The Securities and Exchange Commission is moving toward an exemptive framework for tokenized securities that would allow tokenized versions of traditional stocks to trade under specific conditions. This is the federal regulatory mechanism that determines whether tokenized equities can scale legally in the US market. If the SEC finalizes this, it creates a legal pathway…
On September 16, 2026, Salt Security announced an expanded integration with the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to provide joint customers with visibility into AI agent activity. The update targets the infrastructure connecting these agents to external tools and data. This integration arrives as the industry faces a persistent structural shift: the expansion of the attack surface…
The vault that holds everyone’s keys has its own lock broken Delinea Secret Server, a privileged access management platform designed to secure the enterprise’s most sensitive credentials, has become a high-value attack surface. On September 15, 2026, the company disclosed two unauthenticated Critical vulnerabilities. CVE-2026-15638 and CVE-2026-15640 were both fixed in release 12.2.000007, which arrived…
Investors poured $435 million into AI agent security startups across 12 separate financings over the last five months. The latest signal: AIR Security’s $50 million seed round, announced September 1, for a company building an inline firewall that vets the skills, plugins, and MCP servers AI agents rely on to function. That kind of money…
Picture this: you’re settling in for the evening, and your smart home decides to redecorate your climate. The lights dim, the shutters drop, and the boiler kicks into sauna mode-all because someone sent you a calendar invite with a few extra lines of text buried in the title. Not science fiction. Researchers from Tel Aviv…
As the industry converges on San Francisco for Dreamforce 2026 this September 15-17, the conversation has shifted from the novelty of generative AI to the harsh reality of securing it. Blair’s Friday piece examined Dreamforce through the lens of governance-as-infrastructure; the security keynote raises a different question—whether the trust architecture can actually hold when autonomous…
The enterprise agent economy is shifting toward a more disciplined phase of runtime enforcement as infrastructure providers move to secure the connections powering autonomous systems. On September 10, 2026, Akamai and MuleSoft announced an expanded collaboration that integrates Akamai API Security with MuleSoft’s Agent Fabric. This move represents a critical bridge between edge security and…
Cymphony has secured $25 million in Series A funding, a round co-led by Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund. This brings the two-year-old startup’s total funding to $30 million, pushing its post-money valuation past the $100 million mark. Based in New York and Tel Aviv, the company is now part of a rapid consolidation…
Google Commits €13B to Finland AI Infrastructure, Securing Its First Non-US Nuclear Deal Google’s commitment of €13 billion toward AI infrastructure in Finland marks a definitive shift in the data centers strategy of hyperscalers. By anchoring its expansion to a 22-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Fortum for output from the Loviisa nuclear plant, Google…
Between April and September 2026, venture capital investors poured $435 million into 12 financings for enterprise AI agent security and governance companies. Nine of those rounds were laser-focused on a single, unglamorous problem: making AI agents safe enough to actually run inside businesses. The enterprise agent security stack is finally taking shape — and it’s…