Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

I’m excited to announce CrowdStrike’s agreement to acquire SGNL, a leader in identity-first security. This acquisition will extend CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security to deliver continuous, context-aware authorization for human, non-human, and AI agent identities across SaaS and hyperscaler cloud environments. As risk conditions and threats change, access to applications, data, and AI agents should change with them.

Most teams learn the OWASP Top 10 as a list of application security failures. Injection flaws. Broken access control. Security misconfiguration. Items to scan for, remediate, and close before the next audit or penetration test. But data exposure rarely arrives neatly packaged as a single OWASP finding. When sensitive data leaks, it is almost never because one category failed in isolation.

AI-assisted development crossed the “cool demo” threshold long ago. It is now a daily workflow. Generate code. Refactor. Run tests. Spin up infrastructure. Deploy.

Here’s an unsettling truth: While 80% of organizations are adopting AI, only 6% have any form of AI security strategy in place (SandboxAQ 2025 AI Security Benchmark report). It’s like buying a Porsche 911 without locks or keys, a cash-guzzling public service car whose cost you’re apparently happy to bear.

Savanti is Cato Networks’ internal, agentic AI assistant that blends knowledge from Slack, Confluence, Git, and Jira to provide instant, context-rich answers. Savanti routes each query through an adaptive reasoning workflow by choosing between direct, deep, or multi-step reasoning based on the question’s complexity. Every answer is grounded in real internal context, backed by citations, and evaluated for confidence before being delivered.

Email has been the backbone of business communication for decades and as such, it remains the attacker’s favorite doorway into an organization. Phishing, Business Email Compromise (BEC) and supply-chain attacks continue to rise, with adversaries leveraging AI and compromised accounts to bypass legacy defenses. This presents many challenges for CISOs, IT Directors and SOC teams alike: it seems pretty clear that threats are evolving faster than traditional email security can keep up.