Cybersecurity

Upwind Raises $400 Million Series C At $3.8 Billion Valuation As Revenue Quadruples

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 28, 2026

Upwind has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $3.8 billion valuation as the cloud and AI security company expands its platform for securing increasingly complex enterprise infrastructure and autonomous AI agents. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Canapi Ventures and existing investors Cyberstarts, Greylock Partners, Craft Ventures, Leaders Fund, Salesforce Ventures, TCV, Alta Park Capital, Penny Jar Capital, Cerca Partners, Swish Ventures, and Picture Capital.

Forte Technologies Acquires Business Cyber Security Solutions And Launches Forte Cyber Assurance Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2026

Forte Technologies, a national provider of managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and compliance services, has acquired Business Cyber Security Solutions (BCSS), an Illinois-based cybersecurity and regulatory compliance company. Following the acquisition, BCSS will operate as Forte Cyber Assurance, a dedicated practice providing cybersecurity assessments, compliance validation, and independent security oversight.

Ultra Security Raises $10 Million In Seed Funding To Launch AI Agent Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2026

Ultra Security, a Birmingham, Michigan-based cybersecurity company focused on securing autonomous artificial intelligence systems, has emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed funding. Investors in the round include Ludlow Ventures, Hidden Capital, Entrée Capital, Detroit Venture Partners, firedrop, and FDVC, alongside angel investors from the cybersecurity and software-as-a-service industries.

SolarWinds: Interview With CTO Krishna Sai About SW1, Agentic AI And The Future Of IT Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 22, 2026

SolarWinds is advancing its approach to IT management through SW1, an agentic AI system designed to help organizations manage increasingly complex digital environments while maintaining human oversight and control.

Horizon3 Surpasses $100 Million In ARR As Autonomous Security Adoption Accelerates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 20, 2026

Horizon3 has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, marking a major growth milestone for the cybersecurity company as organizations increase adoption of continuous and autonomous penetration testing.

BrandShield: Interview With CEO Yoav Keren About AI-Powered Digital Risk Protection

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

BrandShield is a cybersecurity company that protects organizations and their customers from external digital threats, including phishing websites, social media scams, executive and brand impersonation, counterfeit goods, fraudulent advertisements, fake mobile apps, and emerging generative AI threats. The company combines proprietary AI, built to identify connected threat networks rather than isolated incidents, with human intellectual property and cybersecurity expertise. Pulse 2.0 interviewed BrandShield CEO Yoav Keren to learn more about his background, the company's origins, the evolution of its technology, customer results, and the changing digital threat landscape.

Opsin Raises $21 Million Led By SYN Ventures And Race Capital For AI Agent Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

Opsin has raised $21 million in funding to expand its AI governance and security platform, which is designed to help enterprises detect, understand, and contain potentially dangerous behavior from autonomous AI agents. SYN Ventures and Race Capital led the financing. Opsin plans to use the capital to expand its platform as enterprises increasingly deploy AI agents that can independently access data, use software tools, and take action across business systems.

IGEL Appoints Randy Resnick As Field CTO For Government And Critical Industries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

IGEL has appointed Randy Resnick as Field CTO, Government And Critical Industries, adding a veteran cybersecurity executive with nearly four decades of experience across the U.S. Department of Defense and National Security Agency.

Horizon3 Promotes Ellen Sundra To Chief Customer Officer As Customer Base Surpasses 7,000 Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 14, 2026

Horizon3 has promoted Ellen Sundra to Chief Customer Officer, expanding her responsibilities across six customer-facing functions as the cybersecurity company continues to scale its NodeZero Proactive Security Platform.

Salvo: Interview With CEO Jacob Arbeid About AI Cybersecurity And Agentic Adversary Simulation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Salvo is a nonprofit focused on understanding and reducing security risks created by increasingly capable AI systems. Its work includes agentic adversary simulation, where human-supervised AI agents test real business networks for vulnerabilities, along with research and data collection around AI-assisted hacking incidents. The organization is particularly focused on critical infrastructure, governments, and smaller organizations that may lack the resources of large enterprises. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Salvo CEO Jacob Arbeid to learn more about his background in AI security, the origins of Salvo, and why he believes autonomous AI could fundamentally change the scale of cyberattacks.

RSA Launches Agent ID To Secure And Govern Enterprise AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

RSA announced RSA Agent ID, a new agentic identity security platform designed to help highly regulated organizations discover, secure, and govern AI agents across their lifecycle.

Rein Security Raises $25 Million Series A To Secure Enterprise AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Rein Security, an AI-native runtime security platform focused on enterprise AI agents, raised $25 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $35 million. The round was co-led by Glilot Capital and Sienna Venture Capital, with participation from Corner Ventures, Atlacle, and RNP Capital Advisors.

Xiid: Interview With CEO Steve Visconti About Zero-Trust And Post-Quantum Cybersecurity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Xiid is a cybersecurity company focused on zero-trust connectivity, post-quantum security, AI-driven environments, and critical infrastructure. Its flagship Terniion platform is designed to eliminate inbound listening ports and keep protected resources non-addressable from the public internet. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Xiid CEO and Co-Founder Steve Visconti to learn more about the company's security architecture, the evolution of Terniion, and its approach to securing AI and critical infrastructure.

New Relic Launches Infrastructure 360 To Provide End-To-End Visibility For AI Workloads

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 7, 2026

New Relic has launched Infrastructure 360, a new observability solution designed to give platform engineering, infrastructure and operations teams an end-to-end view of cloud resources, dependencies and configuration changes as organizations scale artificial intelligence workloads.

Hadrian Raises $40 Million To Expand Agentic AI Offensive Cybersecurity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 6, 2026

Hadrian has raised $40 million in funding to expand its agentic AI offensive cybersecurity platform across Europe and the U.S., bringing total capital raised to $65 million. Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin co-led the round. Existing investors HV Capital, Motive Partners, Picus Capital and Oetker Ventures also participated.

Rig Security Raises $12 Million Seed Round And Emerges From Stealth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 5, 2026

Rig Security has emerged from stealth with $12 million in seed funding to develop an identity protection platform designed for human, machine, and AI-agent identities. Ten Eleven Ventures and Brightmind Partners co-led the financing, with strategic participation from the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund.

TRG Acquires Fentron To Expand Cybersecurity Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 30, 2026

TRG, a portfolio company of Gemspring Capital, has acquired Fentron, a cybersecurity and advisory firm based in Westerville, Ohio. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Refinyx Acquires Northvolt’s 134-Patent Recycling Portfolio And Signs First Major U.S. Customer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2026

Refinyx, a Stockholm-based critical materials recovery technology company, has emerged from stealth with the acquisition of Northvolt's 134-patent recycling technology portfolio and a 13,000-square-foot materials science pilot and laboratory facility in Västerås, Sweden. The company has also signed its first major U.S. customer and secured backing from Swedish investment company Qarlbo Energy. Financial terms of the technology acquisition and investment were not disclosed.

Island Raises $400 Million Series F At $6.4 Billion Valuation To Expand Enterprise AI Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 24, 2026

Island, a Dallas-based enterprise cybersecurity company, has raised $400 million in Series F financing at a $6.4 billion valuation, more than doubling its valuation since 2024. The round was led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from existing and new investors, bringing Island's total funding to approximately $1 billion.

Pindrop Launches BotStopper To Detect AI Voice Agents In Real Time

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Pindrop, a cybersecurity company specializing in deepfake detection and identity verification, has launched Pindrop BotStopper, a standalone technology designed to detect AI voice agents and automated callers in real time as enterprises face a rapidly growing volume of machine-generated interactions.

U.S. Investigates Cyberattacks On America-Bound Energy Tankers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

The U.S. Coast Guard and Federal Bureau of Investigation are examining cyberattacks involving energy tankers headed toward American ports, according to CBS.

Thrive Expands NextGen Platform With Elastic MDR And Cato Networks Zero Trust Integrations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Thrive, a global technology outsourcing provider specializing in AI, cybersecurity, cloud and managed IT services, has expanded its NextGen managed services platform with new security architecture powered by Elastic and Cato Networks. The investments are designed to strengthen Thrive's Managed Detection and Response capabilities, improve threat visibility and introduce a more modern Zero Trust approach to secure access for mid-market organizations.

Radiant Logic And SailPoint Expand Identity Security Partnership With Certified Integration To Cut Application Onboarding To Two Days

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Radiant Logic and SailPoint have expanded their partnership with a new SailPoint-Certified Technology Integration designed to accelerate identity security deployments by unifying identity data across human, non-human and agentic identities.

Exein Raises $270 Million At $1.7 Billion Valuation To Expand Physical AI Cybersecurity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Exein has raised $270 million in new funding at a $1.7 billion valuation as the cybersecurity company expands its platform for protecting robots, drones, autonomous vehicles and other intelligent machines operating in the physical world. The significantly oversubscribed round was led by Headline, with participation from Sofina, Goldman Sachs, the European Investment Bank Group through ETCI, KfW Capital and T.Capital.

SolarWinds: Interview With Interim CEO Cullen Childress About AI And The Strategic Role Of IT

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

SolarWinds develops technology designed to simplify complex hybrid IT environments, reduce manual observability work, and provide actionable intelligence to IT professionals. Pulse 2.0 interviewed SolarWinds interim CEO Cullen Childress to learn more.

PlexTrac: Interview With Founder Dan DeCloss About Exposure Management And Security Verification

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

PlexTrac is a cybersecurity platform originally built around penetration testing reporting and workflow management that expanded to help organizations track remediation and verify that identified security issues have actually been resolved. Following its acquisition by Brinqa, the combined platform brings exposure prioritization, offensive security testing, remediation tracking, and verification into a more unified system. Pulse 2.0 interviewed PlexTrac Founder Dan DeCloss to learn more.

Upwind Security Reportedly Raising $300 Million At $3.8 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 4, 2026

Upwind Security is raising $300 million in new financing at a $3.8 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg, as investors continue directing significant capital toward cybersecurity companies protecting cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence applications.

Tusker Acquires Fortress SRM To Expand Cybersecurity Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2026

Tusker has acquired Fortress SRM, a Cleveland-based cybersecurity services company, expanding its security capabilities and establishing its sixth regional hub. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Keeper Security Appoints Jessica Krowel And Bill Grabner To Lead North America Private And Public Sector Sales

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2026

Keeper Security has appointed Jessica Krowel as Senior Vice President of North America Sales, Private Sector, and Bill Grabner as Senior Vice President, Public Sector, strengthening its go-to-market leadership as the identity security company continues to expand.

Palo Alto Networks Acquires Console To Expand Agentic Security Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2026

Palo Alto Networks has acquired Console, an AI-native platform for building agentic workflows across enterprise operations. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.