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Microsoft wants to put AI agents on a short leash

As enterprises race to adopt AI agents across software development workflows, Microsoft is rolling out new controls aimed at keeping the transformation from becoming a security headache. At its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, the company unveiled a set of initiatives, including a brand new runtime containment offering, Microsoft Execution Container (MXC), for agentic AI…

Microsoft wants to put AI agents on a short leash

As enterprises race to adopt AI agents across software development workflows, Microsoft is rolling out new controls aimed at keeping the transformation from becoming a security headache. At its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, the company unveiled a set of initiatives, including a brand new runtime containment offering, Microsoft Execution Container (MXC), for agentic AI…

Microsoft wants to put AI agents on a short leash

As enterprises race to adopt AI agents across software development workflows, Microsoft is rolling out new controls aimed at keeping the transformation from becoming a security headache. At its annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, the company unveiled a set of initiatives, including a brand new runtime containment offering, Microsoft Execution Container (MXC), for agentic AI…

Kyvos Exec: Semantic Layers are Critical for Enterprise AI

As enterprises move from AI experimentation to production deployments, questions around data consistency, governance, and scalability are becoming increasingly important.  Many organizations have invested heavily in modern data platforms, yet AI systems still struggle to deliver reliable outcomes when business context is fragmented across tools and datasets. Pratik Jain, Senior Director of Technology at Kyvos…

Tuskira Quell identifies, mitigates, and validates zero-day risk before breach

Tuskira launched Quell, its exposure-led zero-day defense capability. Quell helps enterprises survive the window between a zero-day’s disclosure and a patch by determining which zero-days are reachable in their environment, whether existing controls would stop them, and which compensating control change would disrupt the exploit immediately. Organizations using Tuskira have cut breachable exposure by up…

Flowise’s MCP implementation can run ghost commands

Enterprises using the lightweight, open-source Flowise platform to power self-hosted AI workloads have a new near-max severity issue to worry about. Researchers at Obsidian Security have detailed a one-click remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting self-hosted Flowise deployments through its implementation of Model Context Protocol (MCP) stdio servers. The problem is essentially a sandboxing failure…

AI security needs a shift from models to systems, researchers argue

Enterprises cannot secure AI agents by making the underlying models more robust and must instead enforce security controls at the system level around them, researchers behind a paper published this month argued, warning that traditional AI-security approaches are increasingly misaligned with how autonomous agents actually operate inside enterprise environments. The paper argues that enterprises should…

AI Demand Pushes Neoclouds into the Channel Conversation

Neocloud providers are gaining momentum as enterprises look for more GPU capacity to support AI training, fine-tuning, and inference. For MSPs, resellers, and system integrators, that shift could expand the cloud infrastructure conversation beyond hypescalers. As AI workloads push customers to compare every available option, partners have an opportunity to advise on cost, capacity, workload…

7 tips for accelerating cyber incident recovery

Despite strong and redundant defenses, enterprises remain vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks. And because attacks — and cyber incidents — are inevitable, developing an incident response and recovery process that’s quick, comprehensive, and coordinated is essential. Expediting incident recovery time is critical because the longer an outage persists, the more costs, risk, and business…

Fleet CEO: Faster Remediation Needs IT and Partner Support

Fleet has announced new autonomous endpoint management capabilities designed to help enterprises reduce vulnerability exposure windows from months to days, and in some cases, hours, as security teams face faster exploit development and growing pressure from AI-enabled threats. The San Francisco-based company said its platform now supports continuous patching and vulnerability exposure reporting across major…

Nearly every enterprise is investing in AI, but only 5% say their data is ready

Nearly halfway into 2026, enterprises are beginning to see tangible returns on their AI investments. Yet many are discovering that scaling requires something far less glamorous than flashy frontier models and state-of-the-art benchmarking: Clean, interoperable, governed data. According to a new AI Momentum Survey from Dun & Bradstreet, 97% of organizations report active AI initiatives,…

CGS Immersive Debuts AI-Powered Cicero Interview Application

CGS Immersive has launched Cicero Interview, an AI-powered hiring application designed to help enterprises assess candidate readiness through scenario-based interviews, explainable scorecards, and anti-fraud controls. Measuring how candidates think and perform According to CGS Immersive, the application is designed to help enterprises quickly identify candidates who are “truly job ready,” while also providing the transparency,…

SailPoint Agentic Fabric expands identity governance to autonomous AI agents

SailPoint has introduced SailPoint Agentic Fabric, a new platform designed to help enterprises secure AI agents and other non-human identities at scale. As organizations deploy autonomous AI agents across cloud environments, applications, and endpoints, they face a growing governance gap. Unlike traditional users, AI agents can act at machine speed, often without clear ownership, oversight,…

Bots in translation: Can AI really fix SIEM rule sprawl across vendors?

Enterprises migrating between SIEM platforms often have to manually rewrite detection rules because vendors such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar, and Google Chronicle use different query languages and data models. Researchers now say AI may be able to automate much of that work, though security experts remain divided over whether the problem really requires…

Kloudfuse 4.0 delivers AI-governed observability and scalable workload isolation

Kloudfuse has announced the general availability of Kloudfuse 4.0. The release helps enterprises meet rising compliance requirements, adopt AI-driven observability with production-grade governance, and scale their observability infrastructure without platform bottlenecks, while keeping every byte of telemetry data inside their own cloud environment. Kloudfuse 4.0 addresses three converging pressures: the FIPS 140-2 sunset on September…

Poisoned truth: The quiet security threat inside enterprise AI

As enterprises rush to deploy internal LLMs, AI copilots, and autonomous agents, most security conversations focus on familiar threats: prompt injection, jailbreaks, model abuse, and data exfiltration. But some security leaders argue a quieter risk deserves far more attention: what happens when the model’s understanding of reality itself becomes corrupted. This problem is broadly described…

Netrio Expands MSP Services with AI Advisory Practice

Netrio has launched a new AI advisory and transformation practice to help mid-market enterprises move artificial intelligence projects beyond experimentation and into measurable business use. The McKinney, Texas-based MSP said the new offering will support customers across AI evaluation, strategy, governance, deployment, and adoption. The practice is designed for organizations struggling with disconnected AI pilots,…

AI Adoption Fuels Rise in Identity Attack Path Risk 

Identity security is one of the most urgent priorities for enterprises as AI adoption expands the attack surface and introduces new complexity.  The SpecterOps Trends in Identity Attack Path Management 2026 report highlights how organizations are increasing investment in identity security while struggling to turn visibility into consistent risk reduction. “As identity becomes the control…

Virtue AI PolicyGuard turns AI policies into enforceable runtime guardrails

Virtue AI has announced PolicyGuard, a system that enables enterprises to define, edit, and enforce custom AI runtime protection guardrails across models, agents, and applications. Most organizations have “AI acceptable use policies.” When they need to enforce those policies, however, the tooling is static, fragmented, and generic: built for no industry in particular and no…

Eino’s agentic network observability platform enables real-time, AI-driven network insights

Eino has introduced a new class of solution for enterprises known as agentic network observability. Designed for enterprises with multiple network technologies and mission-critical use cases, Eino’s agentic solution uses a 3D digital twin approach of the physical environment to deliver real-time insights for almost any wireless networking technology, deployed together or separately. This enables…

SAS makes AI governance the centerpiece of its agent strategy

Enterprises are quickly moving from AI experimentation to deployment, however, when agentic AI begins making more decisions, invoking more tools, and operating across fragmented data environments, there can be an erosion of visibility, governance, and trust. SAS laid out its answer to that problem at its annual conference, SAS Innovate, introducing a new family of…

NowSecure MARI gives enterprises evidence-based visibility into third-party mobile app risk

NowSecure has announced Mobile App Risk Intelligence (MARI), new capabilities that give enterprises evidence-based visibility into third-party mobile apps, as hidden AI features, opaque code, and unseen data flows create a growing governance gap. Employees are adopting mobile apps faster than security teams can evaluate them, and many of those apps now include AI components,…

CrowdStrike Builds Project QuiltWorks for AI-era Bugs

CrowdStrike has launched Project QuiltWorks, a partner-led coalition aimed at helping enterprises respond faster to vulnerabilities uncovered by frontier AI models. The initiative brings together Accenture, EY, IBM Cybersecurity Services, Kroll, and OpenAI with CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform and partner network. The company said the goal is to help organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate AI-discovered vulnerabilities…

Scenario: Open-source framework for automated AI app red-teaming

Enterprises running customer service bots, data analytics agents, and other AI-driven applications in production handle sensitive records and connect to core business systems every day. LangWatch has released Scenario, an open-source framework that runs automated red-team exercises against AI agents using multi-turn attack techniques that mirror how adversaries operate in the wild. Multi-turn attacks replace…

The fully free Linux OS Trisquel gets a major update with version 12.0 Ecne

Trisquel GNU/Linux, a free operating system aimed at home users, small enterprises, and educational centers, released version 12.0. The release, codenamed Ecne, is declared production-ready and builds on the previous version, Aramo, with changes to packaging, the kernel, security, and available software. APT 3.0 and repository format changes Ecne ships with APT 3.0, which brings…

Nutanix Delivers Complete Platform for the Agentic AI Era

New capabilities for Agentic AI infrastructure will enable enterprises and neoclouds to optimise, govern, and accelerate Agentic AI use cases Growing ecosystem of infrastructure, cloud, and service providers empower customers with choice and control Expanded options to modernise virtual machines and containers leveraging server and storage investments help customers navigate a constrained hardware supply chain…

Bitdefender Launches Internal Attack Surface Assessment

Bitdefender recently announced the launch of Bitdefender Attack Surface Assessment to help enterprises discover hidden cybersecurity risks. Complimentary evaluation shines spotlight on hidden risk The assessment is a complimentary evaluation that helps organizations identify and reduce hidden internal cyber risk from unnecessary user access to applications, tools, and operating system utilities commonly exploited in modern…

FIRESIDE CHAT: AI gives rise to a semantic attack surface, forcing a new class of network defense

SAN FRANCISCO — Enterprises rushing to deploy AI in their operations are opening a security exposure most of their existing tools were never designed to address. That’s the hard message coming out of RSAC 2026 — and it’s one worth sitting with. Related: RSAC 2026 recap—no easy AI fixes Jamison Utter, A10 Networks field CISO,…

Delve Compliance Scandal Exposes AI Vendor Risk Gaps

Allegations against AI compliance startup Delve are raising urgent questions about how enterprises vet vendors in the race to adopt automation.  As scrutiny grows, the controversy underscores a broader issue: many AI tools marketed as “enterprise-ready” may lack the safeguards, validation, and transparency buyers assume are in place. Compliance platform Delve faces allegations of fabricated…

AI regulations are already out of date — IT leaders need to think ahead

Most AI regulations passed in the last few years are already irrelevant, but enterprises should think ahead with rudimentary governance plans for quicker compliance, said legal experts in two panel discussions at Nvidia’s GTC trade show last week. Current AI regulations target frontier models, high-risk models, and transparency. They typically focus on LLMs and the…

Quantum threats are already active and the defense response remains fragmented

Enterprises are moving toward post-quantum security at uneven speeds, and the gap between organizations that have built crypto-agility into their infrastructure and those that have adopted the label without the underlying capability is widening. Dr. Tan Teik Guan, CEO of Singapore-based cybersecurity company pQCee, draws a sharp line between the two. Crypto-agility, in his view,…

Mistral launches Forge to help enterprises build their own AI models

Mistral has introduced Forge, a new platform aimed at helping enterprises move beyond generic AI systems by enabling them to train and adapt models on proprietary data. Today’s AI systems are largely developed using open internet data and are built to handle a wide variety of general tasks. However, enterprises depend on deeply embedded internal knowledge, including…

Eon Launches Ransomware Protection for Cloud Databases

As enterprises move critical workloads to managed cloud databases, a growing ransomware recovery gap is emerging across modern cloud infrastructure. Eon is aiming to close that gap with new ransomware protection designed specifically for managed cloud database environments. The new capability expands Eon’s ransomware protection suite and focuses on detecting corruption and restoring trusted data…

DH2i Enhances SQL Server Resilience Across Hybrid IT

DH2i has released new versions of its clustering and automation software designed to help enterprises maintain SQL Server uptime while modernizing infrastructure across Linux, Windows, and Kubernetes environments. The company announced the general availability of DxEnterprise v26.0 and DxOperator v2, updates that introduce expanded monitoring, automated quorum enforcement, security improvements, and new automation capabilities for…

Storm-2561 targets enterprise VPN users with SEO poisoning, fake clients

Microsoft has warned enterprises that cybercriminal group Storm-2561 is hijacking search engine results to serve trojanized VPN clients, stealing corporate credentials, and then covering its tracks before victims suspect anything is wrong. The group pushes spoofed websites to the top of results for queries such as “Pulse VPN download” or “Pulse Secure client,” redirecting users…

OpenAI to acquire AI security platform Promptfoo

OpenAI are acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during development. Once the acquisition is finalized, OpenAI will integrate Promptfoo’s technology directly into OpenAI Frontier, their platform for building and operating AI coworkers. As enterprises deploy AI coworkers into real workflows, evaluation, security, and compliance become…

iProov secures hiring, access, and recovery by verifying the human behind every login

iProov the iProov Workforce Solution Suite, designed to protect enterprises from deepfakes and other identity attacks while improving operational efficiency. It enables organizations to verify genuine human presence and stop attackers. The suite supports remote hiring and onboarding, shared device access, step-up and privileged access, and account recovery. Enterprises have invested heavily in zero trust,…

RecordPoint MCP Server standardizes and secures AI access to compliant data

RecordPoint has unveiled its model context protocol (MCP) server, giving enterprises a secure, standardized way to expose governed data to external AI agents and platforms. The RecordPoint MCP Server allows any AI system, copilot, agent, or custom LLM app to safely access governed, compliant data from the RecordPoint platform without custom integrations or elevated permissions.…

DeepKeep Launches AI Agent Security Scanner

DeepKeep on Tuesday introduced a new AI Agent Scanner designed to help enterprises identify and secure the growing attack surface created by AI agents embedded in business workflows. The Tel Aviv-based AI security vendor said its latest release provides structured attack surface scanning and discovery for agentic AI environments, where large language model (LLM)-based agents…

New Relic Closes Gaps Between Data, Insight and Action with SRE Agent and AI-Strengthened Platform Innovations

COMPANY NEWS:   Evolution of intelligent automation enables enterprises to move beyond observing problems towards autonomously solving them  SRE Agent augments a workforce, freeing up engineers to focus on high-value strategic decisions instead of toil  Innovations create future-proof incident response toolset where engineers lead strategy, make key decisions, and validate solutions in powerful collaboration with AI

MCP Servers Expose a Hidden AI Attack Surface in Enterprise Environments

As enterprises rush to integrate AI assistants into daily workflows, a new and potentially overlooked attack surface is emerging: Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.  Built to connect AI applications to external tools and data, MCP servers can be exploited to execute code, exfiltrate data and manipulate users — often without visible signs of compromise.  Attackers…

Simbian AI Pentest Agent delivers continuous, context-aware penetration testing

Simbian announced the launch of the Simbian AI Pentest Agent, a new solution designed to provide enterprises with ongoing, on-demand penetration testing. Simbian’s AI Pentest Agent is the first automated penetration testing solution to incorporate business context, ensuring that findings are focused on each customer’s specific security risks and priorities. Developed in partnership the leading…

Palo Alto Networks intends to acquire Koi, advancing agentic endpoint security

Palo Alto Networks has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Koi, giving enterprises the power to finally see and protect the AI-native ecosystem that defines modern work. The new imperative: Agentic endpoint security Traditional security was built to stop malicious files, but AI agents and tools can actively read, write, and move data. Attackers…

Pathlock CEO Talks Identity in the AI Era

Pathlock’s newly appointed CEO Damon Tompkins says agentic AI is forcing enterprises to rethink identity security, shifting focus from static permissions to real-time monitoring of human and non-human identities. We spoke with Tompkins about his first weeks in the CEO role and why he sees agentic AI as a new opportunity in identity security. Pathlock…

Q&A: How MSPs are Unlocking New Opportunity with Blockchain

As enterprises move from blockchain pilots to production deployments, MSPs are reassessing how the technology fits into their 2026 service strategies.  In this Q&A, Cosmos Labs co-CEO and co-founder Barry Plunkett breaks down where demand is forming—from regulated tokenization projects to blockchain infrastructure operations—and how MSPs can turn scarce expertise into durable, recurring revenue. How…

BlueCat Horizon unifies DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and security into a cloud-first intelligent NetOps platform

BlueCat Networks has unveiled BlueCat Horizon, a SaaS-based platform designed to modernize how enterprises and mid-market organizations operate, secure, and evolve their networks through AI-assisted insights and coordinated action across the network. BlueCat Horizon introduces a common set of platform and infrastructure services that support multiple network applications and enable cross-domain use cases that were…

Java security work is becoming a daily operational burden

Security teams in large enterprises already spend significant time tracking vulnerabilities across software supply chains, third-party libraries, and internal codebases. Java environments add another layer of exposure because so many mission-critical systems still run on the JVM. A 2026 Azul survey of more than 2,000 Java professionals found that 64% said more than half of…

Smartsheet Channel Exec on Partners, Platforms, and 2026

As more enterprises look to streamline technology stacks and accomplish more with less, vendors and OEMs are finding themselves in an evolving market focused on bringing integrated solutions to customers through partners. We spoke with Scott Strubel, head of Americas partner sales at Smartsheet, about how market trends influence the ways vendors work with partner…

Cisco enhances security for enterprise AI adoption

Cisco announced a suite of capabilities to help enterprises adopt agentic AI with confidence, combining agent protection, interaction governance, and resilient connectivity for AI-driven workflows. As organizations move from AI assistants to autonomous agents that use tools and data across hybrid environments, security teams need to strengthen agentic defenses, govern agent interactions with enterprise systems…

Security teams are paying for sprawl in more ways than one

Most enterprises run security programs across sprawling environments that include mobile devices, SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure, and telecom networks. Spend control in these areas often sits outside the security organization, even when the operational consequences land directly on security teams. Tangoe’s 2026 Trends & Savings Recommendations Report connects these cost domains to recurring governance failures…

Microsoft to roll out a ‘consent first’ model to protect Windows

Windows serves as the backbone of enterprises around the world, powering more than a billion devices and supporting millions of apps. However Microsoft acknowledges that apps are increasingly going rogue, overriding settings, installing additional components, or altering critical Windows capabilities without user awareness or approval. In response, the tech giant plans to roll out what…

DH2I’s Don Boxley on AI, Security, and 2026 Channel Bets

As artificial intelligence investments push enterprises to rethink their infrastructure stacks, channel partners are increasingly being pulled into complex refresh, migration, and security conversations.  To understand how those shifts are unfolding, Channel Insider spoke with Don Boxley, CEO and co-founder of DH2I, about the technology and market forces shaping channel opportunity in 2026. AI infrastructure…