IT, AI & Telecommunications

PALO ALTO – October 22, 2026 -- Salt Security won three awards in Cyber Defense Magazine's 14th annual Top InfoSec Innovators program, covering agentic AI security, AI-based cybersecurity innovation and API security.

The winning categories are Most Promising Agentic AI Security Solution, Trailblazing AI-based Cybersecurity Innovation and Transformational API Security Solution. The awards were presented in connection with CyberDefenseCon 2026.

Salt survey finds fewer than one in five enterprises can automatically stop a rogue AI agent

Salt cited its State of Agentic AI and API Security 2H 2026 report, released this month. The survey covered more than 380 security and technology professionals. Nearly half of respondents confirmed or suspected that an AI agent took an unauthorized action in the past year. Fewer than one in five said their organization can automatically stop a misbehaving agent.

Wilmington, Del. – October 22, 2026 -- Thinking Streams Inc. has launched ThinkingStreams, an agentic marketing automation platform for B2B teams that integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and runs AI agents inside the marketing system rather than in a separate chat window.

Agents draft full campaigns from a single marketer brief

A marketer writes a brief, and the agents plan and draft emails, SMS, landing pages, forms, social posts, blog posts and nurture journeys. Nothing sends or publishes until a person approves it. The company says this removes the manual rebuild that follows drafting copy in a standalone AI tool, which loses brand voice and context.

PUNE, India – October 22, 2026 -- QKS Group named Radware a technology leader in its global SPARK MatrixTM: Bot Management, Q4 2026, with strong ratings across technology excellence and customer impact. The study ranks leading vendors and assesses market dynamics, major trends, vendor landscape and competitive positioning.

Radware shifts bot detection from static signatures to intent analysis

Sofia Ali, Principal Analyst at QKS Group, said Radware has moved detection away from static signatures and score-based rules toward intent-driven analysis of automation behavior. Its engine combines three elements in one self-learning framework: pre-emptive blocking through the ERT Active Attackers Feed, AI-based behavioral analysis across hundreds of signals, and real-time signature generation. According to Ali, the framework catches evasive, human-like bots with less manual tuning.

Vancouver – October 21, 2026 -- Wishpond Technologies Ltd. (TSXV: WISH) (OTCQX: WPNDF) has appointed in-house finance manager Jacky He as Chief Financial Officer effective October 21, 2026, subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval, replacing Adrian Lim, who steps down on October 21, 2026.

He takes over finance, audit and capital planning, reporting to CEO Gutierrez

Mr. He will report directly to CEO Jordan Gutierrez. His remit covers all finance, accounting, financial reporting, audit, tax and capital planning functions. He will also succeed Mr. Lim as CFO of SalesCloser Technologies Ltd., Wishpond's majority-owned subsidiary.

Montréal – October 21, 2026 -- Aurora Towers has added Niko Veilleux, an Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP partner with more than 25 years of practice, to its Board of Directors.

Veilleux leads Osler's Montréal Corporate Group

Veilleux heads the firm's Corporate Group in Montréal and sits on its Partnership Board. He has advised public and private companies, private equity sponsors, pension funds, boards of directors and special committees on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, capital markets transactions and corporate governance.

Boston – October 21, 2026 -- Fulcra Dynamics released build-and-deploy-a-web-app, an agent skill that lets builders create and deploy shared web applications with authentication, hosting and data storage supplied by Fulcra, with no separate hosting account required.

Builders describe the application to their AI agent, which then builds and deploys it on Fulcra's user-owned context backend. A shared project can offer a website for people to use directly, while authorized agents read and contribute to its data through Fulcra.

Participants on different AI products can contribute to the same app

One participant might use the web interface, another might contribute through Claude, and a third through ChatGPT. Participants choose what context to share. They do not need to build an agent, use the builder's agent platform or understand the underlying infrastructure.

Costa Mesa – October 21, 2026 -- Tepia Co., Inc., a custom software developer with more than 13 years of engineering experience, has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network, giving the California firm a formal channel to deploy OpenAI models in client mobile, web, and backend systems.

OpenAI Partner Network targets enterprise adoption of frontier models

The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program for partners to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI. It combines partners' industry expertise, delivery capabilities, and customer relationships with resources, enablement, and support. The aim is to help enterprises adopt OpenAI frontier models and products and convert them into measurable impact.

Wilmington – October 21, 2026 -- Synteq has launched Apps and Serverless Functions, two managed products that run developer code on its own hardware and network in Dallas and Chicago, backed by a 99.99% uptime SLA. The release is the first step in the company's expansion into developer tools and platform services.

Every app and function invocation runs in its own Firecracker microVM

Apps run web services, APIs, and workers directly from source. Users point Synteq at a GitHub repository, upload code directly, or run one CLI command. The platform detects the language, builds the image, and serves the app over HTTPS on a Synteq subdomain or custom domain. Dockerfile builds are supported.

Each app gets dedicated CPU, memory, and network. Deployments use readiness checks and zero-downtime rolling updates, with one-command rollback. Autoscaling is budget-bound, so apps scale with demand only up to a spending limit the customer sets.

Ohio – October 21, 2026 -- Todd Lukens, chief technology and information security officer at Nationwide, has been named to the inaugural Cyber25 list from Ohio Tech News and OhioX, which honors 25 cybersecurity leaders protecting Ohio's businesses, hospitals, schools and critical infrastructure.

Selection criteria weigh two years of Ohio-linked results

Honorees were chosen on four criteria: real-world impact, demonstrated leadership, a meaningful Ohio connection, and work completed or significantly advanced during the past two years.

Lukens oversees eight security and technology functions at Nationwide

Lukens has more than two decades of experience in cybersecurity and technology leadership. His remit covers Cybersecurity, Information Risk Governance, Continuity and Crisis Management, Infrastructure, Technology Operations, Development Platform Engineering, Enterprise Digital Platform, and Protective Services.

Europe – October 21, 2026 -- Capgemini and Microsoft are offering cities an as-a-service, AI-native City Support Center that merges multi-agency data into one operating picture for floods and urban heat events, aiming to avoid the cost of bespoke platform builds.

Siloed agencies drive delays, duplication and rising maintenance costs

In flood and heat island scenarios, water authorities, transport departments, health bodies and first responders typically each focus on their own responsibilities, with little data transparency between them. The result is delayed interventions, inefficient resource deployment, duplicated effort and counterproductive actions. Maintenance spending also rises because of potentially preventable damage, adding pressure on already stretched local government budgets.