Tech Trends Weekly: What’s Happening in IT
CrowdStrike and Salesforce, formed a strategic partnership to secure AI agents, apps, and workflows on the Salesforce Platform. By integrating Falcon Shield with Salesforce Security Center and bringing Charlotte AI into Agentforce, the partnership delivers stronger protection, visibility, and faster incident response. Security teams can trace agents to their creators, detect risks, and automate threat containment. With Charlotte AI in Slack, teams investigate threats conversationally and act in real time—helping enterprises adopt AI securely while maintaining compliance and trust.
NVIDIA and the U.K. are driving an AI industrial revolution with up to £11 billion investment in AI factories, deploying 120,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs — the largest rollout in U.K. history. Partnering with Nscale, CoreWeave, Microsoft and others, NVIDIA is powering projects like OpenAI’s Stargate U.K., quantum-AI supercomputing with Oxford Quantum Circuits, and a new R&D hub with techUK. These efforts boost sovereign AI, advance research, create jobs, and upskill developers — positioning the U.K. as a global AI leader.
Tessell, launched Data Ecosystem Pipelines for Lakes and Warehouses, enabling near real-time data movement to keep enterprise ecosystems fresh, secure, and analytics-ready. Integrated with Microsoft Fabric, the service streams changes from Tessell-managed Oracle databases directly into Microsoft OneLake using open mirroring, eliminating the need for complex CDC or ETL pipelines. This ensures continuous, private, and automated data sync with Azure-native security. The capability empowers enterprises to unify operational and analytical data, drive faster insights, and lay the foundation for AI innovation.
Druva, launched Dru MetaGraph, a secure, tenant-specific, graph-powered foundation that makes backup metadata queryable and actionable for AI. Alongside it, Druva introduced two new DruAI Agents: the Insights Agent, which delivers real-time intelligence on risks, anomalies, and trends, and the Lifecycle Agent, which helps identify stale data, orphaned accounts, and compliance gaps. By turning backup into an active intelligence layer, Druva enables faster decisions across security, compliance, and operations — all within a secure, encrypted, and scalable platform.
Nokia, Intel, Datwyler, and the Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne launched an industrial testbed that lets startups and nonprofits trial real-time AI and private 5G solutions without infrastructure costs. The hub provides Nokia’s private 5G, MX Industrial Edge, and Generative AI assistants alongside Intel Xeon-powered edge AI for predictive maintenance, safety monitoring, and energy-efficient automation. Designed to boost innovation in energy, mobility, health, and manufacturing, the initiative enables faster digital transformation while promoting efficiency, safety, and sustainability.
Oracle has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Corporate Loan Origination Systems 2025 for its comprehensive, AI-powered lending platform. Covering the full credit lifecycle—from onboarding to loan servicing and collateral management—Oracle enables banks to streamline workflows, improve credit decisions, and enhance risk management. IDC highlighted Oracle’s GenAI adoption, which boosts customer experience and process efficiency. Available via SaaS or private cloud, Oracle’s solutions support bilateral and syndicated loans, helping banks accelerate time to value and gain a competitive edge.
SquareX discovered Last Mile Reassembly attacks, which bypass SASE/SSE solutions and assemble malware in browsers. Despite disclosures, vendors delayed warnings until Palo Alto Networks recently acknowledged SWG limitations. SquareX’s research shows attackers exploit browsers via WebRTC, WebSockets, and other channels, enabling malware delivery and data theft. Their Year of Browser Bugs project uncovers critical browser vulnerabilities, while their Browser Detection and Response (BDR) solution protects existing browsers from these threats, rogue Agentic AI , and malicious extensions without disrupting user experience.
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Oron Mincha, CyberproAI’s cyber policy specialist, discusses their partnership with Ivy Tech to enhance cybersecurity education in Indiana. Using advanced simulators, they provide real-world training for students and professionals. CyberproAI emphasizes teamwork, AI-driven tools, and local expertise to prepare global talent. Their vision is to make tech education accessible, empower the workforce, and build AI-enabled, future-ready cyber defense ecosystems, proving that people—not just technology—are central to effective cybersecurity.
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Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are stealthy, long-term cyberattacks targeting sensitive data, intellectual property, and critical infrastructure. State-sponsored and skilled attackers exploit weak identity controls, unpatched systems, and cloud misconfigurations to maintain access. Effective defense requires layered strategies: patching, monitoring, access controls, penetration testing, and threat intelligence. Organizations must embed APT frameworks into IT governance, involve leadership, and foster a security-focused culture to detect, prevent, and respond to persistent threats while protecting innovation and trust in 2025.
Edge AI depends on robust data infrastructure to process, analyze, and act on data in real time. Edge devices, gateways, and servers capture and preprocess data locally, reducing latency and improving responsiveness. Challenges include limited storage, resource constraints, data quality issues, and model deployment. Future deployments will use hybrid cloud, cloud-native orchestration, and specialized hardware to enable scalable, secure, low-latency AI. Well-architected infrastructure ensures fast, reliable, and intelligent decision-making at the edge.
AI Quote of the Week
“Despite common perceptions, I see cybersecurity as a team sport. It takes a collective, coordinated effort to succeed. Success requires not only technical understanding of the digital space but also the ability to make quick, informed decisions. That can only be achieved through strong teamwork.”- Interview with Oron Mincha, General Manager of U.S CyberproAI.
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