ServiceNow Inc. announced on Tuesday plans to acquire Veza in a move aimed at fortifying security for identity and access management. The acquisition will integrate Veza’s technology into ServiceNow’s Security and Risk portfolios, helping organizations monitor and control access to critical data, applications, systems, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The deal comes as businesses increasingly..

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Organizations are racing to implement autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents across their operations, but a sweeping new study reveals they’re doing so without adequate security frameworks, creating what researchers call “the unsecured frontier of autonomous operations.” The research, released Tuesday by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), surveyed 271 IT, security, and identity and access management (IAM)..

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Palo Alto Networks Inc. announced Wednesday it will acquire Chronosphere, a next-generation observability platform designed for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, in a $3.35 billion deal combining cash and replacement equity awards. The acquisition, pending regulatory approval, is expected to close in the second half of Palo Alto Networks’ fiscal 2026. The move represents the cybersecurity..

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The days of human analysts manually sorting through endless security alerts are numbered. By 2028, artificial intelligence (AI) agents will handle 80% of that work in most security operations centers worldwide, according to a new IDC report. But while AI promises to revolutionize defense, it’s also supercharging the attackers. IDC predicts that by 2027, 80%..

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OpenAI on Thursday launched Aardvark, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent designed to autonomously detect and help fix security vulnerabilities in software code, offering defenders a potentially valuable tool against malicious hackers. The GPT-5-powered tool, currently in private beta, represents what OpenAI calls a “defender-first model” that continuously monitors code repositories to identify vulnerabilities as software..

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