Katalyst has acquired Layer27, a Durham, North Carolina managed services and cybersecurity provider with Microsoft expertise and clients in healthcare and regulated industries.
Cogent Security introduced Cogent VR-1, a frontier reasoning model for cybersecurity tasks in live enterprise environments, along with the IntrusionBench benchmark and Cogent AI Harness runtime.
Hush Security raised $30 million in Series A funding, with Akamai Technologies joining Battery Ventures and YL Ventures as an investor. The company plans to expand its AI agent identity and access controls for enterprise systems.
Act Security emerged from stealth with $60 million in funding and launched a cloud security platform that limits access paths across cloud infrastructure for humans, workloads, and AI agents.
Microsoft introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first cyber model, along with Perception, an agent system for security workflows. The tools are designed to work with MDASH to find and remediate software vulnerabilities.
Keyfactor plans to acquire Cofide, a UK identity platform that secures software workloads and AI agents in cloud environments. The company says Cofide will extend its Trust Control Plane to non human identities.
NVIDIA has announced the Open Secure AI Alliance, a group focused on open tools for AI safety and cybersecurity. Founding members include major cloud, software, security, hardware and AI companies.
Beelzebub raised €3 million in seed funding led by United Ventures to expand its research team, open offices in Rome and San Francisco, and acquire clients in Europe.
F1R3FLY has joined Tata Consultancy Services' Alliances and Partnerships ecosystem to support work on TCS SovereignSecure Cloud. The companies plan to deploy F1R3FLY's parallel computing technology for enterprise cloud, AI, and data security use cases.
AegisAI raised $36 million in Series A funding led by Battery Ventures to expand its AI email security agents and Vanguard product.
Cyberhaven has added compliance API integrations for ChatGPT Enterprise and Claude Enterprise to help security and compliance teams inspect sensitive data inside enterprise AI workspaces.
Harness and Kong have expanded their partnership to bring Harness AI security tools into Kong AI Gateway, adding discovery and protection for AI assets, agents, LLM services, and MCP workflows.
Tech Mahindra and Cisco have partnered to offer an AI powered Security Service Edge service for global enterprises using Cisco Secure Access and Tech Mahindra managed services.
Skydio's X10, Dock for X10, and R10 have been added to the Blue UAS Cleared List, making the systems eligible for federal procurement and grant programs without additional waivers.
Pentera and Recorded Future have formed a strategic partnership to combine live threat intelligence with automated exposure validation, allowing organizations to test and remediate threats more efficiently.
Knox Systems has announced a partnership with Microsoft to help software companies deploy secure, compliant solutions on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud. The collaboration aims to accelerate the availability of modern AI, cybersecurity, and enterprise software for U.S. government customers.
StrongestLayer has raised $4.1 million in new funding, bringing its total seed round to $9.3 million. The company plans to strengthen its reasoning-based email security platform designed to detect threats missed by traditional tools.
Harness has introduced the AppSec Alliance, a global partner ecosystem designed to deliver unified application, API, and agent security through its AI Software Delivery Platform.
Knowledge Grid has introduced the KG Cognitive Data Platform, an AI-native data foundation designed to transform cybersecurity telemetry for machine reasoning and threat detection.
Command Zero has introduced Throughline, a living investigation feature for its SOC platform that continuously re-evaluates cyber events as new data arrives, linking related alerts into evolving cases.
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