IT, AI & Telecommunications

BOSTON – November 02, 2026 -- Black Kite says its new CrowdStrike integration cuts third-party incident response times by 5x by moving vendor risk intelligence natively into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.

The integration correlates external vendor risk signals with internal telemetry on the platform security operations centers (SOCs) already use. Black Kite says SOC teams handle tens of thousands of inbound signals daily but cannot detect third-party ransomware risk in real time or act on vendor incidents within existing workflows.

Black Kite scores and ratings land inside the SIEM

Analysts get Black Kite's Ransomware Susceptibility Index (RSI) scores, FocusTags and aggregated vendor cyber ratings across technical, financial and compliance dimensions. Joint customers also see data breach indicators and FAIR-based financial risk in a single view of aggregate third-party exposure.

CHICAGO – November 02, 2026 -- Keeper Security won seven honors in Cyber Defense Magazine's 2026 Top InfoSec Innovators Awards. They cover government security, AI agent identity, privileged access management (PAM) and quantum-resilient encryption, and three go to its top executives.

Three executives and four product categories take awards

The product awards are Next-Gen Cybersecurity for the Government, Most Innovative Identity Management for AI Agents, Hot Company Privileged Access Management and Pioneering Quantum Resilient Encryption. CEO and co-founder Darren Guccione won Pioneering Cybersecurity Visionary. CTO and co-founder Craig Lurey won Trailblazing Chief Technology Officer. CISO Shane Barney won Trailblazing Chief Information Security Officer.

CHICAGO – November 02, 2026 -- McKay Brothers has purchased Relativity Networks' ChronoCore anti-resonant hollow-core fiber for commercial deployment in its New Jersey networks, starting a partnership to link key financial market venues and data center projects.

McKay offers dedicated fiber IRUs and 10 to 400 Gbps services

McKay will sell long-term indefeasible rights of use (IRUs) on dedicated hollow-core fiber pairs. It will also offer traditional connectivity services from 10 Gbps to 400 Gbps. The initial focus is New Jersey, with expansion into other markets planned.

The network design includes branches for high-capacity, low-latency links to data center projects near key financial corridors, where customers are building AI inference and training infrastructure.

SAN FRANCISCO – – November 02, 2026 -- Q-Ball Intelligence has launched as an AI-native Predictive Intelligence venture, citing a Q-Ball-informed investment portfolio that returned a cumulative 235.19% between 17 February 2016 and 17 February 2025.

Over the same period, the OMX Stockholm All-Share Gross Index (OMXSGI) returned 129.86% and the OMX Stockholm 30 Index (OMXS30) returned 106.55%. That is outperformance of 105.33 and 128.64 percentage points respectively, based on Avanza benchmark data. The company says the record comes from an actual investment portfolio, not a simulated backtest.

Research dating to 2007 underpins the new platform

The methodology was developed under Assistant Professor Peter Majanen, who is Founder and Chief Predictive Intelligence Architect. Its research began in 2007. The company now plans to turn it into a scalable technology platform for international markets.

MOUNTAIN VIEW – November 02, 2026 -- Google, Plume, TrendAI, Lumen, HUMAN Security, Synthient and Japan's National Police Agency have taken down X.CPE, a botnet hidden in more than 1.3 million TV set-top boxes across more than 200 countries. Google assesses that disrupting the botnet's command-and-control domains will also cut off access to at least 10 million additional compromised devices.

Malware shipped inside firmware before devices reached subscribers

X.CPE was embedded in device firmware before the set-top boxes were sold. Unlike threats that rely on a user opening an attachment or installing an app, it arrived as part of the device. Subscribers received no consent request, notification or opt-out option.

The malware was built to evade pre-release security checks. Google has since updated its review process and banned the responsible OEM, along with any future subsidiaries or affiliates, from making devices with preloaded Google apps.

Sterling, Virginia – November 02, 2026 -- REI Systems has activated its Category B contract (80TECH-26-D0403) under NASA's Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) VI Governmentwide Acquisition Contract, giving the employee-owned firm access to a vehicle with a $20 billion ceiling per contract.

SEWP VI opens a 10-year ordering window on November 1, 2026

NASA awarded REI the contract in June 2026. The ordering period runs 10 years from November 1, 2026, split into a five-year base and a five-year option. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity vehicle is designed to streamline federal purchasing of advanced technology solutions and services. REI can now compete for enterprise-wide IT opportunities across federal agencies.

MIAMI – November 02, 2026 -- Qtonic Quantum Corp has put retired Lt. Gen. Roger L. Cloutier Jr., former commander of NATO Allied Land Command, in charge of company operations, as Department of War post-quantum cryptography deadlines of Dec. 31, 2030 and Dec. 31, 2031 come into view.

Cloutier takes over structure and day-to-day running of the company

Cloutier has chaired Qtonic's Allied Defense Council since May 2026 and keeps that role. He retired from the U.S. Army on Oct. 1, 2022, after 34 years of service. He commanded NATO Allied Land Command in Izmir, Turkey, from August 2020 to August 2022, and previously led U.S. Army Africa and the Southern European Task Force.

He is one of four retired general officers who lead or advise the company. The others are:

San Francisco – November 02, 2026 -- SpaceX agreed on October 8 to acquire nationwide 800 MHz licenses covering up to 14 megahertz of paired spectrum. T-Mobile shares fell 13.27% the next trading day, to $148.58 from $171.31.

FCC approves 15,000-satellite Starlink Mobile Gen2 constellation with conditions

The Federal Communications Commission authorized SpaceX to launch 15,000 satellites optimized for 2 GHz spectrum globally. Its Space Bureau and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau adopted and released the order on October 6, marking the application granted in part and deferred in part, with conditions. Among the deferred items is SpaceX's proposed use of the 2020-2025 MHz band in the United States.

LOS ANGELES – November 02, 2026 -- Cineverse Corp. (Nasdaq: CNVS) has nominated Dr. Samrat Ganguly, former head of Apple's global network infrastructure organization, for election as an independent director at its annual stockholder meeting on December 8, 2026.

The board will stay at four seats. Director Mary Ann Halford will not stand for re-election.

Ganguly ran the network and security backbone behind Apple's services

Ganguly spent more than a decade at Apple. He was most recently responsible for the architecture, engineering and operations of the network and security infrastructure behind iCloud, Apple TV and the App Store. That infrastructure serves more than two billion active devices worldwide.

He has since left Apple to found a company that is still in stealth. It is building global infrastructure to deploy and scale AI inference services.

Sunnyvale – November 02, 2026 -- Sedin Technologies, developer of the EAM360 mobile platform for IBM Maximo, won the 'Excellence in Maintenance Management' award at MaximoWorld 2026 after migrating five resorts onto a single IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) instance with zero downtime to live operations.

Five siloed resort sites moved to one global MAS SaaS instance

The award follows a MAS migration and full EAM360 rollout for a billion-dollar hospitality brand headquartered in Las Vegas, with sites across Asia-Pacific. The program covered five integrated resorts operating 24/7 and consolidated them onto one global IBM MAS SaaS instance.

Go-live ran in phased waves with a six-hour cutover. EAM360 reached a frontline workforce of more than 3,000 multilingual users.