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helpnetsecurity.com > 09/10/2026 > scytale-ai-third-party-risk-management-capabilities

Scytale expands vendor risk management with AI-powered TPRM tools

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (205+ words) Scytale has announced the launch of their latest AI-powered third-party risk management (TPRM) capabilities within its Vendors module. The release further extends vendor risk management from a periodic review exercise into a continuously updated vendor risk intelligence engine, giving security…...


helpnetsecurity.com > 09/09/2026 > akeyless-agentic-runtime-authority-identity-control-layer

Akeyless adds real-time enforcement for AI agents in production

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (203+ words) AI agents today do more than answer questions. They access databases and applications, execute workflows, and make decisions inside live production environments. Traditional access controls can determine whether an agent is allowed into a system, but not whether every action…...


helpnetsecurity.com > 09/09/2026 > orchid-security-ai-agents-application-level-kill-switches

Orchid Security targets AI agent risk with drift detection and kill switches

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (21+ words) Orchid Security adds drift detection and kill switches for AI agents to help enterprises control access as autonomous AI adoption scales....


helpnetsecurity.com > 09/09/2026 > zscaler-agentic-soc-solution

Zscaler Agentic SOC combines AI agents with zero trust telemetry

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (188+ words) Threat landscape is defined by speed and stealth as AI-driven attacks move faster than SOC teams can manually correlate, analyze, and remediate. Threatlabz, Zscaler’s global research team, is also seeing a rise in evasive tactics, including the use of trusted…...


helpnetsecurity.com > 09/09/2026 > google-chrome-cve-2026-87491-zero-day-flaw

Google fixes yet another actively exploited Chrome zero-day (CVE-2026-87491)

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (226+ words) Google has fixed 230 vulnerabilities in Chrome, including a zero-day flaw, CVE-2026-87491, with an in-the-wild exploit. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-87491 exists in the wild,” the company said in a Tuesday security advisory. The fix has been shipped…...


helpnetsecurity.com > 09/09/2026 > bleachbit-6-0-4-released

BleachBit 6.0.4 fixes secure wiping that skipped clusters on Windows

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (275+ words) The open source cleaner BleachBit reached version 6.0.4 this week, erasing caches, browser traces, and files on Windows, Linux, and now macOS. If you shredded a sensitive file on Windows with an earlier build, parts of it may still sit on…...


helpnetsecurity.com > 09/08/2026 > mars-security-real-time-intel-based-detection

Mars Security brings threat intelligence to detection in real time

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (257+ words) Built by former offensive operators, the new capability converts advisories from CISA, Mandiant, and other intelligence sources into MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detection rules across CrowdStrike, Wiz, Splunk, and cloud telemetry, each one tested against 30 days of the customer’s own data…...


helpnetsecurity.com > 09/07/2026 > chris-webber-teleport-zero-trust-ai-agents

Zero trust AI agents demand a different kind of security

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (239+ words) In this interview, Chris Webber, VP, Product Marketing at Teleport, explains why zero trust principles need to change for AI agents. He covers how agents act fast, unpredictably, and continuously, and why old ideas like least privilege and point-in-time verification…...


helpnetsecurity.com > 09/04/2026 > synology-activeprotect-manager-2-0-data-protection

Synology ActiveProtect Manager 2.0 improves AI-driven security

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (18+ words) Synology ActiveProtect Manager 2.0 extends protection to Amazon EC2, Azure VM, Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV, and Google Workspace....


helpnetsecurity.com > 09/04/2026 > google-chrome-zero-day-cve-2026-85046

Google patches actively exploited Chrome zero-day (CVE-2026-85046)

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (191+ words) Google has patched 12 vulnerabilities affecting its popular Chrome browser, among them CVE-2026-85046, which has been exploited in the wild. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-85046 exists in the wild,” the company said in a Thursday security advisory. The…...