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The latest moves by HPE Aruba Networking are aimed at bolstering coordination among security and networking teams to more effectively protect access to enterprise resources. At RSA Conference 2025, the vendor announced a variety of updates, including a new policy manager for network access control (NAC), tighter integration between Aruba Networking Central and HPE OpsRamp, and new security components for its SD-WAN and SSE packages. “The network is increasingly looked at by bo

Oracle has deployed thousands of Nvidia GPUs across its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure cloud service to be used develop and run next-generation reasoning models and AI agents. This is the first wave of liquid-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks in OCI data centers, involving thousands of Nvidia Grace CPUs and Blackwell GPUs. The Nvidia GB200 NVL72 is a supercomputer made up of 36 Arm-based Nvidia Grace CPUs, each one paired with two Blackwell GPUs and connected via NVLink. Each GB200 NVL72 offers more than one exaflop of training performance. Oracle aims to eventually build a cluster of more than 100,000 Blackwell GPUs which will form one of its “OCI Superclusters.” In addition t

Palo Alto Networks this week at the RSA Conference unveiled its Prisma AIRS AI security platform that the company says is designed to protect the developing enterprise AI ecosystem from attacks. As enterprise companies embrace AI, they must also protect their environments and AI initiatives from security blind spots, risks, and vulnerabilities. AI represents a new attack surface for malicious actors, and enterprises need new approaches to secure components across their environments. An AI security platform will provide customers with the tools needed to prevent security incidents as customers deploy agents, apps, models, and more in their environments, according to Palo Alto Networks.

Kali Linux administrators who haven’t manually updated the signing key for the operating system’s repository are going to find that they can’t get updates. This comes after the overseers of the open source distribution aimed at penetration testers and other infosec pros admitted this week that they lost access to the signing key for the Kali repository, and had to roll out a new one. “This is entirely our fault,” Kali acknowledged in a blog. In fact, the incident happened over a week ago, and Kali had to freeze the update repository on April 18, w

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Palo Alto Networks Monday announced plans to acquire AI security platform vendor Protect AI in a deal that will strengthen its Prisma AIRS security platform, which includes AI agent capabilities. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed, but analysts from investment banking and capital markets firm Jeffries reportedly estimated Palo Alto Networks will spend between $650 million to $700 million to acquire Protect AI and its platform for securing AI and machine learning models and applications. Seattle-based

A high severity flaw affecting Broadcom’s Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) has allowed attackers to run arbitrary code on affected environments with full root-level privileges. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-1976, is particularly dangerous as it can allow complete takeover of FOS devices, including Fibre switches and directors, which are core to Storage Area Networks (SANs), potentially enabling attackers to modify system files, configuration data, firmware, security mechanisms, and install persistent malware.

Juniper Beyond Labs is set up to identify and cultivate promising new network and security technologies. CTO Raj Yavatkar took the helm in 2023, when Juniper Networks launched the lab with the goal of incubating technologies that could lead to new products and help customers move their enterprises into the future. “If nothing else, we also get to explore some great new technology strains before they become well established,” Yavatkar told Network World. Among the current areas of focus for Yavatkar and the lab are AI networking, application performance, and quantum networking and security. Building AI networks

IBM has added new agentic and automation capabilities to its managed detection and response (MDR) services to help customers more quickly and efficiently secure enterprise resources. Specifically, Big Blue is launching an agentic AI system called Autonomous Threat Operations Machine (ATOM), which is designed to provide automated threat triage, investigation, and remediation and reduce the need for human intervention when responding to threats. ATOM uses AI-based agents and an orchestration engine to augment an organization’s existing security analytics systems and accelerate threat detection, analyze alerts, perform risk analysis, and execute investigation plans. The agents

Cisco today announced a range of AI-driven security enhancements, including improved threat detection and response capabilities in Cisco XDR and Splunk Security, new AI agents, and integration between Cisco’s AI Defense platform and ServiceNow SecOps. In addition, Cisco launched a new group called Foundation AI to focus on advancing AI and security technologies within the company and across the industry. The group’s first act is the launch of an open-source AI reasoning model built to enhance security applications. Cisco announced its news at RSA Conference 2025, which is g