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The Apollo cyber attack, following similar incidents at hedge funds including Point72, Citadel, and Millennium Management, highlights financial...

A May 2026 survey of 312 U.S. enterprise security leaders found 64% believe they hold a complete, real-time picture of identity risk. This...

Athena Agentic's August 24, 2026 acquisition of Maxxsure integrates the M-Score platform into its Unified Cyber Operations Platform, adding a full GRC...

• AI speed mismatch: Models enable 24-hour weaponization while patches take 30-90 days and enterprises average 55 days to remediate.
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German BSI's warning against fingerprint-only authentication for smartphones and banking apps, citing AI, high-res photos, and 3D printing risks,...

CISA's Logging Reference Architecture standardizes federal visibility requirements across identity, endpoint, cloud, IoT and OT environments,...

• Core move: Palo Alto Networks will acquire Embrace to add high-fidelity Real User Monitoring to its Observability platform and is launching...

Prevention alone no longer suffices as sophisticated threats and AI accelerate breaches. CISOs must now prioritize whether organizations can maintain...

U.S. Army Cyber Command trained AI agents in 45 days to fill cyber roles like analysts and red teamers, with humans retaining all risk decisions.

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Insurance carriers are driving a 28% rebound in M&A deal value to $1.6 trillion in H1 2026, with cyber and specialty underwriting emerging as prime...

The Big Data Security market offers clear tailwinds for data security investments.

• Projected growth from $27.4B in 2025 to $121.8B by 2035 at 16.09%...

Global cybersecurity spending reaches $212 billion in 2026, a 15% jump from 2025, yet cybercrime costs hit $10.5 trillion annually — a 49.5x gap.

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CISA's Logging Reference Architecture gives federal agencies an outcome-driven framework to meet OMB M-26-14 mandates for prioritized logging, visibility, and operations. Agencies must submit Agency Logging Plans by November 18, 2026.

CrowdStrike's CTO Elia Zaitsev is leaving to launch Cognition, a $170M seed/Series A fund focused on agentic AI security startups, backed by...

Munich Re's $575 million acquisition of At-Bay marks a steep reset in cyber insurance valuations, coming at roughly half its 2021 peak.

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Oversized seeds function as strategic capital to iterate in fast-moving categories like container security.

• The round funded incubation, enabling...

Enterprise cybersecurity spending remains resilient but is concentrating on identity security, cyber resilience, AI governance, and data security,...

Cribl acquired Radiant Security's AI SOC technology to deliver autonomous alert triage and investigation directly on its open telemetry platform,...

Ninety percent of security leaders report high confidence in meeting recovery objectives, yet more than 40% experienced service disruptions and only...

Diligent's task-specific AI agents automate audit prep, cyber risk assessments, and board workflows—slashing six-week manual efforts to hours—yet...