NEWS · UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2026
Summaries of public announcements, with links to the original source. Updated monthly.
Quick answer
The three most recent items: watchTowr says it is named in a Gartner Emerging Tech Impact Radar report (23 September 2026), Censys expanded its channel partner program (22 September) and Tenable is bringing Claude Mythos 5 into Tenable One (8 September). Each item is a vendor or standards-body announcement summarized in our words; we have not tested the capabilities described.
For a themed summary of these items, see ASM vendor announcements in 2026, grouped by theme.
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watchTowr says it is listed as a Sample Vendor for Preemptive Exposure Management, its own category term, in Gartner's 2026 Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Preemptive Cybersecurity report.
Source: watchTowr
Censys announced a unified framework for distributors and resellers, early access to its product roadmap and a Partner Summit. It said partner-sourced bookings grew 186% year over year in the first half of 2026.
Source: Censys newsroom
Tenable said it is integrating Claude Mythos 5 into the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform. The first capability is Tenable One Adversary View, aimed at finding attack paths and choosing remediation.
Source: Tenable press release
IONIX introduced WAF Posture Management, which it describes as continuous, evidence-based WAF validation that finds unprotected assets, checks enforcement status and detects configuration drift across WAF deployments.
Source: IONIX blog
Tenable added Google Gemini coverage alongside Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise and Copilot, and extended visibility to Model Context Protocol deployments and AI-native developer tools.
Source: Tenable press release
IONIX joined Akamai's Technology Partner Program, pairing its external attack surface discovery and exploitability validation with Akamai's edge web application protection.
Source: IONIX press release
watchTowr launched Project Red, which reproduces newly disclosed vulnerabilities to validate client exposure. It says Project Red reproduced CVE-2026-63030 in 22 minutes.
Source: watchTowr
Censys reported 400% year-over-year growth in customers above $1 million in annual recurring revenue and 115% growth in Censys Platform customers, and said it expanded into the Middle East and Japan.
Source: Censys newsroom
Censys added real-time DNS visibility to its Internet Map, bringing domains, DNS records, IPs, hosts, services and certificates into a single view.
Source: Censys newsroom
CyCognito unveiled Continuous AI Pentesting, which runs AI-driven offensive testing continuously across the external attack surface through its Target Graph architecture.
Source: CyCognito press release
Field
FIRST's mid-year forecast projects approximately 66,000 CVEs in 2026, up from the median of 59,427 it forecast in February.
Source: FIRST
IONIX released Live Exposure Defense, which it says correlates each newly published CVE with a customer's internet-facing assets, confirms exploitability through safe active testing and delivers a mitigation workflow within 12 hours.
Source: IONIX blog
Rapid7 announced runtime validation and data security posture management for Exposure Command, aimed at showing which cloud vulnerabilities are exploitable and which sensitive data they put at risk.
Source: Rapid7 press release
Field
FIRST's 2026 Vulnerability Report projects a median of approximately 59,427 CVEs for the year, with a 90% confidence interval of 30,012 to 117,673.
Source: FIRST
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