Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

$300M Acquisition Strengthens Palo Alto Networks' XDR and AI Governance PlatformPalo Alto Networks plans to acquire Koi Security for $300 million to address growing AI-driven endpoint risks. The startup's technology adds deep visibility into AI agents plug-ins and nonbinary code, enhancing Cortex XDR and Prisma AIRS as enterprises confront a growing unmanaged AI attack surface.

After Hours-Long Disruption, XDR Vendor Promises Full Root Cause Analysis of OutageCybersecurity vendor SentinelOne suffered a major, global outage for about six hours on Thursday that disrupted its monitoring of managed response service customers' endpoints and networks, interrupted software updates and kept administrators from accessing consoles for troubleshooting purposes.

The biggest challenges in threat detection and response today are the inability to cover the entire attack surface and a lack of insight into who is attacking and why. To address these issues, Cisco introduced Breach Protection, a suite of products that combines email, endpoint and XDR protection.