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Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak models

Cloudflare launches invitation-only Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation within Managed Defense, using OpenAI Daybreak models and WAF context to prioritize and patch vulnerabilities.

Cloudflare announced early access to Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, an invitation-only service within Cloudflare Managed Defense. The service uses OpenAI Daybreak models, including GPT-5.6 Cyber, via the Daybreak Defense Network to hunt and validate vulnerabilities in customer-authorized codebases across Workers and proxied applications. Findings are prioritized using production traffic, WAF rule, and security event context, and proposed patches and WAF mitigations are automatically checked before customer review.

Cloudflare Blog · 12d agoTools

Recorded Future Announces Automated Signature Creation, Accelerating Vulnerability Prioritization

Recorded Future launched Automated Signature Creation in ASI, turning new CVEs into deployable detection signatures in as little as 31 minutes.

Recorded Future announced Automated Signature Creation within its Attack Surface Intelligence product, autonomously generating production-ready detection signatures for newly surfaced vulnerabilities in as little as 31 minutes. The platform correlates an organization's internet-facing assets, live threat activity (malware, ransomware, actor intent), and vulnerability intelligence to prioritize which CVEs warrant detection. The company reports a tenfold increase in in-platform signatures and maps the capability to the four prioritization criteria in CISA's June 2026 directive on risk-based vulnerability mitigation.

Recorded Future · 12d agoToolsCVE-2025-0994

Google’s AI security agents found 100+ critical software vulnerabilities in just two days

Google Mandiant's AVDH, a chain of AI agents, found over 100 verified high-severity vulnerabilities and 12 assigned CVEs scanning code for ten months.

Google Mandiant disclosed AVDH (Agentic Vulnerability Discovery Harness), an internal pipeline of chained AI agents built on the Agent Development Kit that hunts vulnerabilities in source code. In a live investigation of stolen corporate repositories it verified more than 100 high-severity flaws in two days; over ten months it scanned tens of millions of lines of code and produced tens of thousands of findings, yielding 12 assigned CVEs including CVE-2026-13242 and CVE-2026-55803, with about a dozen more in active disclosure. Human consultants manually reproduce every confirmed finding before it counts.

Automox Mitigation Worklets cut endpoint exposure to unpatchable flaws

Automox launched an AI-speed Mitigation Worklet Pipeline that drafts and publishes mitigations for unpatchable vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure.

Automox announced its Mitigation Worklet Pipeline, which uses AI to draft mitigations for unpatchable vulnerabilities and publishes human-reviewed Worklets to its catalog within hours of disclosure. The company cites rising vulnerability volume, including a record Patch Tuesday with 973 CVEs, as motivation. Customers can search Worklets by CVE, control deployment targets, and verify execution through Activity Logs and Policy Results.

Help Net Security · 5d agoTools

OpenAI Builds ‘Defense Factory’ Where AI Agents Continuously Find and Fix Vulnerabilities

OpenAI unveils a Defense Factory where AI agents continuously discover, validate, and fix vulnerabilities, integrating GitHub, Snyk, Semgrep, Tenable, and ServiceNow.

OpenAI introduced a Defense Factory, an agent-first cybersecurity operation that connects AI agents to developer and security tools via APIs, CLIs, and Model Context Protocol integrations including GitHub, GitLab, Snyk, Semgrep, Tenable, Jira, Linear, and ServiceNow. During an internal security sprint, over 250 people across more than 100 service areas closed 53 urgent or high-priority issues on day one, achieved a 90.6% accepted ownership-assignment rate, and Codex generated all remediation patches with only 0.53% rolled back. Agent-assisted deduplication flagged 37% of findings as duplicates, and runtime validation reproduced 19.5% of findings, cutting the false-positive rate to 0.81%. OpenAI argues defenders must exploit a temporary 'defender's window' using source-code access and frontier models before open-weight models enable autonomous offensive agent fleets.

Cyber Security News · 6d agoTools

Homebrew 7.0.0 Adds Built-In Vulnerability Scanner and Stronger Package Sandboxing

Homebrew 7.0.0 ships a native brew vulns scanner, OSV-backed advisory database, stronger sandboxing, and fixes a sandbox-escape issue.

Homebrew 7.0.0 introduces a built-in 'brew vulns' command that scans installed formulae, dependencies, and Brewfiles against a new Homebrew-specific advisory database and OSV.dev data, distinguishing backported fixes from outdated versions. The release hardens sandboxing by blocking home-directory reads during builds, disabling network access at install time, and replacing Bubblewrap with Landlock on Linux. It also fixes moderate-severity GHSA-5263-whxq-77hp, where a malicious cask could execute code outside the macOS sandbox via LaunchServices, and drops macOS Catalina while moving Intel Macs to Tier 3.

Cyber Security News · 22h agoTools

Seemplicity Response Options accelerates vulnerability mitigation

Seemplicity launched Response Options, giving vulnerability teams compensating controls and targeted changes instead of waiting on full remediation cycles.

Response Options presents multiple remediation paths per vulnerability finding, including compensating controls and targeted configuration changes alongside full patches. Each option carries a Readiness Indicator showing whether it can deploy immediately or needs review, while AI Analysts pre-select a recommended option with visible reasoning. The capability is available now to all Seeplicity customers and targets shrinking the time from disclosure to exploitation.

Help Net Security · 13d agoTools

Introducing Continuous Vulnerability Assessment: Real-Time Defense for the AI Threat Era

Wiz launched Continuous Vulnerability Assessment (CVA), alerting customers to exposure against newly published vulnerabilities in real time.

Wiz introduced Continuous Vulnerability Assessment, a capability that detects exposure to newly published vulnerabilities the moment they are disclosed. The company positions CVA as real-time defense for the AI threat era, reducing the window between disclosure and remediation decisions. The item is a vendor product announcement with no incident details.

Wiz Blog · 15d agoTools

Homebrew 7.0.0 gets built-in GUI, better security controls

Homebrew 7.0.0 adds a built-in vulnerability scanner (brew vulns), a Homebrew advisory database, stronger sandboxing, and the BrewUI GUI.

Homebrew 7.0.0 ships a native BrewUI graphical interface for macOS 26 Tahoe and later, plus a new 'brew vulns' command that queries OSV.dev in batch to flag vulnerabilities in installed formulae, specific packages, or Brewfile dependencies. The release also introduces a Homebrew-specific OSV-format advisory database distinguishing outstanding vulnerabilities from backported fixes. Sandbox improvements block home directory access by default and separate network-enabled dependency downloads from offline installs.

BleepingComputer · 1d agoTools1

Metasploit Wrap Up: This One Goes to Sixteen!

Metasploit adds 16 modules including 10 exploits, five covering CISA KEV vulnerabilities in Cisco, SonicWall, PaperCut, JetBrains and Langflow.

Rapid7's weekly Metasploit update ships 16 new modules, 10 of them exploit modules, with five targeting CISA KEV entries. New exploits cover Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center auth bypass (CVE-2026-20079), a SonicWall SMA1000 SSRF-to-root RCE chain (CVE-2026-83548/CVE-2026-83549), JetBrains TeamCity deserialization RCE (CVE-2026-63077), PaperCut NG/MF chain (CVE-2026-81578/CVE-2026-82078), and Langflow authenticated RCE (CVE-2026-19295). The SonicWall and PaperCut chains were reported as actively exploited zero-days, and a new ESC8 relay module exploits CVE-2026-20929 against AD CS Web Enrollment.

Rapid7 Blog · 4d agoTools in the wildCVE-2025-66516CVE-2025-54988CVE-2026-20929+8 CVEs1

Microsoft Defender's Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot

Check Point revealed BTR Reforged, a technique weaponizing Microsoft Defender's built-in BTR.sys driver to delete security software at boot without exploiting any vulnerability.

Check Point Research disclosed BTR Reforged, a technique that abuses BTR.sys, a legitimately signed Windows Defender boot-time remediation driver, to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows 7 through Windows 11 25H2 without exploiting a software flaw. The BTR_CLI proof-of-concept tool, presented at Black Hat USA 2026 and DEF CON 34, installs the driver via direct registry writes and executes deletions during the boot-time 'golden window' before Defender's user-mode services start, demonstrated by deleting the full Defender stack on a patched Windows 11 machine. Exploitation requires SeLoadDriverPrivilege; Microsoft confirmed it does not meet criteria for immediate servicing and no patch is planned. No evidence of real-world abuse was found, and related indicators of compromise via Sysmon events were published.

The Hacker News · 25d agoToolsCVE-2021-240921

Nozomi Compass helps industrial teams manage OT assets and vulnerabilities

Nozomi Networks launched Compass, an OT asset and vulnerability management platform unifying asset records, remediation workflows, and compliance evidence for industrial teams.

Nozomi Networks announced Compass, an OT asset and service management platform built on real-time first-party asset data from its Vantage cyber-physical security platform. It provides OT-native workflows, governed change approvals, consequence-based risk scoring, and continuous audit-ready compliance evidence mapped to NERC CIP, IEC 62443, NIS2, and TSA. The platform integrates with EAM, CMDB, ITAM, ITSM, SIEM, and SOAR tools and is designed to safely support AI-driven and agentic OT workflows with human oversight.

Help Net Security · 2h agoTools

Top 10 Best AWS Security Tools in 2026

Editorial roundup ranking the ten best AWS security tools of 2026, from native GuardDuty and Security Hub to CNAPPs like Wiz and Prisma Cloud.

The article recommends enabling AWS-native services first: GuardDuty for threat detection, Security Hub for posture aggregation, the free IAM Access Analyzer, plus CloudTrail logging and Config rules. It then reviews third-party platforms including Wiz, Palo Alto Prisma Cloud, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Trend Micro Cloud One, and Orca Security. It is an editorial vendor assessment with pricing described by model only, highlighting cross-account correlation and attack-path prioritization as third-party differentiators.

Cyber Security News · 2h agoTools

DeepZero: Open-source hunting for vulnerable Windows drivers

DeepZero, a new open-source engine, automates discovery of exploitable Windows kernel drivers for BYOVD attacks using Ghidra, Semgrep, and an LLM.

DeepZero is a free, open-source Python pipeline orchestrator that automates hunting for exploitable Windows kernel drivers relevant to BYOVD (bring your own vulnerable driver) attacks. Its seven-stage YAML pipeline parses PE headers, filters for kernel-mode drivers with IOCTL surfaces, excludes drivers listed on loldrivers.io, then runs headless Ghidra decompilation, Semgrep scanning, and an LLM-based exploitability assessment. The maintainer reports multiple verified vulnerabilities in the Snappy Driver Installer corpus, some still in the disclosure process, and notes findings involving plug-and-play-created device objects may need physical hardware to confirm.

Help Net Security · 7h agoTools

Securin Platform helps security teams prove when attack paths are closed

Securin launches the AI-native Securin Platform unifying exposure management, attack surface discovery, offensive validation and remediation to prove attack paths are closed.

Securin announced general availability of the Securin Platform, an AI-native preemptive exposure management product combining attack surface discovery, vulnerability and threat intelligence, prioritization, offensive validation and remediation verification in one workflow. It includes modules Surface, Signals, Exposure, Validate and Assure, orchestrated by the VERA multi-agent AI framework, and aims to verify whether real attack paths are closed rather than ranking findings by severity alone.

Help Net Security · 7d agoTools

Claude Mythos 5 is coming to Tenable One, powering the new “Adversary View”

Tenable will integrate Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 into Tenable One, launching Adversary View to surface exploitable vulnerability chains from scan data.

Tenable announced it is bringing Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 into the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, extending its Project Glasswing research work with Anthropic. The first capability, Tenable One Adversary View, will use the model's adversarial reasoning over raw scanner evidence, plugin output, live connections and low-confidence signals to identify viable vulnerability chains and ranked defensive actions. Customers will act on results through Tenable Hexa AI. Availability details for Adversary View are expected in the coming weeks; no customer deployment exists yet.

Tenable Blog · 7d agoTools1

Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises

Google launches the Fairwind Program giving governments and enterprises access to Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and CodeMender for autonomous vulnerability discovery and patching.

Google announced the Fairwind Program, a limited-access offering bringing its cyber defense capabilities to government agencies, critical infrastructure operators, and trusted partners, with more than 650 participating organizations. It combines the Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber model with the CodeMender harness to autonomously find, verify, and fix vulnerabilities, generating deployment-ready patches in minutes inside customers' cloud environments. Google also raised its total cybersecurity funding commitment above $100 million, including $36 million granted to 35 US cyber clinics supporting hospitals, school districts, and municipal utilities.

Google · AI · 13d agoTools

FlyWP Adds Proactive Vulnerability Protection with Patchstack

FlyWP integrated Patchstack into its managed WordPress hosting platform via a new FlySecurity Pro add-on for proactive vulnerability protection.

FlyWP, a managed WordPress cloud hosting and server management provider, has integrated Patchstack vulnerability intelligence into its platform. The new FlySecurity Pro add-on gives customers proactive protection against WordPress vulnerabilities from a single dashboard. The announcement is a vendor partnership rather than a new flaw or incident.

Patchstack · 29d agoTools1

Threat Matrix: Mapping threats across cloud web applications

Microsoft released a Cloud Web Applications Threat Matrix, a MITRE ATT&CK-aligned framework mapping threats to cloud-hosted web apps and serverless platforms.

Microsoft introduced the cloud web applications threat matrix, which organizes attack techniques for cloud-hosted web apps and serverless platforms using MITRE ATT&CK tactics, from resource development through impact. The framework covers attack paths spanning application code, managed runtimes, workload identities, and deployment pipelines, cataloging techniques such as subdomain takeover, code injection in connected repositories, compromised registry images, exposed admin interfaces, and serverless trigger injection. It builds on Microsoft's earlier Kubernetes and storage services matrices to help defenders identify visibility gaps, prioritize hardening, and plan investigations in cloud-native environments.

Microsoft Security Blog · 6d agoTools

Top 10 Best Container Security Tools in 2026

2026 roundup ranks Aqua, Sysdig, Prisma Cloud, Wiz, Snyk and CrowdStrike among the ten best container security tools across build-ship-run.

Buyer's guide compares ten container security products by lifecycle fit: Aqua leads full lifecycle, Sysdig leads runtime detection via Falco and eBPF, Wiz offers agentless graph visibility, Snyk covers developer-first shift-left. It notes Trivy and Falco as free production-grade open-source foundations. The guide argues standalone container security is increasingly absorbed into CNAPP platforms from Palo Alto, Wiz and CrowdStrike.

Cyber Security News · 1d agoTools1

CBTS brings continuous penetration testing to enterprise security

CBTS launched Penetration Testing as a Service built on Horizon3.ai's NodeZero, combining autonomous pentesting with expert review for continuous validation.

CBTS announced PTaaS, a service that runs recurring autonomous penetration tests powered by Horizon3.ai's NodeZero across cloud, SaaS, identity, and AI environments, with CBTS experts reviewing findings for exploitability and remediation guidance. The service supports daily-to-quarterly cadences and aims to support Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) programs. It cites Verizon's 2026 DBIR finding that re-exploitation likelihood drops roughly 30 days after last observed exploitation.

Help Net Security · Aug 12, 2026Tools

Security Data Isn’t the Problem. Security Context Is.

Horizon3 blog argues security context, not data volume, is the SOC bottleneck, promoting its NodeZero integration with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.

Horizon3.ai published a vendor blog explaining how its NodeZero Proactive Security Platform integration with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM brings validated exposure findings into existing security operations workflows. The post argues SOCs are now limited by confidence rather than visibility, needing context to decide which issues matter. It cites a global chemical manufacturer that validated exploitable exposures with NodeZero before completing a $2 billion merger.

Horizon3.ai · 23h agoTools

BugBase Pentest Copilot Enterprise automates black-box pentesting

BugBase launched Pentest Copilot Enterprise, an autonomous AI black-box pentesting platform using parallel agents to attack 100 vulnerability classes with validated PoCs.

BugBase announced Pentest Copilot Enterprise, which performs black-box red teaming without source-code access while maintaining authenticated context. Parallel specialized agents map pages, APIs, accounts and business functions, then execute iterative attacks across 100 vulnerability types including authentication, injection and business-logic flaws. The tool uses real Chromium browsers to preserve cookies, tokens, CSRF state and multiple identities, and navigates WAFs, bot detection, CAPTCHA and T-OTP. BugBase claims full scope coverage on OWASP Juice Shop, Broken Crystals and GOAD, NHA, and DRACARYS Active Directory labs.

Help Net Security · 12d agoTools

Honeypot-Omaha and batch.py [Guest Diary], (Wed, Sep 2nd)

A SANS ISC guest diary describes batch.py, a Python tool that consolidates honeypot logs and enriches IOCs with threat intelligence data.

Written by a SANS.edu BACS intern, the diary explains analysis of the DShield Honeypot-Omaha sensor, which uses Cowrie to emulate SSH and Telnet and log attacker activity. The author's batch.py script implements a four-phase pipeline with SHA-256-generated master and guest authentication to consolidate JSON and log files, correlate data via external APIs, and produce MITRE, CVE, geolocation, threat-score and fingerprint enrichment for investigated indicators.

SANS Internet Storm Center · 13d agoTools1

Can AI make threat intelligence easier? One platform thinks so

Feedly positions its AI-driven Threat Intelligence platform to cut CTI collection time, scanning 10,000+ sources with 1,000 AI models and reporting 70% time savings.

A profile of Feedly Threat Intelligence describes how CTI teams such as RH-ISAC reduced threat data collection from 10 hours weekly to 2-3 hours after adoption. The platform scans over 10,000 open web sources using 1,000 AI models to extract TTPs, CVEs and IoCs into a real-time Threat Graph queryable via an Ask AI LLM with source citations. Customers including GreyNoise, Sopra Steria, gematik and GISA reported measurable gains such as 20 hours saved daily and earlier vulnerability flagging than CISA 65% of the time. The product integrates with Anomali ThreatStream, Cortex XSOAR, Microsoft Sentinel and OpenCTI, plus a REST API and GitHub scripts.

Help Net Security · 23d agoTools

Wazuh and AI For Enhanced SOC Workflows

Wazuh details AI-powered SOC workflows via its AI Analyst, self-hosted Llama 3 via Ollama, and Claude 3.5 Haiku integrations.

Wazuh outlines how AI can augment SOC analysts handling high alert volumes. The Wazuh AI Analyst on Wazuh Cloud uses Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic Claude to generate scheduled security posture reports. Self-hosted options include Llama 3 with Ollama, FAISS, and LangChain for privacy-sensitive threat hunting, plus an OpenSearch Assistant integration with Claude 3.5 Haiku. This is a vendor-contributed piece describing product capabilities rather than an incident or vulnerability.

The Hacker News · 26d agoTools

WordPress Adds Automated Plugin Reviews to Block High-Risk Updates Before Distribution

WordPress will automatically scan every plugin release and block high-risk updates from distribution using AI analysis plus Jetpack Scan.

WordPress announced automated security reviews for every plugin release during its cooldown period before distribution through the WordPress.org update API, combining AI models with Jetpack Scan into a security score. The system already caught a backdoor committed to a plugin with about 20,000 active installations on July 28, 2026, blocking it within 26 minutes of a Wordfence alert. Flagged patterns include missing capability checks, unsafe $wpdb queries, unserialize() on request data, and obfuscated code.

The Hacker News · 1d agoTools

SpiderSilk Hunts External Threats With AI-Based Scanner

Dubai-based startup SpiderSilk offers an AI-based scanner that surveys billions of IP addresses to find exposed assets, leaked data, and zero-day vulnerabilities.

SpiderSilk, a threat detection startup based in Dubai, uses artificial intelligence tools to scan billions of IP addresses. The scanner identifies exposed assets, leaked data, and zero-day vulnerabilities from an external perspective. The approach targets external attack surface discovery for defenders.

Dark Reading · 4d agoTools

WordPress Blocks High-Risk Plugin Releases With New AI-Powered Automated Security Review

WordPress.org now runs AI-powered automated security reviews on every plugin release, automatically blocking high-risk updates before distribution to millions of sites.

WordPress launched an automated security review that combines multiple AI models and Jetpack Scan during a six-hour cooldown to score each plugin release; updates above the blocking threshold are automatically held back from the WordPress.org update API. The change follows a July 28 incident where a backdoor added to a plugin with roughly 20,000 active installations was detected during cooldown and never delivered; the Plugins Team removed it 26 minutes after a Wordfence notification. Blocked developers receive an email with findings and are advised to publish a corrected version rather than await manual appeal.

GBHackersupdated · 4d agofirst · 5d agoTools 7 sources1

F5 speeds up virtual patching to counter AI-driven threats

F5 added anomaly detection and agentic threat intelligence to its AI-powered WAF, enabling virtual patch enforcement against exploits within minutes.

F5 announced enhancements to F5 WAF for Distributed Cloud, adding anomaly detection that builds per-application traffic baselines and agentic threat intelligence built on technology from the Fletch acquisition. The AI-powered WAF scores each request in real time with a neural network risk engine, and internal testing claims 98% threat detection efficacy with false positives reduced to 1%. Automated virtual patching via Distributed Cloud Web App Scanning extends to F5 WAF for BIG-IP, letting teams block actively exploited vulnerabilities at the request level in minutes; agentic features are rolling out over coming months.

Help Net Security · 14d agoTools

Exclusive: Linux Foundation's Akrites to Go Live in September

The Linux Foundation's Akrites initiative will go live in September, accepting AI-powered vulnerability reports for open-source projects.

The Linux Foundation's Akrites initiative will become operational in September 2026, when it begins accepting AI-powered vulnerability reports for open-source projects. The launch was exclusively reported by Infosecurity Magazine. The program is aimed at handling vulnerability disclosures across the foundation's open-source ecosystem using AI capabilities.

Infosecurity Magazine · 27d agoTools

Searchlight Cyber combines exposure and threat intelligence in new PTEM platform

Searchlight Cyber launched its PTEM platform, merging exposure management from Assetnote with dark web threat intelligence to prioritize likely-exploited exposures.

Searchlight Cyber launched its Preemptive Threat Exposure Management (PTEM) platform, unifying Searchlight Exposure (formerly Assetnote) with Searchlight Threat, which consolidates the Cerberus investigations platform and DarkIQ dark web monitoring. The platform pairs continuous attack surface discovery and exploitability validation with attacker intelligence from the open, deep and dark web to help teams prioritize the exposures most likely to be exploited. The launch follows the 2025 Assetnote acquisition and a new corporate identity, and cites a Gartner forecast that preemptive security will reach 50% of IT security spending by 2030.

Help Net Security · Aug 13, 2026Tools

12 Best Enterprise Browsers Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

2026 comparison of twelve enterprise browsers ranks Island and Palo Alto Talon as purpose-built leaders, with Chrome Enterprise and Edge free or bundled.

Guide compares twelve enterprise browser options across three models: purpose-built secure browsers (Island, Talon, Surf), layered controls on existing browsers (Chrome Enterprise, Edge for Business, LayerX, Seraphic), and streamed/isolated browsers (Kasm). Island and Palo Alto's Prisma Access Browser lead the purpose-built category for BYOD and contractor DLP. It also notes Mammoth Cyber has ceased operations.

GBHackers · 1d agoTools

Bitsight connects threat intelligence and exposure monitoring across the supply chain

Bitsight made Beacon generally available, combining supply-chain exposure monitoring with MCP support to feed threat intelligence into AI workflows.

Bitsight announced general availability of Beacon, which continuously monitors critical vendors for exposure, vulnerabilities, malicious activity, intrusion, stolen credentials and compromise. New Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic capabilities push Bitsight intelligence into AI-enabled workflows, with over 400 customers signing up for early access in one month. The company cites data that third parties now account for almost half of enterprise breaches, up over 60% year over year.

Help Net Security · 1d agoTools

New infosec products of the week: September 11, 2026

Weekly product roundup: Securin Platform GA, Orchid Security AI-agent identity controls, Akeyless Agentic Runtime Authority, and Scytale AI-powered TPRM.

Help Net Security's weekly product roundup highlights four vendor launches. Securin announced general availability of its AI-native Preemptive Exposure Management platform combining attack surface discovery, vulnerability intelligence, offensive validation and remediation. Orchid Security added identity drift detection and application-level kill switches targeting AI agents that escalate privileges via hard-coded credentials, orphaned accounts and excessive permissions. Akeyless released Agentic Runtime Authority, a real-time intent-based access control layer on top of its SecretlessAI credential protection, and Scytale launched AI-powered third-party risk management features in its Vendors module.

Help Net Security · 5d agoTools 2 sources