News – September 16, 2026

News for today:

  • [Cohesity] Agent Resilience. Cohesity announced a new capability for discovering, protecting, and recovering the infrastructure behind enterprise AI agents, training its resilience capabilities on a new arena. An AI agent’s behavior depends on several components, including agent memory, configuration, credentials, guardrails, and workflows. At launch, Cohesity Agent Resilience protects agent memory and configuration using the same snapshot architecture, immutable backups, and clean-room recovery that Cohesity customers already rely on to protect sensitive workloads and data across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments. Cohesity
  • [Salt Security] More Salt for CrowdStrike. Salt Security expanded its integration with CrowdStrike Falcon – with integrations across multiple platform components. Through the certified Salt application on CrowdStrike Falcon Foundry, joint customers deploy Salt using their existing Falcon sensor, with no additional gateways or proxies. With CrowdStrike and Salt, customers can discover the agents operating in the environment, the MCP servers and tools they connect through, the APIs those connections invoke, and the permissions attached to each, including MCP servers exposed to the public internet and integrations that never went through review. Salt Security
  • [Mailprotector] New partner success team. Mailprotector launched a new partner success division to better support existing partners and MSPs. The team will provide customized, one-on-one onboarding for new partners while supporting existing MSPs as they train technicians, navigate new capabilities, and expand their email security offerings. That may include helping partners review complex email environments, educating new help desk technicians, or helping existing partners add products such as encryption and email continuity. Mailprotector
  • [Drata] Third-party risk management. Drata released a new evidence-based platform for assessing third-party risk; it’s agentic, and is intended to replace fragmented, questionnaire-heavy reviews. We put an agent to work on the most time-consuming parts of vendor review, while keeping a human in control of every decision. It runs the review end to end — syncing your vendors, tiering inherent risk, gathering and scoring evidence against your residual risk standards, and recording the decision — with a reviewer signing off on every result. Drata
  • [Fortinet] NYC yesterday, Calgary today. Fortinet unveiled a second Innovation Hub in as many days – this one in Alberta. With the support of the Government of Alberta, Invest Alberta, and Calgary Economic Development, Calgary was selected as a strategic location for the facility. It will help meet the growing demand for expertise in protecting critical infrastructure and operational technology. The hub builds on Fortinet’s 26-year presence in Canada and joins the company’s established campuses in Burnaby, British Columbia, and Ottawa, Ontario. Fortinet

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