called Day 0 concerns, related to launching enterprise ...

Identity verification platform startup Nametag Inc. today announced the launch of a new identity verification engine and an expanded partnership with Okta Inc. to combat artificial intelligence-powered impersonation threats. The new identity verification engine, called Deepfake Defense, is designed to combat the escalating threat of AI-generated impersonation such as deepfakes. The engine combines Cryptographic Attestation, biometrics and ...

Open-source enterprise software firm SUSE S.A. today announced the release of two major updates designed to enhance edge computing capabilities for enterprises and telecommunications providers. The new solutions are aimed at streamlining operations, improving scalability and providing long-term support while also allowing organizations to deploy innovations faster and more efficiently at the edge. The updates also address ...

French artificial intelligence transcription and audio intelligence startup Gladia SAS announced today that it has raised $16 million in new funding and launched a multilingual real-time audio transcription and analytics engine. Founded in 2022, Gladia aims to help companies leverage cutting-edge AI and retrieve actionable insights from audio data. The company’s application programming interface supports ...

Electronic signature and cloud authentication cybersecurity company OneSpan Inc. today announced a new phishing-resistant transaction security service that strengthens protection against phishing and account takeover threats. Called VISION FX, the new solution combines OneSpan’s CRONTO transaction signaling with Fast Identity Online version 2 protocols into a single authentication solution. The solution promises to deliver the ...

Financial service company Fidelity Investments has suffered a data breach with the details of nearly 80,000 customers stolen. The data breach was disclosed in an Oct. 9 filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, which states that 77,099 persons were affected by the breach. It occurred on Aug. 17 but was only discovered two ...

A new report out today from Sonatype Inc. has revealed that open-source software adoption is at a multitrillion-request scale, with ecosystems such as JavaScript and Python leading the charge. The details come from Sonatype’s 10th Annual State of the Software Supply Chain report, based on data from more than 7 million open-source projects, which found ...

A new Microsoft Threat Intelligence report out today highlights the growing cybersecurity challenges facing educational institutions and the growing number of threat actors targeting them. The report, based on telemetry data from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and 78 trillion daily security signals processed by Microsoft across various platforms, found that educational institutions face an ...

Decentralized artificial intelligence infrastructure startup OpenGradient announced today that it has raised $8.5 million in new funding to build out its decentralized platform for sovereign, secure and open-source AI. Founded in 2023 as Vanna Laboratories Inc., OpenGradient is developing a decentralized platform that aims to make AI more secure, transparent and accessible. With a focus on ...

Israeli enterprise security startup Prime Security today launched and announced that it has raised $6 million in funding to accelerate research and development and expand its sales and engineering teams across its Tel Aviv and New York offices. Founded in 2023 as Primesec Inc., Prime Security offers organizations tools to implement security at the design phase ...