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This week, Outpost24 announced the acquisition of Infinipoint, a specialist in device identity, posture validation, and secure workforce access. The acquisition marks Outpost24’s entry into the Zero Trust Workforce Access market and enhances its identity security division, Specops, by laying the foundation for a unified approach that evaluates both the user and the device before access is granted. As organisations advance their Zero Trust strategies, authentication alone is no longer enough. MFA and SSO confirm who...

A new industry report by KnowBe4 suggests that organisations are facing a sharply escalating human-centred risk landscape as artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday work. The State of Human Risk 2025: The New Paradigm of Securing People in the AI Era, based on survey responses from 700 cybersecurity leaders and 3,500 employees who experienced an employee-involved incident in the past year, highlights a 90% surge in incidents linked to the human element. The findings point...

Saviynt has today announced a $700M Series B Growth Equity Financing at a valuation of approximately $3 billion. Funds managed by KKR, a leading global investment firm, led the round with participation from Sixth Street Growth and TenEleven, as well as new funding from existing Series A investor Carrick Capital Partners. The investment reflects what many in the cybersecurity sector see as an accelerating shift: as organizations deploy generative AI, autonomous agents, and machine-driven workflows,...

Salt Security used the stage at AWS re:Invent this week to unveil two major enhancements to its API Protection Platform, introducing a generative AI interface powered by Amazon Bedrock and extending its behavioural threat protection to safeguard Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers via AWS WAF. The announcements highlight the company’s growing focus on visibility, risk reduction and real-time defence in increasingly complex cloud and AI environments. On 1 December, Salt launched “Ask Pepper AI”, a...

Keeper Security has announced the appointment of Tim Strickland as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Strickland will lead Keeper’s global revenue organisation, driving go-to-market strategy, customer growth and channel expansion as demand accelerates globally for modern Privileged Access Management (PAM) and identity security solutions. Strickland brings more than two decades of executive leadership experience scaling high-performance revenue teams at category-defining SaaS companies. Most recently, he served as Chief Revenue Officer at ZoomInfo, where he guided the...

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards! The deadline for entry is the 9th January 2026. We're proud to be media supporters once again.  The 2026 event is hosted by Eskenzi PR and sponsored by Fidelity International, BT, Bridewell and Plexal - organisations that are leading the way in making the cybersecurity industry more inclusive. The 6th annual event, held at the iconic BT Tower on the 26th February...

Amelia Hewitt, Co-Founder (Director of Cyber Consulting) at Principle Defence and Founder of CybAid, and Rebecca Taylor, Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manager and Researcher at Sophos, are proud to announce the launch of the second series of The Cyber Agony Aunt Podcast (formerly Securely Yours Podcast). The new season is now available to stream on all major platforms. The Cyber Agony Aunt Podcast is an empowering series hosted by Hewitt and Taylor, two accomplished cybersecurity professionals,...

Today, APIContext, has launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server Performance Monitoring tool, a new capability that ensures AI systems respond fast enough to meet customer expectations. Given that 85% of enterprises and 78% of SMBs are now using autonomous agents, MCP has emerged as the key enabler by providing an open standard that allows AI agents access tools, like APIs, databases, and SaaS apps, through a unified interface. Yet, while MCP unlocks scale for agent...

API security organisation Salt Security has announced the latest expansion of its innovative Salt Cloud Connect capability. It extends the same agentless model customers trust for rapidly gathering API-specific info in cloud platforms, applying the same proven ease of use and 'under 10-minute' deployment to GitHub source code. While other security solutions focus on AI models and data, Salt is the first to secure the MCP servers and APIs where AI agents have a real-world...

In 2025 we’re not just fighting today’s headline-grabbing cyber threats, but we’re also preparing for tomorrow’s. Technology is evolving at a pace that is both fuelling progress for defenders and powering new tools for bad actors. The same advances that drive discovery and innovation also give cybercriminals new ways to attack faster, more broadly and with greater impact. One of the clearest examples of this dual advancement is quantum computing: a breakthrough that could change...