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GIGABYTE Motherboards Triumph with Prestigious 2025 IF Design Awards

⁠May 2, 2025 – GIGABYTE Technology, one of the top global manufacturers of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, is proud to announce that its cutting-edge motherboard lineup has been honored with the coveted 2025 IF Design Awards. This recognition celebrates GIGABYTE’s commitment to exceptional design, functionality, and innovation in the competitive computing hardware landscape.

The award-winning motherboard series exemplifies GIGABYTE’s dedication to creating products that seamlessly blend technological innovation with thoughtful design principles. Each board showcases GIGABYTE’s meticulous attention to both performance and aesthetics.

The winning motherboard includes:

• B650E AORUS STEALTH ICE delivers the world’s first pure white reverse connector motherboard, enabling a virtually cable-free desktop with faster assembly, improved airflow, and enhanced performance in an uncluttered, spacious design.
• The Z890 AERO G, engineered specifically for content creators, delivers superior performance for demanding tasks including 3D rendering and video editing.
• The TRX50 AI TOP workstation motherboard features an innovative design optimized for unparalleled performance and scalability, meeting the rigorous demands of AI training and high-performance computing applications.
• The revolutionary Z890 AI TOP motherboard enables AI fine-tuning capabilities directly at your desk, exceling in scalability, next-generation connectivity, and innovative DIY-friendly designs.

This recognition reinforces GIGABYTE’s position as an industry leader committed to pushing boundaries in both technological advancement and design sophistication. GIGABYTE continues its dedication to developing motherboards that not only meet but exceed the evolving demands of modern computing environments.

CrowdStrike Unveils Innovations to Secure Cloud Risk, from AI Models to Runtime Data

CrowdStrike announced new innovations, including AI Model Scanning and detection of Shadow AI, to secure every area of cloud risk with the CrowdStrike Falcon® cybersecurity platform. With capabilities that accelerate secure AI innovation, protect cloud data at runtime, stop SaaS threats, and secure hybrid identities, CrowdStrike expands its platform advantage, delivering unified visibility and protection across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Cloud intrusions are surging as adversaries exploit valid accounts, and the growth of AI and SaaS makes it harder to protect identities and sensitive data. Stopping cloud breaches requires unified visibility and protection across cloud infrastructure, workloads, applications, identity, data, AI models and SaaS. CrowdStrike covers every layer of cloud risk from the most comprehensive unified platform, spanning advanced cloud detection and response (CDR), AI-powered analytics, runtime protection and world-class threat intelligence to stop cloud breaches.

“Cloud security is about more than visibility – it’s about full protection and control across multi-cloud environments,” said Elia Zaitsev, chief technology officer, CrowdStrike. “The explosion of AI, combined with multi-cloud complexity, has outpaced patchwork tools that can’t keep up with today’s adversaries, or are limited to single cloud environments. CrowdStrike is breaking that model. These innovations deliver real-time protection, not just telemetry, across every layer of risk: data, workloads, identities, SaaS and AI. It’s what only a unified, AI-native platform can do, and is the difference between watching attacks happen and actually stopping them.”

Securing AI in the Cloud

AI innovation is happening in the cloud, and securing that innovation is critical to stopping breaches. CrowdStrike set the standard for securing AI in the cloud with Falcon Cloud Security AI-SPM and AI Red Team Services, protecting the cloud infrastructure, systems and models powering the AI revolution. Building on this leadership, CrowdStrike introduced new Falcon® Cloud Security innovations to detect and mitigate risk in AI models before they become threats, and provide visibility into overall AI security posture:

• AI Model Scanning: Proactively scans AI models for hidden malware, trojanized models, backdoors, and adversarial manipulations in containerized environments – preventing compromised models from executing at runtime or reaching production. Powered by CrowdStrike threat intelligence and ExPRT.AI, security teams can identify and fix the most business-critical risks before deployment, block untrusted models and eliminate blind spots before threats reach production.
• AI Security Dashboard: Provides real-time visibility and centralized control over all AI workloads in the cloud. With agentless monitoring, security teams can detect shadow AI, enforce policies and track sensitive training data to reduce exposure and maintain compliant AI adoption.

Securing Cloud Identities, Data and SaaS

CrowdStrike also introduced new innovations across the Falcon platform to protect cloud data at runtime, stop SaaS threats and secure hybrid identities – driving faster threat detection and reducing risk across cloud environments:

• Falcon Data Protection for Cloud: Secures cloud data at runtime with real-time monitoring and enforcement powered by eBPF, stopping unauthorized access and data exposure, without slowing systems down.
• SaaS Threat Services: Provides tailored assessments and real-time threat detection for SaaS applications, helping organizations mitigate risks and secure their cloud-native environments.
• Falcon Privileged Access: Eliminates standing privileges and manual access requests to sensitive systems and data across hybrid environments through dynamic Just-in-Time access decisions.
• CrowdStrike Pulse Services: To harden cloud environments, CrowdStrike Pulse Services helps organizations identify and prioritize misconfigurations, manage identities and reduce cloud attack surfaces. Delivered through modular, expert-led engagements, Pulse enables teams to detect and respond to threats faster across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Arkade Developers Launches “Fly to Europe” Campaign Marking 39 Glorious Years

Mumbai, 30 April, 2025 — To mark 39 years of excellence in real estate, Arkade Developers Limited, a listed company, has unveiled a unique and exciting campaign— “Fly to Europe”. This special initiative offers clients who book their homes between April 19, 2025, to June 15, 2025, the chance to celebrate Christmas 2025 in Europe, subject to terms and conditions applied.

The campaign showcases a family trip to Europe during Christmas, an amazing experience that most aspire to enjoy. By booking a house, customers can now have their two dreams come true – one of owning a home and the second a lovely international family trip to Europe.

The “Fly to Europe” campaign is valid across select high-end residential projects in Mumbai, including:

• Arkade Nest – Mulund West
• Arkade Rare – Bhandup West
• Arkade Vistas – Goregaon East
• Arkade Pearl – Vile Parle East

Speaking about the campaign, Mr. Arpit Jain, Director, Arkade Developers, said: “Through this campaign, we’re not just offering homes—we’re creating cherished memories and keeping in mind the philosophy of Family First. As Arkade Developers continues to shape urban living in Mumbai, we invite homebuyers to be a part of our legacy, where every home marks a milestone and every milestone deserves a celebration.”

The campaign is being actively promoted across all digital and online platforms. As a personalised touch, Arkade Developers has also designed a customised boarding pass for participating clients, making the journey even more memorable.

Check Point Software Named Sole Outperformer in GigaOm’s Enterprise Firewalls Report

India, April 29, 2025 – Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a pioneer and global leader of cyber security solutions, today announced that it has ranked as a Leader and the only Outperformer for its Check Point Quantum Security Solutions in GigaOm’s latest Radar for Enterprise Firewall report. According to GigaOm, Check Point is recognized as a top performer thanks to its consistent rollout of new innovations features, high performance, threat analytics, management automation, ambitious development plan, strong focus on AI and relentless focus on security efficacy.

“We are extremely proud to deliver outstanding cyber security solutions to organizations and governments worldwide with our AI-driven Infinity platform,” said Eyal Manor, Vice President of Product Management at Check Point Software. “Being acknowledged by GigaOm as a Leader and the sole outperforming provider in the Enterprise Firewall category highlights our strategic progress and commitment to advancing digital protection.”

The GigaOm Radar report analyzed 14 leading enterprise firewall solutions, evaluating their features to pinpoint the top contenders. According to GigaOm analyst Paul Stringfellow, “Check Point is classified as an Outperformer due to its continual delivery of new features and an aggressive roadmap. With a strong focus on AI and on increasingly offloading to its hardware ASICs to improve performance, Check Point is positioned to set a strong example for the market.”

As cyber threats grow faster and more widespread, Check Point’s 2025 Security Report found a 44% increase in cyber-attacks. With this rise, businesses need a flexible, scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective security solution with a strong network. Check Point meets all these needs as GigaOm acknowledged the company for its wide partner network that supports supply and deployment.

Furthermore, Check Point was acknowledged for the following strengths highlighted in GigaOm’s evaluation:

• Performance and throughput: New Quantum Force series enhances performance, adding more ports, and reducing power consumption by 50%. Additionally, the Maestro hyperscale solution can support up to 1,000 Gbps, allowing security to scale with organizational growth
• Threat analytics: Check Point’s security tools connect to its ThreatCloud AI, which offers automated threat detection and response and 50+ AI features. It powers the Quantum firewall systems and integrates with the XDR platform —to detect, investigate, and respond to threats faster and more effectively
• Management automation: Check Point’s unique Infinity Playblocks streamlines threat and risk management by automating response workflows. It includes 70 pre-configured playbooks and supports over 20 third-party integrations, all while leveraging data from its ThreatCloud AI platform to identify new risks and initiate automated actions across its security tools

These features highlight the advantages of Check Point’s hybrid mesh firewall, which was recently recognized as the #1 AI-powered cyber security platform by Miercom.

Cisco Drives AI-Era Security Innovation Forward

RSA CONFERENCE 2025, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 29, 2025 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today made several transformative innovation and partnership announcements that will help security professionals secure and harness the power of AI. An increasingly sophisticated threat landscape combined with an expanding talent shortage means the need has never been greater for machine scale security and response. According to Cisco’s upcoming 2025 Cybersecurity Readiness Index, companies worldwide underestimate the complexities of securing AI, with 86% saying their organizations have experienced AI-related security incidents in the past 12 months. Cisco’s announcements further its commitment to developing these capabilities for customers through ecosystem partnerships and for the broader community through open-source security models and tooling.

“The cybersecurity threat landscape has never been more dynamic and complex, with adversaries constantly emboldened and enabled by AI to drive new attacks and exploits,” said Jeetu Patel, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Cisco. “To fight back, understaffed security operations and IT leaders need AI power of their own. Cisco is continuing its mission to secure AI and leverage AI for security with novel open-source models and tools, new AI agents, and IoT advancements, alongside the full breadth of the Cisco Security Cloud. Together, these innovations will help level the playing field and deliver AI innovation that makes all businesses more secure.”

Improved Threat Detection and Response with Cisco XDR and Splunk Security

Security teams are inundated with thousands of threat alerts daily. Cisco XDR addresses this challenge by correlating telemetry across network, endpoint, cloud, email, and more, using agentic AI to surface what matters most to organizations. Integrating several new features, Cisco XDR will deliver decisive, AI-powered responses to stop attacks faster than ever. The new Instant Attack Verification integrates data from the Splunk platform, endpoints, networks, threat intelligence, and more – and uses agentic AI to automatically create and execute tailored investigation plans. This feature swiftly investigates, confirms threats, and enables security teams to automate responses with confidence to stop attacks. New automated XDR Forensics capabilities provide deeper visibility into endpoint activity, increasing the accuracy of investigations. Additionally, a new XDR Storyboard clearly visualizes complex attacks, empowering security teams to understand threats in seconds and decisively respond faster. 

To further help organizations strengthen their digital resilience, Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and Splunk SOAR 6.4 enhance defenses against known and unknown threats for better visibility, accurate detections, and integrated and automated workflows that increase efficiency. Organizations that combine Splunk ES and SOAR with Cisco XDR will gain enhanced network visibility and detection to expedite investigations and stay ahead of threats. With this breadth of solutions, Cisco helps organizations build a SOC of the future that harnesses agentic AI to identify threats faster, accelerate resolutions, and realize massive productivity gains. Splunk SOAR 6.4 is generally available, and Splunk Enterprise Security 8.1 will be available in June.

 “Cisco XDR has fundamentally changed how we deliver security services, and we’re eager to leverage the enhancements in our vision for the future,” said Omar Zarabi, CEO, Port53. “Building on its network-centric and open XDR approach, the emphasis on clarity, decisiveness, and speed – delivered through Instant Attack Verification powered by agentic AI, and automated XDR Forensics – will further streamline our operations and deliver even better results for our customers.”

 “Cisco XDR aims to address key challenges in the SOC with its focus on ‘Clear Verdict. Decisive Action. AI Speed,'” said Frank Dickson, Group Vice President, Security & Trust, IDC. “The combination of Instant Attack Verification, XDR Storyboard visualizations, and automated XDR Forensics offers a streamlined approach to threat management. The effectiveness of these features in improving security outcomes will depend on real-world deployment and integration within existing security ecosystems.“

 Security for AI and AI for Security 

Building on the recent launch of AI Defense, Cisco is continuing its commitment to help customers tackle the growing challenges of managing AI security risks. Cisco announced a new integration as part of a deepened relationship with ServiceNow to enable confident and secure AI adoption at scale. The first integration will bring together Cisco AI Defense with ServiceNow SecOps to provide more holistic AI risk management and governance.

Cisco also introduced Foundation AI, a team of leading AI and security experts that joined through the Robust Intelligence acquisition, focused on developing cutting-edge technology to address the fundamental security issues of the AI era. The Foundation AI team today released the first open-source reasoning model built specifically for enhancing security applications. They will also debut novel benchmarks to evaluate cybersecurity models on real-world security use cases, plus additional tools and building blocks for teams to leverage in adapting the models. These models and tools will encourage collaboration among first-class security experts and machine learning engineers, while delivering essential infrastructure that cybersecurity teams can immediately leverage.

Additionally, a new set of AI Supply Chain Risk Management security controls will help customers secure AI application artifacts. Even before deploying models in production, enterprises are exposed to security vulnerabilities, like malware in AI model files and poisoned data sets, that are downloadable from open-source repositories. By combining AI model threat assessment and detection with comprehensive network enforcement, enterprises can confidently accelerate their AI adoption and innovation. This includes identifying and blocking malicious AI model files before they enter the enterprise; automatically detecting and blocking AI model files with risky or restrictive open-source software licenses that pose intellectual property and compliance risks; and flagging and enforcing policies against AI models originating from prohibited suppliers.

 Enhanced Industrial IoT Security Solutions 

As industry digitization accelerates and industrial AI emerges, critical infrastructure and industrial networks are constantly exposed to cyber threats. Enhancing the Cisco Industrial Threat Defense solution and further extending IT security to industrial settings, these new integrations with Cisco Cyber Vision include: Cisco Vulnerability Management and Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence to help prioritize OT cyber risks; Cisco Secure Firewall to help automate industrial network segmentation to better protect operations; and the Splunk OT Security add-on in Splunk ES to unify IT and OT visibility within the SOC, helping detect threats traversing domains to secure global enterprises.

Palo Alto Networks Launches AI-Driven Cortex XSIAM for End-to-End SecOps

Mumbai, India, April 29, 2025 — Palo Alto Networks^® (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today unveiled Cortex XSIAM^® 3.0, the next evolution of its industry-leading SecOps platform, bolstered with proactive exposure management and advanced email security, enabling customers to further consolidate on Cortex for significantly better, faster and more cost-effective security operations.

Three years ago, Palo Alto Networks anticipated the future of security operations by introducing Cortex XSIAM, which consolidates and normalizes all cybersecurity data to fuel advanced, real-time analytics and automation, making disjointed point products obsolete. The best-selling platform surged past $1 billion cumulative bookings in FY25 Q2, making it our fastest offering to reach this milestone. Earlier this year, Palo Alto Networks doubled down on cloud security with the introduction of Cortex Cloud, converging its industry-leading CNAPP and CDR capabilities on the unified Cortex platform.

Cortex XSIAM 3.0 ​​continues its relentless disruption of the security operations market by upending decades-old approaches to vulnerability management and email security. It further expands the scope of the SOC from reactive to proactive security to prevent breaches before they happen, in addition to its current powerful incident response capabilities. These new XSIAM innovations will help customers modernize legacy offerings across a total TAM of $37 billion.

 Gonen Fink, SVP of Products, Cortex at Palo Alto Networks:

“Cortex XSIAM harnesses the power of the world’s largest and most comprehensive set of security data to transform our customers’ ability to rapidly counter evolving attacks with advanced AI and automation. This expansion of our groundbreaking SecOps platform merges best-in-class reactive with proactive security measures, allowing customers to achieve unprecedented risk reduction across their entire enterprise, from code to cloud to SOC.”

Cortex XSIAM 3.0 will enable customers to stop attacks at scale using AI-driven threat defense with Cortex Exposure Management and Advanced Email Security.

Cortex Exposure Management: Cut vulnerability noise by up to 99% with AI-driven prioritization and automated remediation spanning the entire enterprise:

• See every exposure: Uncover risks with a unified solution spanning native network, endpoint and cloud scanners — extended with integration from any third-party source.
• Cut alert noise based on actual risk, not compliance: Use AI to prioritize high-risk, exploitable vulnerabilities with no compensating controls, eliminating false alarms.
• Close the loop with industry-leading automation to prevent future attacks: Seamlessly create new protections for critical risks in native network, endpoint and cloud security solutions. Automate remediation across first- and third-party tools with playbook automation.

Cortex Advanced Email Security: Stop sophisticated email-based attacks missed by other solutions, with advanced AI and automation:

• Outsmart GenAI-powered threats: Detect advanced phishing and email-based threats based on attacker intent with LLM-powered analytics that continuously learn from emerging threats.
• Stop attacks in real time with built-in automation: Automatically remove malicious emails, disable compromised accounts, and isolate affected endpoints with best-in-class workflow automation.
• Extend industry-leading detection and response with complete email context: Correlate email, identity, endpoint and cloud data for unparalleled visibility into the full attack path for effective incident response.

 Chris DeBrunner, VP of Security Operations, CBTS:

“The transition to Cortex XSIAM has transformed our SOC operations at CBTS. Previously, we struggled with alert fatigue due to multi-console complexity, multiple data sources, disparate vendors, and labor-intensive tasks. With the consolidation of major security capabilities into one platform, we have achieved remarkable efficiencies. Our incident close-out rate has reached 100%, and we have significantly reduced our median time to resolution (MTTR) from days to, in some cases, seconds. The automation provided by XSIAM has been crucial in managing the alert overwhelm we faced, making our team more effective and less error-prone.”

Chase Hymel, CISO, State of Louisiana: 

“Discovering the capabilities of Cortex XSIAM was a game-changer for the State of Louisiana. It’s helped us to modernize our security infrastructure and set an example for other states to follow. By adopting XSIAM, we have significantly improved threat visibility and response effectiveness. Cortex XSIAM has allowed us to consolidate our security tools into one integrated platform, enhancing our security operations and protecting citizen data effectively. We have reduced MTTR from over 24 hours to under two minutes and automated the resolution of 86% of incidents.”

Availability: Exposure Management and Advanced Email Security are expected to be generally available to customers globally in FY25 Q4. For more details on Cortex XSIAM 3.0, read our blog here.

Register to attend: On Tuesday, April 29, 2025, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. PDT, join Palo Alto Networks Chairman and CEO Nikesh Arora for a virtual event: Hello Tomorrow, and dive into how innovations in AI-driven SecOps are redefining security from the inside out.

Don’t miss the launch event: Register for a one-hour virtual event June 4-5, 2025, to be among the first to see Cortex XSIAM 3.0 in action.

PingCAP Unveils Major TiDB Enhancements for Global Scale and AI-Driven Applications

Bengaluru, India, April 25, 2025—Today PingCAP announced a series of product updates that expand its global reach and make it easier for businesses to scale with TiDB. These updates extend the company’s multi-cloud capabilities and strengthen support for AI-driven applications.

TiDB is a unified database platform for transactions, real-time analytics and AI applications. It combines the scalability and performance of NoSQL systems with the reliability and consistency of a transactional database, making it an ideal foundation for hyperscale SaaS companies. Leading innovators such as Pinterest, Plaid and Bolt rely on TiDB to support their growth.

This release marks PingCAP’s most advanced TiDB update to date, delivering new AI features and expanded multi-cloud options.

Key features include:

AI-Ready SQL: TiDB 8.5 includes built-in support for vector search and full-text search, enabling organizations to power AI-driven applications such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Its unified architecture allows teams to run transactional processing, real-time analytics and AI workloads on a single platform, eliminating the need for complex ETL pipelines and separate databases.

Multi-Cloud Freedom & Flexibility: TiDB’s Cloud Dedicated option now supports Microsoft Azure, alongside AWS and Google Cloud. Support for Alibaba Cloud International is scheduled for later this year. TiDB 8.5 also introduces GA support for global indexes on partitioned tables and enhanced cross-region replication—improving availability, performance and resilience across geographies. These features give customers the flexibility to deploy anywhere, avoid vendor lock-in and ensure global availability.

Beyond its headline features, TiDB 8.5 delivers key performance and reliability improvements, such as parallel query execution and enhanced foreign key support.

TiDB isn’t just for hyperscale enterprises. TiDB Serverless now delivers 99.99% availability—up from 99.9% in previous versions—along with multi-tenancy and effortless scalability. This upgrade ensures SaaS innovators can run mission-critical workloads without worrying about database limits. For customers who require dedicated environments, TiDB Cloud Dedicated continues to offer 99.99% availability, with the added control and isolation of a private deployment.

“TiDB is the master of scale for fast-growing SaaS businesses,” said TiDB CEO Max Liu. “No matter how large you are, who your customers are or where you operate, TiDB has a solution that can handle any size workload — now and in the future. There’s no point running one database for AI, another for business analytics, another for transactions. That’s just adding needless complexity and expense. TiDB can do it all. And it can do it better, at lower cost.”

Inflexion Group Partners with AI and Beyond to Boost AI Literacy for ABM Professionals

National, 25 April 2025: Inflexion Group is pleased to announce an exciting strategic partnership with AI&Beyond, a pioneering AI literacy start-up co-founded by technology veteran Jaspreet Bindra and AI & cybersecurity expert Anuj Magazine. This partnership aims to deliver specialised AI literacy training, focusing particularly on generative AI, to account-based marketing (ABM) practitioners across Inflexion Group’s global client base.

As artificial intelligence continues to dramatically reshape the business landscape, ABM professionals increasingly need to confidently and ethically incorporate AI tools into their work. Through this dynamic collaboration, Inflexion Group and AI&Beyond will jointly deliver targeted training programmes, including the acclaimed Generative AI Bootcamp, Ethics Bootcamp, and AI Fluency workshops, specifically tailored to meet the needs of ABM teams.

Delivered as part of Inflexion’s ABM Academy^TM, the innovative AI in ABM Bootcamp is designed to equip marketing professionals with practical AI skills that directly enhance their daily effectiveness, strategic insight, and creative outputs. Delivered virtually across two engaging two-hour sessions plus guided self-study, the bootcamp offers hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI tools integrated seamlessly within Inflexion Group’s proven ABM framework.

By the end of this class, participants will be able to:

• Summarise the foundational skills that are the building blocks of AI proficiency.
• Define how to navigate the AI landscape safely and ethically.
• Describe how to integrate AI seamlessly into key ABM workflows.
• Apply AI tools in real-world situations through the ABM process.

Bev Burgess, CEO and Co-founder of Inflexion Group, highlights the strategic importance of the partnership:

“Our collaboration with AI&Beyond ensures that our clients — and our own team — gain essential AI competencies that align with our commitment to innovation and ethical practice. We’re dedicated to helping marketing professionals use AI confidently and responsibly, significantly improving the impact of their ABM programmes.”

Jaspreet Bindra, Co-founder of AI&Beyond, emphasised:

“At AI&Beyond, we believe that AI is no longer a distant future — it is a reality that is transforming the way we work, think, and create. AI literacy should be as fundamental as reading, writing, and arithmetic, especially in industries undergoing rapid AI-driven transformations. AI literacy is no longer optional; it is essential, particularly in areas like ABM where precision, creativity, and personalised engagement are crucial. We are thrilled to partner with Inflexion Group to help marketing professionals harness AI’s full potential, responsibly and effectively.”

This partnership underscores Inflexion Group’s vision of proactively supporting clients in navigating rapid technological advancements, emphasising practical and ethical applications of AI to drive measurable business success.

CrowdStrike Partners with Wipro to Revolutionize Global Security with Falcon SIEM

CrowdStrike announced a strategic partnership with Wipro Limited, a leading technology services and consulting company, to deliver next-generation security operations powered by CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM.

The collaboration will augment Wipro’s CyberShield platform with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to modernize security operations, reduce complexity and stop breaches with AI-powered threat detection and response. With CrowdStrike first-party data natively inside the Falcon platform, Wipro is able to deliver faster time to value, lower TCO and improved cybersecurity outcomes.

“Innovative partners like Wipro selecting Falcon Next-Gen SIEM to power their managed services practices underscores CrowdStrike’s competitive advantages over both legacy and modern alternatives,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer, CrowdStrike. “Together we’re redefining security operations, combining AI-driven security analytics with world-class expertise to scale machine-speed threat detection and response across the enterprise.”

CrowdStrike and Wipro’s partnership offers global organizations access to advanced technology and expert services, enabling them to effectively prevent sophisticated threats and address the increasing cybersecurity skills gap. SIEM remains the cornerstone of security operations, yet outdated solutions, burdened by slow data ingestion, limited retention, complex workflows, delayed searches and high costs, hinder modernization. Falcon Next-Gen SIEM transforms security operations by combining the native Falcon platform and third-party data with industry-leading AI and workflow automation, delivering lightning-fast threat detection and response while dramatically reducing operational complexity and costs. By leveraging Wipro CyberTransform Advisory solutions and AI-supported managed services, organizations can benefit from enhanced cybersecurity capabilities. This collaboration increases business agility and secures the modern enterprise by combining the knowledge of expert cybersecurity professionals and strategic industry partners.

“Today’s evolving threat landscape requires security solutions that are not just fast and scalable but purpose-built for modern cyber defenses,” said Tony Buffomante, senior vice president & global head – Cybersecurity & Risk Services, Wipro Limited. “Migrating our MSSP customer base to CrowdStrike’s next-gen SIEM allows us to accelerate the shift from outdated, complex SIEMs to a modern, AI-powered SOC. Our deep expertise in seamless migrations ensures that customers can quickly unlock the full potential of enhanced automation, real-time threat detection and a streamlined SOC as they improve security outcomes and reduce operational burdens.”

Key Benefits of Wipro’s MSSP Platform Powered by Falcon Next-Gen SIEM:

Enterprises are able to cost-effectively enhance cyber resilience and secure operations across clouds, networks, perimeters, endpoints, identities, data and apps through:

• Real-time threat detection and response – Identify threats before they impact the organization and reduce response time through GenAI-powered automated SOC services and security processes.
• Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and greater efficiency – Eliminates costly data ingestion and retention while reducing manual workloads.
• Seamless scalability with a cloud-native architecture – Falcon Next-Gen SIEM’s index-free design ensures high-speed performance at petabyte scale, without the cost and complexity of traditional SIEMs.
• Continuous 24×7 security operations – Wipro’s global Cyber Defense Centers provide always-on monitoring, advanced threat intelligence and tailored incident response.
• Enhanced analyst productivity and operational efficiency – AI and automation streamline security workflows, reduce alert fatigue and enable faster, more accurate investigations.

Ascendion Acquires UXReactor to Boost AI-Powered Experience Transformation

Mumbai, April 24, 2025 – Ascendion, a leading provider of AI-powered software engineering services, today announced its acquisition of UXReactor, an award-winning user experience (UX) strategy and design firm. With this strategic move, Ascendion force-multiplies its engineering capabilities, further enabling its customers to launch human-centered digital experiences that accelerate business outcomes and drive market advantage.

The acquisition of UXReactor marks a significant next step in Ascendion’s strategic investments for growth. Over the past two years, Ascendion has acquired Nitor Infotech to strengthen software product engineering, launched four global AI Studios, and created a new Latin America headquarters in Mexico.

This acquisition enhances Ascendion’s ability to create value across user-experience strategy, product experience design, UX research, platform experience design, and end-to-end digital innovation—all seamlessly integrated with AI-powered software engineering.

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, UXReactor specializes in experience innovation with experts across the US, Asia, and South America. They help organizations of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, drive growth and elevate performance.

“This relationship strengthens Ascendion’s ability to create long-lasting, high-value impact for clients, and reflects a focused commitment to advancing AI-powered software engineering,” says Karthik Krishnamurthy, CEO, Ascendion. “Combined with the power of our ASCENDION AVA+ platform and talented engineers, UXReactor will help our clients design, build, and scale innovative experiences faster and with greater impact, all to the power of AI.”

This acquisition is the next step in a long-term partnership. UXReactor has been working with Ascendion since 2024, and this collaboration is already driving client impact:

• Accelerating Strategy: In Silicon Valley, UXReactor and Ascendion co-led a user-centric strategy and design conceptualization for a leading software company, with the potential to capture another billion-dollar market. Engineering has now been significantly accelerated under the leadership of Ascendion’s Product Engineering teams.
• Engineering a Seamless Ecosystem: At a large fintech company, UXReactor partnered with Ascendion to align engineering priorities with user needs through multi-stakeholder strategy workshops and design. This resulted in 40% faster execution through streamlined workflows and improved navigation design.
• Competitive Differentiation: For a large UK bank, the combined Ascendion and UXReactor transformation playbook is helping inform and differentiate a large-scale digital transformation initiative for millions of users.

Shaping the Future of Experience Transformation in the Era of AI

As software and AI become deeply embedded in every aspect of life and business, differentiated, human-centered experiences are more critical than ever. UXReactor’s proven methodologies, global design talent, and upstream strategy expertise — combined with Ascendion’s engineering excellence and ASCENDION AVA+ platform — create a distinctive new value proposition for clients. The company also brings an innovative Experience Studio, located in Silicon Valley, to facilitate user-experience design workshops related to software products and digital consumer experiences.

“Exceptional digital experiences begin long before a single line of code is written. AI-powered software is bringing a paradigm shift to various industries and experiences are now expected to be more seamlessly integrated for everyone. As a part of Ascendion, UXReactor will guide clients through this shift by delivering on critical experience strategy and design challenges — and then bring new ideas to life to create extraordinary value,” shares Satyam Kantamneni, CEO, UXReactor. “The future of experience innovation is here — and we’re thrilled to be part of it.”