Archive for October 13, 2026

Ridge Security Launches RidgeOne, a Self-Contained Appliance for AI Pentesting and Red Teaming

Posted in Commentary with tags on October 13, 2026 by itnerd

Ridge Security today announced RidgeOne, a self-contained solution that brings autonomous AI-powered penetration testing and agentic red teaming to mid-sized organizations. Combining Ridge Security’s RidgeGen® agentic security validation platform with an open-weight AI model running on NVIDIA DGX Spark, RidgeOne enables organizations to perform deep security testing within their own environment without sending sensitive testing data to an external AI provider or incurring ongoing AI token costs. Ridge Security is also joining the NVIDIA Inception Program, which provides startups with resources and support to help accelerate the development of innovative technologies.

For organizations with limited AI or security resources, accessing advanced security testing capabilities can be a challenge. RidgeOne is designed to make autonomous security testing easier to deploy and more accessible, giving organizations a way to use AI-driven offensive security without having to build their own AI infrastructure or maintain a separate AI environment.

RidgeOne is designed to provide several practical advantages:

  • Easy to deploy. RidgeOne provides AI-powered security testing without requiring organizations to build and maintain separate AI infrastructure.
  • Predictable costs. Running an open-weight model locally eliminates ongoing token costs associated with external AI services.
  • Portable. The appliance can be moved and deployed across different network segments, making it useful for organizations with distributed or segmented environments.
  • Deep security testing. RidgeOne can autonomously test IT infrastructure, networks, web applications, APIs, Active Directory, hosts and IoT/OT environments, including multi-step attack paths.
  • Private by design. Testing activity and sensitive security data remain within the customer’s environment rather than being sent to an external AI provider.

The solution is built around a validated reference configuration based on the NVIDIA DGX Spark compact AI system, with 128 GB of unified memory shared between the AI model and RidgeGen. RidgeOne can be deployed in a VMware environment and brought online in five steps, without requiring customers to build separate AI infrastructure.

In testing, Ridge Security ran RidgeOne against OWASP Juice Shop and completed a full autonomous penetration test without operator involvement. The assessment produced 32 verified findings, including 19 critical and high-severity findings, over approximately 10 hours, without making any external AI calls. The system also connected separate findings into a multi-step attack path.

That ability to connect the dots is central to RidgeGen. Rather than stopping at individual vulnerabilities, the platform can reason across findings, test whether weaknesses can be chained together and provide evidence that security teams can use to prioritize fixes.

As attackers increasingly use AI to automate and accelerate their operations, organizations need ways to put the same technology to work on the defensive side. RidgeOne gives security teams a portable way to bring autonomous testing capabilities into their own environments, whether they are testing a corporate network, a restricted segment or a different environment altogether.

RidgeOne is now available for organizations looking to deploy private, autonomous security testing within their own environments.

Airrived Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Standalone AI SOC Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment

Posted in Commentary with tags on October 13, 2026 by itnerd

Airrived has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Standalone AI SOC Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc # US54127026, September 2026).

Airrived Co-founder and CEO Anurag Gurtu said, “Being named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for standalone AI SOC platforms is recognition of a problem security teams already know. Alert volume has outrun headcount, and a copilot on top of the existing stack does not close that gap.

Airrived turns business users into AI experts.

Airrived, a Gartner Cool Vendor in Agentic AI Security, is an enterprise-grade Agentic OS and Sovereign AI Platform that lets business and domain experts build, deploy, and govern autonomous AI — without becoming AI engineers.

Users bring the domain expertise. Airrived brings the reasoning, enterprise context, orchestration, governance, and infrastructure needed to turn that expertise into autonomous systems capable of reasoning, collaborating, deciding, and acting.

Unlike copilots, which mainly assist users, or developer frameworks, which require teams to engineer agents from scratch, Airrived lets enterprises automate complex, multi-step work across cybersecurity, IT, and business operations.

The platform combines deep reasoning, Agentic Mesh, Context Lake, multi-agent orchestration, governance, and end-to-end Agentic Observability — plus pre-built agents and applications that dramatically shorten the path from AI experimentation to production.

Built for the Sovereign AI Enterprise.

Airrived gives enterprises full control over where and how their AI runs. It can be deployed in the cloud, in customer VPCs, on-premises, on private GPU infrastructure, or in fully air-gapped environments — keeping data, models, agents, context, and AI operations under customer control at all times.

That removes a major barrier to enterprise AI adoption: organizations can put autonomous AI directly into the hands of the people who understand the business, without requiring them to master the underlying technology.

With adoption across Fortune 150 enterprises and organizations worldwide, this recognition follows a string of major product advancements from Airrived — including Agentic Observability and Sovereign Agentic AI — as the company continues advancing its vision for governed, autonomous AI across the enterprise.

Liquibase Secure Now Available in Google Cloud Marketplace and Microsoft Marketplace

Posted in Commentary with tags on October 13, 2026 by itnerd

Liquibase today announced that Liquibase Secure is now available in Google Cloud Marketplace and Microsoft Marketplace, joining its existing listings in AWS Marketplace and Snowflake Marketplace. The expanded availability is part of Liquibase’s commitment to being easy to do business with: customers can buy Liquibase Secure through the channel that fits their organization and govern database change wherever their applications and data run.

This extended availability comes as the way software is built is changing quickly. Developers are shipping more frequently, AI coding assistants are generating more code, and agents are beginning to participate across the software delivery lifecycle. That means more database change, from more sources, moving toward production faster.

Liquibase Secure gives enterprises one governed path for standardized change, whether it was written by a developer, generated with AI, or initiated through an automated workflow.

Buy Through the Cloud. Govern Across the Enterprise.

With the addition of Google Cloud Marketplace and Microsoft Marketplace, Liquibase Secure is now available in multiple marketplaces. Buying through a marketplace lets organizations work through the cloud accounts and procurement processes they already have, simplify vendor onboarding, and consolidate billing alongside their other cloud spend. Customers can continue to buy directly from Liquibase or through its partners.

More Change Requires Better Control

AI coding assistants are already generating more code, which means more database change moving through the software delivery lifecycle. Now AI is moving beyond assistance. Agents can generate SQL, modify schemas, propose migrations, and increasingly take action through automated workflows.

The problem isn’t whether a database change was written by a human or AI. The question is what governs that change before it reaches production and what evidence is left behind after it does.

That becomes even more important as software delivery becomes more autonomous. An agent may generate a change, automated systems may validate and deploy it, and no person may manually touch it along the way. Enterprises still need to know what changed, who or what initiated it, what controls were applied, and what ultimately reached production.

Liquibase Secure puts governance and proof of control directly into the database delivery process. Organizations can:

  • Automate database change through version-controlled CI/CD workflows.
  • Stop risky changes before production with automated policy checks.
  • Govern changes made by humans and AI with the same policies and approvals.
  • Maintain an audit trail for database changes made by humans and AI agents.
  • Detect drift and out-of-band change across environments.
  • Recover faster with versioned change history and rollback context.

With Change Intelligence in Liquibase Secure, teams gain centralized visibility into database deployment activity, risk, drift, and policy outcomes across environments.

As software delivery becomes more autonomous, governance can’t depend on a human being in the loop. It has to be built into the path to production.

Availability

Liquibase Secure is available now in Google Cloud Marketplace and Microsoft Marketplace.

For more information about Liquibase Secure, visit Liquibase.com.

Nearly 14 million credentials exposed in public database

Posted in Commentary with tags on October 13, 2026 by itnerd

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a publicly accessible database containing 13.7 million credentials. The database appeared to be connected to Vibetech, an India-based AI software development and IT services company.

The exposed database contained:

  • Personally identifiable information (PII) linked to individuals worldwide, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, passwords, and bank account details.
  • Records that appeared to have been aggregated from previous security incidents.
  • Data that could not be matched to known public breach disclosures, suggesting additional or previously unknown datasets.

You can read Jeremiah’s full findings on ExpressVPN’s blog here: https://www.expressvpn.com/research/vibetech-data-exposed

Sauce Labs Announces Support for Apple’s Foldable iPhone Duo

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Sauce Labs today announced plans to support Apple’s new foldable iPhone Duo, with advance device reservations now open ahead of the Duo’s Friday, Oct. 23, release date. With the new form factor, teams need to verify application correctness with the new layout and other device-specific characteristics before release. Sauce Labs customers can use AURA, the company’s release assurance platform, to automatically author, run, and analyze tests against iPhone Duo.

Phone Duo pairs a 5.4-inch outer display with a 7.6-inch folding display, which changes windowing, layout, and UI interaction models. Apps built for single-screen iPhones need validation before they reach users on the new device.

What’s available

  • Real and Virtual Device Clouds: Physical iPhone Duo devices and iPhone Duo simulators are available for automated and live testing.
  • Guidance and best practices: Expert advice on adapting apps to the foldable, dual-screen UI.

Enterprises across industries have already reserved private iPhone Duo device access to validate mission-critical applications before broad consumer adoption.

Customers interested in private device access can contact their Sauce Labs account team to coordinate ordering and onboarding.

DataBee Accelerates the Future ofCyber Risk Automation

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DataBee®, a Comcast Company, today announced major advancements to its cyber risk management platform, including the next evolution of DataBee Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), new innovations in DataBee Frontier AI Defense, and expanded capabilities for DataBee User Access Review (UAR). Together, these advancements help organizations automate the manual work behind monitoring controls, assessing application exposures, and reviewing user access while reducing the cost, complexity, and effort required to manage cyber risk.

At the core of the announcement is a unique AI-native federated architecture that enables organizations to analyze cybersecurity data where it resides rather than first moving, normalizing, and consolidating it for analysis. While federated analytics has long been common in domains such as financial services and customer relationship management, cybersecurity data has historically been far more fragmented, heterogeneous, and difficult to analyze across systems.

Building on years of cybersecurity data expertise and a library of more than 340 connectors, DataBee has engineered new generative AI capabilities that can connect to structured, semi-structured, and unstructured security data, calculate key measurements, and retrieve only the information needed for analysis. The result is less implementation complexity, faster time-to-value, and quicker access to actionable cyber risk insights.

Reimagining Continuous Controls Monitoring

DataBee, a Comcast company, was included as a Sample Vendor in the Continuous Controls Monitoring category of the 2026 Gartner report, “Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management, 2026”, 27 April 2026, Deepti Gopal, Pedro Pablo Perea de Duenas.

The next evolution of DataBee CCM applies new architecture to help organizations measure control effectiveness without a major data infrastructure project. AI-assisted connector creation accelerates onboarding, while flexible monitoring enables teams to define the controls, metrics, dashboards, and frameworks that matter most to their business. Users can then Ask DataBee questions about their security control posture to identify gaps, understand risks, receive recommendations for metrics to measure specific controls, and understand changes in control risks along with guidance on how to improve.

DataBee CCM provides explainable, rigorous, data-backed measurements and enables organizations to reuse control results across multiple regulatory, security, and business frameworks, creating a simpler path to continuous risk reporting and faster answers to cyber risk and compliance questions.

Beginning this quarter, select organizations can experience DataBee CCM through a complimentary two-week trial program. Organizations interested in early access can register now to secure a place in the program.

Frontier AI Defense: From Vulnerability Findings to Faster Remediation

Every vulnerability scanner can tell teams what is vulnerable. DataBee helps them understand what matters and who can fix it.

As AI-powered attacks accelerate exploitation, modern security teams are drowning in findings while struggling to answer three fundamental questions: How important is it? Who owns it? What should we do next? DataBee for Frontier AI Defense automatically connects vulnerabilities to the business-critical applications they affect, helping organizations quickly identify the responsible owners and accelerate remediation efforts.

DataBee’s proprietary, patent-pending entity resolution technology correlates and deduplicates information across scanners, CMDBs, application inventories, and operational systems to create a single record for each business application. By connecting vulnerabilities to the applications they impact and identifying the owners responsible for remediation, the solution helps organizations eliminate one of the most common causes of patching delays: determining who needs to take action. Combined with advanced analytics and business risk prioritization, this enables faster patching, smarter resource allocation, and measurable reductions in cyber risk.

Extending Identity Governance to Legacy Applications

User access reviews remain one of the most persistent challenges in identity governance. While many governance solutions focus on cloud and SaaS applications, organizations frequently rely on spreadsheets, manual processes, and ad hoc evidence collection to review access across mainframe, on-premises, and custom-built systems, leaving critical portions of the enterprise outside an automated governance process.

DataBee User Access Review closes this gap by identifying applications requiring review, establishing ownership, generating reviewer populations, and preserving the evidence and traceability needed for compliance and audit programs. By complementing existing identity governance investments, DataBee helps organizations extend governed access reviews across modern and legacy environments through a more complete and automated process.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month Webinar Series

To mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month, DataBee is hosting three educational webinars for CISOs, Cyber GRC leaders, and BISOs seeking to modernize their cyber risk management practices:


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