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Blockchain privacy company Aztec Labs Ltd. announced today that it has acquired Obsidion Labs Ltd., the British startup behind zero-knowledge identity protocol ZKPassport. The deal comes as governments in the U.K., Australia and parts of the U.S. move to force online platforms …
XM Cyber rolls out tools to identify and revoke unused permissions across hybrid environments
Continuous exposure management company XM Cyber Inc. today announced an expansion of its platform with new capabilities aimed at helping enterprises enforce least-privilege access across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra and multicloud environments. The company is targeting one of the most exploited weaknesses …
Cogent Security launches autonomous vulnerability response tools as AI-assisted exploits outpace scanners
Cogent Security Inc., a startup that employs agentic artificial intelligence for vulnerability management, today launched two new platform capabilities aimed at compressing enterprise vulnerability response from weeks to hours, as AI-assisted exploit development shrinks attacker timelines to a matter of minutes. The …
Doppel launches agentic email security to disrupt phishing campaigns at the source
Social engineering defense startup Doppel Inc. today launched Doppel Email Security, an agentic artificial intelligence layer that traces phishing messages back to attacker infrastructure and orchestrates takedowns of the broader campaign rather than quarantining individual emails. The product joins Doppel’s existing Digital …
Xage extends zero trust to autonomous AI agents across cloud, SaaS and edge
Zero-trust cybersecurity company Xage Security Inc. today unveiled new capabilities in its platform designed to give enterprises deterministic visibility into autonomous artificial intelligence agents and block them from taking unauthorized actions when compromised. The release introduces two components, Xage Agent Sentry and …
Cisco report finds no closed frontier AI model is safe from multi-turn attacks
A new report out today from Cisco Systems Inc. argues that none of the closed flagship large language models it tested can be considered safe once an attacker is allowed to push past a single prompt, as adversarial success rates climb sharply …
Zscaler tops estimates and lifts guidance, but free cash flow cut sends shares lower
Shares of Zscaler Inc. plunged more than 19% in late trading today after the cloud security company reported beats on earnings and revenue in its third quarter. It also raised its full-year revenue and earnings outlook but slashed its free cash flow …
Rambus targets agentic AI workloads with faster client memory chipset
Rambus Inc. today announced a complete DDR5 9600 client memory module chipset designed to push PC memory speeds to 9,600 megatransfers per second, targeting the bandwidth and capacity demands of agentic artificial intelligence workloads on desktops and laptops. The new offering from …
Novee debuts Agentic Fix, pushing pentest findings into Claude, Copilot and Cursor
Artificial intelligence penetration testing startup Novee Cyber Security Ltd. today launched Agentic Fix, a new capability that pushes validated exploit findings directly into the AI coding agents developers already use to write and patch software. The product extends the Novee platform by …
AppOmni launches Marlin AI to automate SaaS security investigation and remediation
Software-as-a-service security company AppOmni Inc. today launched Marlin AI, a new autonomous artificial intelligence capability built into its platform that handles correlation, investigation and guided remediation of SaaS security alerts without requiring manual analyst workflows. The product is pitched at security teams …