Attacks by artificial intelligence agents are a reality. Experts at Nvidia’s GTC conference say defenders need to use the same tools to fight them off.
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How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports
With Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deployed to more than a dozen airports across the U.S. and border device searches growing increasingly common, it’s more important than ever to consider your digital security before you travel. The risks are real. Customs and Border Protection agents have the authority to examine travelers’ devices. In June, for…
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Zoom sees human conversation as its edge in the agentic AI era
AI agents in the workplace are increasingly able to retrieve information, coordinate tasks, and even act on a user’s behalf. But important decisions still typically happen through human interaction. As agentic AI threatens to disrupt the SaaS market, Zoom sees an advantage in its ability to capture interactions across video, phone, and in-person meetings —…
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Zoom sees human conversation as its edge in the agentic AI era
AI agents in the workplace are increasingly able to retrieve information, coordinate tasks, and even act on a user’s behalf. But important decisions still typically happen through human interaction. As agentic AI threatens to disrupt the SaaS market, Zoom sees an advantage in its ability to capture interactions across video, phone, and in-person meetings —…
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Introducing Tenable Hexa AI: The Agentic Engine That Supercharges Security Productivity and Accelerates Risk Reduction
The Tenable One agentic AI engine orchestrates out-of-the-box and custom agents to automate security workflows and turn exposure intelligence into action
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KnowBe4 Accelerates the Future of Human Risk Management with Expanding Suite of AI Agents
COMPANY NEWS: AI Defence Agents reduce administrative burden and transform security operations from a cost centre to a competitive advantage
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5 Learnings from the First-Ever Gartner Market Guide for Guardian Agents
On February 25, 2026, Gartner published its inaugural Market Guide for Guardian Agents, marking an important milestone for this emerging category. For those unfamiliar with the various Gartner report types, “a Market Guide defines a market and explains what clients can expect it to do in the short term. With the focus on early, more…
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Zenity advances context-aware security for AI agents
Zenity has unveiled continuous, contextual security for AI agents, a new approach that transforms how enterprise AI systems are secured and sets the foundation for Guardian Agents. According to Gartner, “Guardian Agents represent the next evolution in AI governance, shifting from passive monitoring to active, real-time protection of AI systems.” Zenity’s continuous, contextual security delivers…
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Varonis Atlas: Securing AI and the Data That Powers It
AI agents can access data directly, making data security the foundation of AI security. Learn more about how Varonis Atlas helps orgs see, secure, and control AI systems and the data they can reach. […]
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Straiker enables visibility and runtime protection for enterprise AI agents
Straiker has launched Discover AI and expanded Defend AI to secure coding agents, productivity agents, and custom-built agent platforms. Agents are operating across enterprise systems with broad access, growing autonomy, and zero security oversight. That’s why Straiker built Discover AI and Defend AI: to give security teams visibility into what agents are running and protection…
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AppViewX acquires Eos to extend identity security to AI agents and workloads
AppViewX has acquired Eos, an AI-native identity control plane for AI agents and autonomous workloads within the enterprise. By combining AppViewX’s automated CLM and PKI with Eos’s agentic governance and privileged access control, the platform delivers an integrated solution for AI agent and machine identity security. The acquisition accelerates AppViewX’s evolution into an AI-native platform,…
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Virtue AI brings continuous stress testing to enterprise AI agents
Virtue AI has announced Agent ForgingGround with built-in Red-Teaming Agents, the first enterprise-scale testing ground designed to continuously evaluate and stress-test AI agents (including multi-agent systems) before, during, and after deployment. As organizations adopt large-scale AI agents, many enterprises are unprepared to manage agent risk. AI agents can call tools, access sensitive data, and execute…
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Tufin introduces AI agents to take on network security work
Tufin is launching a new collection of AI agents designed to take on network security tasks for teams that are already stretched thin. This helps free up scarce expertise to focus on higher-level risks, critical decisions, and defending the enterprise. Enterprise infrastructure is becoming more dynamic, decentralized, and harder to secure. Tufin’s Network Connectivity Graph,…
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Top 5 Things CISOs Need to Do Today to Secure AI Agents
AI agents are autonomous actors with real access to data and systems, not just copilots. Token Security explains why identity-based access control is critical to prevent misuse and data exposure. […]
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IBM Closes $11 Billion Deal for Confluent
Deal will help companies access their data for AI agents, says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, as he brushes off AI’s risk to IBM’s business.
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Nintex Unveils Agentic Business Orchestration Capabilities to Scale AI-led Automation across Organisations
Nintex unveils new native AI capabilities that enable organisations to build and orchestrate AI agents alongside people, workflows, and systems
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TrendAI to secure enterprise adoption of agentic AI with NVIDIA
TrendAI to support NVIDIA OpenShell open source runtime to add security for autonomous AI agents
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Runtime: The new frontier of AI agent security
AI agents are already operating inside enterprise networks, quietly doing some of the work employees once handled themselves — writing code, drafting emails, retrieving files, and connecting to internal systems. Sometimes they also make costly mistakes. At Meta, an employee asked an AI assistant to help manage her inbox. It deleted it instead. At Amazon,…
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Hidden instructions in README files can make AI agents leak data
Developers rely on AI coding agents to set up projects, install dependencies, and run commands by following instructions in repository README files, which provide setup guidance for software projects. New research identifies a security risk when attackers hide malicious instructions in those documents. A semantic injection attack, where injections are embedded in an installation file,…
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AI coding agents keep repeating decade-old security mistakes
Coding agents are now writing production features on real development teams, and a new report from DryRun Security shows that those agents introduce security vulnerabilities at a high rate across nearly every type of application they build. “AI coding agents can produce working software at incredible speed, but security isn’t part of their default thinking,”…
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AI Agent Safety Checklist
As organizations rapidly adopt AI agents to automate workflows, summarize data, and assist decision-making, security and governance teams face a new challenge: how to deploy AI safely without introducing unmanaged risk. Unlike traditional SaaS tools, AI agents can interpret, generate, and act on data dynamically — often across multiple systems. That makes oversight, scope control,…
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Mimecast adds AI investigation and adaptive controls to manage human risk
Mimecast has announced major platform capabilities designed for a new enterprise reality as AI agents and automated workflows scale across the business and establish the human layer as the new security control plane. According to Mimecast’s The State of Human Risk 2026, 98% of organizations now use AI to defend against threats, yet 80% are…
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Blue Yonder expands agentic AI and mobile experiences for industry-specific supply chain execution
Blue Yonder today announced an expanded set of AI agents and role-specific mobile applications for its end-to-end planning and execution solutions. These updates to its Cognitive Solutions are built around real customer use cases and feedback to help businesses make smarter, faster, more accurate decisions and boost supply chain resilience.
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Datadog MCP server delivers live observability to AI agents and IDEs
Datadog has announced the general availability of its MCP Server. For developers embedding AI agents into development and operational workflows, the Datadog MCP Server provides access to live observability data, enabling teams to debug with their preferred AI coding agents or integrated development environments (IDEs), use real-time telemetry, and take action within established security and…
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AI oversight is creating mental fatigue at work
Workflows built around multiple AI agents and constant tool switching are adding cognitive strain across large enterprises. A recent Harvard Business Review analysis describes this pattern as “AI brain fry,” a form of mental fatigue tied to intensive use and oversight of AI systems. Employees increasingly manage clusters of agents that generate code, synthesize information,…
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Open-source tool Sage puts a security layer between AI agents and the OS
Autonomous AI agents running on developer workstations execute shell commands, fetch URLs, and write files with little or no inspection of what they are doing. Open-source project Sage inserts an interception layer between an AI agent and those operations, checking each action before it proceeds. The project applies the term Agent Detection & Response (ADR)…
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How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts
AI-based assistants or “agents” — autonomous programs that have access to the user’s computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task — are growing in popularity with developers and IT workers. But as so many eyebrow-raising headlines over the past few weeks have shown, these powerful and assertive new tools are rapidly shifting…
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iTWire TV: Why Most Enterprises Aren’t Ready for AI – and What the Composable Enterprise Gets Right
GUEST INTERVIEW: Celonis evangelist Rudy Kuhn argues that without process intelligence, AI agents are flying blind – and that composability, not another three-year transformation program, is the real key to enterprise survival.
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VIDEO INTERVIEW: Why Most Enterprises Aren’t Ready for AI – and What the Composable Enterprise Gets Right
GUEST INTERVIEW: Celonis evangelist Rudy Kuhn argues that without process intelligence, AI agents are flying blind – and that composability, not another three-year transformation program, is the real key to enterprise survival.
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Will AI Agents Kill SaaS? What MSPs Should Know
With the advent of agentic AI, conversations are heating up about whether AI agents could replace SaaS platforms and disrupt the tech industry as we know it. While the so-called “SaaSpocalypse” suggests dramatic changes to the SaaS business model, its true impact on managed services remains to be seen. AI agents promise to reduce tool…
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Engineering trust: A security blueprint for autonomous AI agents
AI agents have evolved from just chatbots, answering questions to executing actions using various integrated tools, often autonomously, and as such the traditional security models have become less efficient. I have seen that firsthand as a security lead for the Fitbit personal health coach. Consider an agent that can access or update health records on…
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AWS Partners See Surge in AI Agents Demand for 2026
Demand for AWS AI agents is accelerating in 2026, reshaping how enterprises buy technology and how partners deliver services. Executives from AWS, Mission Cloud, and Genpact say customers are moving quickly from experimentation to scaled deployment — often under board-level pressure to demonstrate AI-driven outcomes. AWS Marketplace search activity for agentic AI tools has increased…
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Understanding IAM for Managed AWS MCP Servers
As AI agents become part of your development workflows on Amazon Web Services (AWS), you want them to work with your existing AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions, not force you to build a separate permissions model. At the same time, you need the flexibility to apply different governance controls when an AI agent…
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Red Hat Launches Red Hat AI Enterprise to Deliver a Unified AI Platform that Spans from Metal to Agents
Red Hat AI Enterprise bridges the gap from AI infrastructure to production-ready agents by unifying the AI lifecycle with the industry-leading foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift
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ClawJacked flaw exposed OpenClaw users to data theft
“ClawJacked” flaw let malicious sites hijack OpenClaw AI agents to steal data; patch released in version 2026.2.26. A high-severity vulnerability called ClawJacked in OpenClaw allowed malicious websites to brute-force and take control of local AI agent instances. Oasis Security discovered the flaw, which enabled silent data theft. OpenClaw addressed the issue with version 2026.2.26, released…
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BlacksmithAI: Open-source AI-powered penetration testing framework
BlacksmithAI is an open-source penetration testing framework that uses multiple AI agents to execute different stages of a security assessment lifecycle. A multi-agent structure for offensive workflows BlacksmithAI runs as a hierarchical system in which an orchestrator coordinates task execution across specialized agents. Each agent maps to a common penetration testing function. The recon agent…
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AI doesn’t think like a human. Stop talking to it as if it does
Autonomous agents take the first part of their names very seriously and don’t necessarily do what their humans tell them to do — or not to do. But the situation is more complicated than that. Generative (genAI) and agentic systems operate quite differently than other systems — including older AI systems — and humans. That…
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Inside AWS Security Agent: A multi-agent architecture for automated penetration testing
AI agents have traditionally faced three core limitations: they can’t retain learned information or operate autonomously beyond short periods, and they require constant supervision. AWS addresses these limitations with frontier agents—a new category of AI that performs complex reasoning, multi-step planning, and autonomous execution for hours or days. Multi-agent collaboration has emerged as a powerful…
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Notion Launches Custom Agents: Workflows That Run Themselves
Custom Agents automate recurring work for entire teams using organisational knowledge
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Veza strengthens identity security for AI agents
Veza announced an expansion of the Veza Platform with the introduction of Veza Access Agents, a set of purpose-built AI Agents designed to automate complex identity and access governance tasks for enterprises. Veza also announced advancements to its AI Agent Security product, providing organizations with deeper visibility, agent risks, and control over third-party AI agents,…
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Veza expands platform with AI Access Agents for enterprise identity governance
Veza expanded its platform with Veza Access Agents, a set of purpose-built AI agents designed to automate complex identity and access governance tasks for enterprises. Veza also announced advancements to its AI Agent Security product, providing organizations with deeper visibility into agent risks and greater control over third-party AI agents, large language models (LLMs), AI…
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After OpenClaw backlash, Quill bets on security-by-design agentic AI
It’s clear users are hungry for agentic tools — but AI agents like OpenClaw have shown how disastrous they can be when hastily rolled out or improperly executed. Quill, an AI startup, hopes to do better with what it calls “a chief of AI staff,” Quilliam. Rather than just transcribing meetings or logging Slack conversations,…
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Identity-First AI Security: Why CISOs Must Add Intent to the Equation
AI agents now provision infrastructure and approve actions, but many inherit over-scoped privileges without proper governance. Token Security explains why CISOs must treat agents as identities and add intent-based controls so access is granted only when purpose and context align. […]
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Druva expands DruAI with autonomous agents for forensics and compliance
Druva announced a major expansion of DruAI, adding Deep Analysis Agents that automate complex multi-day forensic and compliance investigations. IT and security teams spend too much time not just fixing problems, but proving what happened and why across incident response, forensics, audits, and operational reviews. Much of that effort goes into manual correlation and report…
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New Relic Launches Agentic Platform, a No-code Solution to Build and Govern Custom AI Agents for Observability at Scale
COMPANY NEWS: Solution democratises AI by allowing SREs and Ops teams to build powerful AI agents, without writing code, to accelerate workstreams and automation Enterprises can now build, deploy, and manage a full spectrum of agents that move operations from passive observation to active task execution, directly within their observability stack
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Windows 365 for Agents brings managed cloud PCs to autonomous workflows
Microsoft’s Windows 365 for Agents is a cloud platform that gives AI agents secure access to cloud PCs. It lets builders run copilots, agents, and automated workflows in Windows environments without managing infrastructure. The platform includes security, policy controls, scalability, and visibility so agents can browse websites, process data, and complete tasks inside a managed…
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Security and complexity slow the next phase of enterprise AI agent adoption
Enterprise AI agents are embedded in routine business processes, particularly inside engineering and IT operations. Many organizations report active production deployments, and agent development ranks high on strategic agendas. A new study from Docker, The State of Agentic AI Report, examines how enterprises are deploying agentic systems and the challenges emerging as deployments scale. The…
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Malicious OpenClaw Skills Used to Distribute Atomic MacOS Stealer
Malicious OpenClaw skills trick AI agents and users into installing a new AMOS variant that steals extensive data at scale.
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Over 41% of Popular OpenClaw Skills Found to Contain Security Vulnerabilities
As AI agents become more widely adopted, new research is highlighting security gaps within their supporting ecosystems. A large-scale audit of the OpenClaw skill registry by ClawSecure found that 41.7% of widely used skills contain substantive vulnerabilities, including issues such as command injection and credential exposure. “We audited 2,890+ of the most popular OpenClaw skills…
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AI agents still need humans to teach them
AI agents need skills — specific procedural knowledge — to perform tasks well, but they can’t teach themselves, a new research suggests. The authors of the research have developed a new benchmark, SkillsBench, which evaluates agentic AI performance on 84 tasks across 11 domains including healthcare, manufacturing, cybersecurity and software engineering. The researchers looked at…
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Brinqa targets manual bottlenecks in exposure management with integrated AI agents
Brinqa has advanced its platform with the introduction of two new AI agents, the AI Attribution Agent and the AI Deduplication Agent, designed to address two of the most persistent and costly problems in enterprise security, unclear asset ownership and duplicate exposure signals. The key business problem of enterprise organizations around exposure management is not…
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Open source maintainers being targeted by AI agent as part of ‘reputation farming’
AI agents able to submit huge numbers of pull requests (PRs) to open-source project maintainers risk creating the conditions for future supply chain attacks targeting important software projects, developer security company Socket has argued. The warning comes after one of its developers, Nolan Lawson, last week received an email regarding the PouchDB JavaScript database he…
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Battling bots face off in cybersecurity arena
AI agents are increasingly seen as a way to reinforce the capabilities of cybersecurity teams — but which can do the best job? Wiz has developed a benchmark suite of 257 real-world challenges spanning five offensive domains: zero-day discovery, CVE (code vulnerability) detection, API security, web security, and cloud security to find out. Wiz tests…
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AI Agents ‘Swarm,’ Security Complexity Follows Suit
As AI deployments scale and start to include packs of agents autonomously working in concert, organizations face a naturally amplified attack surface.
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Redefining Security for the Agentic Era
The agentic era is here. As AI agents act autonomously at machine speed, learn why security must evolve with intent-aware controls to make autonomous systems safe, accountable, and reliable.
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Redefining Security for the Agentic Era
The agentic era is here. As AI agents act autonomously at machine speed, learn why security must evolve with intent-aware controls to make autonomous systems safe, accountable, and reliable.
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AI agents behave like users, but don’t follow the same rules
Security and governance approaches to autonomous AI agents rely on static credentials, inconsistent controls, and limited visibility. Securing these agents requires the same rigor and traceability applied to human users, according to Cloud Security Alliance’s Securing Autonomous AI Agents report. Agents scale faster than governance frameworks Autonomous AI agents act on behalf of humans, accessing…
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Bye to the Beta Phase of AI Agents: How to Succeed in 2026
2025 was the beta phase of AI agents. Today’s new phase of AI agents requires that they designed with surgical precision to resolve specific frictions. The post Bye to the Beta Phase of AI Agents: How to Succeed in 2026 appeared first on RTInsights.
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MintMCP’s governance platform helps organizations deploy, monitor, and secure AI agents
MintMCP launched its enterprise governance platform for AI agents and MCP servers, enabling teams to deploy, monitor, and secure agent infrastructure at scale. The platform enables organizations to deploy, monitor, and secure AI agents at scale while maintaining complete audit trails and policy enforcement. As enterprises race to deploy AI agents, security teams face a…
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Long-Running AI Agents Are Here
Anthropic’s Claude Code and Cowork agents are a glimpse into the AI-driven future of work.
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OpenAI Frontier organizes AI agents under one system
OpenAI introduced Frontier, a platform designed to organize AI agents that perform business tasks within internal systems and workflows. The platform connects data from multiple internal systems including customer relationship management tools, ticketing platforms, and data warehouses. This integration creates a shared knowledge layer that allows AI agents to understand business processes and decision points…
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GitHub enables multi-agent AI coding inside repository workflows
GitHub has expanded Agents HQ, enabling AI coding agents such as GitHub Copilot, Claude by Anthropic, and OpenAI Codex to execute development tasks directly within GitHub and developer editors while preserving repository context, session history, and review workflows. Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise developers can start agent sessions from GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio…