News – September 18, 2025

News for today:

  • Risk-based patching with Falcon for IT. CrowdStrike added risk-based patching to Falcon for IT, which gives IT and security teams a shared, unified view of vulnerabilities across Falcon-enabled endpoints, with prioritization scoring based on real-world exploitation likelihood. The offering includes various safety controls, for added confidence that patching won’t break things. CrowdStrike
  • Rehydrate by Absolute Security. Absolute Security updated its Secure Endpoint solution for Windows PCs with a new capability called Rehydrate. Rehydrate offers at-scale restoration of endpoints compromised by cyberattacks, ransomware, and IT incidents – in 30 minutes or less. Rehydrate is powered by the Absolute Resilience platform, embedded in the firmware of more than 600 million Windows PCs through OEM partnerships with more than 28 of the world’s leading device manufacturers. This nearly ubiquitous availability makes it easy for customers to quickly deploy the platform across their Windows 10 and Windows 11 device fleets and activate Rehydrate to enable the immediate restoration of compromised devices at scale. And yes, you can have it today. Absolute Security
  • New AI security controls for identity from BeyondTrust. BeyondTrust added new security controls for AI agents to Identity Security Insights. The controls offer visibility, orchestration, and decision-making support. With these advancements, BeyondTrust extends its proven Paths to Privilege and True Privilege capabilities to AI identities, unifying governance across the entire identity attack surface. Customers can move quickly with AI adoption, without compromise. Availability immediately. BeyondTrust
  • Cohesity and Semperis partner on identity resilience. Cohesity announced a new product – Cohesity Identity Resilience – which provides proactive hardening, recoverability, and forensic investigation capabilities for Active Directory and Entra ID. The new product is powered by Semperis. Cohesity Identity Resilience supports Active Directory protection and recovery across hybrid environments. The solution helps users protect and secure on-premises Active Directory and extends these safeguards to Microsoft Entra ID in the cloud. Organizations can protect and recover the source of authority for objects synchronized across their entire Active Directory and Entra ID identity landscape. Available immediately. Cohesity
  • Enhanced Partner Program from Tufin. Tufin updated its partner program, with enhanced tiers, expanded technical and sales enablement, new marketing support, recognition of partner commitment, and margin protection across all segments. Tufin

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