Archive for April 29, 2026

Black Kite and Sayari Partner to Deliver Integrated Intelligence Across Cyber, Supply Chain, and Corporate RiskNew integration combines global corporate transparency

Posted in Commentary with tags on April 29, 2026 by itnerd

Black Kite today announced a strategic partnership and integration with Sayari, a leading provider of global corporate transparency and supply chain risk intelligence. Together, the two companies are enabling organizations to gain a unified view of third-party risk by combining deep visibility into global corporate and trade networks with continuous cyber risk monitoring.

As organizations face increasing pressure to manage risk across complex, global supply chains, many struggle with fragmented data spread across multiple tools and teams. This partnership addresses that challenge by bringing together Sayari’s unmatched insight into corporate ownership, trade activity, and hidden commercial relationships with Black Kite’s objective, standards-based cyber risk ratings and real-time threat intelligence.

Through the integration, customers can enrich third-party risk assessments with both who an entity is connected to and how exposed they are from a cyber perspective—providing a more complete and actionable understanding of risk across the extended enterprise.

Sayari’s platform delivers visibility into complex commercial relationships using one of the world’s largest collections of corporate and trade data, spanning over 250 jurisdictions worldwide. By integrating this intelligence directly into Black Kite’s platform, customers can more easily identify hidden ownership structures, upstream supply chain dependencies, and potential exposure to financial crime or geopolitical risk—while simultaneously assessing cyber posture.

The combined solution supports a wide range of use cases, including:

  • Enhanced due diligence through enriched corporate ownership and cyber risk insights
  • Supply chain risk management with visibility into N-tier suppliers and their vulnerabilities
  • Financial crime and compliance by correlating beneficial ownership with cyber posture
  • Government and national security applications requiring both transparency and cyber resilience
  • M&A and third-party onboarding with faster, more comprehensive risk assessments

By reducing manual research and connecting previously siloed data, the Black Kite and Sayari integration enables organizations to prioritize risk more effectively, accelerate investigations, and strengthen resilience across their third-party ecosystem.

The partnership reflects a shared commitment to helping organizations navigate the growing complexity of global risk with greater clarity, speed, and confidence.

There is a related webinar that was done in April called From Fragmented Signals to Connected Risk Intelligence, available to watch on-demand.

Team Cymru Launches Pure Signal MCP Server

Posted in Commentary with tags on April 29, 2026 by itnerd

Team Cymru today announced the general availability of the Pure Signal™ MCP Server, the first purpose-built, production-grade Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for threat intelligence. Available immediately, the server connects any MCP-compatible AI agent — including Claude, Microsoft Security Copilot, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot and custom agents — directly to Team Cymru’s Pure Signal platform, the world’s largest threat intelligence data ocean.

Cybersecurity teams are deploying AI agents to automate alert triage, accelerate threat hunting, and orchestrate incident response, with AI agents forecasted to be the primary consumers of threat intelligence within the next 18 to 24 months. MCP, an open standard introduced by Anthropic, has rapidly become the de facto interface between AI agents and the external data and tools they rely on, with Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and every major AI development platform now supporting it.

A Different Kind of MCP Server

Most threat intelligence vendors view MCP as a thin wrapper over their existing REST APIs. Team Cymru took a different path. The Pure Signal MCP Server is integrated into the existing API surface but layers purpose-engineered processing on top: responses are concise, context-rich and token-efficient by design, preserving the LLM’s context window so agents spend tokens reasoning about threats rather than parsing raw payloads.

Through a single MCP connection, AI agents gain native access to the full breadth of Team Cymru’s Pure Signal platform:

  • IP & Domain Intelligence — Full detail lookups including summary, communications, tags, maliciousness scoring, open ports, and behavioral context.
  • NetFlow Communication Patterns — Observe who an IP is communicating with across the global internet, the data only Team Cymru has at this scale.
  • Passive DNS (PDNS) — Historical DNS resolution data revealing infrastructure relationships over time.
  • X.509 Certificates — Certificate details exposing shared infrastructure, hosting patterns, and attribution signals.
  • WHOIS Intelligence — Registration data with pivoting capability for infrastructure mapping.
  • Scout Query Language — AI agents can construct and execute sophisticated queries using Team Cymru’s native search syntax.
  • Usage & Quota Management — Programmatic visibility into API consumption for governance and cost control.

Built for the Teams Defending the Internet

Pure Signal MCP delivers immediate value across every layer of the security organization. SOC teams can connect AI-powered triage agents to Pure Signal for instant indicator enrichment, reducing mean time to investigate from hours to minutes. Threat intelligence teams can task AI agents with autonomous hunting across the global internet using the same data that has powered Team Cymru’s government and Fortune 500 customers for two decades.

Security engineers and architects can integrate Pure Signal into custom AI workflows, multi-agent systems, and automated response pipelines through a single MCP connection rather than a sprawl of bespoke integrations. MSSPs and managed service providers can differentiate their offerings with AI-powered intelligence and scale analyst capacity without scaling headcount. CISOs and security leaders gain a clear, demonstrable path to AI-readiness backed by production-grade infrastructure.

Availability

Documentation, integration guides, and authentication setup are available at mcp.cymru.com/docs. Prospective customers can request a free trial at team-cymru.com or contact sales for an AI-native threat intelligence briefing. 

The Pure Signal MCP Server is generally available today to all Team Cymru Pure Signal customers, at no additional cost, by visiting https://www.team-cymru.com/mcp-server.

DevOps Incidents Rise by 21%, While Impact Hours Double to 9,255

Posted in Commentary with tags on April 29, 2026 by itnerd

The DevOps Threats Unwrapped Report 2026, a data-driven report from GitProtect.io is now online and worth your time to read.

The report identifies key incidents and weaknesses across leading DevOps platforms.

Some key findings include:

  • 21% year-over-year increase in incidents (607 vs. 502), with their time of disruption surged by nearly 95%, jumping from 4,755 to 9,255 hours. 
  • 156 incidents were classified as critical or major, lasting 1,769 hours and 43 minutes. That’s a 69% year-over-year increase in the most severe incidents – a clear signal that the risk landscape is intensifying.
  • Platforms’ degraded performance drives 62% of outages.
  • In 2025, GitLab recorded the highest cumulative number of critical and major incidents (62), totaling over 754 hours of impact. Jira followed closely with 44 incidents resulting in nearly 728 hours of downtime.

You can read the report here: https://gitprotect.io/devops-threats-unwrapped-2026.html

Deepgram Launches Flux Multilingual

Posted in Commentary with tags on April 29, 2026 by itnerd

Deepgram today announced the general availability (GA) of Flux Multilingual, expanding its conversational speech recognition model beyond English to support 10 languages, with the ability to automatically detect, understand, and switch languages dynamically within a single conversation in real time. Developers, enterprises, and product teams building voice agents now have access to the first real-time conversational speech recognition model, delivering accurate turn-taking, interruption handling, low latency, and natural human-like conversations at global scale. 

Traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR) is designed for transcription. Flux introduced a new approach, conversational speech recognition (CSR), built from the ground up to understand dialogue flow and enable real-time interaction. Flux has rapidly become foundational infrastructure for real-time voice agents, powering production systems that developers trust to deliver fast, natural conversational experiences with best-in-class accuracy in turn detection and speech recognition. Prior to today’s release, extending these experiences across multiple languages required stitching together multilingual transcription models, language detection, and routing logic, introducing latency, complexity, and brittle user experiences. Flux Multilingual replaces that complexity with a single model and API, making it possible to build conversational voice agents across 10 languages without re-architecting systems or sacrificing performance.

With native support for turn-taking, interruptions, and code-switching within a single interaction, voice applications remain fluid, responsive, and natural regardless of language or region. Flux Multilingual delivers monolingual-grade accuracy across languages. Developers can guide the model with language hints or let it auto-detect, adapting in real time even mid-conversation.

Flux Multilingual Capabilities

Supported Languages

English, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, and Dutch

Ultra-low latency conversational speech recognition, now global

Flux Multilingual is built for understanding and interaction, not just transcription. It uses model-based turn detection, not simple silence detection, to deliver accurate end-of-turn decisions in under 400 milliseconds, keeping conversations fluid and responsive across languages.

Monolingual-grade accuracy with real-time language control

Flux Multilingual delivers monolingual-grade accuracy across languages, with flexible real-time control through language hints or automatic detection, native code-switching, and dynamic adaptation as conversations evolve.

Build and scale global voice agents with one model

Flux Multilingual supports 10 languages in a single conversational model, enabling teams to build and deploy voice agents globally with one integration. One model, ten languages, one API, with no additional infrastructure or model orchestration required.

Key Features

  • Native turn detection and interruption handling for natural dialogue flow
  • Low-latency streaming transcription for real-time responsiveness
  • Automatic language detection and language hint support for accuracy control 
  • Mid-session configurability for dynamic language adaptation
  • Native code-switching within a single conversation
  • Fully compatible with existing Flux API integrations 

Flux Multilingual is now generally available (GA). As part of the launch, Deepgram is offering a limited-time promotional rate on streaming speech-to-text, including Flux Multilingual and Nova-3 models.

Flux Multilingual is available via Deepgram’s Cloud API or as a self-hosted deployment, with support for EU endpoints, SDKs, and seamless integration into voice agent architectures. Developers can get started today at deepgram.com or try Flux Multilingual directly in the Deepgram Playground.