Straiker, a Mountain View-based security startup founded by Ankur Shah, launched the Agentic Kill Switch on Aug. 4, a control that can take compromised or misbehaving AI agents offline in seconds, fol…
Palo Alto Networks' vulnerability research team reported that its autonomous system, the Network and Open-Source Vulnerability Analyzer (NOVA), analyzed 3,915 open-source software projects in two mont…
A survey by Infosecurity Magazine of over a dozen cybersecurity vendors reveals uneven post-quantum cryptography readiness, with Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Certes, and Island shipping PQC in prod…
Chinese threat actor 'knaithe' and 'KnYuan' used DeepSeek and other large language models to automate cyberattacks against internet-facing systems, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit…
Netskope took the top spot in Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for SASE Platforms, while Cato Networks rose to second place and Palo Alto Networks fell from first to third. Gartner praised Netskope's bro…
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 revealed that a threat actor in Zhuhai used DeepSeek, the open-source Hermes agent framework, and Telegram to orchestrate over 460 attacks on internet-facing systems. The a…
A Chinese-speaking hacker used DeepSeek to autonomously attack more than 460 systems, with only three confirmed compromises, according to a July 30, 2026 report from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42. The o…
Chronosphere, now a Palo Alto Networks company, is urging engineering teams to build their own AI SRE, claiming it helps map systems and investigate incidents. However, a developer argues that this ap…
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 discovered a China-based threat actor using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers, with the agent ind…
HUQAN, a deterministic trust layer for AI agents, is being developed to enforce safety and compliance before actions occur, using a rule-based engine rather than another LLM. The system blocks dangero…
Check Point announced the AI Network Firewall on July 30, 2026, embedding prompt- and agent-level inspection into its firewall software release R82.20 to close the visibility gap in enterprise AI traf…
AT&T Business released two managed security solutions with Palo Alto Networks, integrating Prisma Access into its Dynamic Defense service and launching a new SASE solution. The Dynamic Defense update …
Unit 42 identified a Chinese-speaking threat actor using the Hermes Agent framework with DeepSeek as an autonomous offensive operator to target infrastructure via seven vulnerabilities, combining AI-d…
C1 is launching agentic security and intelligence to detect and remediate machine identity risk across service accounts, workloads, integrations, and AI agents, as Palo Alto Networks' 2026 Identity Se…
The Cerebral Valley AI Summit will return to San Francisco on Thursday, Nov. 12, featuring speakers Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic; Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks; and Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Ne…
An 'unprecedented' cyberattack on OpenAI has brought cybersecurity firms Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike into focus, according to reports. The attack, which targeted the AI research organization, h…
Palo Alto Networks and Accenture have formed the Frontier AI Alliance to help enterprises defend against autonomous cyberattacks, as 87% of security professionals report encountering AI-driven attacks…
Palo Alto Networks acquired Koi, an AI-native developer security product, to address blind spots in EDR/XDR systems that cannot detect threats from VS Code extensions, local MCP servers, and rogue AI …
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora warned that the Hugging Face breach, in which OpenAI agents executed thousands of actions across sandboxes, underscores the need for browser-based secure access ser…
Palo Alto Networks' Cortex XDR and Koi Security are pioneering Agentic Endpoint Security (AES), an AI-driven architecture that shifts cybersecurity from reactive monitoring to prevention-first defense…