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Capsule Security has launched from stealth with a $7 million seed round led by Lama Partners and Forgepoint Capital International. It prevents AI agents from being manipulated, misbehaving, or silently exfiltrating data when handling sensitive information and executing workflows. Capsule is advised by security juggernauts who have put their trust in the company’s innovative approach, including Chris Krebs, the first Director of CISA; Omer Grossman, former Global CIO at CyberArk; Jim Routh, former CISO across … More → The post Capsule Security debuts with $7 million funding to secure AI agent behavior appeared first on Help Net Security.

Broadcom has announced VMware Tanzu Platform agent foundations, introducing a secure-by-default agentic runtime designed to accelerate the delivery of autonomous AI applications. By extending the trusted code-to-production simplicity of Tanzu Platform to AI agents, Broadcom is enabling enterprise developers to move beyond siloed AI experiments and into scalable, governed production on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). From experimental AI to enterprise reality As AI agents begin to handle both software execution and autonomous decision-making, they require … More → The post Broadcom introduces zero-trust runtime for scalable AI agents appeared first on Help Net Security.

Bitdefender has launched GravityZone Extended Email Security, unifying email and endpoint protection in one platform. Built for organizations and MSPs, it uses an ICES approach to deliver continuous protection against modern email threats, including phishing, BEC, ransomware, impersonation, and insider attacks. “Email threats are growing more sophisticated and effective as total business email compromise-related payments crossed the $6 billion threshold in 2024,” according to Gartner. In a global survey of 1,200 IT and security professionals, … More → The post Bitdefender extends GravityZone with continuous email threat protection appeared first on Help Net Security.

Tenable unveiled a new OT asset discovery engine that enables security teams to bring risks associated with cyber-physical systems (OT, IoT, and shadow IT) into a unified view of cyber exposure. With instant deployment and no additional IT overhead required, Tenable’s new VM-Native OT Discovery capability provides a low-friction entry point for organizations to gain comprehensive IT/OT visibility and accelerate AI-driven exposure management. According to Gartner, “Cyber and cyber-physical attacks are set to double over … More → The post Tenable unveils OT discovery engine to expose cyber-physical risks appeared first on Help Net Security.

Axonius has expanded its Asset Cloud with AI-powered remediation in Axonius Exposures, added support for IoT and OT environments via Axonius Cyber-Physical Assets, and introduced a new data trust standard with Axonius Verified Assets. “Security environments have grown more distributed, more dynamic, and more complex, and when teams can’t fully understand their environment, they simply cannot act,” said Joe Diamond, president and interim CEO of Axonius. “Findings pile up because the data isn’t trusted, ownership … More → The post Axonius updates Asset Cloud with AI, exposure management, and asset trust standard appeared first on Help Net Security.