Topic: security automation
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Dawnguard Launches Platform to Automate Secure Cloud Architecture
Dawnguard launched its security architecture automation platform, enabling organizations to design, build, and operate secure cloud-native systems from day zero through production, following a year of enterprise testing. The company announced a $3.3 million pre-seed funding round led by BNVT Capi...
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Reclaim Security Raises $26M to Automate Cyber Threat Fixes
Reclaim Security has secured $26 million in funding to develop an automated platform that aims to close the dangerous gap between identifying cybersecurity threats and resolving them, as enterprises currently take nearly a month to patch critical vulnerabilities. The company's core offering is an...
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Secure Your AI with Allama: Open-Source Automation
Allama is an open-source security automation platform that uses visual workflows to integrate with over 80 tools, including SIEMs and ticketing systems, for unified threat detection and response. Its core strength lies in AI-powered agents that analyze threats, enable automated actions like conta...
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Trellix Helix Hyperautomation Streamlines SOC Operations
Trellix has integrated Hyperautomation into its Helix platform, featuring a no-code, drag-and-drop workflow builder to automate security processes and boost operational efficiency. The rise of AI-powered threats is increasing pressure on security teams, with over one-third of CISOs seeking enhanc...
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2026: The Dawn of Governed AI in Cybersecurity
While the global average cost of a data breach fell to $4.44 million in 2025, a significant gap emerged, with organizations using extensive AI and automation reporting costs nearly $1.9 million lower than those relying on manual processes. The widespread adoption of AI introduces new risks, as ev...
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Joinable Labs launches AI threat intelligence security suite
Joinable Labs launched Joinable Security with two offerings: Joinable Threat Map (a free tool mapping adversary behavior to the MITRE ATT&CK framework) and Joinable Runbooks (an enterprise solution converting response documentation into governed knowledge and actionable agents). Both products are...
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Escape Secures $18M to Scale AI-Powered Security Automation
Escape raised $18 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-driven platform, which autonomously hunts for vulnerabilities in live production systems, a critical gap left by traditional pre-deployment security tools. The platform uses continuous AI agents to automate the security lifecycle, rep...
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SecureClaw: Open-Source Dual-Stack Security for OpenClaw
SecureClaw is an open-source security tool that provides comprehensive auditing and rule-based controls for OpenClaw AI agent environments, addressing a fragmented security landscape. Its unique two-component architecture combines a plugin for automated configuration auditing and a skill for real...
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Konvu Wins Cyber Startup Award for Vulnerability Management Innovation
Konvu, an AI-native vulnerability triage platform, won the first-ever Infosecurity Europe Cyber Startup competition at Infosecurity Europe 2026, beating four other finalists. The platform automates vulnerability investigation by integrating with existing scanners and running agent-driven checks t...
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AI Can't Keep Up: Security Jobs Are Booming
Board-level engagement with security teams has increased, integrating them into strategic business discussions on resilience and risk, but this comes with heightened pressure to demonstrate value through clear metrics. Security professionals face operational strain from manual, repetitive tasks, ...
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Stellar Cyber Enhances SOC with Agentic AI Automation
Stellar Cyber's 6.3 update embeds "agentic AI automation" to automate the full threat lifecycle, aiming to reduce analyst workload and improve response times across security environments. The release integrates the "Model Context Protocol (MCP)" for third-party tools and features like **AI-ge...
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Escape Secures $18M to Automate Penetration Testing with AI
Escape secured $18 million in Series A funding to address the security risks of applications built by non-developers using AI-powered platforms, highlighting a critical market need. The company uses an "offensive security engineering" approach, deploying AI agents to actively mimic hacker attacks...
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Keepnet's AI Agents Revolutionize Email Threat Containment
Traditional email security is insufficient against modern, socially-engineered threats that bypass gateways, creating a slow, manual response bottleneck in security operations. Keepnet introduces an AI-driven incident response layer that uses autonomous agents to analyze, decide, and act on repor...
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Belgian Cybersecurity Startup Aikido Reaches Unicorn Status
Aikido Security, a Belgian cybersecurity startup founded in 2022, has achieved a $1 billion valuation after a $60 million Series B funding round, marking the fastest rise to unicorn status for a European cybersecurity company. The company's success is built on a developer-first platform that inte...
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Illumio's AI Agent Slashes Alert Fatigue, Speeds Threat Response
Illumio's Insights Agent tackles alert fatigue by providing real-time, tailored alerts and one-click remediation recommendations, helping security teams prioritize and neutralize threats efficiently. The system delivers persona-based AI guidance, offering role-specific risk assessments and action...
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Patch Cycles Can't Keep Up With Faster Exploits
The time between discovering a software vulnerability and its weaponization into an exploit has collapsed, now averaging under 20 hours, due to the rapid advancement of offensive artificial intelligence (AI). This creates a dangerous asymmetry, as AI lowers the cost and skill barrier for attacker...
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The CISO's New Reality: Security at AI Speed
The modern CISO must govern a new "agentic workforce" where AI agents operate autonomously, fundamentally shifting accountability as leaders remain answerable for all outcomes, including inaction. Security strategy now requires making "intentional, time-bound risk trade-offs", such as pivotin...
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Defenders in Meetings, Attackers at Machine Speed
The cybersecurity threat landscape is intensifying, but a significant and widening gap exists between the level of threat activity and organizations' defensive preparedness, particularly for sophisticated attacks. Adversaries are leveraging artificial intelligence more rapidly than defenders, usi...
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Top Cybersecurity Open-Source Tools: November 2025
Open-source cybersecurity tools are increasingly popular for providing robust, budget-friendly defense capabilities, including vulnerability scanning and threat hunting. Specific tools like Heisenberg, VulnRisk, and sqlmap offer targeted solutions for software supply chain health checks, context-...
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Illumio's AI Agent Automates Threat Detection and Containment
Illumio's Insights Agent is an AI-driven tool that provides real-time threat detection and one-click containment to help security teams respond faster and reduce alert fatigue. The Agent uses role-aware intelligence to deliver personalized threat insights and automated remediation steps, tailored...
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