End-to-end encryption stories

ExpressVPN expands beyond its VPN roots with ExpressAI, a privacy-focused platform using confidential computing to keep prompts and chats hidden.

ExpressVPN expands beyond VPNs with encrypted AI chats, launching ExpressAI on confidential computing enclaves after an audit by cybersecurity firm Cure53.

Rapid7 warns that hands-on attacks against cellular IoT hardware can pivot through trusted modules to breach cloud and backend systems.

SysAid bakes Splashtop remote support into its service desk, letting IT teams launch secure sessions directly from AI-driven tickets.

Radware launches cloud Web DDoS defence that blocks encrypted layer 7 attacks without forcing customers to share SSL certificates.

Generative AI is fuelling a sharp rise in intimate image abuse, outpacing weak platform responses and patchy global legal protections.

HIROH debuts a quantum-ready, end-to-end encrypted phone platform, bundling secure calls and messaging into its premium HIROH Phone.

Canon dominates Keypoint Intelligence's 2026 BLI awards, taking A3 Line of the Year for imageFORCE and a Pick Award for uniFLOW Online.

Identity systems will become the linchpin of AI-era cyber defence as misconfigured automation opens new paths to sensitive data, Netwrix warns.

WhatsApp launches Strict Account Settings, a lockdown mode offering tighter privacy and security for journalists and other high‑risk users.

VaynerX is deploying Keeper's enterprise password manager to centralise credentials and curb risks from password reuse and phishing.

Cloudbrink adds Safe AI controls to its zero trust platform, securing hybrid enterprise use of AI agents and browser-based AI services.

OVHcloud snaps up French encryption specialist Seald to bake end-to-end protection into its cloud services and bolster zero-knowledge security.

Keeper rolls out a zero-trust Slack integration, turning chat-based approvals into governed workflows while keeping enforcement in Keeper Vault.

As data becomes global and distributed, experts warn only Zero Trust at the database layer can secure modern SQL systems against evolving threats.

Keeper launches a zero-knowledge secrets manager extension for JetBrains IDEs, aiming to eliminate hardcoded credentials in codebases.

Simwood launches WhatsApp Business voice integration, linking Teams, SIP and UCaaS tools to more than three billion WhatsApp users.

YEO launches real-time facial age and ID checks promising 'unspoofable' privacy-first verification for social media, gaming and finance.

Codific sees 2026 cybersecurity shaped by shadow AI, passwordless logins, tighter regulation and a sharper focus on software supply chains.

Swiss start-up Soverli raises USD $2.6m to build a sovereign smartphone layer that runs alongside Android and iOS for mission-critical use.