TCP #82: Agent-to-Agent Dance
🌶️ What's hot in security | Apr. 3rd - Apr. 10th, 2025
Welcome to The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP)! I'm Darwin Salazar, Head of Growth + Marketing at Monad and former detection engineer in big tech. Each week, I dig through all the major headlines to bring you the latest security product innovation and industry news. Subscribe below for weekly updates! 📧
👋🏼 Howdy! I hope you're doing well wherever you're tuning in from. It's been a long, heavy week with tragedy striking my home country, Dominican Republic. RIP to the 220+ who passed on Tuesday morning 🇩🇴❤️.
That said, this week's TCP will be short and sweet. Linking this past week's hottest stories rather than sharing AI-generated gobslop summaries. Key highlights below:
🤖 Palo Alto Networks eyes acquisition of Protect AI for ~$700M
🤺 Google launches Sec-Gemini v1 to supercharge SecOps workflows
⚙️ Enrichments blog post - Part 5 of my Data Engineering for Cybersecurity series
🏃🏽♂️➡️ Runtime Cloud Security in 2025 -
x📠A look at Wiz's $32B sales engine - Part 2 of my series on Wiz's GTM playbook
🚀Inside the Network crew interviews Dug Song, Co-founder and former CEO at Duo Security
💰 LOTS of product news and fundraising ($400M+).
Let’s cyber 🕺🏽
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⚒️ Picks of the Week ⚒️
Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) - Google
Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures is raising $100M for a new fund
Google DeepMind outlines safety framework for future AGI development
🔮 The Future of Security 🔮
AI Security
Application Security
Java Spring Security Analysis Showdown - DryRun Security
Salt Security and CrowdStrike Expand API Security Coverage with Falcon Integrations
Cloud Security
Data security
Email Security
Identity and Access Management
Portnox raises $37.5M to scale cloud-native zero-trust access control
Tailscale Raises $160 Million for Secure Networking Platform
Corsha raises $18 million to expand machine identity security platform
Okta extends identity security fabric to non-human identities
Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Offensive Security
Red-teaming startup Yrikka launches with pre-seed funding to secure critical AI systems
Bugcrowd Launches Crowdsourced Pentest Service for MSPs, MSSPs
Security Operations
Exclusive Networks, Palo Alto Networks Launch Managed SOC in Southeast Asia
Google Targets SOC Overload With Automated AI Alert and Malware Analysis Tools
Web3 Security
Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability Management Firm Spektion Emerges From Stealth With $5 Million in Funding
Fortinet Expands AI Capabilities Across Security Fabric Platform
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Bye for now 👋🏽
That’s all for this week… ¡Nos vemos la próxima semana!
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