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Salt Security has unveiled its “12 Months of Innovation” recap, a holiday-inspired look at the company’s product, partnership, and research momentum across 2025. As organisations raced to adopt AI agents, MCP servers and cloud-native architectures, Salt delivered an unmatched innovation “gift” to the industry almost every month, helping security teams keep pace with an expanding API attack surface. From discovering zombie APIs and blind spots across the API fabric to securing AI agents and protecting...

In today's world, it can be hard for awareness training to keep up with the modern threats that are constantly emerging. Today, KnowBe4 has announced a new custom deepfake training experience to counteract the risk of 'deepfake' attacks as they continue to rise. The experience, which is now available, aims to help employees defend against the advanced cybersecurity threats from deepfakes such as fraudulent video conferences and AI-generated phishing attacks.  Deepfakes can be weaponised and...

Keeper Security has announced a new integration with ServiceNow® IT Service Management (ITSM) and the Security Incident Response (SIR) module. The integration allows organisations to securely ingest security alerts from across the Keeper platform directly into ServiceNow, enabling faster and more consistent investigation of incidents tied to credentials, secrets and privileged access. Stolen credentials remain one of the most common entry points for cyber attackers. According to the 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 60% of...

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,...