Cybersecurity

Delray Beach, Fla. – October 02, 2026 -- The global Extended Detection and Response (XDR) market is projected to grow from USD 10.98 billion in 2026 to USD 38.09 billion by 2031, a compound annual growth rate of 28.2%, according to MarketsandMarkets. The market stood at USD 7.92 billion in 2025, reflecting accelerating enterprise adoption of unified threat detection platforms.

Identity-based attacks drive integration of detection signals

Growing reliance on cloud applications, hybrid identities, service accounts, and machine-to-machine authentication is pushing organizations toward XDR to correlate identity behavior with endpoint and cloud activity. Microsoft notes that non-human identities can carry high privileges, making lateral-movement detection a priority for security teams managing increasingly distributed infrastructure.

London – – October 01, 2026 -- Corero Network Security (AIM: CNS; OTCQX: DDOSF) has strengthened its position as a Star for the second consecutive year in the "DDoS Protection and Mitigation Market – Global Forecast to 2031" report published by MarketsandMarkets.

Corero advances further within the Stars quadrant, outpacing larger cybersecurity incumbents

The company's movement within the ranking places it ahead of several of the largest and most established names in the cybersecurity sector, according to the report. Corero attributes the advance to sustained innovation, deeper global partnerships, and growing customer adoption of its SmartWall ONE and CORE platforms.

Palo Alto, Calif. -- October 1, 2026 -- Armadin, an AI-native cybersecurity company, has raised $255.5 million in a Series B round that pushes its valuation above $2.5 billion just seven months after launching from stealth. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Accel, with new investors Bain Capital Ventures and Redpoint joining. Existing backers 8VC, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Kleiner Perkins, and Menlo Ventures also returned, lifting Armadin's total funding to $445 million.

Los Angeles – September 30, 2026 -- Britive has launched the Frictionless PAM Transformation Program, a new initiative aimed at helping enterprises replace fragmented, credential-centric privileged access management (PAM) systems with a unified, runtime authorization model built for AI agents and non-human identities.

Program targets fragmented PAM architectures across cloud and legacy systems

Britive says enterprise privileged access environments have become siloed, with traditional infrastructure, cloud systems, and non-human identities each governed by separate controls. Mohit Vaish, CEO of CyberSolve, said organizations have historically responded by "bolting another module onto the same architecture," which adds tools without resolving the underlying fragmentation.

Miramar, Fla. – September 30, 2026 -- Cyolo has launched Live Risk Detection, an AI-powered capability that monitors active remote sessions in operational technology (OT) environments and alerts security teams within seconds of detecting cyber or operational risk.

Cyolo targets the gap between login verification and session-long threat monitoring

The company, a provider of secure connectivity for critical infrastructure and OT, said the tool addresses a scaling problem: as employees, vendors, and OEMs increasingly perform critical OT work remotely

Holmdel, N.J. – September 30, 2026 -- Index Engines' CyberSense Research Lab found that 47.8% of 1,064 ransomware strains detonated in the first half of 2026 relied on directory-entry destruction, more than double the 18.3% that used full encryption, marking a shift away from techniques that trigger standard security scans.

Attackers now suppress the telltale signs security tools rely on

The lab documented new ransomware built to preserve file extensions and timestamps, maintain low entropy, and encrypt only selected sections of files slowly enough to avoid detection thresholds. One variant, Encoder, destroyed file content while leaving names, sizes, timestamps, and entropy readings unchanged, according to Jim McGann, CMO of Index Engines. A surface scan would report that data as clean, McGann said, while CyberSense identified the corruption by analyzing file content and structure directly.

Los Angeles – September 30, 2026 -- CUJO AI has introduced a new network intelligence capability that identifies the exact device inside a subscriber's home being used as a residential proxy, closing a detection gap that previously left operators able only to flag suspicious IP addresses without knowing which device was compromised.

New tool pairs device-level detection with remediation guidance and real-time alerts

The capability runs at the home gateway, identifying which subscriber network is hosting proxy activity and pinpointing the specific device generating it. It classifies the activity type, such as ad fraud or malware, and delivers device-specific remediation steps alongside real-time notifications to operators.

Dallas – – September 29, 2026 -- TrendAI, the AI security business unit of Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), has expanded its integration with Claude's Compliance API inside TrendAI Vision One, giving security teams visibility into AI agent prompts, responses and tool calls alongside existing security telemetry.

Integration now covers Claude Code and Cowork session transcripts

The expanded integration pulls in session records for Claude Code and Cowork from Claude Enterprise, each tied to a verified user. It builds on the initial TrendAI-Anthropic integration announced in June 2026, extending coverage to how engineering and knowledge-work teams use AI agents on a daily basis.

Pittsburgh – September 29, 2026 -- A California-based inventor has developed INTRACE, a security control plane designed to verify identity and generate tamper-evident records for every digital interaction rather than only at login. InventHelp, the Pittsburgh-based invention-services firm, announced the technology is now available for licensing or sale to manufacturers and marketers.

INTRACE targets unverified requests across AI, payments, and connected devices

Billions of digital requests occur every second across apps, payment systems, and AI-driven interactions, with most trusted automatically, according to the inventor. INTRACE is built to authenticate the origin of each request and flag unauthorized or disputed activity as it happens, rather than relying solely on perimeter checks.

Minneapolis – September 29, 2026 -- Yardstik, a Minneapolis-based workforce trust platform, has appointed Nick Schneider, President and CEO of cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf, to its board of directors, weeks after closing a $30 million Series B round led by Harbert Growth Partners.

Schneider brings two decades of cybersecurity scaling experience to Yardstik's board

Schneider has led Arctic Wolf since 2021, growing it into one of the largest privately held cybersecurity companies and a Forbes Cloud 100 and Fortune Cyber 60 honoree. Under his tenure, Arctic Wolf launched the Aurora Agentic SOC and was named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response Service for Midmarket. He previously ran North American sales at Code42 and held senior sales roles at Compellent Technologies through its IPO and acquisition by Dell.