Hardian Security raises 36M euros for AI vulnerability platform

Dutch security startup Hardian Security has raised 36 million euros in funding, according to digitaltoday.co.kr. The company offers AI agents that find vulnerabilities attackers could exploit, combining continuous exposure management and agentic penetration testing on a single platform.

The funding comes as security vendors in Korea and abroad roll out AI-focused products and services. SK Shieldus, for its part, analyzed that recent incidents in the financial sector were cases of automating and advancing existing attack techniques rather than AI creating new attack methods.

CrowdStrike analyzed the attacker in those incidents as a Chinese-speaking user likely motivated by financial gain, without naming a specific organization.

Product and program announcements

SK Telecom launched an independent AI cybersecurity consultative body with Upstage, domestic security companies and universities, signing an MOU for cooperation on AI information security technology. SGA Solutions will supply Illumio's micro-segmentation solution in Korea, and Logpresso expanded its SIEM platform monitoring scope to corporate generative AI usage, launching a ChatGPT Enterprise integration app.

SK Shieldus acquired the AWS Threat Detection and Response security competency. Infoseez launched a graph-based AI security solution called GOS (Graph Optimized Security) and supplied it to a major domestic semiconductor company.

Red Hat and IBM found and fixed over 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Java libraries through their Lightwell security infrastructure. Anthropic expanded and reorganized its cybersecurity access program, allowing more security personnel to use its top Claude models. SailPoint emphasized at Navigate 2026 in Austin that it is reorganizing its platform to manage human and agent access rights under a single policy system and block wrong access immediately.