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42Crunch, the pioneer in DevSecOps for API security, announced that its freely available API security testing tools for developers—integrated directly into popular IDEs including VS Code, JetBrains, and Eclipse—has surpassed the 2 million downloads worldwide. This milestone reflects the accelerating demand from CISOs for enterprises to adopt a proactive approach to API security. As AI workloads multiply and organizations rely more heavily on automated systems that consume vast numbe...

SoSafe, Europe's pioneer in security awareness training and human risk management, announced the appointment of Daniel Farkas as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) effective immediately and Peter Grausgruber as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective 1 January 2026. The new hires join the executive leadership team as the company enters its next phase of growth and scale. As CRO, Daniel Farkas will lead all revenue-generating functions, including sales, partnerships, marketing, and customer succes...

Zimperium, the global pioneer in mobile security, revealed findings from its zLabs team showing that thousands of popular Android applications — including top travel, airline, and weather apps — are still using an outdated mapping component that could put users and enterprises at risk. The investigation, titled “Follow the Map to Enterprise Risk: What’s Inside Popular Android Apps,” found that a legacy library known as libmapbox-gl.so, once part of Mapbox GL Native...

Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), a pioneering specialist insurer, announces the appointment of Cesar Silvestre as Head of Cyber Reinsurance Solutions, reporting to Laila Khudairi, Head of Cyber & Enterprise Risk. He takes up his new role with immediate effect and will lead the launch of TMK's new cyber reinsurance solutions offering. Silvestre brings over 12 years of specialized insurance experience to his new role. He joins from Beazley where he served as a Specialty Treaty Underwriter in the pro...

Entrust, a global pioneer in identity-centric security solutions, released its seventh annual Identity Fraud Report for 2026. The report examines global trends, tactics, and techniques used in identity fraud over the past year, providing actionable insights to help businesses protect their customers and operations. Deepfakes and injection attacks on the rise     New data reveals deepfakes account for one in five biometric fraud attempts, and instances of deepfaked selfies...

Eviden, the Atos Group product brand pioneering in advanced computing, announces the rankings of its 58 Eviden-built systems in the TOP500 and Green500, official listings of the world’s most powerful and most energy-efficient supercomputers. Amongst the 58 Eviden-built systems listed in the TOP500, JUPITER, through its Booster partition, remains the 4th most powerful supercomputer in the world and Europe’s 1st, marking a historic milestone as Europe’s first system to officiall...

As agentic commerce takes hold, retailers are entering a new phase of automation, where AI agents act on behalf of real users to browse, compare, and buy. But these same capabilities can be weaponized by fraudsters. This Black Friday, the challenge isn’t stopping bots; it’s distinguishing between legitimate agent-driven interactions and malicious automation designed to mimic them. Identity amid rising automation That distinction matters most at the account layer, where retailers m...

Eviden, the Atos Group product brand pioneering in advanced computing, and AMD announced their selection to build Alice Recoque, a next-generation supercomputer to support the need for scientific computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), serving as an AI Factory. Alice Recoque will be France’s first and Europe’s second Exascale supercomputer, a machine to expand Europe’s AI and research capabilities while ensuring energy efficiency and sovereignty. This project, led b...

FireMon, the pioneering network security and firewall policy management company, detailed expanded support for Zero Trust microsegmentation across hybrid environments, including a deeper integration with Illumio and continued coverage for VMware NSX and Zscaler. By normalizing, analyzing, and continuously validating segmentation intent across network, virtual, and host enforcement points, FireMon helps security teams operationalize Zero Trust at enterprise scale. Firewall governance...

Claroty, the cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection company, launched The CPS Library across its market-pioneering Claroty xDome and Claroty Continuous Threat Detection (CTD) solutions. The CPS Library is the industry’s only asset catalog that reaches new depths of visibility and enables precise and deterministic traceability for vulnerability attribution. To build the AI-powered, first-of-its-kind repository, Claroty partnered with automation vendors and medical device manufacturers, i...

Cyber threats against the Office for Budget Responsibility have over doubled in the past 12 months, ahead of Rachel Reeves’ crunch Autumn Budget. On November 26th, Reeves is set to announce a wave of economic policies to fight against the high cost of borrowing in the UK, with hints of income tax and inheritance tax hikes on the horizon.  The Office for Budget Responsibility provides an independent analysis of the UK’s public finances, from which the Chancellor of the Exchequ...

Immersive, the pioneer in cyber resilience, is revealing a widening gap between confidence and capability in cybersecurity. Despite record investment, heightened board oversight, and nonstop training, measurable readiness has flatlined. While nearly every organization believes it can handle a major incident, the data tells a different story. According to Immersive’s analysis, average decision accuracy is just 22%, and the average containment time is 29 hours. Meanwhile, Resilience Scores...

A Russian telecom company that develops technology to allow phone and internet companies to conduct web surveillance and censorship was hacked, had its website defaced, and had data stolen from its servers, TechCrunch has learned. Founded in Russia, Protei makes telecommunications systems for phone and internet providers across dozens of countries, including Bahrain, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Pakistan and much of central Africa. The company, now headquartered in Jordan, sells video conferencin...

EclecticIQ, a global pioneer in cyber threat intelligence technology, announced the appointment of Andrew Milne as Chief Marketing Officer and Steve Armstrong as Chief Revenue Officer. The leadership expansion comes as EclecticIQ enters its next phase of growth, building the go-to-market capabilities required for further global scale in the rapidly evolving threat intelligence market. As CMO, Milne will oversee marketing and sales development with three strategic imperatives: establishing Eclec...

iDenfy, a RegTech provider of identity verification and fraud prevention solutions, announced its latest software solution that connects to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) data source into its Know Your Customer (KYC) verification platform. Combined with other KYC tools, such as an additional license check option, companies will now have a new workflow option that instantly verifies any U.S. citizen's driver’s license faster. This will help ensure a higher...

Expanding their sales operation to cover North America, barox Kommunikation GmbH, the Swiss manufacturer of video security networking L2/L3 switches, media converters, IP extenders, and network management software has appointed Reinhard Florin to the role of Vice President of North America Sales. In this new role, Reinhard will be leading the development and execution of barox’s go-to-market strategy as well as head a team of sales and technical support professionals. Through this appoint...

Zimperium, the global pioneer in mobile security, released new research from its zLabs team revealing a sharp rise in mobile threats tied to the holiday shopping season. The Mobile Shopping Report: From Carts to Credentials highlights how cybercriminals are exploiting the seasonal surge in e-commerce and mobile app activity to target both consumers and enterprises. According to zLabs’ analysis, mishing (mobile phishing) remains the most widespread and effective mobile attack vector. Smis...

DigiCert, a global pioneer in intelligent trust, and Citrix, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, Inc., have announced an integration that automates the entire lifecycle of SSL/TLS certificates, from issuance to renewal. This collaboration pairs DigiCert’s capabilities with Citrix NetScaler’s Zero-Touch Certificate Management (ZTCM) and ACME protocol integration, empowering enterprises to maintain continuous security and compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Th...

Digital workplace solutions and managed services pioneer Espria returns in December with another Optimise IT exhibition, pioneering the discussion on how IT solutions can best work together to provide the ultimate support for businesses and end-user experience.  Post-COVID, Espria hosted a series of Optimise IT webinar discussions, covering themes such as business peace of mind, business readiness and AI integrations for workplace teams. These discussions have featured key spokespeople fro...

Clue Software, the major provider of investigation and intelligence management software, announced the latest evolution in its AI tool suite. Built for intelligence and investigation professionals, Clue’s Assisted AI combines compliance, accuracy, and evidential integrity with human-in-the-loop design to enhance - not replace - expert judgment. Building on Clue’s existing AI capabilities, the new tools help teams assess, prioritize, and act with greater confidence and efficiency. A...

In the face of escalating cyber threats, building a resilient organization is no longer just an IT issue—it's a core business strategy. The ability to protect critical data and recover quickly after an attack is what defines success and ensures business continuity. This is particularly important as 79% of organizations are concerned that they will experience a disruptive event in the next twelve months. Dell Technologies is committed to helping users build that resilience. With the PowerP...

Genetec Inc. the global pioneer in enterprise physical security software, highlighted the critical need for IT managers to integrate physical security strategies into their overall security frameworks. As cyber and physical threats increasingly converge, the boundaries between digital and physical risk are blurring, making it essential for Middle East businesses to protect not only their data but also the environments where that data resides. With organizations in the region facing increasingl...

Rapid7, a pioneer in threat detection and exposure management, has released its Q3 2025 Threat Landscape Report, revealing how threat actors are accelerating the race between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation, consolidating ransomware power structures, and increasingly weaponizing artificial intelligence to evade detection. The report draws from Rapid7’s Intelligence Hub, AttackerKB, incident response, and managed detection and response (MDR) telemetry, offering data-driven insigh...

Cyware, the pioneer in AI-powered threat intelligence management, secure threat sharing and collaboration, as well as hyper-orchestration and security automation, announced the launch of a new Cyware Quarterback AI solution delivering an AI Fabric to uniquely address security use cases. Cyware Quarterback AI was initially launched as a Co-pilot chat assistant in March 2024. Since that first release the AI market has evolved significantly and Cyware’s AI strategy and innovation h...

AuditBoard, the pioneering AI-powered global platform for connected risk, announced the findings of its 2026 Focus on the Future report, revealing the internal audit profession is navigating an environment of hyper volatility defined by accelerating, interconnected risks. The survey of 213 global internal audit pioneers shows the profession is being challenged by three converging forces: persistently tight resources, the rise of AI, and a demand for role redefinition. Overcome r...

SecurityBridge, creator of the Cybersecurity Command Center for SAP, announced that the SecurityBridge Threat Research Labs uncovered a critical SAP vulnerability rated a 9.9 out of 10 severity, and gave its customers advanced notice on October 30, 2025, to update detection signatures before the vulnerability was publicly disclosed. In total, the Threat Research Labs uncovered three vulnerabilities that were among the 25 new and updated SAP Security Notes SAP published for its November Patch Da...

The Infinigate Group, the pioneering technology platform and trusted advisor in Cybersecurity, Cloud & Network Infrastructure, is appointing Peter Meier as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Peter Meier brings long-standing experience as CFO and Management Board member of global technology companies, where he successfully led operational business transformation. Meier's considerable achievements Meier's considerable achievements include his...

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Atlanta, Teleport, the pioneer in Infrastructure Identity, announced expanded support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) within its Identity Security product. The new integration provides organizations with unprecedented visibility into Amazon EKS cluster activity, enabling teams to identify shadow access, privilege escalation, and identity-based risks across their managed Kubernetes environments. Teleport’s enhanced EKS support debuts at&nbs...

Those who’ve worked on railway security projects know that procuring a video surveillance system is not just about buying equipment — it’s about ensuring accountability, compliance, and system longevity. Take a common case: cameras installed before monsoon begin failing within months due to ingress and temperature stress. A security lapse follows, and multiple departments are drawn into scrutiny — S&T for specifications, procurement for documentation, and finance for...

The international cybersecurity and medical imaging IT company Sectra announces the launch of Sectra Tiger/E Managed Service—a sovereign, fully managed collaboration platform designed to meet the evolving needs of authorities, municipalities, essential entities, and corporations. The new solution enables secure, scalable, and easy-to-use mobile communication for sensitive but unclassified information. It supports calls, video, and chat with strong encryption, provides endpoint security, a...