News for today:
- New browser extension from Cato Networks. Cato released a browser extension for Chrome for securing BYOD and contractor access (hence from unmanaged devices) to its SASE Cloud Platform. The Cato Browser Extension … provides secure access in minutes without requiring client installations or new software. It enforces the same ZTNA policies already applied across the enterprise, so IT doesn’t need to create or manage new rules. And unlike enterprise browsers that force users to adopt a new interface, the extension works natively with standard browsers under one consistent, enterprise-wide ZTNA model. Cato Networks
- AI updates across Quest platforms. Quest added new AI capabilities to its identity, data, and migration platforms. For Security Guardian, its ITDR platform, the new AI capabilities increase visibility by identifying over-privileged or exposed accounts with remediation guidance. The latest updates to Security Guardian, erwin, and On Demand Migration better support enterprises and public sector agencies to conquer new identity security threats, data uncertainty, and migration hurdles to build the foundation for successful AI. Quest
- New report from Cobalt on financial services. Cobalt released its latest report on penetration testing in financial services organizations. Key areas of weakness: high exposure rates of sensitive data, flaws in business logic, misconfigurations in security servers, and components with known vulnerabilities. Cobalt pentesting data shows that the financial services sector is accruing security debt and a backlog of serious vulnerabilities. Although financial services firms have one of the lowest rates of serious vulnerability findings, they are among the slowest industries to remediate them. Cobalt
- Entro for Agentic AI. Entro released Entro for Agentic AI, a unified security platform focused on protecting secrets, non-human identities, and agentic AI. Capabilities include discovery, provenance visualization, monitoring, and governance guardrails. Entro on LinkedIn
- Infotection on addressing ROT. Infotechtion and others released a new report on generative AI and ROT (redundant, outdated, and trivial) information. Keeping ROT unnecessarily adds storage cost, reduces AI efficiency and accuracy, and contributes to greenhouse gases. Infotection on LinkedIn
- More seed funding for Descope. Descope announced a further and final intake of $35 million in its seed financing round, taking the total raised to $88 million. Existing investors provided the additional funds. Descope will use the new funding to further R&D investment in agentic identity, expand its platform to new regions, and grow the team across the engineering, product, and customer experience teams. Descope announced its advisory board, too. Descope
- Dopamine DLP from Dope. Dope Security launched Dopamine DLP, a new data loss prevention solution for endpoints that relies on an LLM for identifying and blocking sensitive data exfiltration, rather than legacy approaches relying on regex or pattern matching. DOPAMINE DLP ups what DLP solutions can do by leveraging modern technology to replace old-school regex methodology with a large language model’s comprehension. The LLM that powers the new solution can classify and block data-in-motion while uploading files with a high degree of accuracy, enabling security admins to improve their security posture and curb risky behavior without sifting through an ocean of alerts. Available immediately in early access. Dope
- Acronis True Image 2026 released. Acronis released True Image 2026, its consumer-focused backup and security software that newly includes patch management for Windows devices plus new AI-enabled security capabilities, such as threat detection. Available immediately. Acronis
- New CEO at Open Systems. Dennis Monner is the new CEO at Open Systems, succeeding Daniel Neuhaus, effective October 1. Yahoo