Security

Artificial Intelligence

Identity vendor Nametag introduces Nametag Signa to ensure actions are by a human, and expands Okta partnership

October 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Identity vendor Nametag introduces Nametag Signa to ensure actions are by a human, and expands Okta partnership
Nametag Signa uses the Nametag workforce-grade Deepfake Defense and Okta’s policy engine together, to verify there is a live human behind AI actions, helping enterprises adopt agentic AI securely.

Artificial Intelligence

Bad guys increase ransomware attacks for first time in three years: Hornetsecurity

October 3, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Bad guys increase ransomware attacks for first time in three years: Hornetsecurity
A new report from Hornetsecurity found the first increase in ransomware attacks in three years were driven by new technology, particularly more convincing AI-based phishing attacks, against which traditional training and defenses have little use.

Agent

Akto looks to protect MCP servers with new Agentic Security Platform

October 2, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Akto looks to protect MCP servers with new Agentic Security Platform
Akto’s new Agentic Security Platform is an end-to-end security solution purpose-built for the age of autonomous AI agents that is designed to protect enterprises as they deploy AI agents at scale and adopt the Model Context Protocol , with the platform delivering complete visibility, continuous Agentic red teaming, and real-time guardrails to stop agents from going rogue.

Agent

Simbian launches AI Threat Hunt Agent integrated to Microsoft Sentinel data lake

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Simbian launches AI Threat Hunt Agent integrated to Microsoft Sentinel data lake
Simbian’s new AI Threat Hunt Agent will allow Microsoft 365 customers to accelerate and scale their organizations’ threat hunting capabilities, which will make them more efficient, and also open up new channel opportunities.

Agent

Databricks and OpenAI partner to make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks platform and Agent Bricks flagship product

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Databricks and OpenAI partner to make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks platform and Agent Bricks flagship product
Databricks and OpenAI have announced a multi-year partnership that will make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Databricks’ flagship AI product Agent Bricks, while they also signed a multiyear, $100 million deal to sell artificial intelligence services to large business customers.

Agent

Autonomous AI agents key to Email security startup AegisAI leaving stealth

October 1, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Autonomous AI agents key to Email security startup AegisAI leaving stealth
Cybersecurity startup AegisAI has announced a radical approach to email security as parts of both its public launch and seed funding round, with the premise being the use of autonomous AI agents that eliminate phishing, malware, and business email compromise attacks before they ever reach user inboxes.

Artificial Intelligence

Gartner analyst Felix Gaehtgens lays out product strategy vision for Beyond Trust

September 30, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Gartner analyst Felix Gaehtgens lays out product strategy vision for Beyond Trust
After little more  than a week on the job, and his appointment as Vice President, Product Strategy at BeyondTrust, Gaehtgens spelled out his vision for the new company and how he plans to get there.

Artificial Intelligence

FireMon adds NVIDIA Cumulus Support to unify policy management in AI-intensive data centres

September 30, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on FireMon adds NVIDIA Cumulus Support to unify policy management in AI-intensive data centres
The integration closes a long-standing gap for teams who standardize on open networking while maintaining a single source of truth for network security policy across firewalls, clouds, and modern fabrics.

Agent

Horizon3.ai launches Threat Actor Intelligence, a new capability in its NodeZero Offensive Security Platform

September 30, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Horizon3.ai launches Threat Actor Intelligence, a new capability in its NodeZero Offensive Security Platform
Horizon3.ai’s new Threat Actor Intelligence connects exploitable vulnerabilities in customer environments to real adversaries who use them, and their recently announced NodeZero MCP Server lets Threat Actor Intelligence feed directly into automated workflows that converge pentesting and SOAR.

Backup

Seagate, Acronis partner to deliver S3 compatible Acronis Archival Storage

September 29, 2025 Mark Cox Comments Off on Seagate, Acronis partner to deliver S3 compatible Acronis Archival Storage
Seagate and Acronis will ally so that Acronis will incorporate Seagate’s S3-compatible  Lyve Cloud Object Storage into its archival storage offerings to help MSPs deliver seamless, cost-effective, and compliant storage.