News of the day:
- Secure collaboration for national defense operations with Beyond Identity and TeamWorx Security. Beyond Identity and TeamWorx Security announced a strategic partnership to strengthen real-time information collaboration between partners. The partnership combines Hive-IQ from TeamWorx and Beyond Identity’s Dynamic Identity Defense platform, that latter of which brings phish-resistant, device-bound credentials and continuous risk-based security. Among other capabilities, continuous authentication monitors user and device risk in real time, and any suspicious behavior during active sessions, such as device posture changes, geolocation changes, or anomalous patterns trigger immediate mid-session enforcement actions, including session termination and device quarantine. PR Newswire
- Another $13 billion for Anthropic. Anthropic raised another $13 billion at its Series F fundraising round, for a valuation of $183 billion. The fundraising round was led by ICONIQ, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Anthropic has a revenue run rate of $5 billion, which has been growing rapidly during 2025. How the funds will be used: The Series F investment will expand our capacity to meet growing enterprise demand, deepen our safety research, and support international expansion as we continue building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Anthropic
- State of Pentesting in Healthcare report – by Cobalt. Cobalt’s new report on pentesting in the healthcare industry finds that while healthcare organizations are pretty good at preventing serious vulnerabilities (6th out of 13), they are among the slowest to remediate them (11th out of 13). After correlating four metrics, Cobalt says healthcare organizations are “struggling.” It’s an industry with relatively low prevalence of serious findings but consistently slow remediation. This lag leaves vulnerabilities exposed for months, increasing compliance risks and creating dangerous entry points for attackers. BusinessWire
- Delinea on AI in identity security. Delinea’s latest research on identity security shows a mismatch between confidence in securing AI tools and actual capabilities, due in large part to lack of visibility and identity governance. With 66% of organizations using agentic AI, limited visibility leaves these agents vulnerable to risks such as unchecked autonomous decisions and compromise by external threat actors. Delinea
- Thrive’s new Managed AI Services. Thrive launched a managed AI offering, for mid-market businesses. Intent is to help with building an AI strategy and implementing it at scale. Thrive’s Managed AI services offer tailored solutions for every stage of AI adoption. Through a thoughtful, customer-first process, Thrive experts will help clients understand their data-readiness for AI, define goals, create clear AI use cases and identify the solutions and processes needed to meet those goals, as well as implement, manage and maintain AI systems going forward. GlobeNewsWire
- Two new cloud security centers for Radware. Radware launched new cloud security centers in Israel and Colombia, as part of its global cloud security network. Radware now has more than 50 such centers around the world. Radware’s global network of cloud security centers mitigates attacks closest to their point of origin. This helps organizations improve application response times for in-region traffic and reduce mitigation response times against a variety of attacks, including denial-of-service attacks, web application attacks, malicious bot traffic, and attacks on APIs. It also helps them keep data within their borders to meet strict data privacy regulations. Radware