Oracle announced new capabilities to help customers accelerate the development of applications and deployment on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Cequence introduced advancements to its Unified API Protection (UAP) platform, specifically tailored to support the secure use of AI applications like Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).
Cequence’s solutions protect applications deployed in the cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, and also support serverless environments, ensuring an uncompromised security posture.
“API security and bot management are more important than ever as AI technology grows,” said Ameya Talwalkar, CEO of Cequence. “As Generative AI and Large Language Models become more common, organizations face new types of attacks. While many cybersecurity companies use AI to protect against threats, Cequence is focusing on using AI to defend specifically against attacks targeting AI applications. This approach, called ‘Cyber for AI,’ aims to set new standards in AI security and enhance overall cybersecurity.”
Cequence’s upgraded UAP platform introduces capabilities for proactive threat detection, streamlined security testing, and autonomous threat mitigation, empowering organizations to fortify their API infrastructure with confidence.
Key enhancements to Cequence’s UAP platform include:
■ Testing LLM Applications for OWASP LLM Top 10 Threats
- Cequence pioneers the industry’s first test suite to evaluate applications using Large Language Models (LLMs) against the OWASP LLM Top 10 threats.
- Enables organizations to proactively test LLM applications using synthetic traffic to identify vulnerabilities and ensure security prior to deployment.
- Provides specific findings and recommendations to developers for corrective actions.
■ Detecting and Blocking Automated AI Bot Activity
- Cequence enhances capabilities to automatically identify and block AI bot activity without user configuration.
- Automatically refreshes UAP’s global AI bot list, ensuring all customer deployments are continuously protected against the latest AI bot threats without requiring manual updates.
- Enables security teams to effectively manage and mitigate AI bot-driven threats against exposed content.
■ Introducing the Cequence Flow Graphflo
- Cequence launches a new graphing capability within the UAP platform, known as the Flow Graph.
- Unlike other tools that provide a simple “read-only” view, the Flow Graph visualizes end-to-end API flow, enabling personnel to take instant action on malicious flows.
- Enhances security team visibility by distinguishing between normal and malicious traffic volumes.
■ New Integrations Enhance Discovery of Third-Party APIs
- Expands integrations with F5 High Speed Logging (HSL), Citrix ADC Content Inspection, and WSO2 API Gateway for comprehensive API discovery.
■ Offloading API Analytics Intelligence to the Edge
- Processes API traffic on-premises, optimizing traffic flow to reduce costs and enhance efficiency while aligning with your API security needs, whether for discovery, governance or full protection.
- Reduces bandwidth usage and enhances privacy by processing sensitive data closer to the edge.
- Enables quicker, low-latency processing of API traffic for improved detection and response times.
■ Attack Surface Detection of API Gateways and Infrastructure
- Automatically discovers and maps all API gateways and infrastructure, including those on cloud providers like AWS and Azure, ensuring comprehensive coverage.
- Identifies and addresses hidden APIs operating in non-sanctioned environments to prevent security gaps.
- Tailors detection algorithms to reduce false positives and enhance accuracy, aligning with your specific security needs.
Industry News
JFrog and GitHub unveiled new integrations.
Opsera announced its latest platform capabilities for Salesforce DevOps.
Progress announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ShareFile, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, providing SaaS-native, AI-powered, document-centric collaboration, focusing on industry segments including business and professional services, financial services, healthcare and construction.
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) AI across the hybrid cloud.
Jitterbit announced its unified AI-infused, low-code Harmony platform.
Akuity announced the launch of KubeVision, a feature within the Akuity Platform.
Couchbase announced Capella Free Tier, a free developer environment designed to empower developers to evaluate and explore products and test new features without time constraints.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, announced the general availability of AWS Parallel Computing Service, a new managed service that helps customers easily set up and manage high performance computing (HPC) clusters so they can run scientific and engineering workloads at virtually any scale on AWS.
Dell Technologies and Red Hat are bringing Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), a foundation model platform built on an AI-optimized operating system that enables users to more seamlessly develop, test and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (gen AI) models, to Dell PowerEdge servers.
Couchbase announced that Couchbase Mobile is generally available with vector search, which makes it possible for customers to offer similarity and hybrid search in their applications on mobile and at the edge.
Seekr announced the launch of SeekrFlow as a complete end-to-end AI platform for training, validating, deploying, and scaling trusted enterprise AI applications through an intuitive and simple to use web user interface (UI).
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. unveiled its innovative Portal designed for both managed security service providers (MSSPs) and distributors.
Couchbase officially launched Capella™ Columnar on AWS, which helps organizations streamline the development of adaptive applications by enabling real-time data analysis alongside operational workloads within a single database platform.