Cybersecurity

San Francisco – – September 14, 2026 -- The Globee Awards has opened nominations for its 14th Annual Globee Awards for Leadership, calling on organizations and professionals worldwide to submit cybersecurity leadership achievements for evaluation.

Program accepts entries spanning individual, team, and organizational cybersecurity work

The awards welcome measurable achievements by individual professionals, teams, departments, and entire organizations that strengthen security, protect operations, manage risk, or improve resilience. Eligible categories include cybersecurity strategy, cloud security, identity and access management, data protection, governance risk and compliance, incident response, threat management, and artificial intelligence applications in cybersecurity.

Chicago – September 13, 2026 -- A new leadership framework aimed at C-suite executives argues that workforce judgment, not additional software, is the strongest defense against AI-generated fraud, including cloned voices and deepfake video. The book, "H.I.V.E. Human Intelligence for Vigilant Enterprise: A Leadership Framework for Cyber Readiness in the Age of AI-Enabled Deception" (ISBN: 979-8234193643), by technology executive Rockwell L. Scott, will be released worldwide on October 1, 2026, in hardcover, e-book, and audiobook formats through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other major retailers.

Ulaanbaatar – September 13, 2026 -- Mongolian broadband provider Mobinet is deploying the Plume Platform to power its new mobihome broadband service, giving subscribers AI-optimized WiFi, cybersecurity protection and parental controls at no additional monthly cost.

Mobinet adds AI-driven WiFi and security features without raising subscriber fees

The mobihome service integrates real-time home network management through a mobile app, allowing Mobinet customers to monitor and control connectivity, security and parental settings directly. The Plume Platform continuously learns from each household to improve WiFi coverage and reliability.

Salt Lake City – – September 13, 2026 -- Netcraft now provides digital risk protection to seven of the top 12 U.S. financial institutions after five additional banks selected the firm in 2026, the cybercrime detection company announced. The company also serves nine of the world's top 15 banks.

Netcraft surpasses 4.1 million takedowns for 2026, exceeding its full 2025 total

Netcraft passed 4.1 million takedowns for the year in early September 2026, a figure that already eclipses its entire 2025 output. The company attributes the surge to accelerating new customer growth, rising volumes of AI-driven attacks, and expanded coverage through Preemptive Domain Disruption, Phone Scam Disruption, and enhanced social media protection.

Palo Alto, Calif. – September 13, 2026 -- Wand AI has integrated Zeroport's hardware-enforced access technology into its Sovereign AI offering, allowing government and critical infrastructure programs to deploy AI agents on air-gapped and segmented systems without creating a network route into them.

Zeroport's Fantom boundary eliminates IP-based access into protected systems

The joint architecture routes agent sessions through a sealed Fantom Core that carries no IP packet and terminates no network session. Only keystrokes and mouse input flow inward, while a display-only pixel stream flows outward, mirroring how a cleared human operator interacts with sensitive systems such as grid, water, defense, and core government estates.

Reston, Va. – September 12, 2026 -- Silent Push has launched version 6.1 of its preemptive cyber defense platform, introducing a fully automated Brand and Infrastructure Impersonation engine that continuously hunts look-alike domains before they are weaponized in phishing campaigns.

Rebuilt engine scores and clusters look-alike domains for automated takedown

The new engine scores look-alike domains by risk, enriches them with registrar and hosting context, clusters them by threat actor, and exports the results as takedown evidence. Once configured, the system runs on an ongoing basis, reporting newly discovered impersonation infrastructure to security teams without manual re-scanning.

Düsseldorf – September 12, 2026 -- More than half of German industrial companies have assigned internal teams to prepare their connected products for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), while over 60 percent are also turning to external specialists, according to the new "IoT & OT Cybersecurity Report 2026" from Düsseldorf-based cybersecurity firm ONEKEY. The findings are based on a survey of 200 German industrial companies regarding CRA readiness.

One-fifth of firms have launched full internal CRA teams

Twenty percent of surveyed companies have set up a dedicated internal team to adapt their product range to CRA requirements, while another third have partially assigned staff to the task. Team size varies sharply: 28 percent have assembled groups of up to ten people, and 22 percent have staffed even larger teams. Sixteen percent manage with three or fewer specialists, and 19 percent have assigned no one at all to the issue.

Dublin – September 12, 2026 -- ZeroRisk, an Irish cybersecurity firm serving payment providers, has closed a $10 million Series A funding round to accelerate global expansion and deepen deployment across major payment networks.

MiddleGame Ventures leads $10M round with Elkstone participation

The financing was led by MiddleGame Ventures, with existing investor Elkstone also participating. The capital will fund ZeroRisk's international expansion, further product development, and the operational capacity required to deploy its platform across large merchant portfolios.

Helsinki – September 12, 2026 -- F-Secure and AMD Silo AI have jointly developed a routing technology that decides, per piece of data, whether AI processing happens on-device or in the cloud, aiming to secure consumer digital journeys as autonomous AI agents take over tasks like shopping and payments. The upcoming F-Secure TrustPath solution, built on this approach, is scheduled to enter beta in the fourth quarter of 2026 and reach production in 2027.

Consumer trust in AI has collapsed to single digits

F-Secure research cited in the announcement found that 84% of consumers worry AI makes it impossible to distinguish what is real online, while 44% are wary of using AI itself. Only 17% of consumers currently say they are ready to let AI act on their behalf, a gap the companies frame as a commercial risk for brands deploying agentic AI.

Vilnius – September 11, 2026 -- Surfshark has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Optery, a US-based data removal company, marking the cybersecurity group's second strategic acquisition after Ironwall in 2024.

Surfshark adds Optery's US data broker coverage to its privacy portfolio

Optery specializes in deleting personal information from search engine results, data brokers, and people-search sites, using scanning technology and screenshot-based reporting to track removals. The deal brings Optery's US market expertise into Surfshark's existing ecosystem, which includes Incogni, Ironwall, and HeyPolo.

Optery will operate as a standalone unit, retaining its own team and clients

Surfshark confirmed that Optery will keep separate teams, client bases, and technical architectures from its other brands, following the same autonomous structure used for Ironwall since its 2024 acquisition.