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What we published in the last 7 days — funding, acquisitions, partnerships and product launches. Each item names the report it came from.
last 7 days · updated Oct 22
RapidFortRapidFort released patched container images for WordPress, Drupal, and PHP at no charge to address two critical PHP vulnerabilities rated CVSS 9.2 that allow unauthenticated attackers to execute code remotely.
Splunk Inc.Splunk Agent Observability became a launch partner for Claude Platform's OpenTelemetry export feature, now in public beta for the Messages API, Claude Managed Agents, and Claude SDKs. The integration allows users to send agent traces from Claude Managed Agents to Splunk using built-in OpenTelemetry export capabilities.
FortinetFortinet partnered with NVIDIA AI to support the OpenShell Reference Architecture, a framework designed to add security, visibility, and policy enforcement to enterprise AI agent deployments.
OktaOkta joined the NVIDIA OpenShell ecosystem, with NVIDIA announcing the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture for safe AI agents. The architecture combines controls, accelerated computing, and independent security enforcement to help businesses set boundaries for AI agents.
CrowdStrikeCrowdStrike and NVIDIA announced at NVIDIA GTC Berlin that they are expanding AI agent security from software to silicon. They plan to integrate CrowdStrike's Falcon Guardian with NVIDIA OpenShell and extend protection using NVIDIA Sentry on BlueField-4 DPUs for enforcement at the hardware level.
DatabricksDatabricks and NVIDIA expanded their partnership to enable enterprises to customize open models on their own data and move them to production. The collaboration adds NVIDIA NeMo, NGC containers, and Nemotron cookbooks to Databricks AI Runtime, allowing developers to train and fine-tune models on serverless NVIDIA GPUs with governed enterprise data.
SentinelOneSentinelOne launched Singularity Agentic Detection and Response (ADR) at OneCon 2026. The product discovers AI agents, enforces their permitted actions, and stops misuse in real time. The company also announced Singularity ASOC for automated security operations and expanded its PartnerOne program with new certifications and services.
EthiackEthiack launched Ethiack Zero, a platform that continuously validates emerging 0-day vulnerabilities and measures how quickly they become exploitable through AI agents, before official CVE publication.
Acronis International GmbHAcronis expanded its partnership with AS Roma by adding DSMatic SpA as the club's Acronis Delivery Partner. DSMatic, a Rome-based IT service provider, will help deploy and manage Acronis cybersecurity and data protection solutions across AS Roma's IT environment.
Finite StateFinite State partnered with AppSec Village to create and publish a firmware security practitioner's guide that outlines a 5-step framework for prioritizing vulnerabilities based on risk rather than volume.
DoppelDoppel announced it has become an official partner of the New York Knicks basketball team.
Native SecurityNative Security made its platform available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. The platform helps security teams define and enforce boundaries across identity, network, and data using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure controls.
Sweet SecuritySweet Security joined Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program and gained access to Claude Mythos, an AI model for adversarial simulation and attack validation. The company uses Mythos to find and validate real attack paths in production environments by reproducing them end to end.
Aikido SecurityAikido Security launched Noon, a workforce security platform built from the September 2026 acquisitions of Cyberly and Outkept. Noon combines email protection, device protection, AI governance and phishing simulation training in a single platform to defend employees against AI-powered social engineering attacks.
Horizon3.aiHorizon3 announced it surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue with 120% year-over-year growth. The company reached this milestone approximately five years after crossing $1 million ARR in September 2021.
ThreatLockerThreatLocker announced an official cybersecurity partnership with Visa Cash App Racing Bulls Formula One Team, making ThreatLocker the team's official cybersecurity partner for the Formula One season.
Acronis International GmbHAcronis added 11 new integration partners to its Acronis Ecosystem, including Bumblebee, Discern Security, Flowgear, Iperius, IT Glue, Keystrike, MEGA, Servosity, PentestOps, SourceCode, and ThreatAware. The partners deliver capabilities in reporting, workflow automation, remote desktop access, documentation, cloud storage, asset management, threat intelligence, and certified hardware.
SnykShe Bytes Back is hosting an AI Series event on November 18 in partnership with Snyk at Snyk's London office. The event runs from 18:00 to 21:00 and will feature technical talks about building, evaluating, and trusting AI systems.
ExeinExein and TEGUAR announced a partnership to deliver secure edge AI devices. The companies demonstrated the TEGUAR Optio TB-7293 with Exein's kernel-level security at the EDGE AI FOUNDATION event in Taipei on October 22-23.
QIZQIZ Security made its cryptography posture management product available on the CrowdStrike Marketplace. CrowdStrike Falcon customers can now purchase QIZ to identify weak, non-compliant, and quantum-vulnerable cryptography across on-premises, cloud, and code environments.
MycroftMycroft joined the Cloud Service Providers Advisory Board (CSP-AB) as its newest member.
DefensXDefensX launched AI Guard One, a new product for protecting applications and AI agents using browser-grade security, data protection, and governance. The company unveiled the product at Pax8 Beyond EMEA in Copenhagen.
NeoNeo partners with Software Analyst Cyber Research (SACR) to host a webinar on October 22 featuring SACR Head of Research Lawrence Pingree and Neo's Rotem L. discussing a new security category called Endpoint Control and Prevention (ECP).
Native SecurityNative Security achieved the AWS Security Competency for Identity and Access Management. This follows the company's previous milestones with AWS, including availability on AWS Marketplace and integration with AWS Security Hub Extended.
SocketAgent Baseline published a reference architecture for securing software factories where AI agents convert tickets into tested code. Socket CTO Ahmad Nassri co-authored the architecture with Eli Aleyner, William Manning, Allie Howe, Ian Livingstone, Andy McMahon, and other industry leaders.
ActAct Security joined the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program. The program gives Act access to Azure's AI models and connections with teams managing large cloud environments.
TailscaleTailscale partnered with Speakeasy to move enterprise MCP servers off the public internet onto a tailnet. The Speakeasy MCP gateway now runs as a node on the tailnet, and admins can connect in under ten minutes.
MINDMIND and Ghost Technology announced a partnership to improve data loss prevention technology. Ghost Technology released a video explaining how their collaboration with MIND will change how DLP tools work by focusing on content understanding rather than pattern-based rules.
Gray SwanGray Swan integrated its Cygnal solution with Bifrost, an AI gateway made by Maxim AI. Enterprises using Bifrost can now apply Cygnal's AI behavior enforcement to screen all requests and responses against safety and security policies in real-time.
ArqitArqit and Mattermost demonstrated a secure collaboration solution at GovWare Singapore that integrates dynamic access control with team communication channels.
DarktraceDarktrace announced a sponsorship partnership with Arturo Coello, the world's number one padel player, to support him as he defends his title at the Milan Premier Padel P1 Tournament on October 12-18.
KaiKai partnered with Protexxa to advance Autonomous Defense capabilities in Canada. The two companies are hosting a private dinner for CISOs in Toronto on October 21st to discuss defending against AI-enabled attacks at machine speed.
Surf AISurf AI announced a partnership with Upwind and joined The Lineup, an ecosystem that now includes more than 100 integrations across cybersecurity and related technology vendors.
EchoEcho launched Echo Frontier, a product that uses frontier AI models to find zero-day vulnerabilities in open source software before they are publicly disclosed. The company develops patches, tests them, delivers them to customers, and coordinates public disclosure with software maintainers as an authorized CVE Numbering Authority.
Gray SwanGray Swan launched the IPI Black red-teaming challenge with a $300,000 prize pool across three waves running October 15, 22, and 29. Participants compete in white box and black box attack modes to trick AI agents into posting damaging content on simulated social media accounts by exploiting indirect prompt injection vulnerabilities.
ToriiFreshworks announced it will acquire Torii, an Israeli startup founded in 2017 that has raised $65 million to date. The acquisition will integrate Torii's capabilities into Freshservice to add software management and AI spending oversight features.
C1C1.ai signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Workday. The deal is expected to close within the next few months.
SocureSocure launched DocV Omega, an advanced identity verification product that combines document verification with biometric, identity, device, behavioral, velocity, network, and journey signals into a single adaptive model using 2,400+ predictive variables. The product achieved 98% fraud capture within the riskiest 5% of transactions with below 1% false-reject rate, increased fraud detection on synthetic and counterfeit documents by 50%, improved deepfake detection by 43%, and reduced latency by 50%.
ExeinExein and Premio Inc. announced a partnership to combine their technologies for edge AI security. Premio provides rugged edge computing platforms, while Exein Photon adds kernel-level runtime security to lock down unnecessary capabilities and block threats in real time on the same hardware.
DoppelDoppel became an official partner of Torq AMP, a security operations platform.
Nucleon SecurityNucleon Security announced a partnership with TECHNICOM Mali to provide endpoint security solutions to organizations in Mali. The partnership leverages Nucleon's European sovereign cybersecurity technology combined with TECHNICOM Mali's IT infrastructure expertise.
VantaVanta and Synthesia announced a partnership on October 22 to share governance, risk, and compliance engineering best practices. Synthesia automated 60% of evidence collection, manages six compliance frameworks, and became the first AI video company certified against ISO 42001.
Sublime SecuritySublime Security announced a new integration with CrowdStrike that combines email security with endpoint and identity investigation and response. The integration allows users to correlate email threats with endpoint and identity data in Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, detonate suspicious emails in Falcon Sandbox, and generate backtested email coverage for novel attacks within one hour.
iVerifyiVerify and the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance announced the inaugural Advanced Mobile Security Summit, a closed-door event scheduled for November 10, 2026 in New York City. The summit brings together CISOs, security leaders, government experts, threat researchers and academics to discuss mobile threats and advance detection and response capabilities.
SocureICIMS launched a new Fraud Detection category in its Marketplace, integrating Socure and ApplicantX by Brilliant as the first partners. Socure delivers identity verification directly within ICIMS to flag synthetic and fabricated identities, while ICIMS also embedded native fraud controls including leaked-credential blocking, which blocked 417,000 breached passwords in 2025 alone.
Surf AISurf AI launched an intelligence layer powered by Surf embedded directly into the Bithumb platform during Korea Blockchain Week. The company hosted two events to meet industry partners and the Korean community.
Finite StateA major industrial automation vendor and an OT security firm expanded their partnership to protect controllers from vulnerabilities while patches are being developed. The solution uses hardware-based filtering to pass only necessary traffic between controllers, distributed control systems, and safety systems.
ElisityIonQ, a publicly traded quantum computing company based in College Park, Maryland, agreed to acquire Elisity, a Dallas-based cybersecurity company, in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3 billion. The deal is expected to close later this year, with Elisity's CEO James Winebrenner remaining in his role after the acquisition.
NeuralTrustNeuralTrust and KPMG España announced a partnership to secure AI agents in enterprise environments. The two firms will implement agent governance controls that run on every tool call and block indirect prompt injection attacks before agents can act on them.
Horizon3.aiHorizon3.ai and Pax8 expanded their partnership to Europe through the Pax8 Marketplace, making Horizon3's NodeZero Proactive Security Platform available to managed service providers across the region.
KnowBe4Liquid C2, a business of Cassava Technologies, signed a reseller partnership agreement with KnowBe4 to distribute KnowBe4's security awareness, phishing simulation, and risk management solutions across Africa. KnowBe4's platform will be integrated into Liquid C2's Secure360 portfolio and bundled with managed cybersecurity services.
ProofpointProofpoint acquired Varonis in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6.3 billion. Varonis shareholders will receive $49.75 per share, representing a 52% premium to the stock's June closing price before sale rumors emerged.
CrowdStrikeCrowdStrike announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to customize NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model for agentic blue teaming in enterprise security. The model features 120B total parameters with 12B active per token and combines reasoning with text, image, document, and video understanding capabilities.
Horizon3.aiHorizon3.ai became an official partner in the Torq AMP program. The partnership enables security teams to identify real attack paths, prioritize vulnerabilities, and validate fixes.
Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks integrated its Prisma AIRS product directly with Anthropic's Claude Enterprise to provide governance and oversight for agentic AI systems that execute workflows rather than just answering questions.
SnykSnyk launched Evo Agentic AppSec, a suite of AI security agents that automatically finds, fixes, and blocks vulnerabilities in code. The product includes five components: Code Scanning Agent, Dependency Firewall, Security Review agent, Remediation Agent, and Secrets Detection, with the Remediation Agent successfully shipping fixes 90% of the time on open source dependency issues.
Above SecurityAbove Security and Nisos integrated Nisos Ascend external human-risk intelligence directly into Above's incident investigation platform. The integration displays external human-risk data alongside Above's AI investigators' findings from SaaS, identity, endpoint, and AI tools without requiring separate logins or manual data transfer.
Eye SecurityEye Security released three new supply-chain hardening tools called npm-harden, pypi-harden, and ci-audit. These tools audit package-manager and GitHub Actions settings to identify security gaps and enforce a three-day release-age cooldown on new npm and PyPI packages.
Strike48Strike48 launched the University SOC Program, offering free access to its agentic orchestration platform to qualified academic institutions with cybersecurity programs, student-run security operations centers, or cyber clinics.
CyeraCyera launched Cyera Agent Guardian in the Anthropic Claude Marketplace, making the security tool available to organizations using Claude environments. The product monitors AI agents in real-time and blocks unauthorized actions like out-of-policy commands and unapproved database changes before they execute.
AliceAlice partnered with AI21 Labs to improve the safety of open-source AI agents. AI21 post-trained NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model using Alice's reinforcement learning environments and adversarial datasets, resulting in a model 41 points more resilient to prompt injection attacks than GPT-6.1 Sol.
NetskopeNetskope expanded its partnership with BT International to offer optimized connectivity to Netskope One SSE through BT International's Global Fabric network-as-a-service platform.
Palo Alto NetworksPalo Alto Networks partnered with IBM to deliver next-generation cloud-based security solutions for the NHS Secure Boundary programme. The service will protect internet traffic and infrastructure across more than 200 NHS trusts, 55,000 organisations handling health data, and approximately 2 million devices.
CrowdStrikeColorTokens made its Xshield microsegmentation platform available on the CrowdStrike Marketplace. The integration allows organizations to deploy Zero Trust microsegmentation policies through CrowdStrike Falcon sensors without installing additional endpoint software.
SimbianLRQA and Simbian partnered to deliver AI-powered penetration testing services to help organizations assess their AI systems' security posture.
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