World Backup Day has always been an easy date for vendors to fill with reminders about saving files and checking systems, but the underlying message in 2026 feels sharper and a lot less ceremonial. Backup is no longer a background IT chore that sits somewhere between storage procurement and compliance paperwork. It has become one of the clearest measures of whether an … [Read more...] about World Backup Day 2026: Why Recovery Has Become the Real Test of Cyber Resilience
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Cyberhaven Launches Agentic AI Security as Shadow Agents Move Onto the Enterprise Endpoint
Cyberhaven is making a timely bet on where enterprise AI risk is actually heading. The company’s new Agentic AI Security offering is designed around a problem that has been building faster than many governance teams seem willing to admit: AI is no longer confined to a browser tab, a chatbot window, or a controlled SaaS workflow. It is beginning to act more like software with … [Read more...] about Cyberhaven Launches Agentic AI Security as Shadow Agents Move Onto the Enterprise Endpoint
Palo Alto Networks Rewrites Security for the Agentic AI Era
Infrastructure failures have changed character—they’re no longer driven by perimeter breaches or missed patches. It’s about trust failing mid-operation, often invisibly, until everything stops. That’s the tension running through Palo Alto Networks’ latest announcements, where two parallel threads—cryptographic automation and AI-native browsing—are starting to converge into a … [Read more...] about Palo Alto Networks Rewrites Security for the Agentic AI Era
RSAC Conference 2026, March 23–26, San Francisco
RSAC each year feels less like a conference and more like a pressure gauge for the entire digital world, and this 35th edition opening at the Moscone Center lands right at a moment when that pressure is clearly rising. The gathering in San Francisco isn’t just big—it’s structurally dense, almost overwhelming in scope, with over 700 speakers, more than 570 sessions, and upwards … [Read more...] about RSAC Conference 2026, March 23–26, San Francisco
AI-Speed Warfare Comes to Cybersecurity: Booz Allen’s Vellox Suite Signals a Structural Shift
The language coming out of Booz Allen Hamilton isn’t dressed up marketing—it reads more like a battlefield update. What’s striking isn’t just the announcement of the Vellox product suite at RSA Conference 2026, but the framing: cybersecurity is no longer about resilience or prevention in the traditional sense, it’s about tempo. Speed has become the primary variable. That … [Read more...] about AI-Speed Warfare Comes to Cybersecurity: Booz Allen’s Vellox Suite Signals a Structural Shift
Cape Rebuilds the Mobile Carrier from Scratch, Raises $100M to Turn Privacy into Infrastructure
Mobile networks were never really designed with privacy in mind, and now the consequences are catching up fast. Cape’s latest $100 million Series C round, co-led by Bain Capital Ventures and IVP, feels less like another funding announcement and more like a signal that the telecom layer itself is finally being challenged. The company isn’t trying to bolt privacy onto the … [Read more...] about Cape Rebuilds the Mobile Carrier from Scratch, Raises $100M to Turn Privacy into Infrastructure
Semgrep Pushes Deeper Into AI-Native AppSec
Semgrep is drawing a clear line about where application security is heading, and it’s not toward pure AI or legacy scanning alone, but something more blended and, frankly, more practical. With the launch of Semgrep Multimodal, the company is combining AI reasoning with its rule-based analysis engine across detection, triage, and remediation. The claim is bold but telling: up to … [Read more...] about Semgrep Pushes Deeper Into AI-Native AppSec
Cloaked Bets Big on AI-Driven Privacy as $375 Million Raise Signals a Shift in Digital Power
Something has started to tilt, just slightly but noticeably, in the long-running imbalance between individuals and the systems that harvest their data. Cloaked’s $375 million Series B and growth financing doesn’t feel like just another funding round—it reads more like a signal that privacy, long treated as a feature, is being reframed as infrastructure. At its core, Cloaked … [Read more...] about Cloaked Bets Big on AI-Driven Privacy as $375 Million Raise Signals a Shift in Digital Power
Discern Security Pushes Cybersecurity Into the Agentic Era Ahead of RSA Conference 2026
A new wave of cybersecurity tooling is starting to look less like software and more like a coordinated system of thinking machines, and Discern Security’s latest platform update leans directly into that shift. Announced out of Sunnyvale just ahead of RSA Conference 2026, the company is introducing a set of agentic AI capabilities designed to move security teams away from … [Read more...] about Discern Security Pushes Cybersecurity Into the Agentic Era Ahead of RSA Conference 2026
XBOW Raises $120 Million at Unicorn Valuation as Autonomous Offensive Security Moves Into the Enterprise
XBOW has landed a $120 million Series C round, crossing the $1 billion valuation mark and giving one of cybersecurity’s more closely watched AI startups a serious war chest for expansion. The financing was led by DFJ Growth and Northzone, with new participation from Sofina and Alkeon Capital alongside existing investors including Altimeter, NFDG Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. … [Read more...] about XBOW Raises $120 Million at Unicorn Valuation as Autonomous Offensive Security Moves Into the Enterprise