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Replicate Joins Cloudflare to Expand AI Developer Platform

🧭 Cloudflare is bringing Replicate into its developer platform to integrate Replicate’s large model catalog and community with Cloudflare’s global, serverless inference stack. Existing Replicate APIs and workflows will continue to operate without interruption while benefitting from Cloudflare’s performance and reliability. Workers AI users will get immediate access to a greatly expanded catalog plus upcoming support for fine-tuning and custom models, enabled by Cog and unified control through Cloudflare’s AI Gateway.

Security Leaders Who Built Companies from Frustration

🔒 Four former CISOs — Paul Hadjy, Joe Silva, Chris Pierson, and Michael Coates — turned recurring operational frustrations into startups that address enduring enterprise security gaps. Hadjy founded Horangi to tackle cloud security in Asia, Silva launched Spektion to reframe vulnerability management as an engineering problem, Pierson created BlackCloak to protect executives’ personal digital lives, and Coates built Altitude to secure cloud collaboration. Their founder journeys emphasize ruthless prioritization, accountability, and treating security as a trust and revenue enabler.

CrowdStrike Named Visionary in 2025 Gartner SIEM Placement

🔍 CrowdStrike Falcon Next‑Gen SIEM has been named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management. The product is presented as an agentic SOC engine that combines AI-driven detections, real-time telemetry and a unified data foundation to accelerate detection and response. CrowdStrike cites metrics including 150x faster search, over 1PB/day ingestion and up to 80% cost savings, and highlights the acquisition of Onum to improve real-time pipelines and scale. New AI agents for workflow, data transformation, search analysis and correlation rule generation aim to simplify playbook creation, data prep and detection tuning.

Check Point Acquires Lakera to Build AI Security Stack

🔐 Check Point has agreed to acquire Lakera, an AI-native security platform focused on protecting agentic AI and LLM-based deployments, in a deal expected to close in Q4 2025 for an undisclosed sum. Lakera’s Gandalf adversarial engine reportedly leverages over 80 million attack patterns and delivers detection rates above 98% with sub-50ms latency and low false positives. Check Point will embed Lakera into the Infinity architecture, initially integrating into CloudGuard WAF and GenAI Protect, offering near-immediate, API-based protection as an add-on for existing customers.

Check Point to Acquire Lakera, Expanding AI Security

🚀 Check Point is acquiring Lakera to build a comprehensive AI security stack for enterprises adopting generative and AI-driven applications. The move aims to protect the emerging AI attack surface by combining Check Point's security platform with Lakera's AI threat analysis and model-protection capabilities. Customers should expect integrated defenses for models, data, and pipelines, increased visibility into model behavior, and tools for managing model risk and compliance.

CrowdStrike to Acquire Pangea to Secure Enterprise AI

🔒 CrowdStrike announced its intent to acquire Pangea to deliver the industry’s first AI detection and response (AIDR) capability, securing enterprise AI use and development across data, models, agents, identities, infrastructure, and interactions. Unveiled at Fal.Con 2025 by Michael Sentonas, the deal will integrate Pangea’s prompt‑layer and interaction security with the Falcon platform to provide unified visibility, governance, and enforcement across the AI lifecycle. The combined solution targets prompt injection, model manipulation, shadow AI and sensitive data exfiltration while enabling developers and security teams to innovate faster with built‑in safeguards.

Five Trends Reshaping IT Security Strategies in 2025

🔒 Cybersecurity leaders report the mission to defend organizations is unchanged, but threats, technology and operating pressures are evolving rapidly. Five trends — shrinking or stagnating budgets, AI-enabled attacks, the rise of agentic AI, accelerating business speed, and heightened vendor M&A — are forcing changes in strategy. CISOs are simplifying tech stacks, increasing automation and outsourcing, and deploying AI for detection and response while wrestling with new authentication/authorization gaps. Vendor viability and consolidation now factor into resilience planning.

Top Cybersecurity Trends: AI, Identity, and Threats

🤖 Generative AI remains the dominant force shaping enterprise security priorities, but the initial hype is giving way to more measured ROI scrutiny and operational caution. Analysts say gen AI is entering a trough of disillusionment even as vendors roll out agentic AI offerings for autonomous threat detection and response. The article highlights rising risks — from model theft and data poisoning to AI-enabled vishing — along with brisk M&A activity, a shift to identity-centric defenses, and growing demand for specialized cyber roles.

CrowdStrike Acquires Onum to Boost Agentic SOC Data

🔒 CrowdStrike has acquired Spanish telemetry specialist Onum for $290 million, aiming to integrate its real-time pipeline and filtering technology into the Falcon Next‑Gen SIEM. The company says Onum’s pipeline will enable higher event throughput, reduce storage costs by about 50%, and cut ingest overhead while accelerating incident response. CrowdStrike frames the buy as a move toward an AI-native, agentic SOC.

DLA Selects Google Public Sector for Cloud Modernization

☁️ Google Public Sector has been awarded a $48 million DLA Enterprise Platform contract to migrate the Defense Logistics Agency to a DoD‑accredited commercial cloud. The multi‑phased program will move key infrastructure and data to a modern, AI‑ready Google Cloud foundation and enable BigQuery, Looker, and Vertex AI analytics. Emphasizing secure‑by‑design infrastructure and Mandiant threat intelligence, the effort aims to reduce costs, improve resiliency, and accelerate AI‑driven logistics and transportation management.

CISA Launches Interactive Tool to Secure Software Buying

🛡️ CISA has released the Software Acquisition Guide: Supplier Response Web Tool to help IT leaders, procurement officers and software vendors strengthen cybersecurity across the acquisition lifecycle. The free, interactive platform digitizes CISA’s existing guidance into an adaptive format that highlights context-specific questions and generates exportable summaries for CISOs, CIOs and other decision-makers. Designed with secure-by-design and secure-by-default principles, the tool supports due diligence without requiring procurement professionals to be cybersecurity experts and aims to simplify risk-aware procurement decisions.

CrowdStrike to Acquire Onum for Real-Time Telemetry

📡 CrowdStrike announced an agreement to acquire Onum, a leader in real-time telemetry pipeline management that will extend the CrowdStrike Falcon platform's data advantage. Onum transforms telemetry in motion by filtering, enriching and optimizing events as they stream, delivering high-fidelity intelligence to Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, customer AI agents and data lakes. CrowdStrike highlights gains in speed and cost efficiency, saying the integration will reduce storage overhead, accelerate incident response and enable an agentic SOC powered by real-time, AI-driven detection.