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Associated Press
5 hours ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Acsense Recognized by Gartner as a Sample Vendor in 2025 Hype Cycle for IAM Backup and Data Protection Technologies
Acsense earns recognition for pioneering IAM Resilience - providing recovery, change management, and compliance for platforms like Okta, Entra ID, and Active Directory. TEL AVIV, ISRAEL / ACCESS Newswire / July 16, 2025 / Acsense, the IAM Resilience platform built to safeguard identity infrastructure, today announced its inclusion as a Sample Vendor in Gartner's 2025 Hype Cycle for Backup and Data Protection Technologies, under the category of IAM Backup.2025 Hype Cycle for IAM Backup_Acsense IAM Backup was recognized by Gartner as a high-benefit, emerging technology - addressing the growing need to protect and recover identity configurations across platforms like Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, and Active Directory. Gartner's inclusion of this category reflects a shift: identity systems are no longer just access gateways - they are now critical infrastructure, with direct impact on uptime, compliance, and business continuity. 'Acsense was founded on a simple premise: identity platforms have become too important to fail,' said Muli Motola, CEO of Acsense. 'But backup alone isn't enough. What sets Acsense apart is that we manage the full lifecycle of IAM data - not just how you recover, but how you detect, control, and prevent disruptive changes before they happen.' As the only IAM Resilience platform offering backup, recovery, change management, and posture control in a single solution, Acsense is helping enterprises eliminate IAM as a single point of failure. The platform enables: Organizations across regulated industries, global enterprises, and Zero Trust adopters rely on Acsense to simplify DR planning, stay audit-ready, and build real operational continuity around their identity stack. Learn more: Gartner, Hype Cycle for Backup and Data Protection Technologies, 2025, Michael Hoeck, July 2025. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications… Contact InformationMuli Motola Co-founder & CEO +972 54 675 7290 SOURCE: Acsense press release
Forbes
6 hours ago
- Business
- Forbes
Managing Risk As SaaS And AI Become One Connected Challenge
As AI and SaaS merge in the enterprise, security leaders face a new, rapidly evolving landscape ... More where visibility and control matter more than ever. For years, software-as-a-service has shaped business transformation. Critical data and workflows now run through hundreds of cloud apps. But just as organizations have finally adjusted to that reality, a new wave is gathering momentum: AI-powered agents, copilots and automated workflows. These systems operate at machine speed, connecting SaaS environments in ways that simply weren't possible before. This collision of SaaS and AI is bringing a fresh set of security challenges—challenges that can't be solved by legacy tools or a siloed mindset. The productivity upside is clear, but so is the speed at which the risk landscape is evolving. The Hidden Risks of Converging SaaS and AI In the early days, SaaS security was mostly about managing user access and monitoring behavior. Now, AI agents are embedded within business applications—handling sensitive information, making decisions and triggering actions. In many organizations, these AI tools hold the same permissions as human users and in some cases, even broader access. Analyst projections reinforce how quickly this is happening. By 2028, Gartner expects 33% of enterprise software applications to include agentic AI—up from less than 1% in 2024. These AI agents are already initiating transactions, transferring data between systems and spinning up integrations at machine speed. The result is a collection of new, often invisible, risks: This new attack surface is broad and dynamic. A breach might not come from an obvious point of failure, but from a shadow integration, an over-permissioned API key, or an AI agent quietly transferring data. Why Old Approaches Fall Short Security teams typically manage SaaS and AI risks in isolation, with dedicated tools and policies for each. But, incidents are not always caused by one poorly configured chatbot or a single risky app. More often, they involve a mix of shadow integrations, excessive permissions and undetected data flows—problems that are hard to spot and even harder to manage with siloed solutions. Point solutions can help, but they rarely provide the context needed to see the full picture. The rise of AI automation blurs the line between human and machine actions. Without unified oversight, organizations are left with gaps in visibility, unsure of where their data is or who—or what—can access it. Unified SaaS and AI Security Platform Security leaders generally want a big-picture view—a live map of users, apps, integrations and AI agents. Real-time alerts for abnormal activity, context for investigations and the ability to respond in minutes are must-haves, not nice-to-haves. And all this needs to happen without putting the brakes on innovation. Unified security solutions are stepping in, promising context-rich visibility and control across both SaaS and AI ecosystems. They aim to continuously discover sanctioned and unsanctioned AI usage, map sensitive data flows and separate routine activity from risky behavior—regardless of whether the actor is human or machine. Against this backdrop, Vorlon has launched a platform positioned as the first to unify security oversight for SaaS and AI-powered systems. The solution continuously discovers both sanctioned and shadow AI usage, maps data flows between SaaS apps and AI agents and provides real-time, explainable alerts for unusual activity. Amir Khayat, Vorlon's co-founder and CEO, believes this convergence fundamentally changes the risk equation. 'Agentic AI is software that's designed to pursue goals and make decisions on its own. The key difference? It's officially been given the green light by the organization to act on its behalf, making choices and taking action without needing a human in the loop every time. From a cybersecurity standpoint, that's a nightmare waiting to happen. If compromised, this AI doesn't just leak data, it acts with your full organizational permissions, turning every decision it makes into a potential breach at machine speed. That's why AI oversight is so critical.' Vorlon's approach reflects a broader shift in the security industry: away from point tools and toward unified platforms that offer context and control across the expanding digital enterprise. Securing the Next Chapter of Innovation AI is now part of the fabric of business, not just an add-on—and the line between SaaS and AI is vanishing. Security's next frontier is not about picking the right tool for each risk, but about building trust and control across the whole, connected ecosystem. Enterprises that unify their oversight—connecting SaaS, AI, users and data—will be best positioned to innovate confidently and meet regulatory demands as digital risks accelerate. The question is not whether to adapt, but how quickly organizations can move from fragmented tools to a coherent, unified strategy.
Web Release
6 hours ago
- Business
- Web Release
GCG Enterprise Solutions Partners with Squirro to Bring AI-Driven Insights and Enterprise Search to the Region
GCG Enterprise Solutions, a leading provider of digital transformation and intelligent automation solutions, has proudly announced its strategic partnership with Squirro, the Switzerland-based leader in Generative AI-powered enterprise search. The collaboration marks a significant step forward in empowering organizations across the region to unlock actionable insights from their unstructured data using Generative AI technologies. Squirro is an enterprise-grade Generative AI platform built to extract insight and value from fragmented, large-scale organizational knowledge. It achieves this by leveraging a powerful combination of Generative AI-driven enterprise search, knowledge graphs, and conversational AI, all built on a modern Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture. This allows users to search, chat with, and uncover insights from their enterprise data, delivering precise, context-aware results grounded in their own organizational knowledge. Squirro was named as an Emerging Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Innovation Guide for Generative AI Technologies in the following two categories: Generative AI Engineering & AI Knowledge Management Apps/General Productivity Squirro has been acknowledged by Gartner as a Leader in the 2025 Emerging Market Quadrants for both 'AI Knowledge Management & General Productivity Platforms', as well as 'AI Engineering'. Through this partnership, GCG Enterprise Solutions adds Squirro's cutting-edge Generative AI platform to its portfolio, offering clients a context-aware, secure, and scalable solution that drives AI-driven decision-making across sectors including finance, government, utilities, and manufacturing. Speaking about the new tie-up, Bernd Schopp, Chief Partnership Officer at Squirro stated that 'Our partnership with GCG Enterprise Solutions is aimed at delivering significant value to clients by transforming how knowledge is discovered, consumed, and acted upon. Squirro's technology unifies data across silos, providing a 360° contextual view of operations, customers, and risks. Clients benefit from increased productivity and innovation through Generative AI-powered dashboards, smart alerts, and enterprise-grade generative AI capabilities. Importantly, the solution ensures secure and compliant access to insights, fully aligned with regional data protection and governance standards'. Further elaborating on the strategic capabilities which Squirro can deliver, Walid Al Awadi, Head of Digital Transformation at GCG Enterprise Solutions, stated that 'Partnering with Squirro aligns seamlessly with our vision to lead digital transformation in the region. This collaboration enhances our generative AI offerings, further strengthening our position in Knowledge Management, Compliance, and Decision Intelligence. Squirro's platform also complements our ecosystem with native integrations to Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, and legacy systems, supporting complex transformation mandates in government modernization, financial services, and national data strategy initiatives'.
Associated Press
9 hours ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Ushur Recognized Across Four Categories in the Gartner® 2025 Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ushur, the leader in AI-powered Customer Experience Automation™ (CXA), today announced its recognition in the 2025 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers. This annual report guides healthcare organizations in understanding where emerging technologies sit along the adoption curve — and when to invest to gain a competitive edge. For the second consecutive year, Ushur has been recognized across multiple categories. We believe this reinforces its leadership in applying Agentic AI to healthcare payer operations. In our opinion, this recognition highlights both the strength of Ushur's underlying AI technology and its proven ability to solve real-world challenges. Ushur is recognized in four categories: 'To deliver meaningful value without compromising trust, we've embedded healthcare- and client-specific guardrails that control AI behavior, eliminate hallucinations, prevent misuse, and properly escalate crises situations — keeping security, accuracy and compliance at the core,' said Yvonne Daugherty, Global Head of Industries at Ushur. As the 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle highlights, emerging technologies like Digital Broker tools, intelligent onboarding, LLMs and hyperautomation are becoming essential for payers to remain competitive. Ushur's recognition across four distinct categories reflects the platform's versatility and its alignment with the priorities of healthcare enterprises focused on growth, efficiency, and operational excellence. For a full download of the 2025 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ report, visit here. To explore how Ushur's AI-powered solutions can unlock efficiency and experience gains for your organization, please visit About Ushur Ushur delivers the world's first Customer Experience Automation platform built specifically for regulated industries. Purpose-built for delivering ideal self-service, Ushur infuses intelligence into digital experiences for the most delightful and impactful customer engagements. Equipped with guardrails and compliance-ready infrastructure, Ushur powers vertical AI Agents for healthcare, financial services and insurance use cases. Designed for rapid code-less deployment with flexible, advanced capabilities for IT and business teams, enterprises can transform customer and employee journeys at scale, driving faster time-to-value and improved outcomes. Disclaimer Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner and Hype Cycle is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Contact James Nealon [email protected]
Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Squirro Named by Gartner® as a Recognized Vendor in Market Guide for Generative AI Platforms in Banking and Investment Services
ZURICH and NEW YORK, July 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Squirro, a pioneer in enterprise-grade Generative AI (GenAI) solutions, today announced that it has been named as a Recognized Vendor for generative AI platforms in banking and investment services by Gartner (Market Guide for Generative AI Platforms in Banking and Investment Services, 7 July 2025 - ID GOO816795). To us, this recognition acknowledges Squirro's proven ability to enable production-scale enterprise deployments within the highly regulated banking and financial services industry. The recognition follows Squirro's inclusion in seven Gartner Hype Cycle Reports and two Gartner Emerging Technologies Magic Quadrants. Addressing Key Industry Challenges: According to Gartner, "as banks and investment services firms implement GenAI, CIOs are recognizing that realizing its full benefits requires overcoming a host of challenges. The top of the list are AI-readiness of data, escalating costs, managing the technology stack, and legal issues. Firms are looking to either buy off-the-shelf solutions or partner with technology providers that can not only help them address these issues, but also enable them to scale and easily expand their capabilities in the future." The Squirro Enterprise GenAI Platform directly addresses these critical challenges. It streamlines data ingestion across the enterprise, orchestrates complex GenAI workflows, ensures comprehensive auditability, and provides full regulatory compliance with predictable pricing. Unlike fragmented point solutions, Squirro's platform orchestrates and delivers secure, accurate, and scalable enterprise-wide transformation, providing measurable value at every step of the AI journey. Squirro is recognized in seven Gartner® Hype Cycle™reports for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Fluid Knowledge. Gartner defines Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as "an architecture design pattern that uses search functionality to retrieve relevant data and add it to the prompt of a GenAI model in order to ground the generative output with information. RAG can be used for retrieving both public internet data and data from private organizational knowledge bases." Fluid knowledge, as defined by Gartner, is "information that has been suitably conditioned to seamlessly flow between enterprise applications and people, enabled by AI agents and assistants. This information is conditioned to be accurate, pertinent and trusted. The conditioning of fluid knowledge leverages many aspects of information governance." Squirro's recognition spans the following Gartner Hype Cycles: Digital Workplace Applications, 2025 (July 1, 2025 – ID GOO831666): Recognized for Fluid Knowledge with a Transformational benefit rating. Natural Language and Unstructured Content Technologies, 2025 (10 July, 2025 – ID GOO832293): Recognized for Fluid Knowledge with a Transformational benefit rating. Artificial Intelligence in Banking, 2025 (July 9, 2025 – ID GOO831999): Recognized for Banking-Specific GenAI Models with a High benefit rating. CRM Technologies, 2025 (July 9, 2025 – ID GOO827302): Recognized for Fluid Knowledge with a Transformational benefit rating. Hybrid AI Infrastructure, 2025 (July 1, 2025 – ID GOO820202): Recognized for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with a High benefit rating. AI in IT Service Management, 2025 (June 19, 2025 – ID GOO826235): Recognized for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with a High benefit rating. AI in Software Engineering, 2025 (June 17, 2025 – ID GOO829402): Recognized for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with a High benefit rating. "We're incredibly excited about our recognitions by Gartner," says Dorian Selz, co-founder and CEO of Squirro. "As GenAI moves past the hype, the only currency that truly matters is the ability to convert promises into provable results. That's the commitment that we bring to our partners in the banking and investment services industry." About the Gartner Market Guide for Generative AI Platforms in Banking and Investment Services The market for tools needed to implement GenAI use cases is fragmented and fast-evolving, with few vendors offering full-stack platforms specifically for banks and investment services firms. CIOs can use this Market Guide to uncover the offerings of GenAI platform providers to make informed decisions. Access your complimentary copy of the Gartner Market Guide now to gain deeper insights: Learn more about Squirro at Gartner, Market Guide for Generative AI Platforms in Banking and Investment Services, 7 July 2025, Priyanka Shukla, Moutusi Sau, Lopa Sinha, Jasleen Kaur Sindhu GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Squirro Squirro is a global leader in enterprise-grade generative AI and graph solutions, specializing in semantic search, insights, and automation. Since its founding in 2012, the company has been at the forefront of AI innovation, empowering organizations with intelligent technology that enhances decision-making and efficiency. Headquartered in Switzerland, Squirro operates across key global markets, with offices in the United States, the UK, and Singapore. Trusted by industry leaders such as the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, Standard Chartered Bank, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Henkel, and Indicia Worldwide, Squirro is committed to delivering cutting-edge AI solutions. Its mission is to augment human intelligence, streamline processes, and unlock actionable insights—enabling enterprises to navigate complexity and harness the full potential of their data. Logo - View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Squirro
