{"slug": "aikido-launches-noon-workforce-security-for-every-employee", "title": "Aikido launches Noon: workforce security for every employee", "summary": "Aikido launched Noon, a workforce security platform that combines AI governance, device protection, email protection, and phishing/vishing/smishing/deepfake simulations and training in one product. Aikido cited Verizon's 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report finding that humans were involved in 62% of breaches in the last year, and said 41% of social engineering breaches involved a channel other than email, with phone-based social engineering about 40% more effective than email phishing. Aikido said the proportion of employees using AI regularly on corporate devices has tripled in one year, and Noon's AI governance module shows which AI tools a team uses, keeps sensitive data out of prompts, and applies policies by team.", "body_md": "Today, Aikido launches [Noon](https://noon.security/).\n\nWe built Aikido to secure developers. But what about…everybody else?\n\nCompanies don’t just need to protect the software they build. They need to protect the people building it, too.\n\nWhile we may not like to admit it, we are the most likely breach. Yes, we, humans. And it’s most likely to happen in the most mundane way, where we least expect it. Humans were involved in 62% of breaches in the last year. So while novel AI attacks and agent sandboxes monopolize budget and oxygen in the security discussion, someone in finance is opening StaffSalaries2026.xls.exe.\n\nThe bigger threat is still that urgent email invite to the company Christmas party asking you to RSVP via the link or lose your spot.\n\nWe can’t blame humans though. Phishing has gotten good. By and large, phishing no longer looks like phishing. It’s no longer just princes asking for money with obvious typos (I, too, need 5 iTunes gift cards for my cat’s surgery within the next 2 hours!!!). Today’s attackers are AI-native. Phishing campaigns are sophisticated, multi-channel, and armed with enough context to make it virtually impossible to tell what’s real and what’s fake. You get an email or a calendar invite, followed by a text about that email, then a call from someone who sounds exactly like your CFO.\n\nForty-one percent of social engineering breaches involved a channel other than email. Why? Because it works. Phone-based social engineering is about 40% more effective than email phishing.\n\nBut impersonation is only part of it. [Employees are installing AI tools, connecting MCP servers, and giving agents access to company systems and data](https://aikido.dev/use-cases/shadow-ai). [The proportion of employees who use AI regularly on corporate devices has tripled in one year.](https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/T343/reports/2026-dbir-data-breach-investigations-report.pdf) Every new tool, package, and agent skill introduces something else to secure.\n\nProtecting your workforce now means understanding what people are installing, what their agents can do, and which tools can access company data. Alongside the inboxes, devices, and people you already needed to protect.\n\nSo there’s more to protect, and the attacks look more real. And it’s only getting worse. Much, much worse. AI makes attacks like these easier to create, personalize, and run at scale.\n\n## Which is why we built Noon\n\nNoon brings AI governance, device protection, email protection, and simulations and training into one platform, covering your team everywhere they work. It’s our answer to “what about everybody else?”\n\nWe entered workforce security because we had the same *“this needs fixing*” feeling we did when we started Aikido. Aikido started because security tools were so disruptive that developers worked around them, which defeated their purpose. We built something developers would use, and that CISOs approve. \n\nNoon is built the same way. Employees learn from the attacks they’ll face, in the tools they already use, and security teams get one platform to see across email, devices, and AI tools.\n\nWhat Noon does:\n\n- **AI governance** shows which AI tools your team uses, keeps sensitive data out of prompts, and applies policies by team.\n- [**Device protection**](https://www.aikido.dev/protect/device-protection) goes past traditional device management, protecting against[malicious packages](https://aikido.dev/blog/aikido-intel-detects-malware-vulnerabilities-first) and AI instructions, as well as risky websites and apps.\n- **Training and simulations** test people with the attacks they actually face (phishing, vishing, smishing, and deepfakes), personalized by role, behavior, and risk, with lessons through Noon and in Slack, Teams, or Google Chat.\n- **Email protection** detects and removes phishing and business email compromise attacks that find a way past native filters.\n\n## **Where Noon comes from**\n\nNoon starts with two teams already doing this work. In September, Aikido brought on Cyberly, whose team built attack simulations and AI usage visibility, and Outkept, whose team built email security and phishing awareness training. Both founding teams are building Noon with us.\n\n*“Aikido has already changed how companies secure their software. With Noon, we’re bringing that same approach to workforce security, backed by Aikido’s global reach.” - Alex Horlach, co-founder of Cyberly.*\n\n*“AI has fundamentally changed how we need to train and protect employees. What worked five years ago simply isn’t enough anymore. Joining forces with Cyberly and Aikido gives us the opportunity to rethink workforce security and bring a new generation of protection to organizations of all sizes.” - ” Simon Bauwens, co-founder of Outkept.*\n\nWelcome to Aikido, Cyberly and Outkept. \n\nThe mission? 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