Palo Alto Networks unveils Prisma AIRS at RSAC 2026 β a unified platform securing AI agents from development to runtime β plus a secure browser built for agentic workflows and post-quantum certificate automation.
CrowdStrike unveils Falcon Data Security for the agentic enterprise, Agentic MDR with NVIDIA Nemotron-powered reasoning (5x faster investigations), and adversary-informed cloud risk prioritization β a triple launch that signals how seriously the industry's largest endpoint vendor is taking the AI agent threat surface.
A compromised AI agent doesn't follow the traditional cyber kill chain β it already has the access, permissions, and data map. How agentic security forces a rethink of detection frameworks built for human attackers, with real-world examples from Anthropic's AI espionage disclosure and the OpenClaw crisis.
Vorlon launches AI Agent Flight Recorder and AI Agent Action Center at RSAC 2026 β the first forensic audit trail and cross-team incident response platform built specifically for compromised AI agents operating across SaaS ecosystems.
Astrix Security unveils a four-method AI agent discovery engine and real-time Agent Control Plane at RSAC 2026 β combining NHI fingerprinting, EDR telemetry, and platform integrations to find and govern every shadow AI agent in the enterprise.
Check Point's AI Defense Plane is a unified security control plane that governs AI agents, applications, and employee AI usage β with runtime enforcement in under 50 milliseconds, powered by Lakera and Cyata acquisitions.
Exein unveils Photon β a preemptive runtime security solution that operates inside the kernel to block attacks before execution. Designed for autonomous AI agents, IoT, and critical infrastructure where downtime isn't an option.
Protos AI deploys coordinated AI agents that execute structured CTI investigations from planning to reporting β freemium, model-agnostic, and designed to compound organizational intelligence over time.
Seceon launches ADMP at RSAC 2026 β continuous discovery, behavioral baselining, and real-time protection for autonomous AI agents, LLM APIs, RPA bots, and machine identities. Plus SeraAI 2.0 resolves 70% of SOC incidents without human intervention.
Snyk unveils Agent Security and Evo AI-SPM GA at RSAC 2026 β a full-lifecycle enforcement architecture that secures AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Devin across environment, artifact, and behavior, with Agent Scan, Studio, and Agent Guard.
SOCRadar debuts a modular marketplace for deploying specialized autonomous security agents β plus identity intelligence that bridges internal IAM with external credential exposure across the dark web and SaaS platforms.
Google's newly acquired Wiz launches the AI Application Protection Platform β evolving CNAPP into agentic-native security with red, blue, and green AI agents defending AI systems in real time.
Arctic Wolf's Aurora Agentic SOC deploys hundreds of specialized AI agents to handle security operations, powered by a 'Swarm of Experts' framework. It's agent-led, human-supervised β and available at no extra cost to existing customers.
CrowdStrike expands Falcon AIDR to desktop AI apps, launches shadow AI discovery for endpoints, cloud, and SaaS platforms, and adds Microsoft Defender support to Next-Gen SIEM. CEO George Kurtz calls 2026 the 'breakout year for the agentic SOC.'
Geordie AI, a security and governance platform built specifically for AI agents, was named 'Most Innovative Startup' at RSAC 2026's Innovation Sandbox contest. The win signals that agent governance is now the hottest problem in cybersecurity.
Google's biggest RSAC 2026 push: agentic automation in Security Operations with Triage and Investigation agents, Wiz acquisition complete with AI-APP and red/blue/green agents, dark web intelligence agents with 98% accuracy, and M-Trends 2026 revealing 22-second adversary handoffs.
Rubrik's Semantic AI Governance Engine translates natural language policies into machine logic for real-time control of autonomous AI agents β replacing manual oversight with intent-driven governance powered by a proprietary small language model.
SentinelOne goes GA on four products at RSAC 2026: Prompt AI Agent Security for real-time agent governance with MCP monitoring, Prompt AI Red Teaming for continuous AI application testing, Purple AI Auto Investigation for one-click agentic SOC, and AI data pipelines that cut SIEM noise by 80%.
SentinelOne launches Prompt AI Agent Security for real-time MCP server governance, Prompt AI Red Teaming for AI app hardening, and general availability of Purple AI Auto Investigation β agentic forensic investigations that compress hours into minutes.
Cisco's RSAC 2026 keynote introduces Zero Trust Access for AI agents via MCP proxy, DefenseClaw open-source secure agent framework, AI Defense Explorer Edition for self-service red teaming, and six specialized SOC agents. 85% of enterprises pilot AI agents β only 5% reach production.
At RSAC 2026, Orca launches autonomous Threat Investigation and AppSec Triage agents, plus runtime AI detection that tracks every LLM call, MCP server, and shadow AI deployment across your cloud estate.
OWASP releases AIVSS v0.8 ahead of RSAC 2026 β a quantitative framework for scoring AI agent security risks that CVSS was never designed to measure. Co-published with cyber insurance standard AIUC-1.
The RSAC Innovation Sandbox β cybersecurity's most prestigious startup competition β features multiple AI agent security finalists including Token Security, Geordie AI, and Charm Security. Here's what to watch on Monday.
Defense giant Booz Allen Hamilton launches Vellox, a five-product agentic cybersecurity suite built to fight AI-powered attackers at machine speed. Cyberattack breakout times dropped to under 30 minutes in 2025, with the fastest measured in seconds.
CrowdStrike and NVIDIA unveil a Secure-by-Design AI Blueprint that integrates Falcon security directly into NVIDIA's OpenShell agent runtime β embedding protection at the foundation of autonomous systems rather than bolting it on after deployment.
RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox finalist Geordie AI, founded by Darktrace's ex-COO and Snyk's ex-CTO, raises $6.5M to build real-time discovery, behavior monitoring, and risk control for autonomous AI agents.
Proofpoint unveils AI Security β an intent-based solution that verifies whether AI agent actions align with their stated purpose β backed by a five-phase Agent Integrity Framework built on the Acuvity acquisition.
A comprehensive map of every major agent security product launched in the two weeks before RSAC 2026. From identity to runtime to offensive testing, the agent security market went from emerging to established in 14 days.
RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox finalist Token Security introduces intent-based security for AI agents, arguing that static permissions fail when autonomous agents are non-deterministic and goal-oriented.
CASB governed human access to cloud apps. Unbound AI says enterprises now need an Agent Access Security Broker (AASB) to govern what Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, and Codex can see, touch, and execute β before a destructive command forces the issue.
Xbow's Series C makes it a unicorn. The former GitHub executive's company deploys swarms of AI agents that autonomously pen-test web, mobile, and native applications β reaching #1 on HackerOne and reducing testing from weeks to hours.
Zenity announces GA of runtime security controls for Microsoft Foundry agents, blocking data leakage, jailbreaks, and tool misuse in real time β before data moves or tools execute.
1Password partners with Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub, Cursor, and Vercel to launch Unified Access β a platform that manages credentials for AI agents alongside humans, with least-privilege controls and full audit trails.
At RSAC 2026, Microsoft announces Agent 365 as the enterprise control plane for AI agents, network-level prompt injection blocking, shadow AI discovery, and over 15 new Security Copilot partner agents β the most comprehensive agentic security release from any vendor.
Oasis Security's Series B brings total funding to $195M for its Agentic Access Management platform. With machine identities outnumbering humans 82 to 1, the company is building least-privilege governance for AI agents at enterprise scale.