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ThreatBreaker Brings Automated Forensics to the Endpoint – Starting With Ransomware

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New anti-ransomware capability kills the encryptor, isolates the machine and seals the evidence on its own – offline, air-gapped, and without shutting anything down.

LAS VEGAS, July 31, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Black Hat – Every breach ends with the same question, asked by a CEO, an insurer, a lawyer, or a regulator: what exactly happened? Automated forensics platforms have answered that question for large enterprises for years – but they were built for organizations with a dedicated incident-response team, and priced accordingly. The companies being hit hardest this year have two IT people and no forensics team at all.

Andrew Sydoruk: ‘Automated forensics has existed for years – for companies with forensics teams. Our customers don’t have one, and they’re the ones getting hit. We put the investigator in the agent, and gave it ransomware first.’

When ransomware arrives, they reconstruct events from memory, weeks later, at consultant rates.

ThreatBreaker today announced it has built that capability into the endpoint agent itself – and pointed it at ransomware, too.

The launch takes place at Black Hat USA 2026, Booth #6001.

The new approach fuses the attack and documents it in the same motion. The agent seeds every machine with a few dozen files named the way real work is named – balance_sheet, cash_flow, vpn_config – that no human ever opens. They’re tripwires. When an encryptor starts chewing through folders, it bites one, then a second, and on the second bite the machine defends itself: the encrypting process is killed, the network cut except for a single line back to the console, the binary locked away so it cannot run twice. Seconds, decided on the endpoint, with no cloud lookup and no analyst on call. It works with the internet down and the network cable already pulled.

And the machine stays on. For years, the only decisive answer to ransomware was shutting the machine down, so the servers that could never be shut down – domain controllers, database servers, the till at the front of the shop – ran in alert-only mode. The endpoints ransomware hurts most were the ones defended least. ThreatBreaker contains the attack while the machine keeps running, leaving the power-button decision to a human with a finished investigation in front of them.

That investigation writes itself. Every tripped file is recorded with its path and hashes before and after; a full forensic package is collected automatically with a documented chain of custody and cryptographic sealing, so nobody can quietly edit the record afterward.

The incident arrives written up in plain English – what ran, where it came from, how far it got – with a risk score, the technique mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, and the reasoning shown on screen. When a cyber insurer interrogates the response before paying a claim, or a European regulator expects a substantiated report within 24 hours under NIS2, the answer already exists.

The market it lands in has never needed it more. The Qilin group became ransomware’s highest-volume operator this year, and its confirmed victims read nothing like the Fortune 500 – regional clinics, specialist practices, a mental-health service, facing median demands around $310,000. A Mississippi health system spent February on paper across 35 clinics. A county in Washington State just finished its third straight week running public services by hand. None of them lacked alerts. They lacked the seconds between the first encrypted file and the ten-thousandth – and afterward, the record of what those seconds contained.

The disguises are getting better, too. This year’s wave of compromised open-source software reached major companies through tools their own developers installed on purpose. At the same time, ransomware crews route through PowerShell and system binaries every file scanner trusts by design. ThreatBreaker’s behavioral engine was built for that terrain – reading sequences and context, the reconnaissance chain before the strike, the legitimate tool doing an illegitimate thing.

ThreatBreaker is unusually plainspoken about the edges, in its launch material and not just its fine print: deception-based detection is an established technique, the capability doesn’t stop encryption before it begins – it stops it seconds in – and it doesn’t decrypt or roll back files; restoration stays the job of backups.

The capability ships now on Windows, Linux and macOS, across cloud, on-premise and fully air-gapped deployments, at no extra cost. At Booth #6001, Black Hat in Vegas – all week, visitors can watch a live encryptor walk into the tripwires, lose, and get written up by the machine it attacked.

ThreatBreaker is endpoint detection and response with a built-in investigator, made for small and mid-sized organizations and the MSSPs that serve them. One lightweight agent detects attacks – including those hiding inside legitimate tools – investigates them automatically with evidence-grade forensics, and hands over finished, explained incidents with automation that a human can always overrule. ThreatBreaker is a MACH37 Cyber Accelerator company.

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PhoenixAI Joins Cloudera as a Foundational Database Partner

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PhoenixAI Cloud database engine to be available on Cloudera Anywhere Cloud ™ Marketplace, bringing sub-second real-time analytics and agentic AI workloads to Cloudera’s user base.

MENLO PARK, Calif., Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — PhoenixAI, the Agentic AI Database, today announced a strategic partnership with Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere. PhoenixAI is joining as a foundational data partner for Cloudera’s newly launched hybrid data and AI platform, and Cloudera Anywhere Cloud Marketplace. Through this partnership, enterprise customers can deploy PhoenixAI’s high-performance cloud database engine directly within Cloudera’s secure private and public cloud environments.

As organizations accelerate their adoption of autonomous AI agents and real-time decision-making systems, access to fresh, sub-second enterprise data is critical. PhoenixAI’s inclusion in Cloudera’s private and sovereign infrastructure offering delivers an AI-native database foundation designed specifically for high-concurrency, low-latency workloads while adhering to strict enterprise governance and data sovereignty mandates.

Speed, Reduced Complexity, and Enhanced Security

By making PhoenixAI natively available within Cloudera’s ecosystem, the joint solution delivers three core advantages to enterprise engineering and data teams:

Sub-Second Speed at Scale: PhoenixAI delivers sub-second SQL query performance across live streaming data and historical lakehouse formats, sustaining high concurrency without performance degradation.

Radically Reduced Complexity: Customers can instantly spin up a managed database cluster in a couple of clicks via the Cloudera Anywhere Cloud Marketplace. PhoenixAI queries real-time and lakehouse data in place—eliminating mandatory data denormalization, complex pre-aggregations, or unnecessary ETL pipelines.

Enhanced Security and Enterprise Trust: Deployed securely within the customer’s private cloud environment, PhoenixAI enforces fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC), per-query auditing, and full data sovereignty, ensuring sensitive AI workloads remain protected under enterprise security protocols.

Executive Commentary

“PhoenixAI was selected as an early foundational database partner for Cloudera’s innovative private cloud initiative,” said Andy Ye, co-founder and chief product officer of PhoenixAI. “AI agents and modern real-time applications demand sub-second data access without compromising security or operational simplicity. Partnering with Cloudera allows our mutual customers to deploy PhoenixAI’s high-concurrency database engine instantly within their trusted private cloud infrastructure, enabling them to move AI from experiment to production faster than ever.”

“Our customers want AI on their own terms, in their own environments (self-hosted or Bring Your Own Cloud) with data under their control,” said Michelle Hoover, SVP of Global Alliances & Channels at Cloudera. “Through Cloudera’s collaboration with PhoenixAI, we can offer them a real-time database built the way agents need it to work, with the governance our customers expect.”

Experience PhoenixAI Live at Evolve 26

PhoenixAI will showcase the new integration and host live technical demonstrations at Cloudera’s annual global customer event, EVOLVE26, on October 27, 2026, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City. Attendees can visit the PhoenixAI booth to see sub-second agentic AI query execution in action and explore how to instantly spin up cluster environments via the Cloudera Anywhere Marketplace.

To learn more about PhoenixAI Cloud or to schedule an executive meeting at EVOLVE26, visit phoenixdata.ai.

About PhoenixAI

PhoenixAI is the Agentic AI Database, purpose-built to give autonomous AI agents sub-second access to live enterprise data at massive scale. The platform unifies real-time and at-rest data in a single AI-native engine, combining the speed and concurrency that agentic workloads demand with the governance and deployment flexibility enterprises require to put AI into production. PhoenixAI runs fully managed inside the customer’s cloud platform of choice, or self-managed on the customer’s own private cloud, or on their own hardware, including on-premises. Formerly CelerData, and the creators of the StarRocks open source project, PhoenixAI is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Learn more at phoenixdata.ai.

About Cloudera

Cloudera is the only hybrid data and AI platform company that large organizations trust to bring AI to their data anywhere it lives. Unlike other providers, Cloudera delivers a consistent cloud experience that converges public clouds, on-prem data centers, sovereign clouds, and the edge, leveraging a proven open-source foundation. As the pioneer in big data, Cloudera empowers businesses to apply AI and assert control over 100% of their data, in all forms, improving security, governance, and real-time and predictive insights. The world’s largest brands across all industries rely on Cloudera to transform decision-making and ultimately boost bottom lines, safeguard against threats, and save lives.

To learn more, visit Cloudera.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X. ©2026 Cloudera and associated marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cloudera, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Stravito Launches MCP Server to Put Consumer Evidence Inside Enterprise AI Tools

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Stravito’s MCP Server brings the market and consumer research enterprises own into the AI tools teams already use

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Stravito, the customer intelligence platform that helps global brands understand their customers, validate ideas, and make better decisions, today launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server to bring each company’s market and consumer research into the everyday AI tools its teams use, so decisions get made on evidence the business owns and trusts.

The launch addresses a consistent problem across the enterprise: commercial results suffer when siloed consumer intelligence doesn’t reach the decisions where it is needed. Even connected to a company’s files, generic AI often reads a research report like a text document, missing the charts, graphs, and visuals where key findings live, or falling back on unverified answers from the web.

Stravito’s MCP Server changes that, connecting to AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and the custom agents enterprises have built, through a single, governed connection. It draws on the full body of a company’s research, reading not just text but also visual findings from reports and presentations to videos, audio, and spreadsheets. For marketing and brand teams, real consumer evidence now surfaces where they work, to shape stronger launches, campaigns, and strategies, without switching AI tools.

“The most valuable consumer research is worthless if it never actually guides real business decisions,” said Thor Olof Philogène, Founder and CEO of Stravito. “Our MCP Server puts company knowledge into the AI tools teams already use, so they can launch better, spend smarter, and go-to-market faster using consumer evidence they can trust.”

Every AI response from Stravito’s MCP Server follows a Glass Box AI approach. It is drawn from the company’s own research, source-cited, and is scoped to the person asking. The connection inherits the user’s existing permissions and is read-only.

A global media and information provider is among the first to pilot the Stravito MCP Server, using it to bring research findings directly into the specialist tools its teams work in.

Today’s launch reflects a wider shift in enterprise software. After building or buying tools, enterprises are now connecting them through open standards like MCP. A company’s research in Stravito can now sit alongside its CRM, BI, and social listening data in the same AI conversation, offering a more complete picture than any single application can provide.

Stravito’s platform remains the destination where enterprises can manage their proprietary research, run analysis, and build AI Personas. The MCP server shares that research in connected enterprise AI tools, enabling better, faster business decisions. Stravito also offers a set of developer-grade APIs for Search, AI Assistant, Usage, and Audit Logs, giving teams additional ways to access, manage, and apply their trusted research.

In the coming months, Stravito will release additional tools to bring more customer intelligence into the tools teams use, and deeper into commercial decision-making.

For more, visit www.stravito.com. For imagery, click here.

About Stravito

Stravito is the Enterprise Customer Intelligence Platform global brands trust to understand their customers, validate ideas, and make better decisions with AI grounded in their research.

Built for insights and marketing teams, Stravito unifies and activates research in a secure space. Teams ask strategic questions and receive synthesized, source-cited answers through Stravito AI Assistant. AI Personas, built from each organization’s segmentation studies, simulate consumer perspectives, enabling teams to pressure-test products, campaigns, and strategies before investment is committed.

Founded in Sweden in 2017, Stravito is used by global leaders including Nestlé and Lavazza Group. The company is ISO 27001 certified, SOC 2 Type II attested, and has been recognized in the Financial Times’ FT 1000 list of Europe’s fastest-growing companies.

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Parks Associates Announces CONNECTIONS™ Summit and 2027 CONNECTIONS™ Agenda Focused on AI, New Connected Services, Security, Energy, and The Intelligent Home

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Annual connected home executive conference May 4-6 examines business transformation across the smart home

PLANO, Texas, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — International market research and consulting firm Parks Associates today announced the key topics for CONNECTIONS™: The Premier Connected Home Conference, taking place May 4-6, 2027, with a special pre-show research workshop on May 4. The executive conference will examine how artificial intelligence (AI), new service models, partnerships, connectivity, security, energy, and changing consumer expectations are transforming the connected home business.

The research firm’s latest research shows smart home device purchases in the last 12 months dropped slightly to 28%, while high purchase intent for the next six months reached a new peak of 49% in Q2 2026.

The 2027 CONNECTIONS™ program begins with two virtual CONNECTIONS™ Summit sessions designed to analyze key trends ahead of CES® 2027 in Las Vegas and then comment on market developments following the show:

“What’s Next for the Connected Home: Year-End Insights and CES Preview” – December 15, 2026“Beyond CES: What’s Next for the Connected Home in 2027” – January 19, 2027

“The gap between past purchases and future high intent creates opportunity for vendors to convert new buyers through clearer value propositions, promotions, and new features,” said Mindi Sue Sternblitz-Rubenstein, VP, Marketing, Parks Associates. “CONNECTIONS™ will focus on the partnerships, business models, and tech innovations making these experiences valuable to consumers and sustainable for companies.”

CONNECTIONS™, now in its 31st year, brings together executives from device manufacturers, security providers, broadband companies, platforms, utilities, insurers, builders, multifamily operators, and technology partners. Discussions will address who owns the customer relationship, where recurring revenue opportunities are emerging, and how partnerships can accelerate adoption and scale.

Topics for CONNECTIONS™ 2027:

AI-powered and agent-ready homesSecurity, safety, and cybersecurityThe predictive homeBroadband and new home servicesHardware and interoperabilityWhole-home energySmart spaces and multifamilyNew routes to marketAI-powered customer supportPartnerships and business models

“Connected products are becoming part of larger service ecosystems,” Sternblitz-Rubenstein said. “The next phase of this market will be defined by how effectively companies can work together to deliver intelligence, connectivity, security, energy management, and support throughout the customer lifecycle. Our 2027 program is designed to bring those different parts of the ecosystem into the same conversation.”

CONNECTIONS™ brings together senior executives and industry leaders from across the connected home ecosystem for Parks Associates research presentations, executive panels, keynotes, networking, and partnership development.

View the CONNECTIONS™ 2027 agenda. For information on the December and January virtual programs, view the CONNECTIONS Summit agenda.

About Parks Associates
Parks Associates helps companies identify new opportunities, refine strategy, and accelerate growth in connected technology markets through data-driven insights and industry expertise. With more than 40 years of experience, the firm delivers proprietary consumer and industry research, market forecasts, and strategic analysis that guide business decisions across personal, connected home, small business, and commercial technology ecosystems. Parks Associates supports clients in navigating evolving markets including AI, security, smart home, broadband, entertainment, energy, multifamily, smart buildings, and connected health.

The firm also fosters industry growth and collaboration by convening thousands of leaders each year through its flagship executive conferences, including CONNECTIONS™, Connected Health Summit, Smart Energy Summit, Smart Spaces, and Future of Video. Learn more at https://www.parksassociates.com.

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