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Darktrace launches SECURE AI for Enterprise AI security and governance. Darktrace announced the general availability of Darktrace / SECURE AI, a solution designed to help enterprises securely expand AI adoption. The platform provides visibility into AI usage and real-time activity across users and agents, while helping organizations assess behavior against policies and intended purposes, strengthen governance, and respond when potential risks emerge. Enterprise AI adoption is now both widespread and fragmented. Over 80% of Darktrace's customers now use generative AI services, and the average organization interacted with five different AI providers in August 2026 [1]. Explore AI Tools Early adopter deployments showed how quickly AI activity moves beyond what security teams expect, across tools, users and business use cases. * At one organization that had approved the use of a single AI assistant, Darktrace / SECURE AI discovered that a majority of employees were using unauthorized AI services, exposing a significant gap between policy and practice. * At another organization, Darktrace / SECURE AI uncovered unmanaged contractor use of multiple AI platforms, revealing a previously unknown risk vector. This prompted an immediate legal review and the implementation of formal AI governance controls. * Another organization identified nearly 90 AI agents operating within a low-code development environment with no formal approval process or oversight for agent creation, highlighting the rapid emergence of shadow AI across the enterprise. As AI agents gain access to identities, data, applications and infrastructure, the challenge goes beyond uncovering AI use: security teams also need to know whether that behavior remains aligned with policy, intended purpose, and the normal operating pattern of the organization. Darktrace was built for this shift. Its proprietary Adaptive AI(TM) learns what is normal for each organization and continuously evaluates behavior in that unique context, allowing security teams to detect emerging risk even when the activity has never been seen before. Darktrace / SECURE AI extends this behavioral approach to prompts, users, agents and AI systems, combining real-time visibility, policy governance and the ability to act when risk emerges so enterprises can move AI from experimentation to production securely and with confidence. Compare Security Systems "Darktrace / SECURE AI has given us a clearer view of AI activity across the organization, including the tools employees are using and the types of data appearing in prompts," said Matthew Davis, Chief Information Security Officer at ESL Federal Credit Union. "That visibility helps us understand where use falls outside our approved services, guide employees toward the right tools and make more informed decisions about licensing and education as adoption grows." "As we worked to develop our AI usage policy, we realized we were making decisions without a clear understanding of how employees were actually using these tools," said David Green, Senior Vice President of IT at Lamons. "Darktrace / SECURE AI showed us that AI was already helping people work more effectively across the business, and that insight changed our approach. We can now shape policy around real behavior, protecting company data while giving employees room to use AI productively. That has given us the confidence to keep moving quickly on AI." "Working with cybersecurity partners like Darktrace is critical to translating advances in AI into stronger, practical defenses. Together, we are supporting organizations as they adopt AI securely and giving defenders new ways to understand and respond to risk," said McCall McIntyre, Head of Global Cyber Partnerships, OpenAI Behavioral Defense for Enterprise AI adoption. Darktrace / SECURE AI gives security teams a broad, integrated approach to the safe adoption of enterprise AI: * Shadow AI Management: Identifies unsanctioned AI activity through Darktrace telemetry and SASE integrations including Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access with the ability to block unsanctioned AI usage or quarantine affected devices. It helps customers distinguish unauthorized usage from approved usage, eliminate blind spots, and improve policy to reduce data exposure and risk. * AI Prompt Analysis: Provides real-time visibility into prompts, sessions and responses across supported platforms, including Amazon Bedrock, ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, with Salesforce support coming soon. It detects activity including attempted jailbreaks, sensitive data exposure and potential indirect prompt injection, while ranking sessions by risk to help analysts prioritize investigation. * Policy Management: Provides a free-form policy upload capability, which enables security teams to define organization-specific controls, evaluate policy effectiveness, and continuously refine governance beyond standard frameworks. When uploading a policy, administrators can review the enterprise policy against regulatory and compliance frameworks to help users track alignment. * AI Agent Identities and Actions: Identifies agents and human users associated with AI activity across supported environments, providing visibility into their permissions, roles, access and relationships. This helps organizations understand how agents are being used, what they are connected to and whether their activity remains aligned with their intended purpose. * AI Agent Development Risk Management: Extends visibility into low-code and high-code development environments and platforms, including Amazon Bedrock and Microsoft Copilot Studio. Security teams can identify agent identities, excessive permissions, misconfigurations and anomalous development activity, connecting how agents are built with how they behave once deployed. Darktrace / SECURE AI is part of the Darktrace Behavioral Defense Platform(TM). Rather than relying primarily on static rules, signatures, or known indicators, the platform learns what is normal for each organization and builds a real-time understanding of behavior across each enterprise. It provides unified visibility, continuous behavioral monitoring, and autonomous response across AI, people, and infrastructure, helping security teams detect suspicious activity and contain it before it causes harm. Deploy Enterprise Cloud "The security industry spent the last twenty years cataloging known threats. AI breaks that model," said Ed Jennings, President and CEO of Darktrace. "As AI systems become more adaptive and autonomous, security must understand behavior as it unfolds. Darktrace was built around a behavioral approach: you won't always know what the next attack looks like, but you can tell when something starts behaving differently from what is normal for the organization. Darktrace / SECURE AI applies that same approach to AI, helping security teams manage risk without slowing adoption. That's what it means to secure what AI can do." Advancing behavioral security across the AI landscape. Darktrace integrates with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI to help secure the rapid advances reshaping enterprise AI. Through integrations between Darktrace / SECURE AI and the frontier models, agent frameworks, and development environments customers are adopting, these collaborations extend behavioral security across agents, low-code and high-code development, prompts and enterprise AI use. Amazon Web Service (AWS): Darktrace extends behavioral visibility across the development and runtime activity of agents built with Amazon Bedrock, helping mutual customers connect how agents are built with how they behave after deployment. Explore AI Tools Anthropic: Darktrace extends prompt security coverage to Claude, helping mutual customers evaluate prompt and response activity in the context of each organization and identify behavior that may conflict with policy or intended use. Microsoft: Darktrace extends behavioral understanding across Microsoft Copilot users and agents, including low-code development in Microsoft Copilot Studio. This gives customers additional context on how AI and agents behave across the wider enterprise, whether their activity remains aligned with policy and intended purpose, and when emerging risk requires action. OpenAI: Darktrace supports behavioral security across ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex use. Through the Daybreak Defense Network, Darktrace is developing capabilities that combine OpenAI's Daybreak models with its behavioral understanding to identify security incidents involving enterprise AI and enrich cyber incidents with business context, helping defenders understand which users, systems and business processes are affected and prioritize their response.

Yusuf Mouharrem promoted to Senior GTM & SDR Campaigns Manager, EMEA at Darktrace. Darktrace has promoted Yusuf Mouharrem to Senior GTM & SDR Campaigns Manager, EMEA, expanding his responsibilities across go-to-market and sales development initiatives in the region. In his new role, Mouharrem will focus on GTM and SDR campaign activities across EMEA. The position sits at the intersection of marketing and sales development, with campaign planning and execution playing an important role in connecting marketing activity with pipeline generation. The move comes as B2B organizations continue to place greater emphasis on aligning marketing and sales teams around shared audiences, account priorities, and measurable outcomes. SDR campaigns are increasingly being supported by audience data, intent signals, automation, and account-based approaches to identify and engage potential buyers. For cybersecurity companies in particular, reaching the right business audiences can involve multiple stakeholders across technology, security, risk, and executive functions. This makes coordination between demand generation, sales development, and go-to-market teams an important part of the customer acquisition process. Mouharrem's expanded remit reflects the growing role of campaign management within modern B2B go-to-market strategies. Rather than operating separately from sales, SDR campaigns are increasingly connected to broader demand generation programs and revenue objectives. The appointment also highlights the continued evolution of marketing roles within technology companies. As organizations adopt more data-driven approaches to targeting and engagement, GTM teams are taking greater responsibility for coordinating campaigns across regions and connecting marketing activity with sales development. Mouharrem's promotion adds to Darktrace's EMEA go-to-market function, with his new position focused on supporting GTM and SDR campaign efforts across the region.

Safetech Innovations accelerates in H1 2026: consolidated net profit increases by 53% to RON 8.5 million. Safetech Innovations (BVB: SAFE), a Romanian cybersecurity company listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, with offices in Bucharest, London, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, reports, at consolidated level, a turnover of RON 25.7 million in the first half of 2026, up 34% compared to the same period last year, an operating profit of RON 10.4 million, up 52%, and a net profit of RON 8.5 million, representing a 53% increase compared to H1 2025. "The results recorded in the first half of the year confirm Safetech Innovations' return to a solid growth trajectory, in a context in which cybersecurity is becoming increasingly important for both public and private-sector organizations. Over the past years, we have built a company capable of combining technical expertise, recurring services and proprietary solutions with access to highly complex projects. This positioning gives us confidence in Safetech's ability to capitalize on the opportunities available both in Romania and on international markets and to continue creating long-term value for our clients and shareholders," stated Victor Gânsac, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Safetech Innovations. At individual level, Safetech Innovations' turnover amounted to RON 25.2 million in the first six months of 2026, up 36% compared to the same period of the previous year. Recurring cybersecurity services and security solution implementation projects contributed approximately equally to turnover, accounting for around 50% each. Individual operating profit reached RON 10.4 million, up 44%, while individual net profit amounted to RON 8.6 million, 42% above the level recorded in H1 2025. "The performance recorded in the first half of the year demonstrates that we can sustain an accelerated pace of growth while maintaining an efficient operating structure. The fact that we achieved this level of performance with a team that increased by only two employees compared to H1 2025 reflects the progress made in terms of productivity and resource utilization. The integration of artificial intelligence-based tools into our day-to-day operations is also contributing to greater workflow efficiency. In the period ahead, we will focus on implementing the projects we have secured and delivering them to the quality standards that have supported Safetech's development and our long-term relationships with clients," stated Ionuț Georgescu, CEO of Safetech Innovations. In terms of Safetech UK, the entity generated revenues of approximately RON 974 thousand, up 30% compared to the same period last year, and attracted four new clients, primarily for cybersecurity services. At the same time, the subsidiary's operating costs decreased by 12%, while its loss for the first half of the year narrowed to approximately RON 13 thousand. A project initially scheduled for this period was postponed to the third quarter, and the company expects Safetech UK to become profitable in Q3 2026. The European business continued to develop, supported by projects carried out under the European Commission's FREIA (Fortified Security, Resilience, Expertise, Intelligence and Adaptability) framework agreement and by strategic partnerships with major international integrators. These collaborations facilitate Safetech Innovations' participation in more complex projects and contribute to the gradual increase in the share of international contracts in the company's revenues. The positive commercial momentum continued both during the reporting period and after its end. In May and July, Safetech Innovations signed two significant contracts, each with a duration of 36 months, worth RON 4.34 million and EUR 2.7 million, respectively, excluding VAT, for the provision of cybersecurity services and solutions. The company also entered into a 48-month framework agreement with the Authority for the Digitalization of Romania for the provision of cybersecurity assessment services required for the migration of certain applications to the Government Private Cloud. For the second half of 2026, Safetech Innovations' management expects the favorable trend observed in the first six months of the year to continue, supported by the current project portfolio, ongoing recurring contracts and opportunities generated by the company's international operations. Safetech Innovations has been listed on the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange since February 6, 2023, and is traded under the symbol SAFE. About Safetech Innovations Since 2011, Safetech Innovations S.A. has been providing customized cybersecurity services and solutions tailored to the needs of each organization. The company's portfolio of services and solutions includes consulting for governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) in security, security testing and vulnerability management, security solutions, professional services, outsourced security services, and proprietary software applications for cybersecurity. Safetech Innovations has established partnerships with several leading cybersecurity companies, such as CheckPoint, DarkTrace, Microsoft, Splunk, Fidelis, HID, Cynet, and Phriendly Phishing. Currently employing over 60 staff members, the company has dedicated teams to research and develop cybersecurity software products, implement and support security solutions, and Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) services. The company serves clients from various sectors, including utilities, healthcare, insurance, industrial manufacturing, retail, and the public sector. Additionally, seven of the top ten banks in Romania have chosen Safetech as their cybersecurity service provider. Safetech Innovations has been involved in over a hundred projects to secure critical infrastructures in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Morocco, the European Union, Singapore, the Philippines, India, China, and New Zealand. Safetech Innovations (SAFE) is listed on the Main Market of the Bucharest Stock Exchange as of February 6, 2023. More information about Safetech Innovations is available at www.safetech.ro