Press Releases
Blackpoint Cyber announced the appointment of Erin Whitmore as Head of the Adversary Pursuit Group (APG). Whitmore, a former CIA Operations Officer with experience across the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, will lead threat research and intelligence, bridging frontline insights from the B-ROC into actionable guidance.
On June 18, 2026, SafeLogic released CryptoComply™ Core and Mobile v4, providing FIPS 140-3 validated classical cryptography and NIST CAVP validated post-quantum algorithms, supporting CNSA 2.0 and hybrid TLS 1.3, and offering different versions for Common Criteria and FIPS compliance.
On June 23, 2026, Courser announced two executive appointments: Chad Polich as Chief Financial Officer and William Norton as Executive Vice President of Marketing. They will be responsible for building financial planning and analysis capabilities, and for communicating the value of AI and modern IT to small and medium-sized enterprises, respectively, reporting directly to CEO Reed Wilson.
On June 23, 2026, Optery released the 2026 Corporate Social Engineering Survey Report (The Data Behind the Deception), based on a survey of 421 cybersecurity leaders at large enterprises. The report shows that data brokers and people-search websites have become primary sources of intelligence for attackers, with nearly nine in ten respondents reporting an increase in targeted social engineering attacks over the past 12 months, and about three-quarters experiencing credential breaches. Companies are making the reduction of employees' public data a top defense priority and investment focus.
Global cybersecurity provider CyberFOX announced on June 29, 2026, the acquisition of Timus Networks, a vendor of 100% cloud-native SASE and Zero Trust Network Access. This acquisition adds secure access, secure web browsing, and adaptive policy enforcement to the CyberFOX platform, enabling IT teams to access a wider set of proactive defense capabilities from a single vendor.
360 Privacy announced the appointment of George L. Sax as Senior Vice President, Enterprise Security Operations. Sax brings over 30 years of federal and private sector security leadership, including roles at the U.S. Secret Service and as CSO of a global security firm. The move underscores the company's focus on addressing threats originating from personal data exposure.
Onspring released the 2026 GRC Benchmark Report on July 8, 2026, revealing that AI adoption in the GRC field remains in its early stages: only 13.5% of organizations have embedded AI into core workflows, 45% are in pilot phases, and 16.7% have not used it at all. Data privacy (28.6%) and output accuracy (25.4%) are the primary limiting factors. The report emphasizes that enterprises must first address process fragmentation and data silos to achieve scalable value from AI.
On July 8, 2026, Blackpoint Cyber released an AI SOC Agent for Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR), employing a hybrid AI-and-human model to autonomously contain high-confidence threats to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace accounts, with an average containment time of under two minutes and as fast as 21 seconds. The product is included in all Blackpoint ITDR service tiers at no additional cost.
Cloud security company Upwind disclosed findings from an investigation into a coordinated supply chain attack targeting the AsyncAPI ecosystem. Attackers compromised multiple GitHub repositories and release pipelines, implanted backdoor code in multiple official npm packages, and exploited OIDC publishing identities to launch attacks against different release branches within a short period. The malicious code no longer relies on traditional installation scripts but executes during normal package imports. Upwind CEO Amiram Shachar noted that this is not just a malicious package issue, but a breach of trust mechanisms.
Security operations teams face the risk of detection disruption due to rapidly changing environments. Fig has launched an extended platform covering the full SecOps engineering lifecycle, introducing CI/CD practices and a security data lineage graph to help teams continuously validate detection capabilities before and after deployment, shortening the cycle of large projects such as SIEM migration.