News – November 3, 2025

Welcome to news in November 2025. For today:

  • New AI cybersecurity capabilities from OpenText. OpenText announced several new AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities, with the intent of making AI core and central to security workflows, including threat detection and response, identity governance, and application testing. E.g., With OpenText Core Identity Foundation, organizations can unify identity and access across on-premises, cloud, and legacy environments without costly infrastructure overhauls. SaaS-based Zero Trust controls and enforces least-privilege access by fully managing all the edge identity stores across disparate environments as part of the Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) vision. Available immediately in OpenText Cloud Editions 25.4. OpenText
  • Cobalt expands its Offensive Security Platform. Cobalt expanded its Offensive Security Platform to embrace continuous threat testing – moving away from ad-hoc / point-in-time approaches. Cobalt helps organizations transform their pentesting program from a series of manual, disconnected tests into a single, optimized program. It provides the enterprise-grade controls, automation, and visibility businesses need to centralize their offensive security, from initial setup to final reporting. Cobalt
  • BT research on attacks against businesses. BT Group reported a significant uplift in the number of daily malicious scans for vulnerabilities across organizational networks in the UK – to 4,000 per day, up 300% over the past 12 months. These devices range from company laptops and mobile phones through to IoT devices, including office security cameras … BT said that once a system vulnerability has been identified when hackers carry out malicious scouting tactics, it can lead to the launch of a cyber-attack such as ransomware, which can compromise an entire business. National Technology News

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