The editors at Solutions Review highlight and summarize the key takeaways in Gartner’s inaugural Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response.

Analyst house Gartner, Inc. recently released the inaugural version of its Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response. Gartner defines network detection and response (NDR) products as systems that “continuously monitor traffic for anomalies, suspicious patterns, and threat indicators.” These products are also designed to complement other threat detection solutions, and are delivered as a combination of hardware and software appliances for sensors, some with IaaS support. 

Additionally, Gartner’s report outlines several “mandatory” features an NDR solution must have. These include the ability to model normal network traffic, highlight traffic activity that falls outside the normal range, deliver form factors compatible with on-premises and cloud networks, aggregate individual alerts into structured incidents, detect threats with Intelligence feeds, and provide automatic or manual response capabilities to react to the detection of malicious network traffic.

Key Takeaways: 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Detection and Response

In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner identifies some of the most significant network detection and response providers in the marketplace. The researchers behind the report—Thomas Lintemuth, Esraa ElTahawy, John Collins, Charanpal Bhogal, and Nahim Fazal—evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of each provider listed and ranked them on the signature “Magic Quadrant” graph, which illustrates each vendor’s ability to execute its vision. The diagram includes four quadrants: leaders, challengers, niche players, and visionaries.

To qualify for the report, each vendor must meet specific criteria. Those include having an NDR product generally available by October 31st, 2024, offering a standalone product that can be deployed without connecting to the Internet, and having at least 30 deployments in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Additionally, the vendors had to meet at least two criteria from the list below:

• Generated $30 million in revenue from the evaluated NDR product between January 1st, 2024, and December 31st, 2024.
• Have at least 150 enterprise customers (each with over 5,000 seats) as of December 31st, 2024.
• Have at least four million devices under paid support as of October 31st, 2024.

Leaders

Vectra AI is the frontrunner in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant’s Leader category. The company’s platform protects networks from attacks by providing intelligent control, signal clarity, and proactive network security posture management. Its strengths as an NDR platform include its user interface, a program it offers to customers migrating from other products, and its NDR education program, which helps customers understand the need for network detection and response.

Darktrace is the next Leader identified in the report. Its NDR is the Darktrace / NETWORK solution, which provides advanced threat detection and autonomous response capabilities by leveraging its core Self-Learning AI. According to Gartner’s researchers, Darktrace’s strengths in the market include its user-friendly UI, a complex detection model library, full functionality for air-gapped deployments, and its program for collecting customer feedback and incorporating it to enhance the product.

ExtraHop earns a spot in the Leader category with its RevealX product, which focuses on detecting threats with NDR while providing users with network intelligence and network performance monitoring (NPM) functionalities. The company’s most significant strengths include its understanding and responsiveness to market trends, as evidenced by its ongoing implementation of generative AI assistants and functionalities. It’s also highly regarded for the capabilities the RevealX platform provides, including a patented decryption capability.

Corelight is the fourth and final Leader in Gartner’s report. Its Open NDR product comprises comprehensive threat detection capabilities for on-premises, industrial control systems (ICS), operational technology (OT), and multi-cloud environments. The company differentiates itself by prioritizing regular product updates and feature releases. It’s also transitioned from an on-premises intrusion detection system (IDS) solution to a hybrid NDR offering. It continues to support the need to deploy across major cloud service providers (CSPs).

Challengers

Stellar Cyber is the only Challenger identified in the Magic Quadrant. Its NDR product provides numerous third-party integrations for mid-size clients in the government, manufacturing, and education markets, positioning its solution as a central platform for ingesting security threats. Other strengths include its upgrade program to help new clients migrate from other products, flexible customer contracts, and its commitment to customer success, exemplified by its ongoing investment in customer onboarding and services.

Niche Players

Trend Micro starts the Niche Player category with the Trend Vision One solution. Trend Vision One uses a “platform approach” to threat detection and response, using its point products while offering some integration with third-party products. Its solution also provides an extensive threat intelligence library to help users improve the attribution and context of their data. The company also earns high marks for its market understanding, as evidenced by its offering an NDR capability as a standalone product alongside having it packaged with the Vision One platform.

ThreatBook’s solution is the Threat Detection Platform (TDP), which focuses almost exclusively on threat detection. While this situates the company as a specialized vendor, it does plan to grow its product by increasing its detection functionalities with additional technologies like generative AI. Its other differentiating traits as a Niche Player include its high customer renewal rate and the range of industries in which its platform has been adopted.

NetWitness primarily works with large, complex global organizations that require a full SOC and cybersecurity program. Gartner spotlights the company’s formal customer feedback program, robust forensic capability, and long-term presence in the NDR market as some of its greatest strengths as a vendor. While the company doesn’t have the same breadth of AI-powered features as other platforms in the market, it does offer a comprehensive selection of full packet capture forensics and session replay capabilities.

Arista Networks is the next provider listed in the Niche Player category. The company’s Arista NDR solution couples network detection and response (NDR) with core network switches, providing clients with a unified infrastructure and security approach. Customers report that Arista is very responsive to feedback and prioritizes fast resolutions to issues. Other notable strengths as an NDR vendor include its relatively higher investment in R&D efforts, its support for encrypted traffic analysis, and the pre-configured appliances it offers to accelerate deployments.

Trellix closes the quadrant with an NDR product built on the company’s successful IDS detection. Its platform generates alerts using AI-powered behavioral detections. It is one of the few products in the market still offering in-line deployments for intrusion prevention system (IPS) use cases. The company is also known for delivering strong forensic analysis and search capabilities, giving customers advanced protection directly from their NDR product.

Visionaries

Gatewatcher closes out the Magic Quadrant with its AIonIQ solution, which is focused on providing an easy-to-use experience through its GAIA technology. The company has a growing customer base and balances its investment strategy for ongoing research and development with its sales success. Gartner specifically highlights Gatewatcher’s investment in generative AI as aligning with the current market trends, which it predicts will appeal to buyers with limited HR.

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What is the Network Observability Summit?

The Network Observability Summit is an annual event series from Broadcom that explores the evolving landscape of network observability by offering insights, best practices, strategies, and innovative solutions for today’s complex network environments. With the theme “Sixth Sense,” the event features a collection of speakers and discussions that aim to help audiences see the unseen in modern networks through artificial intelligence (AI).

Why You Should Attend

For the 5th annual Network Observability Summit, industry experts and peers will demonstrate how network observability can clear up blind spots and explore how AI can transform network operations by reducing downtime, improving efficiency, and solving problems before they impact users. With speakers including a Google AI expert, leading experts from Broadcom, and more, the virtual event aims to spotlight how to streamline the assurance of network experiences in even the most complex, heterogeneous network environments.

The topics and panels scheduled for this year’s event include:

Develop your Sixth Sense with AI

Hosted by: Alok Arora, Head of AI/ML Customer Engineering at Google Cloud

Description: AI is reshaping Network Operations. For the first discussion of the event, Broadcom invites Google AI Guru, Alok Arora, to present a practical view of how AI will impact your daily tasks, improving efficiency and reducing downtime. Learn how to embrace AI and become more proactive and effective. Other topics covered include AI network readiness, how to automate mundane tasks, the new skills needed to thrive in this AI-powered future, and more.

Will AI Really Revolutionize Network Operations?

Hosted by: Mike Melillo, the Sr. Director of Network Observability Software at Broadcom

Description: Forget everything you know about Network Ops. AI is coming, and it’s about to flip the script. Is your network really ready? Prepare to rethink your strategy and prepare for the AI revolution in Network Operations–or be left behind. This session cuts the hype, exposing the brutal truth about AI’s potential and pitfalls. Melillo will discuss various AI approaches, assess your network’s readiness, and tackle the real-world challenges of using AI to fix your biggest headaches.

Network Observability by Broadcom: Roadmap and Demo

Hosted by: Sean Armstrong. Head of Products, Network Observability, at Broadcom

Description: In this session, audiences will hear about the future of Network Observability by Broadcom, including its investments in AI-powered technology that aim to alleviate many L1 NOC operations tasks to focus on business-critical services. You’ll also see the solution in action as Armstrong explores key use cases that help organizations monitor and deliver great user experiences no matter the network, from the enterprise data center to the cloud and beyond.

AI Ambitions? Don’t Forget the Network Foundation

Hosted by: Michael O’Farrell, System Solutions Architect at BT Ireland

Description: Everyone is talking about AI, but are your networks ready? Just as a Ferrari needs a smooth track, your AI initiatives need a robust, observable network foundation. Learn how BT Ireland is building AI-ready networks with a focus on mature network observability.

ATOS Elevates Network Observability to Enable AI-Ready Infrastructure

Hosted by: John Millington, Global Portfolio Manager at ATOS

Description: ATOS, one of Europe’s leading Managed Service Providers, will share how its innovative Technology Framework—built on standardized, proven methodologies—can deliver high-value services while continuously enhancing network observability. In the session, viewers will discover how Broadcom supports that transformation by providing clean, actionable network data that fuels the ATOS framework and lays the groundwork for their next-generation, AI-ready network initiatives.

German Railway Expands Network Visibility To Other Side of Tracks

Hosted by: Andreas Thiede, Product Owner of Management Application Infrastructure Delivery at Deutsche Bahn

Description: Deutsche Bahn, the German railway company, utilizes network observability to ensure every citizen riding their trains gets to their destination on time and without delays. The same can be said for their enterprise network. In this session, Deutsche Bahn reveals the steps they are using to develop a mature network observability practice to build resilient networks and deliver customer experiences on time and without delay.

FAQ

• What: Network Observability Summit 2025 – Sixth Sense
• When: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025, at 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM EDT

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Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with PCG is part of an exclusive webinar series for enterprise business software users. This event will feature an hour-long discussion about the emerging landscape for A&D original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their Tier 1, 2, and 3 suppliers. 

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive, expert webinar events for industry professionals across the enterprise technology and MarTech fields. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, Expert Webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers in enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people visit Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with industry experts from PCG, an ERP business transformation advisory service provider, and other leading companies and firms, including Infor, AEVEX Aerospace, and BDO USA.

The discussion follows an earlier Solutions Review Spotlight, “Reaching New Heights: Navigating Aerospace and Defense in 2025,” and will focus on the emerging landscape for A&D original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), their suppliers, and why A&D manufacturing companies need industry-focused, modern ERP systems that are compliant with regulations and equipped with built-in business models, flexible deployment options, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Moderator

Kyler Cheatham, Chief Performance Officer at The Confluencial: Kyler Cheatham is an influencer, spokeswoman, and innovator. As a 40 under 40 Winner and Global Women in Tech Speaker, she knows what it takes to generate change through strategy and influence. Kyler has been disrupting the technology industry with new ideas and perspectives for years and has earned her reputation as one of the leading Women in ERP.

Speakers

Dan Kath, Vice President of Aerospace & Defense Portfolio at PCG: Dan has around 20 years of experience in the industry. Before joining PCG, he held several roles at Infor, including Vice President of Major Accounts and Director of Enterprise Global Accounts, where he was responsible for managing all aspects of business relationships, including new sales and client retention for select global Infor customers.

Alex Plitsas, Vice President of Transformation at Infor: Alex Plitsas is a seasoned executive with a track record of success in various business operations, problem-solving, team building, and program management projects in the public and private sectors. He also has a wealth of experience in defense and national security, including over a decade of leading business and digital transformation projects.

Andrew McWaters, VP Business Systems at AEVEX Aerospace: Andrew McWaters is a seasoned pharmaceutical industry veteran with experience leading information technology teams at multiple companies. Since joining AEVEX Aerospace, he has helped the company support its U.S. and partner nation security objectives by providing full-spectrum aviation and technology-based solutions.

Luis Avila, Managing Director of Strategy and Enterprise Transformation at BDO USA: Luis has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance, strategy, deal advisory, and management consulting. As a trusted advisor, he has focused on helping business leaders confidently move forward through complex enterprise transformation and M&A in the aerospace & defense, technology, and manufacturing industries.

John Shorter, Software Executive: John is an industry expert with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry at companies like Infor, Oracle, GE, and more. He has led many Industry 4.0 initiatives throughout his career with compelling outcomes, and is skilled in Systems Engineering, IT Strategy, Six Sigma, Veterans, and Manufacturing.

About PCG

PCG is a trusted provider of tailored end-to-end IT solutions that consistently and predictably deliver business sustainability. With the technical expertise of highly trained engineers, the company has the resources and capabilities to care for every aspect of a customer’s technology environment—from the back office to edge apps to the cloud and across the entire supply and demand chain.

FAQ

• What: Mission-Critical: Modernizing ERP Systems for Aerospace & Defense
  
• When: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more details), LinkedIn, and Insight Jam.

Register for the Solutions Spotlight with PCG and Infor for FREE

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The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list to spotlight some of the most noteworthy news and announcements made at the RSA Conference 2025, held at Moscone Center in San Francisco from April 28th to May 1st.

For the last 30+ years, the RSAC Conference has been a leading example of the power of the cybersecurity community. Over the last several days, companies worldwide have come together—virtually and on-site in San Francisco, California—to share timely insights and actionable intelligence with peers and customers alike. With nearly 700 sessions, events, and opportunities for interaction scheduled during the three-day event, there was no shortage of avenues for cybersecurity professionals across markets to discuss and learn about the latest ideas and insights across critical AI topics.

Additionally, with so much of the cybersecurity community coming together for RSAC, many of the leading companies in the space capitalized on the opportunity to announce new products, features, enhancements, and partnerships to help their clients and each other build smarter, faster, and more resilient cyber defense strategies. The Solutions Review editors have summarized some top headlines in the curated list below. The list is organized alphabetically by company name.

The Top News and Announcements From the RSA Conference 2025

Abnormal AI Announces New AI Agents

Abnormal AI, an AI-native human behavior security solution, has announced autonomous AI agents. With the AI Phishing Coach and AI Data Analyst agents, organizations can revolutionize how they train employees, report on risks, prevent advanced email attacks, turn complex security data into instantly usable intelligence, explore specific data points, and more. Abnormal AI is also expanding its Inbound Email Security with three new tools: Quarantine Release, URL Rewriting, and Enterprise Remediation Settings.

Read on for more.

Anetac Details a New Feature for Managing Identity Vulnerabilities

Anetac, a company focused on protecting its clients from identity-based vulnerabilities in hybrid environments, has announced the global rollout of Human Link Pro. This new capability aims to unify the management of human and non-human identity vulnerabilities within the Anetac Identity Vulnerability Management Platform. The capability can also help users address the challenges of managing complex identity infrastructures that span both on-premises and cloud environments.

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AppOmni Expands the Capabilities of Its AskOmni Solution

AppOmni, a SaaS security company, has announced that AskOmni, its AI-powered SaaS security companion, can now operate as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. The advancement will enable seamless integration with security-focused AI agents and security platforms, including SIEM, NDR, XDR, and IAM solutions. The AppOmni MCP server also aims to provide deeper insights into SaaS identities, security posture, data exposures, and user behaviors.

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AuditBoard Reveals a New AI Governance Solution

AuditBoard, a global platform for connected risk that transforms audit, risk, and compliance, announced a new AI governance solution at the RSAC Conference. With this AI governance platform, customers can implement AI best practices outlined in frameworks like the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s AI Risk Management Framework (NIST AI RMF) to protect their organizations from the cyber, reputational, and financial risks associated with non-compliance.

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Cisco Announces Several New Partnerships and Feature Updates

Cisco made several partnership and feature announcements at the RSA Conference to help security professionals secure and harness the power of AI. The updates include the Instant Attack Verification feature, which integrates data from the Splunk platform, endpoints, networks, threat intelligence, and more; new automated XDR Forensics capabilities to provide more visibility into endpoint activity; the XDR Storyboard, which helps visualize complex attacks; an integration with ServiceNow; and new AI Supply Chain Risk Management security controls.

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Cymulate and SentinelOne Announce Their Partnership

Cymulate, a threat exposure validation company, has partnered with SentinelOne, an AI-powered cybersecurity platform.​​ The collaboration will combine Cymulate and SentinelOne’s security offerings to deliver self-healing endpoint security that empowers organizations to increase protection for every endpoint on their network. Additionally, Cymulate has become a member of SentinelOne’s Singularity Marketplace.

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Dataminr Unveils its Agentic AI Roadmap

Dataminr, a global AI company, has unveiled its Agentic AI roadmap, starting with Intel Agents, its first Agentic AI capability. Intel Agents will allow businesses to task AI agents to autonomously generate critical context as events, risks, and threats unfold. The agents are powered solely by Dataminr’s internally developed and operated LLMs, which are all trained on Dataminr’s proprietary 15-year data and event archive. This enables them to fuse relevant information from external public sources with rich insights from internal data sources.

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Diligent Details Its Partnership with Cloudflare and Qualys

Diligent—a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) SaaS company—has announced a strategic partnership with Cloudflare, a connectivity cloud company, and Qualys, a disruptive cloud-based IT, security, and compliance solution provider. Together, the companies will launch the Cyber Risk Report, which can revolutionize how Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and security leaders communicate cyber risk to the board of directors.

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Entrust Releases the Entrust Cryptographic Security Platform

Entrust, a global provider of identity-centric security solutions, has announced the Entrust Cryptographic Security Platform, a unified, end-to-end cryptographic security management solution for keys, secrets, and certificates. With this platform, security, IT, and DevOps teams will have the control they need to streamline the deployment of cryptographic solutions. It will also equip teams with the centralized inventory and visibility required to manage increasingly complex operations and prepare for the shift to post-quantum cryptography.

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Flashpoint Introduces New Features to Its Platform

Flashpoint, the global provider of threat data and intelligence, has announced new capabilities for its flagship platform, Flashpoint Ignite. The new features include AI-powered risk discovery, curated threat feeds, asset-centric intelligence, and on-demand expansion of highly relevant data sources. These updates deliver actionable insights aligned with customers’ threat and intelligence needs, enabling organizations to make informed decisions and protect their critical assets.

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Forcepoint Showcases the Forcepoint Data Security Cloud Solution

Forcepoint, a global data security company, has launched the Forcepoint Data Security Cloud, an AI-powered data security platform designed to unite the visibility and control of data everywhere it’s created, stored, or moved. The platform is built for today’s hybrid, cloud- and AI-driven environments. Its features include automated, behavior-aware analytics, continuous monitoring, and other tools to help organizations improve their clarity, confidence, and control of the entire data security lifecycle.

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Graylog Launches the Spring 2025 Release of Its Security Solution

Graylog, a platform for Security, API protection, and IT Operations, has launched the Spring 2025 release of its Graylog Security solution. Building on the Fall 2024 release (version 6.1), this update will enhance analyst workflows, accelerate time-to-value, and help users set a new bar for speed and flexibility in their threat detection efforts. Specifically, the new Adversary Campaign Intelligence, Data Lake Preview, Selective Data Restore, and Threat Coverage Analyzer tools can equip teams with better detection, real-time context, and more control over what matters.

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Lineaje Debuts New Capabilities to Improve Software Supply Chain Security

Lineaje, a full-lifecycle software supply chain security company, has launched a collection of end-to-end capabilities to transform how organizations protect their critical software. With these features, companies can contextualize risks at all software development stages, proactively address the escalating dangers of software supply chain attacks, and autonomously secure open-source software, source code, and containers with agentic AI-powered self-healing agents.

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Menlo Security Enhances Its Solutions With New Features

Menlo Security, a Secure Enterprise Browser provider, has revealed several enhancements for its solution to give security teams the visibility and control they need to stay ahead of rising AI-powered browser threats. Debuting at the RSA Conference 2025, the latest features include a dedicated dashboard that allows customers to view and manage Secure Application Access and a new, advanced workflow process for the company’s Browsing Forensics offering.

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NetApp Reveals New Capabilities for Strengthening Cyber Resiliency

NetApp, an intelligent data infrastructure company, has announced new security capabilities to help customers strengthen their cyber resiliency. With these updates, security teams can now leverage NetApp to take a proactive approach to data security at the storage layer and enhance their overall security posture. The new additions include embedding post-quantum cryptography into its storage portfolio, updates to its ransomware protection tools,  additional support for its backup and recovery offerings, and expanded professional security assessment and security hardening services.

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Netwrix Adds New Capabilities to Its 1Secure Platform

Netwrix, a cybersecurity solutions provider focused on data and identity threats, unveiled new solutions and capabilities across its 1Secure SaaS platform during the RSA Conference 2025. The company also announced several new risk assessment features for the 1Secure platform, enabling companies to quickly scan their Active Directory, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365 environments to gain insight into security risks and misconfigurations.

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NVIDIA Announces the NVIDIA DOCA Software Framework

NVIDIA has announced a new NVIDIA DOCA software framework, part of the NVIDIA cybersecurity AI platform, which will bring runtime cybersecurity to AI factories. Running on the NVIDIA BlueField networking platform, NVIDIA DOCA Argus is designed to operate on every node to immediately detect and respond to attacks on AI workloads, all while integrating seamlessly with enterprise security systems to deliver instant threat insights.

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Oasis Security Announces the Oasis NHI Provisioning Solution

Oasis Security, a Non-Human Identity Management (NHIM) solution, announced the launch of Oasis NHI Provisioning at the RSA Conference. The new capability can automate the creation, governance, and security of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) from their inception. Built into the Oasis NHI Security Cloud, the solution addresses the critical challenges of fragmented processes, ungoverned sprawl, and manual workflows that plague NHI provisioning today.

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Palo Alto Networks Launches the Prisma AIRS Platform

Palo Alto Networks, a global AI cybersecurity company, has announced Prisma AIRS, a new AI security platform designed to protect the entire enterprise AI ecosystem, including AI apps, agents, models, and data. The Prisma AIRS platform aims to help customers deploy AI confidently and address the critical need for robust security in the face of rapid AI adoption across enterprises. Its capabilities include AI model scanning, posture management, AI red teaming, runtime security, and AI agent security tools.

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PRE Security Releases New AI-Powered Cybersecurity Solutions

PRE Security, an AI-native cybersecurity company, has launched GenAI EDR and MiniSOC, two solutions that aim to “redefine” the future of cybersecurity for organizations of all sizes. The GenAI Native EDR replaces outdated static, rule-based approaches with a fully Generative and Agentic AI design at the endpoint. Additionally, the MiniSOC solutions pair PRE Security’s AI SecOps platform with Apple’s M4-based Mac mini and M3 Ultra Mac Studio to eliminate the need for costly GPU servers while maintaining enterprise-class performance and efficiency.

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RSA Details Its New Help Desk Security Solution

RSA, a security-first identity company, has announced several cybersecurity innovations at the RSAC Conference 2025 that will help defend organizations against the next wave of AI-powered identity attacks, including IT Help Desk bypasses, malware, social engineering, and other threats. One of the major additions announced is the RSA Help Desk Live Verify feature, which uses bi-directional identity verification to prevent social engineering and technical support scams by ensuring users and IT staff are who they say they are.

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Saviynt Debuts an Identity Security Posture Management Solution

Saviynt, a provider of cloud-native identity security solutions, has launched its AI-powered Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) solution as part of its converged Identity Cloud platform. With Saviynt’s ISPM offering, companies can utilize actionable insights into their identity and access posture, improve data hygiene, boost the efficiency of their governance controls, reduce audit findings, maintain continuous compliance, and bring application owners into the center of identity management.

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SecurityScorecard and BlinkOps Announce a New Alliance

SecurityScorecard, a supply chain detection and response (SCDR) solution, has announced a new technical alliance with BlinkOps, an AI-powered security automation platform. The partnership will integrate BlinkOps’ generative AI-driven automation capabilities with SecurityScorecard’s risk ratings to equip global security teams with a solution that gives them unparalleled visibility, automation, and control over their cybersecurity posture.

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Silverfort Introduces New Protections for Cloud-Based Identities

Silverfort, an identity security company, has expanded the protection of its non-human identity (NHI) security product to include cloud-based identities, covering NHIs in cloud identity providers, cloud infrastructure, and SaaS applications. The added capabilities will help businesses stop lateral movement, enforce service account protection, get actionable remediation recommendations, and discover and visualize the connections between human and non-human identities across hybrid environments.

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Skyhigh Security Integrates DSPM Capabilities Into Its SSE Solution

Skyhigh Security, a global provider of Security Service Edge (SSE) and data security, has announced the integration of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) capabilities into its data-centric SSE platform. The new capabilities will build on Skyhigh Security’s existing data classification and protection platform services to provide organizations with deeper visibility into sensitive data and streamlined compliance management.

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SOCRadar Details Its New AI-Powered Cybersecurity Assistant

SOCRadar, a global extended threat intelligence and cybersecurity solution provider, has announced SOCRadar Copilot, an AI-powered cybersecurity assistant designed to enhance platform efficiency, automate routine security operations, and share knowledge and insights. The tool aims to help time-strapped security teams streamline their security and reporting processes while learning, adapting, and evolving to help those teams future-proof their defenses against changing risks.

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Sonatype Expands Its Repository Firewall Offering with New Features

Sonatype, an end-to-end software supply chain security company, has introduced several enhancements to its Repository Firewall offering. These updates will expand proactive malware protection efforts across the enterprise, from developer workstations to the network edge. The specific additions include an integration with Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA), Docker registry support, automated malware detection, and support for Hugging Face AI models.

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Superna Launches a Data Attack Surface Manager Platform

Superna, a CyberStorage security provider, has launched Superna Data Attack Surface Manager (DASM), a new platform that enables organizations to continuously identify, prioritize, and control exposure at the data layer. The company’s DASM includes features for data-first risk prioritization, continuous asset monitoring, compensating controls engine, workflow automation, and zero-day readiness. The solution is available now.

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Tuskira Debuts an AI Analyst Workforce

Tuskira, an  AI-native platform built to unify and optimize proactive and responsive security operations, has announced its fully autonomous AI Analyst Workforce at the RSA Conference 2025. The AI workforce includes analysts for detecting novel attacks, correlating emerging IOCs and TTPs, triaging alerts for detection, and identifying toxic security risks of vulnerabilities based on reachability, exposure, exploitability, business context, and defense coverage.

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For World Password Day 2025, the editors at Solutions Review have compiled a list of comments from some of the leading industry experts.

As part of this year’s World Password Day, we called for the industry’s best and brightest in Identity and Access Management and the broader cybersecurity market to share best practices, predictions for the future of passwords, and personal anecdotes. The experts featured represent some of the top influencers, consultants, and solution providers with experience in these marketplaces, and each projection has been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value. The list is organized alphabetically by company name.

World Password Day Quotes from Industry Experts in 2025

Tim Eades, CEO and Co-Founder at Anetac

Arun Shrestha, CEO and Co-Founder at BeyondID

“Passwords are old news, and World Password Day—once a reminder of cybersecurity best practices—now underscores the importance of phasing out the very authentication method it once championed. With stolen credentials topping the breach origin charts and phishing attacks up 4,151 percent since the launch of ChatGPT, it’s clear that traditional passwords are no longer sufficient. Modern threats call for passwordless authentication—not just for stronger security, but for a frictionless user experience. It’s time to answer the phone.”

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“For decades, passwords have been the weak link in cybersecurity–outdated, overused, and increasingly ineffective. But now, organizations are making a clear shift. Multi-factor authentication and sign-in links have emerged as the primary methods for user authentication across the US, UK, and globally, overtaking passwords.

“This step change comes as over half of business and IT decision-makers report higher fraud attempts with username and password alone compared to other methods. We’re at a cybersecurity inflection point: passwords are no longer sufficient. Modern, layered authentication methods, such as facial biometrics, device recognition, or generated codes, are stepping in.

“Rather than forcing users to create longer, more complex passwords, it’s time for organizations to embrace a passwordless future where customers and employees can prove their identity conveniently and securely using their biometrics. This approach reduces risk, streamlines access, and meets the expectations of today’s digital-first users.”

Joel Burleson-Davis, Chief Technology Officer at Imprivata

“This World Password Day, it seems appropriate to shift the discussion from securing and managing passwords to the demise of the password. Passwords have served us well (sort of), and we’ve been long talking about ditching the traditional, complex password because of their burden and unintentional insecurity. However, with every second mattering in critical work, now more than ever, passwordless authentication has become business-critical.

“There are signs of good adoption of both passwordless strategies and shunning our old password-burdened ways in mobile devices, which are built with and extensively leverage facial recognition for security purposes, but some of our most critical technologies in our most critical sectors have been reluctant to implement similar solutions in their operations. As life- and mission-critical industries like healthcare and manufacturing cope with staffing challenges while being increasingly targeted, it’s time they reconsider access management and their relationship with the password paradigm.

“In healthcare, for example, and in particular, the delivery of health care, where a 17-character password is not practical for clinicians who are treating patients who need rapid and frequent access to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in all kinds of situations. Entering a complex password for these users only creates barriers that delay patient care, eats up clinician time, and exacerbate burnout.

“Passwordless solutions, particularly biometrics-based ones, offer a tailored and frictionless experience that enables everyone from healthcare providers to manufacturing operators to maintain the highest security standards while empowering them to deliver timely, critical work without unnecessary barriers. I look forward to a World Password Day in the future that is full of cheering and celebration because we’ve finally released ourselves from the burden of putting memorized, complex strings into a little prompt box for the sake of security.”

Stephanie Schneider, Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at LastPass

“World Password Day is a great reminder for every organization that identity access management is the foundation of effective company security. Abusing legitimate credentials is one of the easiest and most common ways hackers gain unauthorized access to systems. Given the rise of infostealers over the last few years, which frequently target credentials and other sensitive data to resell on underground marketplaces, acquiring these is easier than ever. Credentials and session cookies stolen from employees’ personal devices can be used to breach corporate networks.

“A key aspect of stealers is their heavy reliance on the ‘spray-and-prey’ tactic, rather than directly targeting corporate networks, they’re counting on individuals having weaker security on their personal devices and using their work credentials on personal devices. The time from infection via stealer malware to the time that information is posted to the dark web can be speedy, especially with automation tools. Organizations must monitor for exposed credentials and change credentials as quickly as possible to disrupt breaches and attacks before they can occur. In a world where hybrid work has blurred the lines between personal and professional devices, businesses can’t afford to be casual about credential management.

“Using strong, unique passwords is just the tip of the iceberg when protecting your identity access. Reusing passwords across services is still one of the most common mistakes employees make—and one of the easiest ways for attackers to gain access. Requiring multi-factor authentication (MFA) should be standard for every business account, and it is a good idea for personal accounts, too.

“This World Password Day, take a look at your access policies. Are you protecting your company or making it easier for someone else to break in?”

“Leverage passkeys as the primary authentication method whenever possible. While passkeys are not immune to cyber-attacks, they are significantly more secure and phishing-resistant because they are linked to a device or leverage biometric authentication. Plus, they’re a whole lot easier to manage than constantly juggling new password combinations.”

Anthony Cusimano, Solutions Director at Object First

“I believe the death of the password is just around the corner. Passwords are no longer a secure method of authentication and should not be treated as secure. So, I’ll share the advice I have taken up in the last year: use a password manager, app-based or browser-based (either works!).

“Password managers securely store your passwords in a locked vault and come with convenient browser extensions that autofill logins. They can also generate unique, complex passwords for every account. Many of these tools allow you to customize password requirements according to your preferences, including specifying length and incorporating symbols, numbers, and mixed case. Additionally, password managers can alert you to duplicate or weak passwords and often suggest optimal times for changes.

“The password alone is NOT a secure authentication method; that’s why I have given up trying to maximize their security and left the brainwork to someone else. It’s 2025—let an app do the password legwork for you, and here’s to hoping that passwords become a thing of the past sooner rather than later.”

Nicolas Fort, Director of Product Management at One Identity

“Passwords have come a long way, from punch-tape reels in 1961 to the world of multi-factor authentication and fingerprint identification we inhabit today. The next leap is already happening—passkeys tied to devices, one-time AI-generated tokens, and even blockchain-backed session receipts. It’s no accident that password technology is constantly evolving.

“Cyber-attacks are more frequent, threat actors have more sophisticated tools at their disposal, and as businesses continue to store more and more sensitive data online, regulators are rightly demanding that they keep up. The EU’s NIS2, the UK’s Cyber Resilience Act, DORA, HIPAA, and countless other rules and regulations now demand rock-solid control over user accounts at every touchpoint. That means audited sessions, behavioral analytics, rotating passwords, and just-in-time credentials—so that no matter how hard attackers try, there’s simply nothing there to steal.”

Drew Perry, Chief Innovation Officer at Ontinue

“As positive a day as World Password Day is, I look forward to the day it no longer exists or is at least renamed! With the rise of passkey support across major platforms and devices, we’re finally seeing a shift towards more secure and user-friendly authentication. Passkeys are cryptographic credentials that eliminate the need for passwords entirely, offering phishing-resistant, biometric-based access. It’s time we moved beyond passwords, which are too often reused, weak, or compromised. Simpler identity protection is needed so we, as humans, don’t just pick a random string of characters that we will never remember!”

“We have come a long way. Password manager adoption is rising, multi-factor authentication is available for most critical online services, and people are reusing the same passwords less. But still, hackers are succeeding in their attacks. We have been saying since the early 2010s that “hackers don’t hack in, they log in,” and as time goes on, it becomes even more true.

“Stolen credentials overtook email phishing as the second most frequently observed initial infection vector in 2024 during intrusions into businesses. At Ontinue, we have witnessed first-hand the rise of sophisticated infostealer malware, which captures passwords as they are entered by users during login. This enables attackers to simply log in if no other secondary authentication methods are enabled, which, sadly, is often the case.

“Awareness is key. Enable passkeys where possible. I suggest we lay the password to rest and embrace the passwordless future.”

“World Password Day serves as an annual reminder of a universal truth: passwords are a pain. Despite being a cornerstone of our digital lives, they consistently fall short. From the widespread practice of password reuse—a virtual invitation to cyber-criminals—to the ease with which they can be compromised through social engineering or simple guessing, the inherent weaknesses of password-based authentication are undeniable.

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The editors at Solutions Review are exploring the emerging AI application layer with this authoritative list of the best AI agents for cybersecurity use cases that teams should consider integrating into their business security efforts.

The proliferation of generative AI has ushered in a new era of cybersecurity, and AI agents are heavily involved in that transformation. As threat actors continue to find new ways to disrupt businesses, AI has become an essential tool in every company’s lineup of defense systems. Whether autonomously monitoring network traffic, detecting anomalous patterns, or responding to potential threats in real-time, AI agents in cybersecurity can help your company adapt its defense strategies and remain agile as new threats present themselves.

In this up-to-date and authoritative guide, our editors will spotlight some of the top AI agents and agent platforms available today for cybersecurity teams to help you find the right tool for your specific needs. This resource is designed to help you:

• Understand what makes cybersecurity AI agents different from traditional automation tools
• Explore the capabilities and limitations of each available agent or agent platform in the marketplace
• Choose the best solution for your team based on use case, skill level, and scalability options

Note: This list of the best AI agents for cybersecurity was compiled through web research using advanced scraping techniques and generative AI tools. Solutions Review editors use a unique multi-prompt approach to employ targeted prompts to extract critical knowledge and optimize content for relevance and utility. Our editors also utilized Solutions Review’s weekly news distribution services to ensure the information is as close to real-time as possible. The list is organized in alphabetical order.

The Top AI Agents for Cybersecurity Teams

Arctic Wolf Agent

Description: Arctic Wolf’s Agent is a lightweight software designed to autonomously collect actionable intelligence from their IT environments, scan endpoints for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and even respond to emerging threats.

Arctic Wolf Agent is managed 24×7 by security operations experts from the Arctic Wolf Concierge Security Team (CST), which provides clients with additional support in their threat detection, assessment, and containment efforts. It’s designed to extend IT bandwidth by monitoring wireless networks, event logs, process tables, installed software, SSL certificates, and more.

Key Features:

• Identify and benchmark risk profiles against globally accepted configuration guidelines and security standards.
• Host-based vulnerability assessment will continuously monitor servers and workstations for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
• Only 10MB of memory utilization under normal operating standards.
• Block data exfiltration and propagation of threats by preventing servers and workstations from communicating.

Get Started: Arctic Wolf Agent can be installed transparently via the existing software deployment processes your IT department is working with. It uses universal installers (i.e., MSI and PKG), requires zero maintenance once implemented, carries no performance impact, and can be updated seamlessly through the Arctic Wolf Platform.

Darktrace

Description: Darktrace’s Cyber AI Analyst combines human expertise with the speed and scale of artificial intelligence. It’s designed to reduce the time spent investigating alerts by streamlining workflows so your security team can focus on urgent or higher-value tasks.

Unlike copilots or prompt-based AI agents built to interpret text, Darktrace’s Cyber AI Assistant can replicate the human investigative process by questioning data, testing hypotheses, and reaching conclusions based on the results, all without human intervention. The Analyst also runs continuously, so it can re-investigate existing alerts with emerging data in real-time to ensure thorough analyses.

Key Features:

• The Analyst can recommend the next-best actions unique to each incident.
• Set up repeatable, integrated investigative workflows that are custom to your organization.
• Autonomous responses stop malicious actions while giving defenders time to analyze and remediate.
• Simplify incident understanding with detailed insights and investigative processes.

Get Started: The Cyber AI Analyst is built to underpin the Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform, which allows clients to trial the company’s platforms in unison across use cases and technologies.

Fortinet

Description: FortiClient, an agent for the Fortinet Security Fabric solution, provides businesses with protection, compliance, and secure access, all from a single, modular, lightweight client.

The agentic tool runs on an endpoint like a laptop or mobile device. It autonomously communicates with Fortinet Security Fabric to provide users with the information, visibility, and control they need to manage each device. This can minimize the need for manual intervention and promote faster threat remediations across environments.

Key Features:

• Secure endpoints with ML anti-malware and behavior-based anti-exploit.
• FortiClient enables remote workers to securely connect to a network using zero-trust principles.
• Control access to cloud-based applications, including visibility to shadow IT.
• Harden endpoint security with vulnerability scanning, automated patching, software inventory, and app firewall functionalities.

Get Started: FortiClient comes in several models with increasing degrees of protection and capabilities. It’s built to integrate with the key components of Fortinet Security Fabric and is centrally managed by the Endpoint Management Server (EMS). Clients can also enhance the tool’s value with Fortinet’s professional services offerings, which can help streamline upgrades, patches, deployment, and monitoring processes.

Purple AI by SentinelOne

Description: Purple AI is a cybersecurity analyst powered by agentic AI technologies that enable teams to use natural language prompts and context-based suggested queries to identify hidden risks, respond to threats faster, and conduct in-depth investigations.

SentinelOne designed Purple AI to scale autonomous protection across the enterprise and amplify a security team’s capabilities by streamlining and automating SecOps workflows. For example, Purple AI can generate incident summaries, self-documenting notebooks, and recommended queries.

Key Features:

• Purple AI is architected with the highest level of safeguards to protect against misuse and hallucinations.
• Synthesize threat intelligence and contextual insights in a conversational user experience.
• View and manage security data in one place with a unified console for native and third-party security data.
• Generate summaries that communicate the seriousness of an incident, key findings of the hunt, and recommended actions.

Get Started: SentinelOne’s agentic AI functionalities are available in the Complete, Commercial, and Enterprise models of the company’s Singularity solution. Each offering provides scalable features to help companies of all sizes and needs streamline and improve their cybersecurity efforts.

Alex by Twine

Description: Alex is Twine’s first digital employee. The AI agent is designed to join your team and handle the execution and orchestration of identity and access management processes.

Alex is capable of planning, approving, and automatically executing tasks. Potential use cases for Alex include onboarding users to a new application, assigning employees to orphaned accounts, optimizing a company’s existing identity governance and administration (IGA) platforms, and more.

Key Features:

• Autonomously repairs issues, removes roadblocks, and recovers whatever is needed to complete objectives.
• Handle and fix edge cases and exceptions with minimum human intervention.
• Connect and bond multiple HR systems, identity silos, and SaaS platforms within larger organizations.
• Identity applications that require multi-factor authentication (MFA) and migrate them into an MFA framework without disrupting your team’s workflow.

Get Started: Twine’s Digital Employees are designed to integrate easily with a company’s existing systems. The agents learn and adapt to each client’s unique requirements, environments, and applications. Twine’s engineers can even research and build specific integrations to suit special cases when needed.

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Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with Ping Identity is part of an exclusive webinar series for enterprise business software users. This event will feature an hour-long discussion and software demo to help viewers prevent account takeovers in their business ecosystems.

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive, expert webinar events for industry professionals across the enterprise technology and MarTech fields. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, Expert Webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers in enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people visit Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with Ping Identity, an identity security company for the digital enterprise. The hour-long webinar will show viewers how they can prevent ATO without adding unnecessary friction to their business, ensuring security, trust, and operational continuity. The program will also feature a live product demo and Q&A.

Speakers

Maya Ogranovitch Scott, Fraud Solution Manager at Ping Identity: Maya Ogranovitch Scott is a senior product and solutions marketing manager responsible for Ping’s fraud prevention, AI, and retail solutions. She focuses on finding solutions to complex, industry-specific challenges, exploring ways to combat ever-evolving fraud threats, and leveraging security to elevate customer experiences.

About Ping Identity

Ping Identity is an identity security provider focused on helping digital enterprises deliver unforgettable user experiences and uncompromising security. The company’s identity security solution suite includes products and services for passwordless authentication, zero trust implementations, cloud migrations, legacy IAM modernization, online fraud prevention, customer engagement, digital experience innovation, compliance management, and more.

FAQ

• What: Stopping Account Takeover in Business Ecosystems
  
• When: Monday, May 5th, 2025, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more details), LinkedIn, and Insight Jam.

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The editors at Solutions Review are exploring the emerging AI application layer with this authoritative list of the best AI agents for automation efforts across business functions, departments, and processes.

The proliferation of generative AI has ushered in a new era of intelligent automation, and AI agents are at the forefront of this transformation. From embedded copilots that analyze spreadsheets to autonomous agents that browse the web, write code, and synthesize complex data across systems, AI agents are shaping and reshaping how forward-thinking organizations understand and act on information.

In this up-to-date and authoritative guide, our editors will spotlight some of the top AI agents and agent platforms available today for business automation, grouped into clear categories to help you find the right tool for your specific needs—whether you’re a developer looking to automate parts of your code, a business analyst who needs to streamline your data collection, or a manager who is prioritizing enterprise-scale AI adoption.

This resource is designed to help you:

• Understand what makes AI agents different from traditional automation tools
• Explore the capabilities and limitations of each available agent or agent platform in the marketplace
• Choose the best solution for your team based on use case, skill level, and scalability options

Note: This list of the best AI agents for automation was compiled through web research using advanced scraping techniques and generative AI tools. Solutions Review editors use a unique multi-prompt approach to employ targeted prompts to extract critical knowledge and optimize content for relevance and utility. Our editors also utilized Solutions Review’s weekly news distribution services to ensure the information is as close to real-time as possible. The list is organized in alphabetical order.

The Best AI Agents for Automation

Anthropic (Claude)

Use For: Anthropic’s Claude Code is an agentic tool designed to help developers delegate coding tasks to Claude.

Claude Code is powered by Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid reasoning model used for coding that can significantly improve a company’s content generation, data analysis, and business planning efforts. The system is particularly valuable for reducing development time on routine coding tasks, allowing developers to focus on higher-level design and architecture decisions.

Key Features:

• Turn anyone into an AI developer with Anthropic’s accessible docs and tooling.
• Analyze a company’s codebases with expert-level reasoning via Github integration.
• Generates unit tests and test cases to verify code functionality and edge cases.
• Creates code documentation for functions, classes, and modules based on their implementation.

Get Started: Claude Code can integrate directly with a company’s development environment to help them streamline their workflows without the need for additional servers or complex setups. It’s currently in beta as a research preview and will continue to evolve based on user feedback.

Gumloop

Use For: Gumloop allows users to build and launch custom AI tools and automate workflows with the power of AI without coding.

As a platform for building LLM-powered automations, Gumloop equips its users with ready-made components they can use to create advanced AI tasks for data extraction, web scraping, document processing, financial analysis, human resources, data scoring, and more. User data will remain untouched for AI training, as it is backed by comprehensive data processing agreements and state-of-the-art encryption, both at rest and during transmission.

Key Features:

• A Chrome extension makes it easy for users to develop no-code AI browser automations.
• Build complex workflows visually; if you can describe your workflow as a list of steps, Gumloop can automate it.
• Use OpenAI or Anthropic models instantly—no configuration required.
• Parallel flow execution allows users to run millions of nodes without restriction, enabling 10x the speed of competitors.

Get Started: Gumloop offers several models to provide each user or team with the capabilities they need to automate their work. The platform is growing rapidly—it started 2025 with a successful Series A funding round and has been releasing new features and updates for its toolset on a monthly basis.

LangChain

Use For: LangGraph, powered by LongChain, equips teams with control over custom agent and multi-agent workflows, seamless human-in-the-loop interactions, and native streaming support for enhanced agent reliability and execution.

The platform’s APIs make it easy for teams to craft agent-appropriate UXs and deploy their agents with purpose-built infrastructure. It aims to provide an “end-to-end developer experience” by simplifying the prototyping, debugging, and sharing of agents via the visual LangGraph Studio. Companies can then deploy their applications with 1-click deployments and monitor app performance with LangSmith.

Key Features:

• An extensive library of off-the-shelf tools and an intuitive framework enabling users to customize their own.
• Design diverse control flows—single, multi-agent, hierarchical, sequential—from one unified framework.
• Add human-in-the-loop functionalities to steer and approve agent actions.
• Expose, update, and rewind the app’s state for better user visibility, steering, and interaction.

Get Started: Where other agentic frameworks work for simple tasks but fall short for complex tasks, LangGraph aims to provide an expressive framework to handle unique tasks without restricting users to a single black-box cognitive architecture.

Microsoft AutoGen

Use For: AutoGen’s open-source programming framework provides a flexible framework for accelerating development and research on agentic AI systems.

While still in active development, Microsoft AutoGen can already enable conversational agents that work together with structured roles, communicate effectively, and leverage various tools and external resources. This makes them particularly useful for tasks that require different specializations or perspectives, like software development, data analysis, and complex reasoning.

Key Features:

• Agents communicate through asynchronous messages, supporting both event-driven and request/response interaction patterns.
• Users can design complex, distributed agent networks that operate across organizational boundaries.
• Built-in tools provide tracking, tracing, and debugging agent interactions and workflows.
• The robust, asynchronous, and event-driven architecture enables a broader range of agentic scenarios.

Get Started: The latest release, AutoGen v0.4, is available now and redesigned the AutoGen library with the goal of improving its code quality, robustness, generality, and the scalability of its agentic workflows.

OpenAI Operator

Use For: Using its own browser, OpenAI Operator can access the web and perform various tasks, including filling out forms, ordering groceries, and creating content.

Operator is one of OpenAI’s first agents and is powered by a new model called Computer-Using Agent (CUA). This model combines GPT-4o’s vision capabilities with advanced reasoning and reinforcement learning, enabling the agent to interact with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in the same way that humans do.

Key Features:

• Take action on the web without requiring custom API integrations.
• Automated and human review processes continuously identify new threats and quickly update safeguards.
• Run multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Users can save prompts for quick access, which is ideal for automating repeated tasks.

Get Started: Operator is currently in a research preview mode and will continue to evolve based on user feedback. It’s available now for ChatGPT Pro users in the United States.

Stack AI

Use For: Build and deploy AI agents, automations, and other applications for multiple use cases within minutes.

The Stack AI platform leverages AI to help users and teams reduce manual work, accelerate information retrieval, and generate actionable insights. Some of the AI agents it can create include data warehouse, request-for-proposal (RFP) creation, physician co-pilots, and more. Businesses can deploy in the cloud or on-premises, which makes it an easy tool to integrate with their existing models and databases.

Key Features:

• Build AI agents with a code-free visual interface and deploy them with customizable UIs or ready-to-use API endpoints.
• SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA compliant platform capable of working with secure models like Azure, OpenAI, and AWS Bedrock.
• User data will not used for training AI models through data processing addendums (DPAs).
• Stack AI can be self-hosted on a company’s internal servers, giving them complete control over their data.

Get Started: Stack AI makes it easy for users of all experience levels to develop AI agents, custom user interfaces, and API endpoints. Businesses can sign up for a demo or consultation to see firsthand how the platform can be customized to their specific needs. It also offers several pricing models for businesses of various sizes and goals.

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Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlight with IBM is part of an exclusive webinar series for enterprise business software users. This event will provide viewers with a deep-dive exploration of the challenges facing ALM in the oil and gas sector, showcase how generative AI can revolutionize practices, and more.

What is a Solutions Spotlight?

Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive, expert webinar events for industry professionals across the enterprise technology and MarTech fields. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, Expert Webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend!

Why You Should Attend

Solutions Review is one of the largest communities of IT executives, directors, and decision-makers in enterprise technology marketplaces. Every year, over 10 million people visit Solutions Review’s collection of sites for the latest news, best practices, and insights into solving some of their most complex problems.

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with oil and gas sector experts from IBM to explore the difficulties facing asset lifecycle management (ALM) in the industry and how generative AI can help address them. The hour-long webinar will also look toward the future of the oil and gas sector and explore topics like emerging trends in the industry, ethical implications of AI technology, AI maturity models, and how organizations can plan for a more sustainable, efficient, and resilient future in the industry.

Speakers

Carol Lee Andersen, Vice President, Global Oil & Gas Industry Leader at IBM: Carol Lee is a dynamic executive with extensive global experience in the Oil and Gas, Technology, and Manufacturing sectors. As the Global Vice President of Oil and Gas at IBM Technology, she leads large-scale transformation initiatives for Asset Lifecycle Management, helping energy companies harness the power of technology to drive efficiency, sustainability, and growth.

Ravi Teja Siragam, GTM Product Manager, Maximo for Oil & Gas at IBM: Ravi brings 12 years of experience across the oil and gas, petrochemical, and energy sectors, blending deep domain expertise with strong technical skills. He began his career as a Maintenance Manager at a gas-based chemical plant, later transitioning to Procurement Manager. Ravi then joined a leading engineering solutions company, supporting onshore and offshore upstream operations for an IOC over five years.

About IBM

IBM continues to push the boundaries of AI, quantum computing, and sustainability. As one of the leaders in ethical AI, IBM is helping shape transparent systems to address global challenges, from healthcare to environmental sustainability and beyond. The company also aims to drive innovation through partnerships in space technology, cloud computing, and data-driven industries.

FAQ

• What: Oil & Gas Asset Lifecycle Management: Navigating Challenges with Gen AI
• When: Tuesday, April 8th, 2025, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time
• Where: Zoom meeting (see registration page for more details), LinkedIn, and Insight Jam.

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The editors at Solutions Review have partnered with the team at LANSA to outline a few of the most significant ways professional low-code solutions can reduce development costs and lessen the burden placed on developers.

The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in the software development market has caused major waves in everything from hiring to return on investment (ROI), development pipelines, and more. Building and maintaining enterprise applications has always been expensive, slow, and resource-intensive, and challenges like the ongoing developer shortage or modernization roadblocks are only adding to the struggle.

Thankfully, low-code technologies can help. With tools like Visual LANSA, companies can equip their developers with an integrated environment that combines low-code speed with traditional development’s power and flexibility, enabling teams to deliver tailored business solutions more efficiently. To help educate developers on the value professional low-code can provide, Solutions Review has partnered with the team at LANSA to outline a few ways these platforms can reduce development costs, maximize productivity, and more.

How Does Low-Code Reduce Development Costs?

1) Accomplish More With Less

Professional low-code can enable development teams to maximize and improve their productivity without increasing or overexerting their current staff. Low-code functionalities like this allow developers to build and maintain an ongoing library of custom components, workflows, and templates they can reuse across projects. Once created, these assets can save time in the future by eliminating the need to develop components from scratch every time.

Low-code platforms can also automate tasks that otherwise take up valuable developer time. For example, low-code empowers teams to automate tasks like infrastructure provisioning, database scaling, system scaling, maintenance, deployment pipeline management, and testing. Without requiring users to do these tasks manually, low-code lets them focus on building features instead of managing complex deployment processes or writing extensive test suites.

2) Accelerate Development Timelines

Another perk of professional low-code development is the ease of use it provides. Instead of coding everything manually, teams can use pre-built templates, connectors, and reusable parts to save time, remove time-consuming roadblocks, and allow each developer to focus their skills on more important matters. Low-code platforms also facilitate faster prototyping and iteration by helping teams gather feedback faster and adjust applications without extensive recoding. That acceleration doesn’t come at the cost of quality or flexibility since these low-code platforms support custom code when needed while ensuring routine development tasks are completed efficiently.

3) Easier Upgrades

Thanks to their component-based architecture, professional low-code platforms offer significant system maintenance and upgrade advantages. When developers create or modify a component in the central repository, those changes will automatically propagate to every instance where that component is used. Suppose a team updates a user authentication module to implement new security requirements. In that case, all applications currently using that module will immediately benefit from the enhanced security features without the need for any additional development work.

Developers no longer have to refactor significant portions of code when new features or improvements are needed. Instead, they can modify existing components (or create new ones) that seamlessly integrate with the existing architecture. Approaches like this save time in the immediate term and reduce technical debt by making systems more adaptable to future changes and requirements.

4) Seamless Integration with Existing Systems

By design, professional low-code platforms come equipped with pre-built integrations for enterprise software, databases, and services to help developers quickly establish connections with the existing systems in their tech stack. This means that, instead of writing integration code from scratch, teams map data flows and configure connections with easy-to-use visual tools that significantly reduce the time and expertise needed to bridge different systems.

Modern low-code platforms also support industry-standard protocols and authentication methods, making it far easier to establish secure connections with existing identity management systems and whatever corporate security frameworks a company complies with. When custom integrations are needed—as they often are—low-code platforms provide flexible APIs and extensibility options so developers can build custom connectors while maintaining the benefits of the low-code environment’s management and monitoring capabilities. This ensures that new applications seamlessly fit into the existing technology landscape while preserving investments in established systems.

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