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NEW YORK – November 18, 2025 – Apono, the cloud identity-security company pioneering Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) access management, today announced a $34 million Series B led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), with participation from Swisscom Ventures, Vertex Ventures, 33N Ventures, and existing investors. The round brings Apono’s total funding to more than $54 million. Over the past year, Apono established product-market fit with a fourfold increase in client count.

We’re thrilled to announce that WatchGuard Technologies has earned the prestigious 2026 TrustRadius Buyer’s Choice Award ‒ for each of our major solution areas: Network Security, Endpoint Security, and AuthPoint. This achievement highlights the exceptional value our customers and partners place on our capabilities, pricing, and ongoing relationships.

Building trust is critical for today’s most ambitious businesses. Why? Because companies viewed as trustworthy grow up to four times faster. Yet earning and proving trust remains harder than ever. ‍ As organizations scale, their attack surfaces grow—and so do their tech stacks. Every new tool meant to increase security often fragments it, leaving teams buried in overhead and blind spots.

We have some big news to share today: Replicate, the leading platform for running AI models, is joining Cloudflare. We first started talking to Replicate because we shared a lot in common beyond just a passion for bright color palettes. Our mission for Cloudflare’s Workers developer platform has been to make building and deploying full-stack applications as easy as possible. Meanwhile, Replicate has been on a similar mission to make deploying AI models as easy as writing a single line of code.

We’re proud to share that Nucleus Security has been named a Challenger in the inaugural 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Exposure Assessment Platforms (EAPs) — recognized for our completeness of vision and ability to execute. This marks a significant milestone not only for Nucleus, but for the evolution of our entire industry. For the first time, Gartner has formally recognized Exposure Assessment Platforms as a distinct category.