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Noma has announced the launch of Noma Agent Access Control, which helps security teams discover, govern, and enforce access policies for AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers throughout the enterprise. AI agents and MCP servers have proliferated across developer environments faster than existing governance frameworks were designed to handle. In less than 12 months, organizations have gone from experimenting with a handful of agents to running dozens, or even hundreds of them, each … More → The post Noma brings visibility and access governance to AI agents and MCP servers appeared first on Help Net Security.

Tuskira launched Quell, its exposure-led zero-day defense capability. Quell helps enterprises survive the window between a zero-day’s disclosure and a patch by determining which zero-days are reachable in their environment, whether existing controls would stop them, and which compensating control change would disrupt the exploit immediately. Organizations using Tuskira have cut breachable exposure by up to 99%. In one global financial services deployment, Tuskira reduced 12.3 million raw findings to 0.46% actionable risk within weeks, … More → The post Tuskira Quell identifies, mitigates, and validates zero-day risk before breach appeared first on Help Net Security.

Diligent has announced Diligent Cyber Risk Management, an agentic solution designed to help organizations manage cybersecurity risk in a business context. Available in summer 2026, the platform reduces cyber risk assessment work from weeks to hours and links cyber threats to strategic objectives, critical business processes, and board-level oversight, helping organizations prioritize security investments based on business impact. “Municipal security teams don’t have the luxury of piecing together risk from scattered scans and spreadsheets. We … More → The post Diligent automates cyber risk assessments and reporting appeared first on Help Net Security.

Cybanetix has announced the launch of its Managed AI Service to address all three aspects of AI use within the enterprise. Covering employee AI usage, AI governance, and embedded AI, the Managed AI Service combines technology from NOMA, SentinelOne, Microsoft, and Exabeam with Cybanetix consultancy, managed services, and 24/7 Security Operations Centre (SOC) monitoring. The result is a managed service for AI security within the enterprise, capable of responding to alerts in under 15 minutes. … More → The post Cybanetix unveils Managed AI Service to secure users, models, and agents appeared first on Help Net Security.

RSA has expanded its passwordless authentication capabilities to Linux environments, advancing its goal of delivering secure, password-free access for every user in every environment. Linux is ubiquitous in enterprise infrastructure, powering servers, developer workstations, and critical operational environments across industries from financial services to government. Despite its reach, Linux users have historically been underserved by passwordless solutions, often left to rely on legacy credential-based access while users elsewhere deployed modern passwordless form factors. The Linux … More → The post RSA extends passwordless authentication to Linux environments appeared first on Help Net Security.

Yubico announced its significant role in securing the AI frontier as OpenAI mandates the use of passkeys for individuals that are part of their Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program. As a leading global AI research and development company, OpenAI is setting a precedent for empowering its users to take control of their own security posture with more secure authentication options. Starting June 1, 2026, individuals in TAC with access to OpenAI’s most powerful and … More → The post OpenAI requires stronger authentication for users of its most powerful AI models appeared first on Help Net Security.

NetQuest announced an expansion of its NetworkLens enriched dataset portfolio. The new network telemetry datasets deliver detailed traffic characteristics of network management transactions, giving security teams the granular, AI-ready intelligence needed to detect threats hidden within the protocols used to manage critical network infrastructure. The effectiveness of AI-driven threat detection tools — including agentic security platforms — is only as strong as the data powering them. NetworkLens, powered by NetQuest’s Streaming Network Sensor (SNS) platform, … More → The post NetQuest expands NetworkLens to detect threats hidden in network management traffic appeared first on Help Net Security.

Secure Code Warrior has introduced Adaptive Learning, a capability designed to help organizations support AI software governance through targeted training based on identified risks. The feature delivers contextual microlearning and tracks outcomes at the code commit level. Software development is going through its biggest shift ever, from human-written code, to AI-assisted coding, to fully agentic systems with AI writing and revising everything autonomously. It is introducing code churn at an alarming rate. According to Faros’ … More → The post Secure Code Warrior connects developer training to AI usage and code risks appeared first on Help Net Security.

Insight has launched Insight Managed Exposure Defense, a managed security service designed to help organizations identify and address vulnerabilities. The service aims to help organizations reduce exposure and implement protections without lengthy procurement processes or reliance on multiple vendors. AI-assisted exploit development has compressed the weaponization window from days to hours, and most organizations lack the dedicated patch operations and infrastructure required to safely absorb updates at this extreme velocity. For mid-market organizations especially, the … More → The post Insight bundles exposure management, patch operations, and XDR into one service appeared first on Help Net Security.

depthfirst has introduced Dependency Firewall, a product that reviews every open-source package being downloaded anywhere in a company and blocks the malicious ones before they reach the person or system that requested them. Developers, AI agents, and any employee using Claude, Codex, or other AI tools keep installing exactly as they do today, and nothing dangerous makes it through. Security teams can ensure that AI is rolled out safely across the company. Modern software runs … More → The post depthfirst adds pre-install protection against malicious dependencies appeared first on Help Net Security.