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New infosec products of the month: August 2026

Several cybersecurity vendors have recently unveiled new and enhanced products, with a significant focus on integrating artificial intelligence into security operations, exposure management, and threat response. These releases aim to help organizations navigate an evolving threat landscape, manage the complexities of AI adoption, and streamline security workflows.

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Several cybersecurity vendors have recently unveiled new and enhanced products, with a significant focus on integrating artificial intelligence into security operations, exposure management, and threat response. These releases aim to help organizations navigate an evolving threat landscape, manage the complexities of AI adoption, and streamline security workflows.

ServiceNow has advanced its "Autonomous Security" vision by introducing six unified solutions. These offerings are designed to provide prevention-first, AI-native cyber defense across areas such as unified exposure management, continuous vulnerability detection, cyber-physical security, identity and access security, agentic incident response, and cyber risk and compliance.

Tanium has also expanded its autonomous security capabilities within the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform. These enhancements span agentic AI, exposure management, and security operations, intending to empower IT and security professionals to proactively address AI-accelerated threats while maintaining control.

Snyk has announced the general availability of Evo Continuous Offensive Security (COS). This platform enables security teams to conduct continuous application testing through autonomous, AI-powered penetration testing and AI agent red teaming, providing validated proof of potential attack exploitation.

ScienceLogic has released Skylar AI 2.5, which offers expanded secure deployment options for organizations with stringent security, sovereignty, and compliance requirements. The update also includes improvements to AI accuracy, platform performance, and natural language user experience across the ScienceLogic AI Platform.

Searchlight Cyber has launched its Preemptive Threat Exposure Management (PTEM) platform. This platform combines exposure visibility with real-world attacker intelligence to help organizations prioritize and mitigate the exposures most likely to be exploited. Its core capabilities include Searchlight Exposure for continuous visibility, attack surface discovery, and exploitability validation, and Searchlight Threat for intelligence on threat actor activities.

A10 Networks has introduced the A10 AI Gateway, a centralized control plane designed to provide unified routing, cost management, and governance for all AI agents, applications, and large language models (LLMs) used by an organization. Similarly, F5 has enhanced its F5 AI Gateway, integrating it into the F5 AI Security Platform to enforce policies on AI requests, govern AI model access, and optimize AI economics.

SelectHub has launched DataGrout, an LLM inference optimization platform and AI governance solution. DataGrout aims to reduce token usage for agentic workflows, chatbots, and AI tools, while providing IT and FinOps leadership with a policy-driven, auditable system for monitoring LLM payload and costs.

NETSCOUT has extended its Adaptive DDoS Protection (ADP) solution to include automatic detection and mitigation of outbound DDoS attack traffic. This expansion helps service providers prevent compromised subscriber devices from disrupting networks and launching attacks.

Intezer has added Workflows, a native automation and response builder, to its platform. This feature allows security teams to create and customize response workflows directly within Intezer, automating post-investigation actions without requiring a separate Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) system.

Tufin has released Tufin Orchestration Suite (TOS) 5.3, which aims to simplify security operations and maintain consistent control across complex multi-vendor, hybrid environments. Tufin also introduced its AI-powered Segmentation Intelligence solution, designed to continuously analyze segmentation policies, identify gaps, and recommend improvements.

Abnormal AI has expanded its email security platform with three new capabilities: Control Center, Email DLP Rules, and upgrades to AI Phishing Coach. These additions extend Abnormal's behavioral AI across inbound email, outbound data protection, and user training against phishing attacks.

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