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Airia named finalist in four categories in the 2026 AI Awards. Enterprise AI company recognized across AI governance, deployment, infrastructure and startup categories. September 22, 2026 09:42 ET | Source: Airia ATLANTA, Sept. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Airia, the enterprise AI platform for discovering, securing, governing and optimizing artificial intelligence, today announced it has been named a finalist in four categories in the 2026 AI Awards, operated by The Cloud Awards. Airia was selected as a finalist for AI Startup of the Year, Best Consideration of Ethics & Governance in AI, AI Deployment of the Year and Best AI Infrastructure Solution. The recognition spans key areas of enterprise AI adoption, from the infrastructure used to deploy AI to the governance required to manage it responsibly at scale. "AI adoption is accelerating across the enterprise, and organizations need the visibility and control to manage it securely at scale," said Kevin Kiley, CEO of Airia. "Recognition across four categories reflects the breadth of what we've built and the work our team is doing to help enterprises put AI into production with the right controls in place." Airia provides enterprises with a unified control plane for AI. The platform helps organizations discover AI activity across their environments, secure AI applications and agents, enforce governance and policy at runtime, and understand and optimize AI consumption. The AI Awards recognize organizations and technologies advancing the development and application of artificial intelligence. Finalists will undergo a final round of judging, with winners scheduled to be announced Oct. 7. About Airia Airia is the enterprise AI platform for discovering, securing, governing, and optimizing AI at scale, giving security, compliance, and IT teams full visibility and control over every agent, model, and workflow. Named a Visionary in the 2026 AI Governance Magic Quadrant and trusted by 500+ enterprises. Learn more at airia.com.

Speed vs. Security: how Frontier AI and strategic alliances are redefining the enterprise CISO role. Today is September 12, 2026, and the landscape of enterprise defense is experiencing a tectonic shift. As frontier artificial intelligence tools continue to accelerate, McKinsey and Company has issued a stark warning: enterprise defense speeds are lagging dangerously behind threat capabilities. In response, organizations are rapidly abandoning disjointed, legacy toolsets in favor of unified security orchestration and structured management changes. The battle against Frontier AI latency. McKinsey's research emphasizes that frontier AI has exposed deep weaknesses in standard detection and response pipelines. While malicious actors use generative models to automate targeted attacks at scale, traditional security teams remain bottlenecked by manual triage and slow approval processes. This speed gap has forced security operations to evolve from a reactive model to a fully automated, continuous loop. To address this, strategic alliances are reshaping the market. Wipro and CrowdStrike recently announced the launch of their joint CISO Command Center, which aims to fuse endpoint telemetry with advanced managed detection and response services. Similarly, Orient Technologies has expanded its footprint through a significant 3.15 million dollar deal with Securonix to deploy cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) solutions. Additionally, distributors like VST ECS are shoring up their portfolios by partnering with Akamai to deliver edge security and microsegmentation, while Odyssey Cybersecurity has collaborated with Airia to help organizations securely adopt enterprise AI. Restructuring the corporate hierarchy. As technical demands multiply, the traditional role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is fracturing under the pressure. The emerging consensus points toward a massive organizational pivot: delegating daily operations to a dedicated Deputy CISO. This allows the primary CISO to act as a strategic business partner, often termed the "CEO of Technology," a major topic slated for discussion at HMG Strategy's upcoming Chicago summit on September 22. Industry recruitment is also keeping pace. Cyble has recently appointed cybersecurity veteran Steve Ingram as Executive Vice President for the US market to guide its expansion efforts. Meanwhile, forward-looking enterprises are already looking past the AI horizon. At GISEC Global 2026, firms like Spire Solutions are preparing to showcase enterprise-ready architectures designed to survive both the current AI wave and the looming quantum threat. The bottom line. * The Velocity Gap: Frontier AI has reduced the threshold for cyber attacks, making traditional multi-day detection windows obsolete. * Consolidation and Alliances: The Wipro-CrowdStrike alliance and Orient's 3.15 million dollar Securonix contract prove that enterprise security demands fully integrated, single-pane-of-glass platforms. * Executive Evolution: The creation of Deputy CISO roles and the rise of the "CEO of Technology" show that cyber risk is now managed as a core business risk, rather than a mere IT problem. Stay Connected for Daily Security Intelligence Follow Aibots Sdn Bhd to get the latest breaking cybersecurity reports and threat analysis delivered daily. Aibots Sdn Bhd | [Beyond Future]

Airia advances MCP Gateway with intelligent routing and enterprise access controls. New capabilities give IT and security teams centralized control and intelligent tool routing across MCP clients. August 27, 2026 08:00 ET | Source: Airia ATLANTA, Aug. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Airia today announced new capabilities for its MCP Gateway, including Airia Radar, dynamic per-user tool routing, admin-enforced access controls and Skills protocol support, giving enterprises centralized infrastructure to manage MCP deployments at scale. "Enterprises are not asking whether to adopt MCP anymore. They have adopted it," said Spencer Reagan of Airia. As MCP deployments expand, managing tool access across users, AI clients and large catalogs creates operational complexity. Loading every available tool into a model's context window can also increase token consumption and reduce response quality. "Enterprises are not asking whether to adopt MCP anymore. They have adopted it," said Spencer Reagan of Airia. "But enterprise use of MCP across hundreds of tools and thousands of users demands a specific set of capabilities that MCP doesn't deliver out of the box. Airia's ability to deliver these features for IT and security teams is crucial to a safe, secure, and manageable enterprise deployment." Airia Radar addresses context window overload by loading three native tools, Search, Execute and Manage Cache, by default. Radar uses semantic search to identify relevant tools across the gateway and caches selected tools based on usage. Organizations can connect API catalogs with hundreds or thousands of endpoints without loading every tool definition into the context window. Airia's MCP catalog includes nearly 2,000 preconfigured servers. Airia's Dynamic Gateway gives each user a personalized tool set through a single gateway address. Administrators assign tool groups by role and establish organization-wide policies, while users manage preferences within those boundaries through Airia's Your Apps dashboard. Airia can also deploy the Dynamic Gateway through its Endpoint Agent, while AI Discovery can identify existing MCP client configurations and replace local server setups. Additional capabilities include Skills over MCP, which connects public or private Skills repositories, and Tool Annotations, which classify tools as read-only or destructive. Administrators can control access at the app, tool and parameter levels by role. Tools also carry a scan status indicating evaluation for prompt injection risks. About Airia Airia is the enterprise AI platform for discovering, securing, governing and optimizing AI at scale, giving security, compliance and IT teams full visibility and control over every agent, model and workflow. Named a Visionary in the 2026 AI Governance Magic Quadrant and trusted by 500-plus enterprises. Learn more at airia.com.