Here is IT Digest’s weekly roundup of the top news from global markets. In this fast-paced world, breaking down information helps readers grasp the nuances that follow the news.
In Hardware and Network news this week…
Aviz Networks and Spirent Collaborate to Bring a New Dimension to Telco 5G Network Applications and Intelligence
Aviz Networks, the leader in Open, Cloud, and AI-first networks, and Spirent Communications, a leading provider of test and assurance solutions for next-generation devices and networks, announced a collaboration to further strengthen the Networking 3.0 Stack by offering customers more open, hardware vendor-agnostic methods for conducting intelligent traffic monitoring across various 5G network applications such as voice, video, data, mission critical services, IoT, and enterprise and industrial applications. The AI enablement of the Networking 3.0 Stack’s components opens up use cases previously unexplored, leveraging open-source large language models (LLMs), and accessible through Aviz Network Copilot, the market leading AI management assistant for large telecom and enterprise networks.
Nuspire Recognized as “Best MSSP” by the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Nuspire has firmly established itself as a leader in managed security, adapting and growing to meet the evolving needs of the cybersecurity landscape. The company provides a broad range of services, including managed security services (MSS), managed detection and response (MDR), and managed endpoint detection and response (EDR). These services are supported by advanced technology and a full spectrum of cybersecurity consulting capabilities, such as incident preparedness, threat modeling and executive advisory services.
Tredence Appoints Munjay Singh as Chief Operating Officer
Munjay has held senior leadership roles at global technology consulting and product firms, where he drove operational efficiency and customer experience initiatives across diverse market segments. He will provide the strategic vision, leadership, and deep operational expertise needed to accelerate the delivery of Tredence’s organic and inorganic growth strategies. Munjay’s appointment follows a season when Tredence has raised more than $205 million from private equity firms, expanded into new regions and verticals, launched the ATOM.AI ecosystem, and developed a GenAI-as-a-service platform. Driven by innovation and co-creation with clients, Tredence has grown 4x between 2020 and 2024, achieving 40% growth in 2023.
Waystar wins “Healthcare Payments Innovation Award,” marking its third consecutive MedTech Breakthrough Award
Waystar Technologies, Inc., a provider of leading healthcare payment technology, announced that it has been selected as the winner of the “Healthcare Payments Innovation Award” in the annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by MedTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global digital health and medical technology market. This marks the third consecutive year Waystar has won a MedTech Breakthrough award, repeating 2023’s honor as the “Healthcare Payments Innovation Award” winner and following its 2022 recognition as “Best New Technology Solution for Healthcare Payments.”
SpectraMedix and Foresight Health Solutions Partner for AI-Enabled Value-Based Payment Technologies, Championing Health Equity and Social Determinants
SpectraMedix, a leading value-based contract analytics and provider enablement platform for health plans and health systems, announced a strategic partnership with Foresight Health Solutions, a pioneer in AI-driven social determinants of health (SDoH) risk management and health equity analytics. A significant advancement in the industry, this partnership will offer unparalleled capabilities to care providers and health plans in predicting comprehensive health risks using SDoH and health disparity data. This partnership will accelerate the understanding of what is driving cost and outcomes for vulnerable populations, enabling organizations to achieve greater success in value-based care.
In Information and Communications news this week…
CrowdStrike and Google Cloud Announce Strategic Partnership to Transform AI-Native Cybersecurity
Cloud intrusions have grown 75% in the past year and adversaries are faster than ever, breaking into customer environments in as little as two minutes. To protect against modern cloud threats, customers need a holistic, intuitive managed security solution that eliminates complexity and serves as a force multiplier for security and DevOps teams. The combination of AI-powered Google cloud services and Google Cloud’s Security Operations platform with proactive threat hunting capabilities alongside CrowdStrike’s industry-leading protection delivers the outcomes customers need to stop breaches across multi-cloud and multi-vendor environments.
Article of the Week
Attack Surface Management (ASM) is a continuous method of identifying, evaluating, classifying, fixing, and monitoring the potential attack vectors and vulnerabilities that comprise an organization’s attack surface. The attack surface refers to the total number of entry points, flaws, and vulnerabilities a hostile party could use to obtain unauthorized access to a system or network. Attackers have more opportunities to take advantage of the larger attack surface. The two main objectives of attack surface management are reducing associated risks and improving visibility on the attack surface. External Attack Surface Management (EASM) describes the ongoing identification, observation, assessment, prioritizing, and correction of attack vectors inside the external attack surface of an organization.