Identity verification platform startup Nametag Inc. today announced the launch of Nametag Signa and an expanded partnership with Okta Inc. The new service seeks to address a growing challenge in artificial intelligence security: how to ensure that actions performed by AI agents are authorized by a verified human. The solution comes at a time when AI agents ...

Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security NV today announced the acquisition of two artificial intelligence-native security companies, Allseek BV and Haicker SA, to transform weeks-long pen tests into sub-hour automated assessments, enabling Aikido to capture a larger piece of the $6 billion penetration testing market. Founded in 2021, Allseek was created by a team of ethical ...

Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. today announced four major innovations at its annual Protect 2025 conference that are designed to secure the agentic workpsace. The company’s new collaboration and data security capabilities aims to address the foundational risks of the agentic workspace by solving four critical challenges: protecting artificial intelligence assistants from targeted attacks, ensuring the right controls ...

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced a new partnership with identity and access security company BeyondTrust Corp. that sees the strategic integration between the Commvault Cloud cyber resilience platform and BeyondTrust Password Safe privileged access management solution. The collaboration is designed for customers to further mitigate risks, improve security posture and enhance data recovery efficiency. ...

Industrial control system cybersecurity company Dragos Inc. today announced the launch of Dragos Platform 3.0, the latest update to its platform that delivers new capabilities that empower industrial defenders to protect faster against intensifying cyber threats. The new platform introduces an Insights Hub that consolidates risk-based vulnerability, asset and threat alerts into a single prioritized view. It ...

A new report out today from Darktrace Ltd. reveals a sophisticated cybercrime campaign that blends traditional malware with cloud-native design principles, exposing how threat actors are evolving distributed denial-of-service operations into fully fledged “as-a-service” platforms. The campaign detailed in the report, dubbed “ShadowV2,” is a Python-based command-and-control framework hosted on GitHub CodeSpaces. The operation uses a Python ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind lab today rolled out the third version of its Frontier Safety Framework to strengthen oversight of powerful artificial intelligence systems that could pose risks if left unchecked. The third iteration of the framework introduces a new focus on manipulation capabilities and expands safety reviews to cover scenarios where models may resist ...

Procurement software startup Omnea Ltd. revealed today that it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate the shift to a new era of artificial intelligence-powered supplier relationship management. Founded in 2022, Omnea offers a procurement intake and orchestration platform built to modernize how enterprises manage supplier relationships. The company focuses on simplifying procurement ...

Data analytics software firm Sumo Logic Inc. today announced the launch of Sumo Logic Dojo AI, an intelligent, agent-powered security operations service that accelerates and simplifies routine security operations and helps customers move from reactive to proactive strategies to stay more secure. Dojo AI has been built to help enterprises address the growing volume and complexity of ...

Agentic artificial intelligence security startup Mycroft Technologies Inc. launched today and announced that it has raised $3.5 million in funding to accelerate product development and expand its AI-powered security and compliance operations. Founded in 2024, Mycroft offers an AI-native cybersecurity and compliance platform that has been built to deliver end-to-end protection and regulatory oversight through ...