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Acquired · Oct 17, 2026

Freshworks 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.

Acquired · Oct 17, 2026

C1.ai signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Workday. The deal is expected to close within the next few months.

Product launch · Oct 17, 2026

Socure 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%.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

Exein 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.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

Doppel became an official partner of Torq AMP, a security operations platform.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

Nucleon 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.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

Vanta 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.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

Sublime 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.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

iVerify 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.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

ICIMS 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.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

Surf 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.

Partnership · Oct 17, 2026

A 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.

Acquired · Oct 17, 2026

IonQ, 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.

Partnership · Oct 16, 2026

NeuralTrust 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.

Partnership · Oct 16, 2026

Horizon3.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.

Partnership · Oct 16, 2026

Liquid 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.

Acquisition · Oct 16, 2026

Proofpoint 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.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

CrowdStrike 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.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

Horizon3.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.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

Palo 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.

Product launch · Oct 15, 2026

Snyk 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.

Partnership · Oct 15, 2026

Above 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.