All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🛡️ Microsoft outlines how defenders can harness AI to counter an accelerating threat environment. Through Project Glasswing and partnerships with model providers such as Anthropic, Microsoft tested Claude Mythos Preview against the CTI-REALM benchmark and observed meaningful detection improvements. The company plans to integrate advanced models into its Security Development Lifecycle, deploy rapid Defender detections, and share protections through MSRC and MAPP. The Secure Now exposure-management experience is available today, and a multi-model scanning harness is expected in preview in June 2026.

🔒 AWS Security Hub Extended consolidates AWS and curated partner security services into a unified, pay-as-you-go offering for multicloud full-stack protection. It centralizes procurement, billing, and operations across endpoint, identity, email, network, data, browser, cloud, and AI protections while integrating findings in OCSF format. Customers can onboard via the AWS Console, assign delegated administrator accounts for centralized management, and route normalized findings to tools such as Splunk and 7AI for coordinated response.

🔐 AWS Secrets Manager now supports managed external secrets for MongoDB Atlas and Confluent Cloud, enabling centralized secret storage and automatic rotation without building custom Lambda rotation functions. The MongoDB integration handles database user credentials (SCRAM) and service account OAuth client ID/secret; Confluent automates API key rotation for service accounts with cluster-scoped and cloud resource management keys. Automatic rotation is enabled by default to remove hardcoded credentials and reduce operational overhead.

🤝 Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud announced integrated protections to secure the shift from generative to agentic AI. Native Prisma AIRS integration with Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform governs agentic workflows and prevents runtime agent risks, prompt injection, and sensitive-data leakage. A Palo Alto Networks template in Google Cloud’s Application Design Center enables security-as-code, while Advanced WildFire is embedded in Google Cloud NGFW Enterprise for inline sandboxing and zero-day prevention. A Prisma AIRS Model Security agent will be available via the Google Cloud Marketplace as Agent-as-a-Service and runs inside customers’ Google Cloud environments.

🚀 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore introduces a managed harness (preview), an AgentCore CLI, and prebuilt skills to help developers build and iterate on agents faster. The managed harness runs the complete agent loop in a per-session microVM with filesystem and shell access, supports model-agnostic switching, and lets teams export orchestration as Strands-based code. Filesystem persistence (preview) enables suspending and resuming sessions, and the CLI integrates with AWS CDK to deploy agents with governance and audibility.

🔬 Microsoft Discovery is an extensible platform that brings agentic orchestration, advanced reasoning, a graph-based knowledge foundation, and high-performance computing to enterprise R&D. It equips specialized agents to reason across proprietary data and external literature, generate hypotheses, and validate them through simulation and lab integrations under centralized governance. Built on Azure, the platform emphasizes security, compliance, partner interoperability, and enterprise-grade controls while remaining in preview.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud outline a platform-based approach to scale AI agents securely for business-critical use. The post emphasizes a layered architecture and more than 80 co-engineered integrations to provide visibility, lifecycle management and AI-driven security across hybrid cloud environments. It highlights $2.4 billion in GCP bookings and four 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year awards as evidence of proven scale and customer impact.

🎬 Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) Low-Latency Streaming now supports server-side ad insertion (SSAI), enabling creators to monetize live streams with server-stitched ads. IVS integrates with AWS Elemental MediaTailor to deliver ad decisioning, audience targeting, and personalization while keeping client integration simple. The service provides an API to insert ad breaks in real time and includes ad markers in Amazon S3 recordings to support on-demand monetization. Server-side stitching also reduces the impact of client-side ad blockers.

🔔 Amazon announced that Amazon EC2 for SQL Server HA now emits health notifications when it cannot detect a valid SQL Server High Availability status. Customers who register EC2 SQL HA clusters via the AWS Console or CloudFormation can receive alerts through the AWS Health Dashboard, Amazon EventBridge, and email. These notifications help teams respond quickly and avoid unexpected license-included billing or charges. The feature is available in all Regions where EC2 SQL HA is supported, including AWS GovCloud (US).

🔒 The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has launched SilentGlass, a plug-and-play hardware device that actively blocks unexpected or malicious signals between HDMI and DisplayPort connections and monitor screens. Unveiled at CYBERUK on April 22 and already deployed on government estates, SilentGlass is approved for high-threat environments and is now available for public purchase. The NCSC partnered with Goldilock Labs and Sony UK to manufacture and commercialize the device globally.

🚀 Check Point is rolling out an AI-powered Cloud Firewall as a Service available for preview on Google Cloud and already supported on AWS and Microsoft Azure. The managed service removes the burden of running firewall infrastructure, giving DevOps and security teams time to focus on policy management, compliance, and strategic initiatives. It delivers AI-driven security intelligence, automated policy orchestration, centralized control, and advanced threat prevention across multi-cloud environments. Demos will be shown at Check Point Booth #3101 during Google Next.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks has joined DNS-OARC as a Platinum Member, reinforcing collaboration between DNS operators, researchers, and security practitioners. As a Platinum Member, our subject matter experts will engage in community discussions and contribute research on evolving DNS threats and large-scale operational challenges. These contributions will help integrate community-driven intelligence into Unit 42 threat findings and improve protections across our Network, Cloud, Security Operations, AI and Identity offerings for customers worldwide.

🧭 Google published an official Agent Skills repository to provide compact, agent-focused expertise for Google Cloud products and best practices. Skills are Markdown-based, modular documents that include code snippets and assets and are designed to be loaded by agents only as needed, reducing the risk of context bloat and token cost spikes. The initial release includes thirteen skills spanning BigQuery, GKE, Cloud Run, AlloyDB, Firebase, the Gemini API, Well‑Architected pillars like Security and Cost Optimization, and operational recipes. Installable via the skills CLI, these assets work with agents such as Antigravity, the Gemini CLI, and other third-party agents.

🛠 Cloudflare explains reliability improvements for Rust Workers that prevent panics and aborts from poisoning Wasm instances. They upstreamed fixes into wasm-bindgen, adding panic=unwind support via WebAssembly Exception Handling so Rust destructors run and instances remain reusable after a panic. They also implemented abort classification, an abort recovery hook, and an experimental --reset-state-function to reinitialize libraries without reimporting them. Users are encouraged to upgrade to workers-rs 0.8.0 and try the --panic-unwind flag for improved stability.

⚙️ Microsoft is rolling out an Efficiency Mode for Teams on Windows and Mac to improve responsiveness on devices with constrained CPU and memory. Enabled by default on eligible systems, the mode dynamically reduces camera resolution during meetings, launches the app without a pre-selected chat, and displays a static image in the message pane. The change begins in early May 2026 and will complete by mid-May. Users can opt out via Settings > General by toggling on "Never use efficiency mode," and Teams will display an indicator when the mode is active.

🤖 Google Cloud introduced a next-generation cross-cloud Lakehouse engineered for the agentic AI era. It combines fully managed Apache Iceberg storage with read/write interoperability, a high-performance Managed Service for Apache Spark, and BigQuery integration to run multimodal workloads in real time. The service adds cross-cloud interconnect and caching to access AWS and Azure data with low latency, and unified governance via Knowledge Catalog to secure and profile data. Customers like Spotify and partners such as Accenture are already testing the platform.

🛡️ Google Cloud has launched Fraud Defense, a trust platform that advances reCAPTCHA to address risks from autonomous AI agents as well as traditional bots and human fraud. The offering includes agentic activity measurement, an agentic policy engine for granular controls across the customer journey, and an AI-resistant QR code challenge to request human presence when needed. It integrates industry standards such as Web Bot Auth and SPIFEE and leverages Google’s global signals to enable largely invisible verification for legitimate users. Existing reCAPTCHA customers are automatically included with no migration or pricing changes.

🚀 Google Cloud announced storage enhancements at Next '26 to accelerate AI workloads across performance, intelligence, and management layers. The new Cloud Storage Rapid family (Rapid Bucket and Rapid Cache) and upgraded Google Cloud Managed Lustre deliver multiterabyte throughput, lower latency, and much faster checkpoint operations. Smart Storage adds automated annotations and MCP access to make objects self‑describing, while Storage Intelligence provides zero‑config dashboards and expanded batch operations to manage data at AI scale.

🤖 Google Cloud introduces the Agentic Data Cloud, an AI-native architecture that converts enterprise data platforms into a dynamic System of Action for autonomous agents. It pairs a universal Knowledge Catalog, agentic-first practitioner tools, and a cross-cloud lakehouse to deliver trusted context, secure orchestration, and borderless data access. Early customers report substantial time and cost savings from agent-driven automation.

🚀 BigQuery introduces a broad set of lakehouse, AI processing, graph reasoning, and agentic features to support agent-first workloads. Highlights include managed Iceberg tables (GA), an Iceberg REST catalog (preview), and cross-cloud Lakehouse (preview) for interoperability across AWS and Azure. Native AI additions — from document parsing and embeddings to hybrid search and scalable Python UDFs — simplify unstructured and structured processing. New agent experiences and observability tools emphasize proactive automation, governance, and enterprise readiness.