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Top 10 Best Patch Management Software in 2026
Roundup ranks 2026 patch management software, favoring Automox, Action1's free tier and Tanium, and warns buyers to vet patching platform security.
This buyer's guide ranks ten patch management tools for 2026, placing Automox first for cloud-native patching, Action1 for a genuinely free small-estate tier and Tanium for patching hundreds of thousands of endpoints. It contextualizes the category with the 2021 Kaseya VSA ransomware supply-chain incident and the 2020 SolarWinds Orion compromise, arguing the security of the patching platform itself must be part of evaluation. It also notes Ivanti products have repeatedly appeared in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
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50% of CISOs see Mythos as a sign to exit the profession
Survey of 1,001 US and UK CISOs finds 50% consider leaving the profession amid AI-driven pressure, personal liability concerns and burnout.
A survey of 1,001 CISOs in the US and UK found 50% say Anthropic's Mythos and similar cyber-capable AI models have made them consider exiting the profession, while 60% say board pressure to adopt AI is outpacing their governance capability. Average CISO tenure is cited at 18 months, and 78% worry about personal liability for security incidents, up from 56% a year earlier. Executives from BlackBerry, Databricks and IDC discuss D&O insurance, agentic security operations and phased low-risk AI adoption as partial responses.
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Exein Secures $270M at $1.7B Valuation for Physical AI Security
IoT security firm Exein raised $270 million at a $1.7 billion valuation to expand runtime protection and physical AI security agents.
Italy-based IoT security startup Exein announced a $270 million oversubscribed round led by Headline, bringing total funding above $600 million and valuing the company at $1.7 billion. Exein builds embedded and kernel-level runtime protection for IoT devices and is developing a proprietary foundation model for physical AI security powering autonomous defense agents. The funding will accelerate expansion, particularly into the US market.
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