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Asset discovery, reachability and attack-path context used to decide which vulnerabilities create real enterprise risk.
Accenture's majority stake closed first, then Dragos completed both acquisitions on Monday. One supplier now holds network discovery, firmware inventory and OT threat detection. Neither price was disclosed.
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Microsoft's September 17 post pins three current campaigns on excessive permissions, open authentication flows and sanctioned admin tooling, and says the change AI brought is the speed at which those combine.
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Australia's replacement Essentials series covers the cloud, identity and OT that eight on-premises controls never touched. Both frameworks stay live until full retirement around mid-2028, and ASD calls those dates targets.
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Tenable's account of the control layer around Hexa AI lists what broke during development, including an agent that did not know who was asking, a model that denied tags it could not find, and queries that died past 5,000 assets.
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Brinqa says PlexTrac will keep operating standalone. That is the sentence PlexTrac customers should get into their next renewal in writing.
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The deal folds penetration test validation into an exposure management platform, and it puts standalone offensive-security reporting vendors in an awkward spot.
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Tenable says context can cut remediation to 1.6% of findings. If that holds, the scarce resource next year is asset truth, not patching speed.
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