Agent runtime security requires controls across the technology stack as companies move AI agents into production. This week, Okta transformed its agent security framework into a multi-vendor reference architecture through the Blueprint Alliance. According to Eric Kelleher (pictured), Okta’s president and chief operating officer, the measure is intended to help buyers manage the demands of … Read more
AI agent identity security tests whether consolidated platforms can protect a growing class of machine identities. The acquisition of CyberArk Software Ltd. by Palo Alto Networks Inc. reflects broader consolidation in the identity security market. Okta Inc. recently added an AI agent runtime gateway and formed the Blueprint Alliance with Amazon Web Services Inc. and … Read more
Nvidia Corp. today announced plans to spend another $150 billion on stock buybacks by January 2028. The move represents the largest expansion of a share buyback program to date. Additionally, Nvidia plans to increase its current dividend to $0.25 per share. The company did not provide any information on the size or timing of the … Read more
Security teams are changing their approach in the world of artificial intelligence and relying on automation to turn signals into results while maintaining the right context and control. Complicating this transition is the need to identify the right role for AI and find the right mix of human craftsmanship and autonomous decision-making. Database security providers … Read more
Autoheal AI Inc., an artificial intelligence-based platform engineering startup seeking to advance the concept of “self-improving software factories,” today announced that it has raised $7.9 million in seed funding to make this possible. Today’s round was led by Innovation Endeavors and included Emergent Ventures, U&I Ventures, Darkmode Ventures, Batch Ventures and Param Hansa Values. Thanks … Read more
An independent researcher has linked more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to artificial intelligence agents that he believes were most likely operated by the OpenAI Group PBC. When the portal rejected requests, agents used proxies and coding tricks to get the data anyway. In a blog post published on Saturday, engineer … Read more
For decades, the observability industry has answered a fundamental question: Is it running? Agentic artificial intelligence breaks this model. An agent can return a clean response, meet its latency target, and not throw errors, but still give a customer the wrong answer, invoke the wrong tool, or rely on an outdated knowledge base. By any … Read more