Top vendors including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Cisco debuted new security products Monday to kick off RSA Conference 2026.
RSAC Hot Products
As the cybersecurity industry continues ramping up its focus on AI and agentic for the next phase of advancement, numerous top vendors announced their newest AI-powered cybersecurity tools on Monday at RSAC 2026. The massive RSAC conference kicked off in San Francisco with key industry players such as CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Cisco unveiling an array of major new security products.
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Judging by the product announcements so far, RSAC 2026 is on track to only amplify the attention on AI—both as the basis for new product capabilities and as the technology that threat actors are expected to use for delivering widespread, high-speed autonomous attacks. The expected broad adoption of AI agents in the workforce is poised to be among the other top issues of concern for the industry this week at RSAC, with many organizations struggling to ensure that productivity-boosting agents will provide strong identity and data security.
Other new security tools announced Monday at RSAC came from major vendors including Arctic Wolf, Wiz (now owned by Google), Dell Technologies and Rubrik.
RSAC 2026 runs through Thursday, March 26, and will see tens of thousands descend on the Moscone Center in San Francisco to explore the latest developments and new trends in the world of cybersecurity. CRN will be on hand for interviews with top CEOs and CEOs and to check out the newly announced products on the show floor.
Here’s what you need to know on 10 hot new cybersecurity tools announced Monday at RSAC 2026.
Arctic Wolf Aurora Agentic SOC
At RSAC 2026, Arctic Wolf announced the launch of what it’s calling the “world’s largest agentic SOC” (Security Operations Center). The debut of the Aurora Agentic SOC will deliver improved AI-driven security outcomes along with substantial reductions in cost and complexity, the company said. The system will leverage the new Aurora Superintelligent Platform, also announced Monday, which uses what Arctic Wolf describes as a “transformative” agentic framework that is “AI-led” but also retains human involvement where necessary. The platform utilizes “hundreds of agents” capable of handling key security tasks along with a proprietary Security Operations Graph for ingesting telemetry and AI Trust Engine guardrails, Arctic Wolf said. Ultimately, the Aurora Agentic SOC enables autonomous agents to perform core SOC workflows while human experts are kept in the loop for oversight and validation as well as more-advanced and decision-making, according to the vendor.
Palo Alto Networks: Prisma Browser for Business
Palo Alto Networks on Monday announced the debut of an SMB-focused secure browser, the Prisma Browser for Business, providing a simplified way for small businesses to protect against browser-based threats. Such threats increasingly include risks related to AI application usage, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora (pictured) said during a media briefing. “We think that part of the market is most susceptible” to threats and risks related to AI adoption in browsers, Arora said. Key capabilities offered by the browser include built-in protection against phishing, ransomware and fraud, Palo Alto Networks said. Additional data security controls prevent leakage or theft of data, the company said. The Prisma Browser for Business is “designed to be simple [so] that our customers don’t have to make security decisions,” Arora said. The company believes that offering such capabilities to SMBs is “going to be critical to making sure that AI reaches the entire business landscape,” not just for large enterprises, he said.
Wiz AI Application Protection Platform
At RSAC 2026, Wiz announced the launch of its new AI Application Protection Platform, which is aimed at providing “end-to-end” security for AI applications, the Google-owned company said in a blog post. The platform provides the necessary context to developer and security teams to enable an understanding of the real cyber risks, empowering these teams to take improved security actions, Wiz said. The AI Application Protection Platform (AI-APP) ties together visibility and risk analysis with runtime protection, ultimately delivering “a single, graph-powered platform — allowing teams to understand and secure AI systems as they actually operate,” the company said. The AI-APP is the “natural evolution” of the cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP), Wiz said in the post.
CrowdStrike: Falcon Next-Gen SIEM for Defender
CrowdStrike announced Monday that it will now support Microsoft Defender for Endpoint within Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, providing a significant market expansion for the SIEM (security information and event management) platform. With the addition of support for Microsoft’s widely used Defender security platform, CrowdStrike is “broadening our addressable market” in a major way for Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, CrowdStrike Chief Business Officer Daniel Bernard said during a media briefing. Falcon Next-Gen SIEM can now ingest and correlate telemetry data from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint as part of the expanded support, CrowdStrike disclosed. The newly announced support for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint creates a huge new opportunity for partners to work with Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, Bernard said. Ultimately, Falcon Next-Gen SIEM for Defender “takes us into way more environments than we’re in today. And I think that’s positive for channel partners,” he said.
Cisco: Zero Trust For AI Agents
Cisco Systems is aiming to provide a massive boost to the adoption of AI agents in the workforce with a new set of security capabilities announced Monday, including new zero trust functionality for agentic that represents a “big step forward” for the industry, Cisco executive Tom Gillis told CRN. When it comes to securing AI agents, “we believe that has to evolve from access control to action control,” said Gillis, senior vice president and general manager for Cisco’s infrastructure and security group. “It needs to be more fine-grained, and it needs to be more intelligent—where it can allow selective access for certain tasks, but not general and broad [access].” In response, Cisco is introducing Zero Trust Access for AI agents, providing task-based permissions for agentic activities. The offering enables organizations to move from providing long-lived credentials, such as those often granted to humans, to providing tightly controlled permissions linked to specific workflows for agents, according to Cisco. The tool also provides monitoring for evaluating whether agent actions are appropriate, effectively supervising the activities of agents, Gillis said.
Dell Technologies: Quantum-Ready Security Features
At RSAC 2026, Dell Technologies announced a new set of quantum-ready security features within its commercial PCs launching this year. The features are aimed at providing a “security by design” approach, Dell said in a news release, in preparation for the expected arrival of quantum computing that can imperil current data encryption in coming years. The security features provide hardening for a key hardware security component in a PC, the embedded controller (EC), enabling the PCs to “verify firmware updates using signatures designed to resist future quantum-enabled attacks,” Dell said in the release. That will serve to protect the PC against malicious or tampered firmware, the company said. Additionally, Dell said that its enhanced BIOS Verification capability is aligned to post-quantum cryptography standards.
Rubrik: Semantic AI Governance Engine
Rubrik announced Monday that it’s launching what it calls the “first AI governance engine” in the data security industry that can provide real-time security and control for autonomous agents. The vendor said that the Semantic AI Governance Engine includes key capabilities such as semantic policy interpretation for translating natural language instructions into machine logic as well as a proprietary SLM (small language model) that offers both lower latency and improved accuracy compared to most LLMs. The Semantic AI Governance Engine will be the technology driver behind the Rubrik Agent Cloud, ultimately “replacing static, manual oversight with intent-driven governance,” the company said in a news release.
Dataminr for Cyber Defense
At RSAC 2026, Dataminr announced launching a new offering focused on delivering preemptive protection against threats and exposures. The Dataminr for Cyber Defense offering includes a suite of capabilities the provide real-time intelligence tailored to client needs, the company said. The offerings include Dataminr Client-Tailored Threat Intelligence, Dataminr Agentic TI Ops and Dataminr Predictive Threat Exposure Management, according to the company. The new suite builds on Dataminr’s $290 million acquisition of ThreatConnect, announced in October, which has brought its cyber threat intelligence and risk prioritization offering to Dataminr’s AI platform.
Snyk Evo AI-SPM
Code and AI security vendor Snyk announced an expansion Monday to its agentic security orchestration system, Evo, with the debut of Evo AI-SPM (AI security posture management). In a news release, Snyk said that Evo AI-SPM will provide a “unified architecture that secures the three critical phases of agentic development”—consisting of the environment, artifact and behavior. Within environment, the company is rolling out an Agent Scan capability for protecting the supply chain of tools that agents leverage, while for Snyk Studio will cover the artifact by enforcing validation security directly within CI/CD pipelines. As for behavior, Agent Guard “provides real-time enforcement within the development loop, stopping destructive commands and governing exactly how agents operate,” the company said in the release.
Expel Managed SIEM
At RSAC 2026, Expel debuted what it’s calling a “transparent co-managed service” delivering MDR (managed detection and response) engineering expertise within SIEM (security information and event management) environments. The new Expel Managed SIEM “takes the traditional SIEM administration burden off security teams’ plates” while reducing the amount of data that needs to be ingested, the vendor said in a news release. The new offering also provides “full visibility into every rule and tuning decision,” the company said. Expel Managed SIEM is now generally available as an add-on to the Expel MDR platform for Splunk Enterprise Security and Microsoft Sentinel, the vendor said.
