News for today:
- Securiti AI purchased by Veeam for $1.725 billion. As noted as a possibility a few weeks ago, Veeam purchased Securiti AI. The acquisition combines Securiti’s data security posture management capabilities with Veeam’s recovery and rollback suite. With the acquisition of Securiti AI, Veeam eliminates the challenge of managing fragmented data across apps, clouds, SaaS, endpoints, and backups. CIOs, CISOs, and CDOs will have a unified command center to fully control and understand all their data, as well as secure it with near-zero data loss or business downtime, recover and rollback data and AI with precision, and safely unleash AI innovation. This single control plane across production and secondary data enables enterprises to uniformly command their entire data estate – combining Veeam’s trusted data resilience capabilities with Securiti AI’s leading DSPM, data privacy, and AI trust capabilities. Veeam and Bloomberg
- Ivanti security updates. Ivanti released security updates across its products, including for endpoint management and security. e.g., Ivanti Neurons supports non-persistent virtual desktops as seamlessly as physical devices. IT teams get unified, automated control over every desktop —speeding up cloud migrations and reducing manual efforts by supporting all common endpoint environments. Available for beta testing and a new AI-powered diagnostics experience in Ivanti Neurons Workspace is available for customers in tech preview, using large language models and edge sensors to automate device issue detection and root cause analysis. Easily identify and solve device problems with AI Diagnostics. Just enter your symptoms and get instant root cause analysis and clear next steps, resulting in faster resolutions. Ivanti
- New USB fingerprint scanner from BIO-key. BIO-key released the next generation of its EcoID USB fingerprint scanner, with better quality, faster captures, and liveness detection. By pairing encrypted device-to-host communications with liveness detection, EcoID III gives enterprises a fast, more secure way to authenticate users without phones or tokens. We’re already delivering the first volume orders to our government customers. BIO-key (PDF)