Cybersecurity

Global – October 12, 2026 -- CrowdStrike has joined Anthropic's Critical Infrastructure Defense Program, gaining access to Anthropic's technical guidance and frontier cybersecurity research to defend energy, water, manufacturing and transportation networks against AI-accelerated attacks.

Program links security vendors and Anthropic's research

The program brings cybersecurity and critical infrastructure leaders together with Anthropic's technical guidance and frontier research. It also serves as a forum for sharing defensive practices and informing research. CrowdStrike says adversaries are using AI to operate faster and at greater scale, which shortens defenders' response windows.

Blomberg – October 12, 2026 -- Phoenix Contact will make all of its products available in a CRA-ready format by the regulatory deadline, the company said ahead of SPS 2026, which runs November 24-26, 2026, in Nuremberg, Germany.

The company will exhibit in Hall 9, Booth 310, with a focus on industrial AI, PLCnext Technology, cybersecurity, and field and control cabinet automation.

Conveyor demo runs on the full control cabinet and field portfolio

The booth's central exhibit is a conveyor belt application that moves water bottles on workpiece carriers so they can be filled with water immediately. The line is automated with Phoenix Contact's entire product portfolio for control cabinet and field installations. At field level, new products include power supplies, device protection, and motor starters with IO-Link interfaces.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- CIQ Enterprise Linux Manager (ELM), the fleet lifecycle tool bundled with RLC Pro, runs a forward-only dependency check on draft content views so incompatible libraries surface before a patch reaches any production host.

CIQ frames the problem around operators who say the patch, not the CVE, took production down. An update can pull in an incompatible library or bump a version another component depends on. The conflict information exists before deployment, but teams often see it only after the change is live.

ELM flags dependency conflicts on unshipped drafts

Hosts install from content views, which are named, versioned snapshots of the packages and versions that ship together. When an administrator forks a new view to bring in an update, ELM maps the change forward through it. Conflicts appear on the draft without a full re-walk of the dependency tree.

Austin – October 11, 2026 -- CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) and CLEAR (NYSE: YOU) have launched a strategic partnership that embeds CLEAR1, CLEAR's secure identity platform, in the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, and the integration is available for existing customers to activate immediately.

The tie-up targets identity-based attacks, in which adversaries use legitimate credentials and trusted access pathways to blend into normal digital activity. Combining Falcon with CLEAR1 lets companies verify both the device and the human behind it.

Falcon risk detection triggers real-time CLEAR1 verification

When Falcon detects potential risk, it triggers CLEAR1 to verify the person in real time. That result is then weighed alongside other security signals to decide whether activity should be allowed, investigated or blocked.

Tokyo – October 11, 2026 -- NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, Inc. will roll out "Pro," a new tier of its docomo business SIGN IoT network-as-a-service, in March 2027 for customers running tens of thousands of connected devices in Japan and overseas. The offering centralizes domestic and international connectivity management, automates SIM operations and adds support for the SGP.32 eSIM standard.

Plano, Texas – October 09, 2026 -- Financial institutions using BioCatch through the Alkami Digital Banking Platform prevented more than $263 million in fraud during 2025, according to data shared by BioCatch and announced by Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT).

BioCatch scores every banking session for account takeover risk

BioCatch Account Takeover Protection analyzes behavioral, device and session signals in real time as account holders use digital banking. It builds a baseline of legitimate activity and flags deviations such as unusual navigation, interaction patterns or transaction behavior that may indicate a compromised account or an active takeover attempt.

Each session receives a risk score. Financial institutions set their own thresholds based on their tolerance for potential fraud, which lets them tailor responses to their security strategy.

New York and Tel Aviv – October 08, 2026 -- Rein Security has closed a $25 million Series A round, lifting total funding to $35 million as enterprises race to secure autonomous AI agents operating inside production systems. The round was co-led by Glilot Capital and Sienna Venture Capital, with participation from Corner Ventures, Atlacle and RNP Capital Advisors.

Gartner forecasts AI security spending to hit $7.7 billion by 2028

The market for securing AI is projected to reach nearly $4.8 billion in 2027, a 68.7% jump from 2026, before climbing to $7.7 billion in 2028, according to Gartner. Rein's platform uses patented sidecar technology that monitors agent activity at runtime without routing company or customer data through a gateway or proxy, giving security teams visibility into every line of code an agent executes.

Singapore – October 08, 2026 -- ONLYOFFICE has released version 10.0 of its open-source office suite, bundling context-aware AI tools, four new modular applications, and fixes for 35 security vulnerabilities. The autumn update packages roughly 50 new features and more than 1,000 bug fixes across the online, desktop, and mobile editors.

AI tools move directly into document, spreadsheet, and PDF editors

A dedicated AI tab with built-in chat now lets users draft, summarize, translate, and format content without exporting files to third-party tools. Legal teams can summarize contracts inside the editor, analysts can generate forecasts or Pivot Tables, and managers can convert raw notes into structured presentations using ready-made prompts and saved custom actions.

Dublin – October 07, 2026 -- Edgescan has launched Edgescan Atomic, an autonomous penetration-testing capability built on agentic AI, designed to close the gap left by scheduled security assessments. The tool can run on top of Edgescan's existing continuous security platform or operate as a standalone agentic penetration-testing solution.

Atomic replaces fixed testing schedules with on-demand validation

Traditional penetration-testing programs rely on periodic, scheduled engagements, leaving organizations exposed between tests as application code changes and threats evolve. Edgescan Atomic allows security teams to launch autonomous testing immediately, using previous target metadata when available, with validation handled by an agentic team backed by human experts when required.

Tel Aviv – – October 07, 2026 -- Cato Networks has appointed Chad Gardner as chief revenue officer, tasking him with leading the company's global sales organization as enterprises converge networking and security infrastructure while adopting AI.

Gardner joins from Blackfoot Communications, where he oversaw wholesale, premier, and enterprise business units

Prior to Blackfoot, Gardner served as vice president of sales for North America at SambaNova Systems. His background includes multiple leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, including vice president of global SASE sales and vice president of sales for West Majors, as well as VP leadership positions at Netskope. He has also held executive sales roles at Denali Advanced Integration, NetApp, and Cisco Systems.