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Hadrian Raises $40 Million to Expand AI-Powered Offensive Security

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  Hadrian has raised $40 million in a funding round to accelerate the development of its agentic AI offensive security platform and expand its presence across the U.S. and EMEA. The funding will support engineering, research, and international growth as organizations face increasingly sophisticated AI-driven threats. Hadrian is positioning its AI offensive security platform to help security teams continuously identify, validate, and remediate exploitable risks before attackers can take advantage of them. Hadrian Secures $40 Million in New Funding The Series B round was co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital, and Oetker Ventures. The latest investment brings Hadrian's total funding to $65 million. The company plans to use the capital to expand across EMEA and the United States while increasing investment in its engineering and research teams. The funding arrives as security teams...
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Zenity Named a Market Shaper in Gartner AI Application Security Quadrant

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  Zenity has been named a Market Shaper in Gartner’s inaugural Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Application Security, Startup Vendors. The recognition highlights the company’s approach to securing autonomous AI systems and strengthening AI application security across enterprise environments. Zenity is one of only two vendors placed in the Market Shapers quadrant among nearly 20 startup vendors assessed by Gartner. The recognition comes as organizations increasingly deploy AI agents that can access data, use business applications, invoke tools, and take actions with limited human intervention. These capabilities introduce security challenges that traditional application and identity controls may not fully address. Gartner Highlights Emerging AI Security Requirements Gartner’s Emerging Market Quadrant focuses on startups developing technologies for the evolving AI application security market. According to Zenity’s announcement, Gartner’s Market Shapers category recognizes vendors th...
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Druva Enhances Cyber Recovery With AI-Powered Threat Detection

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  Druva has introduced new capabilities designed to strengthen cyber recovery by using behavioral intelligence, AI, and backup data to help organizations identify threats and restore trusted systems. The company announced the updates on September 17, 2026, expanding its cyber recovery solutions with new identity resilience capabilities and Ransomware Detection. Druva Brings Behavioral Intelligence to Cyber Recovery Druva's latest capabilities focus on a key challenge organizations face after a cyberattack: determining what actually happened, how far the compromise spread, and which data and systems remain trustworthy. The company is using Dru MetaGraph to analyze relationships and behavioral changes across identities, permissions, applications, policies, and time. This information can help security teams understand suspicious activity and establish the potential impact of an attack. The new capabilities extend Druva Identity Resilience, which supports Microsoft Entra ID, Active D...
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Zscaler Launches Agentic SOC to Defend Against AI-Driven Threats

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  Zscaler has launched Zscaler Agentic SOC , a new security operations approach designed to help organizations detect, investigate, and contain AI-driven cyber threats at machine speed. The platform combines specialized AI agents, zero trust telemetry, threat intelligence, and automated response capabilities to strengthen AI-powered threat defense and reduce the pressure on security operations teams. Zscaler Introduces an AI-First Security Operations Model AI-driven attacks are becoming faster and more adaptive, creating challenges for security teams that rely heavily on manual investigation and remediation. Zscaler says attackers are increasingly using evasive techniques, including trusted websites, legitimate remote management tools, and browser-based attacks. Zscaler Agentic SOC addresses these challenges by combining security telemetry with specialized AI agents that can analyze threats, investigate incidents, and initiate response actions. The platform is designed to move sec...
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