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New infosec products of the week: September 4, 2026

Several cybersecurity vendors have announced new product releases and updates this week, focusing on areas such as AI-driven threat protection, enterprise security for personal AI agents, cyberstorage resilience, and automated black-box penetration testing.

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Several cybersecurity vendors have announced new product releases and updates this week, focusing on areas such as AI-driven threat protection, enterprise security for personal AI agents, cyberstorage resilience, and automated black-box penetration testing.

F5 Networks has enhanced its AI-powered web application firewall (WAF) for Distributed Cloud, introducing features like anomaly detection and agentic threat intelligence. These updates are designed to accelerate virtual patching capabilities, providing real-time protection and precise blocking of active exploits at the request level, particularly in response to AI-driven threats.

Ping Identity unveiled an end-to-end security solution for personal AI agents, dubbed Enterprise Personal Agent Access. This offering aims to provide organizations with visibility into AI agent activity, user identification, and the enforcement of access controls and actions at runtime. The system is designed to facilitate AI adoption while maintaining security by combining discovery, secretless privileged access, and runtime control.

Superna has released version 2.15 of its cyberstorage security and resilience platform. This update includes a guided event-closing workflow to assist administrators in classifying events, managing learning behaviors, restoring access, managing snapshots, documenting decisions, and completing incident closures. The redesigned threat-detection controls in Superna 2.15 are intended to simplify the management of learned thresholds, ignored activity, monitored entities, and suspicious extensions, thereby reducing alert noise.

BugBase introduced Pentest Copilot Enterprise, a solution for automating black-box penetration testing. This platform maps various application components, including pages, APIs, forms, accounts, access levels, and business functions. It then executes iterative attacks targeting over 100 vulnerability types, such as authentication, authorization, injection, and complex business-logic flaws. The system utilizes real Chromium browsers to reproduce authenticated user flows, preserving critical state information like cookies, authentication tokens, CSRF state, and multiple identities.

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