Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Early-Stage Startup Acquisitions Add Agent Visibility, Asset Management, MSP ToolsCheck Point is accelerating its AI security and exposure management strategy with three acquisitions targeting agentic AI, internal asset attack surface management and MSP-focused unified management. The company says the deals strengthen platform consolidation and automated remediation.

Partnership With Israeli Startup Brings Real-World Threat Labs to Security TrainingISMG has teamed with CyCube to strengthen CyberEd.io's hands-on cyber training platform. The strategic investment aims to deliver personalized, adaptive labs and assessments that help security teams respond to evolving threats fueled by generative and agentic AI.

Silicon Valley Startup Focuses on Discovery and Governance of Non-Human IdentitiesWith $30.75 million in Series B funding, Defakto aims to strengthen non-human identity security across AI workloads and cloud platforms. The Silicon Valley-based startup plans to deepen discovery, governance and enterprise integrations, while expanding its go-to-market strategy.

Orange Cyberdefense's Dominic Trott on Investor Hesitancy, Geopolitical ObstaclesThe United Kingdom has a strong track record of supporting startups and building successful organizations, but U.K. cybersecurity startups still face hurdles, said Dominic Trott, director of strategy and alliances for the U.K. region at Orange Cyberdefense.

Shanghai Firm Bets on Open-Source Strategy, Efficiency ClaimsShanghai artificial intelligence startup MiniMax released a new open-source large language model, positioning it as a direct competitor to American and other Chinese models. MiniMax says its model performs competitively on benchmark tests against leading proprietary and open models.

Open Garden Strategy, Automated Risk Remediation to Get a Boost With Veriti BuyCheck Point will fold Israeli firm Veriti into its Quantum suite following an acquisition aimed at streamlining automated security response across endpoints, firewalls and cloud environments. Veriti’s patented technology is seen as critical to reducing misconfigurations without business disruption.

Deal Adds Natural Language, Multi-Agent RAG Tech to Autonomous Security PlatformTorq’s acquisition of Revrod gives it a strategic leap in autonomous security operations. The startup's multi-agent retrieval-augmented generation engine enables smarter, faster threat detection, triage and mitigation without heavy manual workflows.

Australia Envisions Cybersecurity Leadership in the Pacific With New StrategyThe Australian government says it will mandate ransomware reporting by businesses, boost law enforcement capacity and fund startups with innovative cybersecurity solutions under a strategy unveiled Monday. "We cannot continue as we have," said Cyber Security and Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil.

Startup Rezilion suggests enterprises should change prioritization strategies Enterprise security teams being overrun by the rising numbers of vulnerabilities uncovered each day could vastly reduce their patching workload by changing how they prioritize the flaws, according to recent research from vulnerability startup Rezilion.…