The following is an excerpt from Cisco’s FY25 Purpose Report. Explore the full report to learn more about how we Power an Inclusive Future for All. As innovation accelerates, the need for strong security, data protection, and privacy has never been more critical. In a world where nearly everything is connected and generating data, technology holds extraordinary promise to solve our greatest challenges,...Read More
TL;DR: Key Takeaways The Agentic Shift: APIs have evolved into the “Agentic Action Layer,” serving as the operational backbone for autonomous AI agents. A Massive Visibility Crisis: Nearly half of organizations (48.9%) are entirely blind to machine-to-machine traffic and cannot monitor their AI agents. The Boardroom Mandate: While 78.6% of security leaders report increased executive...Read More
The latest State of AI and API Security Report Finds Almost Half of Organizations Have Delayed AI Deployments Due to API Security Concerns; and Nearly All Attacks Now Originate from Authenticated Sources PALO ALTO, Calif., April 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Salt Security, the leading API and agentic security company, today released its 1H 2026 State...Read More
Agentic security startup Trent AI has secured a £9.7m seed round to boost its layered security solution. Trent AI is designed for engineering leaders, security teams and companies building AI agents and autonomous software systems, helping teams ship agentic systems quickly while maintaining strong security across code, infrastructure and runtime environments. The startup says as...Read More
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Identity & Access Management , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development Why CISOs Must Rethink Trust, MFA and Machine Identity Governance Information Security Media Group , Ping Identity • April 8, 2026 AI-driven phishing emails, voice deepfakes and synthetic identities have changed the threat landscape. Attackers now mimic...Read More
As AI becomes embedded across critical infrastructure and national strategies in the Gulf, organisations must rethink how they secure increasingly complex and dynamic environments. Diego Arrabal, Vice President, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Check Point Software Technologies, tells us why a prevention-first, unified security approach is essential to building trusted, scalable AI systems that...Read More
Imagine a bank that runs pre-runtime security before opening: this includes installing cameras, locking doors, and hiring and training staff and employees. This is basically the testing bit of securing an AI (artificial intelligence) model before deployment. Next, there’s runtime security, which takes place during working hours, when customers walk in and interact with tellers...Read More
SJA hears exclusively from Marshall Erwin, Chief Information Security Officer of Fastly about AI speed tax. Companies accelerating AI adoption are moving faster than they can secure themselves. Despite slower uptake in the UK than the US, adoption is picking up faster than cybersecurity strategies are evolving. At the same time, the way organisations build...Read More
United States: Anthropic on Tuesday said its yet-to-be-released artificial intelligence model called Claude Mythos has proven keenly adept at exposing software weaknesses. Mythos has laid bare thousands of vulnerabilities in commonly used applications for which no patch or fix exists, prompting the San Francisco-based AI startup to form an alliance with cybersecurity specialists to bolster...Read More
MAGNE.AI has formally declared it is collaborating with Manadia, a data settlement and AI coordination infrastructure creator that aims to facilitate secure, verifiable and privacy preserving value transfer throughout Web3 ecosystems. The partnership is an indicator of an increasing trend within the blockchain sector where infrastructure providers are coming together to address the issues of...Read More
