As the security world descends upon the Moscone Center next week for the RSA Security Conference, two companies that put out some news ahead of the show were Google Cloud and Menlo Security Inc. which announced a partnership to improve the security of enterprise browsers. Under the terms of the agreement, Menlo Security, which pioneered the browser security industry, will expand its usage of Google Cloud infrastructure and, more importantly, collaborate with Google’s Mandiant division on threat research to strengthen browser security.

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Ahead of RSAC, Menlo Security announces partnership with Google Cloud for better browser security

Extreme Networks Inc. recently held its annual user conference, Connect, in Fort Worth, Texas, where everything is big. In keeping with that tradition, Extreme had its own big news from the show. Day 1 news involved Extreme being approved for standard power for the 6-gigahertz spectrum for Wi-Fi. This new band was added to Wi-Fi 6E and 7, providing clean spectrum and speeds north of 1 gigabits per second.

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Five thoughts from Extreme Networks’ Connect user conference

Arista Networks Inc. today announced an enhancement to Arista MSS — Multi-Domain Segmentation Service — to create a zero-trust enterprise network. “We tried to overcome one of the biggest challenges of micro-segmentation technologies that are always deployed in islands today,”Alessandro Barbieri, director of product management at the company, told me in a briefing.

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Arista enhances its multi-domain segmentation to fight east-west threats

Amazon Web Services Inc. Tuesday announced a slew of offerings on Amazon Bedrock, including a custom artificial intelligence model import capability, model evaluation, safeguards to remove personal and sensitive information, and additional model choices, with a goal to help customers speed up the rollout of generative AI.

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New Amazon Bedrock offerings provide a new way to fast-track generative AI apps and experiences

Amazon Web Services Inc. recently announced that Anthropic PBC, an artificial intelligence safety and research company, will make its Claude 3 family of models available on Amazon Bedrock. Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku are already available on Bedrock, and today Claude 3 Opus is generally available to AWS customers.

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Amazon Bedrock adds Anthropic’s Claude 3 family and Mistral Large