Cognizant has sealed an expanded partnership with Rubrik, to provide Business Resilience-as-a-Service (BRaaS) for mutual customers. The global offering is designed to help enterprises quickly recover from cyber incidents and ransomware attacks, while aligning recovery objectives to critical business outcomes.
As the global AI market continues its rapid expansion, organisations are increasingly adopting advanced AI technologies to drive innovation, efficiency and competitive advantage, transforming the density, diversity and distribution of IT infrastructure.
As data and infrastructure sprawl to support AI workloads, the attack surface expands significantly.
“The evolving IT landscape demands a more resilient approach to safeguard critical data, especially as the frequency and sophistication of ransomware attacks continue to rise,” said the partners.
-Dynatrace and ServiceNow have announced a multi-year strategic collaboration to advance autonomous IT operations and scale intelligent automation for joint enterprise customers.
As enterprises increasingly invest in agentic AI to drive operational efficiency, Dynatrace and ServiceNow are aligning solutions to enable more proactive and intelligent operations, they say. Dynatrace brings advanced deterministic and agentic AI for proactive root cause analysis, prediction, and automated remediation across cloud and AI-native environments.
ServiceNow complements this with powerful AI agents and AIOps capabilities to streamline and automate IT service and operations management. “Together, Dynatrace and ServiceNow will empower customers to drive better outcomes, optimise services, and provide seamless digital experiences that drive customer and employee satisfaction,” the partners said.
In addition, Dynatrace will deploy ServiceNow for Enterprise Service Management, HR Service Delivery, and Asset Management. ServiceNow will leverage Dynatrace’s observability platform to support its digital operations. The companies will use insights from their deployments to inform ongoing enhancements to integrations and the overall customer experience, to deliver faster implementation and impact for customers, we are told.
-NinjaOne has announced the availability of its Automated Endpoint Management Platform on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. “NinjaOne customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management,” said the cybersecurity services provider.
The NinjaOne platform automates endpoint management, patching, and backup at any scale to simplify operations, improve efficiency, and lower costs for IT teams and managed service providers.
-Coveware by Veeam has unveiled its Q3 ransomware report, revealing that ransom payments have fallen to their lowest level on record.
Key findings include:
Ransom payment rates dropped to just 23%, the lowest ever recorded by Coveware
Average payments fell 66%, while median payments dropped 65% to $140,000
The Akira RaaS group dominated, driving attack volumes through a low-cost, high-volume model
Insider bribery emerges as a new tactic, with the Medusa gang offering employees a 15% cut of ransom proceeds
Large enterprises increasingly refuse to pay, squeezing profits and pushing cybercriminals toward more targeted, high-cost operations
-IGEL, the provider of the IGEL Secure Endpoint OS Platform, has announced the Palo Alto Networks Prisma Browser is now available on the IGEL App Portal.
“In today’s dynamic digital environment, protecting applications, data, and endpoint devices is mission-critical. Through the integration of IGEL OS and Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Browser, organisations can achieve trusted, enterprise-grade security across their distributed operations,” said Jim Airdo, SVP of strategic alliances at IGEL.
With the move to hybrid cloud, organisations have increasingly shifted applications away from the endpoint and into private and public clouds using secure browsers, DaaS, and VDI. This is allowing organisations to rethink the enterprise endpoint.
“By partnering with IGEL, we’re bringing a new level of secure, flexible access for today’s distributed workforce. By combining IGEL’s immutable policy-driven endpoint OS platform with our Prisma Browser, organisations gain complete visibility and control over user interactions with applications and data, reduce their attack surface, and deliver a secure, seamless, and high-performance experience for users accessing web and private applications,” said Anupam Upadhyaya, SVP at Palo Alto Networks.
-Riverbed has unveiled the company’s first agentic AI-powered solution, Riverbed Aternity Self-Service, empowering employees to initiate self-service requests that “triage, diagnose, and resolve issues autonomously”.
Aternity Self-Service optimises IT support and dramatically reduces service desk costs, boosting employee and IT productivity by delivering automated remediation, fewer tickets, faster resolutions, and a zero-touch digital support experience, it is promised.
In today’s hybrid workplaces, IT service desks are under unprecedented pressure. Rising ticket volumes, outdated IT service management practices, and the complexity of unified communications (UC) tools are driving up costs and slowing resolution times.
Analyst house Gartner projects that by 2029, organisations adopting intelligent ITSM automation could reduce service desk incidents and requests by 60%, when compared to 2025. “Aternity Self-Service makes this real, today,” maintains Riverbed.
-DoiT, the provider of enterprise-grade FinOps and CloudOps solutions, has acquired CloudWize, a multi-cloud security posture and compliance platform. The acquisition extends DoiT Cloud Intelligence beyond cloud financial management to include intelligent security posture, compliance, and automated guardrails, connecting risk, reliability, and cost into a unified, outcome-driven platform.
CloudWize technology delivers a continuous Security Graph for incident response investigations within Amazon Web Services. Its platform detects misconfigurations, compliance drift, and attack paths, and automates remediation through policy-as-code guardrails. “CloudWize’s ability to connect security posture findings to cost impact directly aligns with DoiT Cloud Intelligence’s outcome-focused approach,” said DoiT.
-Arrow Electronics has signed a new distribution agreement with cybersecurity specialist AlgoSec, covering the UK and Ireland.
Building on its existing agreement in the Netherlands, the move extends Arrow’s security portfolio, giving channel partners access to AlgoSec’s advanced network security policy management solutions.
AlgoSec helps enterprises align security with business processes by delivering unified visibility, risk analysis, and automating security policy changes across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
-Atlassian recently completed its acquisition of The Browser Company of New York Inc, the company behind the Dia and Arc browsers. Together, the companies intend to “reimagine the browser for knowledge work in the AI era”.
For hundreds of millions of knowledge workers, the browser is where work happens. But today’s browsers were designed for browsing, not working. The explosion of SaaS apps, coupled with the rise in AI, demands a browser built for modern work.
“Atlassian is bringing together its two decades of expertise in how knowledge workers operate with The Browser Company’s passion for building beloved browsers to create an AI-powered browser that helps move work forward. Built with trust and security in mind so company data is protected, it will optimise for the SaaS applications where workers spend their day, helping to connect the dots between apps, tabs and tasks - and redefining how work gets done,” Atlassian says.
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