Independent third-party audit validates the company’s controls for security, availability, and confidentiality as it scales nutrition therapy across all 50 states

NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Berry Street, the nutrition therapy platform connecting patients to insurance-covered care from Registered Dietitians, today announced it has achieved SOC 2 Type II certification, meeting a key security requirement for the health plans, health systems, and enterprise partners it serves.

Conducted by Johanson Group LLP, an independent third-party auditing firm, the SOC 2 Type II report evaluates the design and sustained operating effectiveness of a company’s controls over a defined observation period against the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Trust Services Criteria. Berry Street’s examination covered the Security trust services criteria over a three-month period ending June 2026, and was completed with no exceptions noted.

The milestone arrives as Berry Street expands its work with health plans, health systems, and enterprise partners serving patients nationwide. Nutrition therapy sits at the intersection of clinical care and personal data — spanning diagnoses, lab values, medications, and daily behavioral detail — and the certification gives the company’s partners independently verified assurance that this information is handled to a rigorous, continuously audited standard.

“Nutrition care only works when people feel safe being honest about their health,” said Noah Kotlove, Co-Founder and CEO of Berry Street. “Our patients share some of the most personal information there is, and our partners trust us with the populations they’re responsible for. SOC 2 Type II is how we prove that trust is well placed — not with a promise, but with an independent audit of how we actually operate every day. We hold ourselves to that standard because the people we serve deserve it.”

SOC 2 Type II complements Berry Street’s existing compliance program, including HIPAA compliance, encryption of data in transit and at rest, role-based access controls, continuous security monitoring, and annual penetration testing. The company will maintain its certification through recurring annual audits.

Berry Street’s SOC 2 Type II report is available to current and prospective partners under NDA. To learn more, visit www.berrystreet.co.

About Berry Street

Berry Street is on a mission to transform how Americans eat through nutrition therapy. Berry Street’s platform connects individuals needing evidence-based nutrition care with an expansive network of Registered Dietitians and AI-powered tools. From weight management, diabetes, and heart health to kidney disease, maternal health, and 30+ other conditions, Berry Street’s clinical team delivers personalized nutrition interventions tailored to each patient’s unique physiological and psychological needs, improving outcomes and reducing total cost of care. Berry Street works with some of the largest health plans, as well as leading health systems and innovative care management companies to serve diverse populations across all 50 states. Visit berrystreet.com to learn more.

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The first APJ-based AI security partner to achieve this milestone

DALLAS, Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TrendAI™, a global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704), today announced it has surpassed $1 billion in global AWS Marketplace sales, becoming the first APJ-based AI security partner to achieve this milestone. For customers, it reflects making enterprise security simpler to buy – deployable against existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) committed spend, consolidated on a single AWS bill, and transacted through the channel Partners they already trust.

Simplifying Procurement
 In 2014, TrendAI™ became one of the first security Partners to adopt consumption-based billing. It supported the AWS launches of AWS Standard Contract, SaaS free trials, Pay-As-You-Go, and Buy With AWS. Today it supports integrations across more than 80 AWS services, holds 12 AWS Competencies and 5 field-engagement designations.

Built for the Channel
That same commitment extends to the channel. In 2018, TrendAI ™ was a design and launch Partner for AWS’s Channel Partner Private Offer (CPPO) – built specifically so Partners could transact through Marketplace instead of competing with it.

AI Security Leadership
Now, that same builder’s instinct meets a new reality: organizations are adopting AI faster than they can secure it. That demand is driving the next chapter of TrendAI™’s innovation:

Agentic AI Memory: Most AI security advisors forget the moment a session ends. TrendAI Vision One™ doesn’t. Powered by Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Neptune graph databases, its long – and short-term agentic memory turns every past interaction into a sharper recommendation – boosting answer quality and contextual threat response by 20%.Connected AI Threat Detection: No more isolated alerts. TrendAI Vision One™ correlates Amazon Bedrock activity – prompt injections, PII exposure, unsafe outputs – with signals across the entire AWS environment, turning scattered warnings into one connected attack story. Security teams catch compromised accounts and cross-service attacks before they escalate.AI Risk Visibility: Attackers don’t need a new exploit – a single missed guardrail will do. TrendAI Vision One™ gives security teams centralized visibility into every Amazon Bedrock deployment, hunting down misconfigurations, unauthorized model access, and missing guardrails before attackers find them first. Available directly through AWS Marketplace, without an added procurement cycle.

“TrendAI™ was one of the first technology partners AWS worked with to build AWS Marketplace from the ground up. Surpassing $1 billion in global Marketplace sales as our first APJ-based AI security partner to reach that level of adoption signals the depth of customer demand for AI security built into the platform they already run,” said Allison Johnson, Director, Americas Technology Partners Team. “As an exceptional design partner, TrendAI™ helped shape Marketplace capabilities like private offers, consulting partner private offers (CPPO), and consumption-based billing, tools that help customers procure and deploy security solutions faster. Today, TrendAI™ supports integrations across more than 80 AWS services, giving customers unified visibility across their cloud environments. That depth means organizations running AI workloads on AWS can secure them natively, without stitching together point solutions. It’s exactly the model we’re building on as we extend into AI security together.”

“Last year we rebuilt ourselves as TrendAI™, an AI-first security company, because we believe the next decade of security is about AI,” said Rachel Jin, Chief Platform and Business Officer, Head of TrendAI™. “Customers are adopting AI faster than they can secure it. Our strong record of innovation gives us the foundation to change that – and help organizations adopt AI securely.” 

TrendAI’s AI security leadership rests on three non-negotiables:

Visibility: map every AI model, application, and agent across the enterprise, in real time. No blind spots, no shadow AI.Ownership: Secure identity, establish ownership, and manage
access for AI.Observability: correlate that activity with signals across the environment to catch AI-native attacks – prompt injection, data exfiltration, agent hijacking.Actionability: turn that insight into continuous, board-ready compliance against frameworks like NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act.

Know every AI tool in use. Stop AI-native attacks in real time. Prove every decision is risk-aligned and audit-ready. Behind it all is TrendAI Vision One™, the company’s enterprise cybersecurity platform – backed by market-leading threat and vulnerability research, including the TrendAI™ Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), the industry’s largest vendor-agnostic zero-day community.

“Buying through AWS Marketplace meant no separate procurement cycle and no big check upfront – it just landed on the AWS bill we already had,” said Tom Petkoff, Senior Network Manager, The Step2 Company. “We went from four dashboards and no single answer to one, covering AWS, our on-premises systems and the plant floor. With a team our size, that’s the difference between cleaning up after an incident and stopping the next one.” 

“Our customers want to buy security the same way they buy the rest of their cloud and AI: through AWS Marketplace, against spend they’ve already committed. Transacting TrendAI Vision One™ through CPPO lets us do exactly that while keeping the relationship and services with PacGenesis,” said Rasmus Pederson, SVP Cybersecurity, PacGenesis.”As customers race to secure their AI adoption, that combination matters more than ever.”

TrendAI™ has been recognized 9 times as an AWS Partner of the Year, including 2022 Global AWS Marketplace Partner of the Year and 2026 AWS Technology Partner of the Year for Asia Pacific and Japan – its second AWS Partner of the Year title in two years, following its 2025 EMEA win – and TrendAI™ employees have completed over 500 AWS certifications.

For organizations building what’s next, security teams can start today: TrendAI Vision One™ is available in AWS Marketplace with a 30-day free trial, deployable against existing AWS committed spend and consolidated on a single AWS bill.

About TrendAI™
TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk. Trusted by the largest enterprises and governments across 185 countries, TrendAI™ secures the entire organization, from identities, to infrastructure, to data. Global Fortune 500 companies rely on TrendAI™ to cut risk and stop threats up to three months earlier, powered by world-leading threat and attack intelligence. AI Fearlessly.

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New data from CD Valet shows savers who “waited too long” didn’t miss anything — and why bank funding needs, not just Fed moves, are keeping yields steady

SEATTLE, Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At the start of 2026, the consensus was nearly unanimous: CD rates were heading down. Major forecasts predicted one to three additional Fed rate cuts this year, and savers were widely urged to lock in yields before the window closed. Eight months later, that forecast hasn’t held up — and new data from CD Valet, a digital marketplace tracking CDs from more than 4,600 banks and credit unions nationwide, shows why.

According to CD Valet, CD rates started the year in February with a nationwide average of 3.03% APY across all maturities and with the top one percent of CD rates at 4.06% APY. Fast forward to August 2026, the average rate has grown by 0.53% APY to 3.56% APY across all maturities, with the top one percent of rates now sitting at 4.25% APY.

As of August 19, the CD yield curve is relatively flat with the top one percent of rates for 6-, 12-, and 24-month terms all sitting at 4.20% and the top one percent for 60-month CDs at 4.25%. These terms have all seen near similar growth rates in their respective averages, with 24- and 36- month CD rates increasing by just over 0.60% APY and 48- and 60-month CD rates having the highest growth at or slightly above 0.70% APY.

“This is hardly the ‘rates are headed south’ message we heard at the start of the year,” said John Blizzard, founder of CD Valet, adding that the flattened yield curve is allowing savers the flexibility to choose the term that best fits their needs without sacrificing the best rates offered.

Why the forecasts missed

Most CD rate predictions lean heavily on the expected path of the federal funds rate. But CD Valet’s data suggests that framework misses a second, less-discussed force: what individual banks and credit unions need from their deposit base at any given moment, independent of what the Fed does next.

“CDs aren’t priced off a single dial in Washington, D.C.,” said Blizzard. “Every institution on our platform is also asking its own question — do we need more deposits on the books right now, and how much are we willing to pay for them? A bank that’s flush with deposits and light on loan demand can let CD rates drift down even if the Fed hasn’t moved. A bank that needs to shore up its funding base — because loan growth picked up, deposits walked out the door to a competitor, or a regulator wants a stronger liquidity position — will hold or even raise its CD rates regardless of the broader rate outlook.”

This dynamic helps explain why CD Valet’s tracked rate curve has stayed resilient even as the macro narrative swung from “rates are falling” to renewed talk of a possible hike ahead of the Fed’s next meeting. As of August 19, the CME FedWatch Tool gives a nearly 37 percent probability for a rate hike at the Federal Open Market Committee’s September 16 gathering.

“The best step a saver can take is to always shop and compare, and never just automatically accept the rate your primary bank or credit union is offering,” said Blizzard. “It’s also critical to take into account term as well as rate, as right now we are seeing financial institutions offering a 4.30% APY on CDs across almost the entire maturity spectrum — from 3-month terms all the way out to 84-month (7-year) terms.”

What this means for savers

For everyday savers, the practical takeaway is less about timing the Fed and more about timing individual institutions. CD Valet’s marketplace model — aggregating live rates across banks and credit unions rather than relying on a single institution’s posted rate — is designed around exactly this reality: the best rate on any given week may come from a bank making a funding push, not necessarily the bank with the biggest brand name.

In the past 30 days, nearly 750 financial institutions across the country have updated their CD rates with more than three-quarters of them increasing by an average of 34 basis points. Of these, 63 percent of these rate increases were from credit unions and 37 percent came from banks. 

Looking ahead, the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole Economic Symposium on August 27–29 — where new Federal Reserve Board Chair Kevin Warsh will deliver his first keynote address — is the last major opportunity for the Fed to signal its intentions ahead of the September Federal Open Market Committee meeting.

“Savvy savers should tune in next week, as this is another moment when repricing deposits will be top-of-mind for bankers,” adds Blizzard. “Opportunistic savers willing to shop around should find some strong offers.”

About CD Valet

CD Valet is a CD marketplace that features verified CD rates from federally insured banks and credit unions. With tens of thousands of CD offers tracked across the country, CD Valet gives savers a clear view of top rates and helps them explore high-yield CD options with reliable returns. For financial institutions looking to raise deposits and attract new customers, CD Valet is a reliable and cost-effective channel that helps boost the visibility of their brand and CD offerings to high-intent CD customers. Visit www.cdvalet.com for more information and check out CD Valet’s Best CD Rates by State Map to maximize earnings on savings.

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