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Artificial intelligence security startup Lasso Security Ltd. today launched a guardrail for AI applications that runs on ordinary server processors, with no graphics chip required. The product is called LEAP. Lasso also announced $30 million in new funding. Enterprises that put guardrails …
AIR Security launches with $50M to build a firewall for AI agents
Artificial intelligence agent security startup AIR Security Inc. formally launched today with $50 million in funding to build what it calls an inline firewall for AI agents. Founded earlier this year, AIR is going after a gap that has opened as coding …
Palo Alto Networks beats estimates but margin concerns send shares lower
Shares of Palo Alto Networks Inc. fell about 2% in late trading today after the cybersecurity company beat Wall Street targets in its fiscal fourth quarter and guided above consensus for the year ahead — though not on margins. The stock had …
CrowdStrike builds security frontier models with Nvidia and opens an AI lab
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today launched SafeMind, a family of artificial intelligence models and agent harnesses created with Nvidia Corp. and built for security work rather than general use. A research organization the company also unveiled today, the Cyber Superintelligence Lab, produced them. …
CrowdStrike launches Falcon Guardian to police AI agents at the endpoint
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today unveiled Falcon Guardian, software that finds the artificial intelligence agents running inside a company and shuts down the ones security teams have not approved. The launch came at the company’s Fal.Con 2026 conference in Las Vegas. Guardian is …
CBTS launches Forge Agents to build custom AI agents in days
Information technology services company CBTS Technology Solutions LLC today launched Forge Agents, a platform that turns a plain-language description of a job into a working artificial intelligence agent and then runs it under enterprise security controls. Midmarket companies are the target buyer. …
Filigran adds attack chaining to OpenAEV for automated penetration testing
French cybersecurity company Filigran SAS today launched Attack Chaining, a capability in its OpenAEV exposure validation product that links individual attack simulations into a single running path. It ships with OpenAEV v3, out today. Real intrusions rarely stop at one technique. Reconnaissance …
DataAgent raises $10M to let AI fix production faults inside Kubernetes clusters
Israeli startup DataAgent Ltd. formally launched today with $10 million in pre-seed funding and a platform that repairs production faults inside a customer’s own Kubernetes clusters. DataAgent plans to spend the money to accelerate customer adoption in North America. Ishay Yaari and Nati …
CrowdStrike launches Falcon IQ as Falcon lands on Google Cloud and Snowflake
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today launched Falcon IQ, software that hands the assessment and remediation work behind its Project QuiltWorks coalition to a fleet of more than 50 artificial intelligence agents. The launch is one of four announcements the company made at the …
Cloudflare launches Adaptive Intelligence to rewrite bot rules on the fly
Cloudflare Inc. today launched Adaptive Intelligence, a detection engine inside Cloudflare Bot Management that writes and discards its own blocking rules while an attack is underway. The engine trains continuously on live traffic moving across Cloudflare’s network, which the company said carries …