Cisco said on May 4 it plans to acquire Astrix Security, a startup specialising in security for non-human identities. Israeli media outlet Calcalist reported the deal size was about $400 million. Based in Tel Aviv, Astrix develops software that monitors AI agents and applies security controls. The company focuses on protecting digital access credentials such as API keys, service accounts and authentication tokens.

Kim Young-jin (김영진), chief technology officer at Nolyuniverse, said the company is accelerating efforts to make better use of large-scale data by adopting Databricks. He said internal challenges included difficulty finding needed data, limited trust in discovered data and complexity in integrating multiple services. Nolyuniverse built a centralized feature store called Lynx and integrated tools into Databricks to speed development. He also highlighted plans for a global data platform across Yanolja Group.