Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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Manifold raises $8M to secure autonomous AI agents on enterprise endpoints

Artificial intelligence detection and response platform startup Manifold announced today that it has raised $8 million in funding to fuel development of its platform. The platform is designed to protect companies from the risks of expanding autonomous AI usage across enterprise endpoints and enable enterprise employees to securely embrace agentic AI at large scale. Manifold is ...

Menlo Security takes on AI agent risk with new browser security platform

Browser security company Menlo Security Inc. today announced a new Browser Security Platform that is purpose-built to secure “agentic enterprise,” where autonomous artificial intelligence agents increasingly outnumber human employees and the browser has become the operating system for both. The new offering sees Menlo provide a unified control plane to apply machine-speed governance and threat prevention to ...

1Password introduces Unified Access platform and partner API for AI agent security

Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password LLC today announced two related initiatives that are designed to strengthen how organizations manage and enforce access across modern digital environments, which increasingly include artificial intelligence agents and automated systems. The first announcement today was the introduction of Unified Access, a new platform intended to help companies discover access risks, secure ...

Cato Networks rolls out Neural Edge and AI Security to protect enterprise AI workloads

Cloud networking company Cato Networks Ltd. today unveiled two major innovations for the Cato SASE Platform that are designed to secure enterprise artificial intelligence adoption at scale: Cato Neutral Edge and Cato AI Security. Cato Neural Edge sees the deployment of Nvidia Corp. graphics processing units across Cato’s global private backbone to accelerate AI-driven analysis for real-time ...

Theori launches Xint Code AI platform to uncover hidden vulnerabilities in massive codebases

Offensive cybersecurity firm Theori Inc. today announced the commercial availability of Xint Code, a new large language model-native static application security testing or SAST tool capable of analyzing millions of lines of source code, configuration files and binaries in less than 12 hours. The new offering takes a unique approach to deep scanning and contextual ...

Druva launches Identity Resilience to protect Okta, Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID environments

Data security provider Druva Inc. today announced the launch of Druva Identity Resilience, a new capability that extends its data security platform to support Okta Inc., Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID in a unified software-as-a-service environment to protect and restore identity systems after cyber incidents. Identity-driven attacks have reached a tipping point, with nearly 90% ...

Surf AI launches agentic security operations platform with $57M funding round

Agentic operations platform startup Surf AI Ltd. launched today with announcement that it has raised $57 million in funding to support continued investment in product development, team expansion and scaling for additional enterprise adoption. Founded in 2024, Surf AI is developing software designed to help enterprise security teams manage risk across complex environments that span ...

RoboForce raises $52M to develop physical AI robots for industrial labor

Robotics startup RoboForce Inc. announced today that it has raised $52 million in new funding to accelerate its next-generation robot foundation model, scale up general-purpose physical artificial intelligence robots and drive manufacturing readiness for commercial deployment. Founded in 2023, RoboForce is developing robotics systems that are designed to perform physically demanding and repetitive industrial work ...

NinjaOne launches AI-driven vulnerability management to speed detection and remediation

Unified endpoint management company NinjaOne LLC today announced the launch of NinjaOne Vulnerability Management, a new solution that helps information technology teams identify, prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities faster. The new offering is built natively into the NinjaOne platform and brings together artificial intelligence-driven real-time vulnerability assessment, patch confidence scoring and remediation to allow organizations to proactively fix ...

Okta unveils new framework to manage AI agents and upcoming Okta for AI Agents platform

Identity access management company Okta Inc. today announced a new framework designed to help organizations secure the growing use of artificial intelligence agents inside enterprise environments, alongside providing details of a forthcoming platform called Okta for AI Agents that aims to implement the model in practice. The new framework, described as a blueprint for the secure agentic ...