Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards today announced the winners of the 2026 Community Choice Award, selected through 79,455 votes cast during the awards season. AI security ranked among the highest-voted award categories this season. The results arrive during Black Hat USA week, where AI risk is also among the most prominent themes on the conference agenda.

New capabilities help organisations control security data costs, strengthen Microsoft Sentinel detection coverage and response, and govern enterprise AI agent activity.

Upcoming capabilities span a unified console, actionable intelligence, autonomous service desk, and agentic workflows.

The growing number of high-profile AI security incidents making headlines around the world are not simply cybersecurity failures. They are architectural failures, according to OpenMatter Network Co-Founder and CEO Renee Davis. Davis said that instead of asking how to make artificial intelligence more secure, enterprise leaders should be asking a far more fundamental question: Is the architecture itself capable of governing autonomous intelligence?

Catches rogue AI agents - and stops them in live production before they cause damage.

New E7 readiness offer secures the data and the agents driving adoption, so organisations can move faster on Microsoft's newest tier.

To reduce identity risk when third-party AI agents access business systems, Aembit is launching a new integration with Snowflake to help enterprises securely govern third-party agents across platforms.

Most organisations now recognise that a serious cyber incident is likely, but the real question is whether they can keep running when it happens. A major incident can disrupt services, damage revenue, expose governance weaknesses and test customer trust as events unfold. The greatest risk often sits in the gap between recognising that reality and having a recovery plan that works under pressure. That is where financial loss, operational disruption and regulatory scrutiny can quickly escalate.

Participation in OpenAI's Daybreak program and Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program advances vulnerability research, security testing, and proactive threat defence.

11:11 Systems Announces Strategic Partnership with Cato Networks to Deliver SASE Solution for Distributed Enterprises.