News for today:
- Immersive’s Cyber Workforce Benchmark Report 2025. Immersive released its 2025 report benchmarking the cyber workforce, combining survey data (which Osterman gathered), performance data from the Immersive One platform, results from a crisis simulation, and Immersive’s resilience score. The report reveals a widening gap between confidence and capability in cybersecurity. Despite record investment, heightened board oversight, and nonstop training, measurable readiness has flatlined. While nearly every organization believes it can handle a major incident, the data tells a different story. Immersive
- AvePoint AgentPulse Command Center. AvePoint launched its AgentPulse Command Center, newly part of its Confidence Platform. AgentPulse is a registry for AI agents. AgentPulse delivers comprehensive visibility so IT and security teams can confidently scale agentic AI and further innovation, without compromising data security or racking up extra costs. AvePoint
- Cayosoft Guardian SaaS. Cayosoft released a cloud version of Guardian, its identity protection platform for Microsoft AD and Entra ID. Guardian SaaS delivers Cayosoft’s identity threat detection, change monitoring, and rollback as a service offering, with features including continuous change monitoring, one-click rollback and automated remediation, and audit-ready reporting, among others. General availability due Q1 2026. Cayosoft
- Varonis integrates with Microsoft Purview. Varonis integrated its data security platform with Microsoft Purview, to allow data security teams to have full visibility into the organization’s sensitive data across SaaS, IaaS, and hybrid cloud environments. Customers can easily enable Varonis data signals in Purview to see data asset and risk information (such as permissions, location, sensitive information types) on their external data environments. The integration is currently available and seamlessly enabled through Microsoft Sentinel Data Lake and the Microsoft Purview portal. Varonis
- Radware’s new LLM firewall. Radware introduced an add-on to its Cloud Application Protection Services – the LLM Firewall, to protect LLM prompt and response activities from attacks and abuse. Radware’s new LLM Firewall is built around the premise that AI security must be enforced at the prompt in order to defend against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and resource abuse. Think of it as WAF for LLMs, but instead of guarding against HTTP-level exploits, it helps mitigate against natural language exploits specific to LLM behavior, and enhances protection for LLM models and integration, in real time. Radware
- Dispersive partner program launched. Dispersive launched Dispersive Accelerate, a new partner program for solution providers, integrators, and cloud partners. Dispersive Accelerate provides structured enablement, co-marketing resources, and joint sales support to help partners expand reach and accelerate growth. Program participants benefit from tiered rewards, deal registration, market development funds (MDF), and co-selling opportunities across major cloud service providers marketplaces. Dispersive
- Huntress acquired Inside Agent. Huntress acquired Inside Agent to expand and accelerate its new identity security posture management solution. Inside Agent is based in London. The forthcoming Huntress Identity Security Posture Management solution will assess over 100 checks and balances across environments based on industry-recognized standards and continuously monitor for misconfigurations, stale accounts, and excessive privileges — the exact weaknesses attackers exploit to get a foothold. This preventative approach to identity security will proactively stop threat actors before credentials or session tokens are weaponized, and reduce identity-related incidents and alerts. Huntress