The inaugural Billington Critical Infrastructure CyberSecurity Summit will take place November 17–18, 2026, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, with nearly 30 speakers confirmed in the organizer’s October announcement and more than 80 expected by November. The gathering brings together government officials, infrastructure operators, security … [Read more...] about Billington Critical Infrastructure CyberSecurity Summit, Nov. 17–18, 2026, San Antonio, Texas
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IonQ to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm Elisity in $1.3 Billion All-Stock Deal, Expanding Beyond Quantum Computing
Quantum computing company IonQ has agreed to acquire cybersecurity firm Elisity in an all-stock transaction valued at up to $1.3 billion, marking a significant expansion beyond its core quantum computing business. The acquisition brings together two technologies that have traditionally operated in separate markets: quantum computing, still in the early stages of commercial … [Read more...] about IonQ to Acquire Cybersecurity Firm Elisity in $1.3 Billion All-Stock Deal, Expanding Beyond Quantum Computing
Hadrian Raises $40 Million to Fight the Emerging AI Hacking Crisis
Cybersecurity company Hadrian has raised $40 million in new funding as the security industry prepares for a fundamental change in the economics of hacking: artificial intelligence is making it possible to search for vulnerabilities, test defenses and potentially execute attacks at machine speed. The investment was co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with … [Read more...] about Hadrian Raises $40 Million to Fight the Emerging AI Hacking Crisis
Cybersecurity Weekly: Zero-Days Hit the Internet’s Defensive Edge as AI Starts Changing the Attack Cycle
The most important cybersecurity story of the past week was not a single breach but a remarkable concentration of attacks against the systems that are supposed to sit at the edge of enterprise networks and protect everything behind them. Citrix NetScaler, Cisco SD-WAN and Fortinet FortiMail all faced actively exploited vulnerabilities, while new research showed that the number … [Read more...] about Cybersecurity Weekly: Zero-Days Hit the Internet’s Defensive Edge as AI Starts Changing the Attack Cycle
Trust Only Software That Can Explain Itself
I've put five project sites online lately. AltSql, VPN Works, Precomputing, Preconfiguration, BareProxy. Most of that happened in September; BareProxy squeezed in during the first couple of days of October, so parts of it still read like a design note. All five say Alpha or 0.1 right on the page, and I'll get to why. The plan was to write each one up separately, like a … [Read more...] about Trust Only Software That Can Explain Itself
Zenity AI Agent Security Summit New York 2026, October 21, Pier Sixty, New York
The New York edition moves to Chelsea Piers and changes the focus. It covers what happens as agents gain autonomy and anyone in a company can build one: who owns the security, and which governance controls actually hold up. Zenity CTO Michael Bargury sums up the problem like this: the connectivity and autonomy that make agents useful are the same things that make them … [Read more...] about Zenity AI Agent Security Summit New York 2026, October 21, Pier Sixty, New York
Zenity AI Agent Security Summit London 2026, October 8, 8 Bishopsgate, London
Zenity is taking its agent security summit outside the US for the first time. The London day looks at what autonomous agents mean for Europe: policy gaps, agents going rogue, runtime risk, and adversarial attacks against agent workflows. The speakers are researchers and enterprise security leads, and they'll talk about attacks that have happened in the wild. It falls on … [Read more...] about Zenity AI Agent Security Summit London 2026, October 8, 8 Bishopsgate, London
SecTor 2026, October 6–8, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto
SecTor has run since 2007. It's Canada's largest security conference and part of Black Hat's global portfolio. This year's lineup has more than 40 briefings chosen by the review board, a full-day AI x Cloud Security Summit, 36 Arsenal tool demos and around 50 sponsored sessions. A few talks stand out: GPU weaponization on Windows, a forensics framework for LLM attacks, and … [Read more...] about SecTor 2026, October 6–8, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto
Cyera Takes $400 Million From Goldman Sachs, Pushing Its 2026 Funding to $1.4 Billion
Cyera has raised another $400 million, this time from the Growth Equity arm of Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The money extends the company's Series G, which Evolution Equity led in June, and keeps the valuation above $12 billion. It's Cyera's third raise of 2026, taking the year's total to $1.4 billion and lifetime funding past $2 billion. That pace is unusual even for … [Read more...] about Cyera Takes $400 Million From Goldman Sachs, Pushing Its 2026 Funding to $1.4 Billion
Visa Buys BioCatch, Munich Re Buys At-Bay: The Biggest Cybersecurity Buyers Aren’t Security Companies
Thirty-three cybersecurity acquisitions closed or were announced in August, and the two largest were done by companies that don't sell security. Visa paid $2.4 billion for BioCatch, the behavioural biometrics firm. Munich Re paid $575 million for At-Bay, the cyber insurtech. That's the shape of the market right now. Security capability is being pulled inside payments networks, … [Read more...] about Visa Buys BioCatch, Munich Re Buys At-Bay: The Biggest Cybersecurity Buyers Aren’t Security Companies