Enterprise Technology News for the Week of June 27th
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The editors at Solutions Review have curated a "greatest hits" collection of noteworthy enterprise technology news from the week of June 27th.
Keeping tabs on the most relevant enterprise technology news can be time-consuming. To help, the Solutions Review editorial team has summarized some of the week's top headlines in the marketplace from various categories, including cybersecurity, data management, ERP, marketing technology, and more.
Enterprise Technology News for the Week of June 27th
Abstract Security Announces LakeVilla
Abstract Security, a streaming-first security data operations company, has released LakeVilla, a cloud-native cold storage solution built for long-term security telemetry retention. With this offering, Abstract Security can deliver compliance-ready, highly accessible storage at a fraction of SIEM costs, without compromising performance or accessibility. Its features include instant searchability without rehydration, cost savings at an enterprise scale, tools for replaying archived data on demand, cloud-native flexibility, and a vendor-neutral design.
Acuvity Launches RYNO, a GenAI Security Platform
Acuvity, a runtime generative AI security platform company, has launched RYNO, a GenAI security platform purpose-built to deliver context-aware protection and adaptive risk management across users, applications, and AI-powered agents. The platform's core capabilities include real-time observability into GenAI usage, an adaptive risk engine, contextual intelligence (Context IQ), and a dynamic policy engine. These features give security teams the clarity, control, and confidence to boost innovation without compromising trust or compliance.
Axiad Launches an Automated Identity Verification Solution
Axiad, a global identity security company, has launched Axiad Confirm, an automated identity verification solution. Axiad Confirm is integrated within the Axiad Conductor credential management system (CMS) and aims to ensure secure identity verification before issuing robust credentials like smart cards or FIDO passkeys. With the solution, companies can prevent unauthorized access, support remote and distributed workforce onboarding, reduce help desk burden with biometric matching, streamline onboarding processes, and ensure compliance with multiple regulatory standards.
Barracuda Networks Debuts a Managed Vulnerability Security Service
Barracuda Networks, a cybersecurity company for businesses of all sizes, has announced the launch of Barracuda Managed Vulnerability Security. The fully managed service, powered by Barracuda's global Security Operations Center (SOC), will extend the BarracudaONE platform to help organizations proactively identify, assess, and prioritize vulnerabilities. Other features include expert-led vulnerability scanning, analysis, and contextual reporting tools. Barracuda's Managed Vulnerability Security offering is now available to new and existing customers through Barracuda's global network of resellers and Managed Service Providers.
Cognizant and Salesforce Expand Their Partnership with New Offerings
Cognizant has expanded its partnership with Salesforce with a new suite of customer and operations transformation services built for Salesforce's Agentforce. The offerings will help enterprises accelerate their shift to an AI-augmented workforce by enabling teams to combine human expertise with autonomous agents that drive productivity, responsiveness, and scalable impact. Additionally, with Salesforce's Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) program, Cognizant will offer clients a more flexible path to AI-powered operations.
Genesys Announces the Genesys Cloud AI Studio
Genesys, a global cloud provider of AI-powered experience orchestration solutions, has announced Genesys Cloud AI Studio. The Studio is a centralized innovation hub designed to move toward agentic AI-driven customer engagement and help organizations build, manage, and scale their AI initiatives faster. The first capability available in the Genesys Cloud AI Studio is Genesys Cloud AI Guides, which equips brands with tools for rapidly designing, deploying, and governing virtual agents that can operate with greater autonomy across complex, enterprise-wide customer journeys.
Genpact Announces the Availability of Its Genpact AP Suite
Genpact, a global advanced technology solutions company, has announced the general availability of its Genpact AP Suite. Powered by Microsoft Azure's AI stack, the new suite will provide users with a collection of autonomous, goal-oriented tools using advanced capabilities in document processing, predictive insights, and conversational AI. It consists of four product modules—AP Capture, AP Advance, AP Trace, and AP Assist—each equipped with a network of AI agents capable of proactively managing the nuances of accounts payable processes.
IFS Acquires TheLoops
IFS, the global enterprise cloud and Industrial AI software provider, has acquired TheLoops, an autonomous AI agent technology company. By applying TheLoops' agentic capabilities to its solution suite, IFS can offer an AI Agentic platform specifically built for managing the "mission-critical" assets and processes its clients rely on. For example, the addition of these AI agents can understand the unique semantics of an industry, adhere to customer-defined security standards, participate in enterprise workflows side-by-side with humans, and collaborate with specialized agents across integrated domains.
KnowBe4 Details Its Strategic Integration Partnership with Microsoft
KnowBe4, a cybersecurity platform that addresses human risk management, has announced a strategic integration with Microsoft to strengthen email security. As the first initiative in Microsoft's ICES (Integrated Cloud Email Security) vendor ecosystem, the integration aims to establish a blueprint for how security vendors can deliver enhanced protection for mutual customers. Integrating KnowBe4 Defend and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 will create multiple layers of analysis and detection to increase the likelihood of identifying and stopping threats before they reach end-users.
Kognitos Debuts Its Neurosymbolic AI Platform
Kognitos, an AI automation provider for business operations, has launched its neurosymbolic AI platform. The company's unique solution combines the reasoning of symbolic logic with the learning power of modern AI to help enterprises address hundreds of business automation use cases, consolidate their AI tools, and reduce technology sprawl. To support the launch of its platform, Kognito also announced it raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Prosperity7 Ventures. The company will use the funds to accelerate additional product development and market expansion efforts.
Salesforce Releases Agentforce 3
Salesforce, the global AI CRM, has announced Agentforce 3, a major upgrade to its digital labor platform. Agentforce 3 introduces a new Command Center, an updated Atlas architecture, built-in support for open standards like Model Context Protocol (MCP), and over two hundred pre-built industry actions to help teams speed time to value. Salesforce also announced an expansion for the AgentExchange ecosystem, giving customers access to plug-and-play services from over thirty partners, including brands like AWS, IBM, PayPal, Google Cloud, Cisco, and more. These updates will help businesses monitor, improve, and scale their AI workforce.
Sitecore Launches Sitecore.ai
Sitecore, a cloud-native digital experience platform, has launched Sitecore.ai, a new digital experience to allow marketers to explore how content, data, and intelligence come together to power the next era of digital engagement. The Sitecore.ai offering combines editorial storytelling, hands-on interaction, and episodic content to demonstrate how agentic can transform marketing efforts. It accomplishes this by giving marketers space to learn about real-time personalization, conversational discovery, intelligent automation, and other critical trends in the marketing world.
Snyk Acquires Invariant Labs, an AI Security Research Firm
Snyk, a secure AI software development company, has acquired Invariant Labs, a globally recognized AI security research firm and early pioneer in developing safeguards against emerging AI threats. The acquisition will help Snyk expand its research arm, Snyk Labs, by providing a talented team of preeminent researchers with a proven track record of industry-first intelligence on agentic attack vectors, MCP vulnerabilities, tool poisoning, and runtime detection techniques. "With Invariant Labs, we're accelerating our ability to identify, prioritize, and neutralize the next generation of Agentic AI threats before they reach production," said Manoj Nair, Chief Innovation Officer at Snyk.
Thales Releases New Capabilities for the Imperva Application Security Platform
Thales—an advanced technologies provider for the defense, aerospace, cyber, and digital sectors—has announced new detection and response capabilities for the Imperva Application Security platform. These features will help companies protect themselves against business logic attacks, such as Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA), the leading threat in the OWASP API Security Top 10. By integrating real-time detection with automated mitigation of risky APIs, the Imperva Application Security platform can deliver comprehensive protection against unauthorized data exposure and other complex business logic vulnerabilities across environments.
WatchGuard Technologies Announces WatchGuard Total MDR
WatchGuard Technologies, a global provider of unified cybersecurity solutions for managed service providers (MSPs), has announced WatchGuard Total MDR, a fully integrated, AI-powered managed detection and response (MDR) service. The WatchGuard Total MDR offering aims to deliver enterprise-grade security for WatchGuard endpoint, identity, network, and third-party Cloud applications. This will provide MSPs with efficient threat management, outsourced support services, 24/7 SOC coverage, access to technical account managers, quick onboarding, and accessible pricing.
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The AI-Driven VC: A New Era In Investing
Douglas Laney—a consultant, advisor, author, speaker, and instructor on data and analytics strategies—explains how AI is creating a new era for the venture capital industry. In an article, he says, "The AI-powered, data-driven model represents a fundamental change in venture capital decision-making because it outstrips basic enhancements in investment processes. Companies that integrate traditional venture capital wisdom with AI and analytical technologies produce better decisions while learning speedily from past experiences to provide enhanced services for their portfolio businesses."
We're Not Building AI to Think, We're Building It to Leave Us Behind
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