Enterprise security stories

Ping Identity-backed research says enterprises need stronger runtime controls as autonomous AI agents expose gaps in authorisation and oversight.

Akamai survey finds APIs are now cybercriminals' main target, with AI-linked interfaces under attack and incidents costing organisations more than USD $700,000.

Dell adds quantum-ready protections to commercial PCs and upgrades backup, detection and recovery tools to help firms counter AI and post-quantum threats.

Google warns AI is turbocharging cyber attacks as Sandra Joyce says firms must patch fast, while Gemini boosts threat detection and analysis.

Netskope deepens Google Cloud tie-up to bring AI Guardrails to generative and agentic systems with real-time safety checks.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos cyber security model and Project Glasswing are fuelling fears that AI-driven vulnerability hunting is becoming a boardroom issue.

AI tools are speeding up vulnerability hunting and could help lower-skilled hackers exploit flaws far sooner, Flashpoint has warned.

Google Cloud rolls out three AI agents for SecOps to automate detection engineering, threat hunting and context gathering as it eyes autonomous SOCs.

CleanStart unveils shell-less, read-only container images for production, promising tighter runtime security without forcing Dockerfile or pipeline changes.

Avatier unveils offline Identity Challenge Card as firms seek fallback access after Stryker hack exposes MFA weaknesses.

Vodafone and Google Cloud widen their SMB push with new Gemini-based concierge and managed cyber defences, starting in Germany and Greece.

Barracuda links surge in device code phishing attacks to EvilTokens kit as criminals exploit Microsoft 365 logins and bypass multifactor checks.

Wiz adds Red Agent preview and wider tools for AI code, Databricks, multicloud services and edge risk across cloud environments.

Elastic and Google add AI-driven threat detection to air-gapped cloud systems as defence and government customers seek tighter data sovereignty.

Unpatched VPN gateways are leaving organisations open to ransomware and outages, as modern Zero Trust access cuts off the exposed front door.

DTEX warns that AI agents controlled via Telegram and WhatsApp can quietly access files, expose credentials and exfiltrate data from endpoints.

SafeBreach unveils AI-led CTEM platform with Helm to unify exposure validation, prioritisation and remediation across enterprise security tools.

Akto partners with LangChain, Portkey, TrueFoundry, Arcade and LiteLLM to embed runtime safeguards across the AI agent stack.

Thales brings Imperva into Google Cloud as controlled launch targets app and API protection with lower latency and simpler operations.

Anthropic and OpenAI take rival paths on AI cyber tools, as one keeps access tightly restricted while the other widens vetted user access.