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October 24, 2025

A Major Leap Forward: FireTail Unveils New UI and Expansive AI Model Support to Secure & Enable Enterprise AI Adoption

FireTail’s latest release introduces a new UI completely reworked for simple, instant navigation, and expanded support for AWS and a range of leading AI models that dramatically increases testing and scanning capabilities.

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October 22, 2025

How to Detect Shadow AI in Your Organization

Learn how to detect Shadow AI across your organization, spot early risks, and keep data compliant with Firetail’s real-time AI visibility platform.

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October 21, 2025

GlassWorm - When Invisible Worms Meet Invisible Payloads

GlassWorm is an insidious new self-propagating worm that weaponizes invisible Unicode to commit supply chain attacks. Discover how this malware stealthily bypasses code reviews, injects malicious payloads into developer tooling, and uses blockchain for C2. Learn the five essential steps for defending your AI pipelines against this invisible threat...

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October 16, 2025

What Is Shadow AI and Why It Matters?

Discover what Shadow AI is, why it matters for enterprise AI security, and how Firetail helps eliminate risks with detection and governance solutions

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October 6, 2025

Ghosts in the Machine: ASCII Smuggling across Various LLMs

Researcher Viktor Markopoulos discovers ASCII Smuggling bypasses human audit via Unicode, enabling enterprise identity spoofing and data poisoning on Gemini & Grok.

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September 30, 2025

Introducing Resource Policies for Continuous AI Security

Resource Policies let you set automated guardrails for your AI resources, catching changes and policy violations the moment they happen. They help teams reduce risk, enforce governance, and maintain continuous compliance without manual effort.

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August 9, 2025

FireTail at Black Hat USA 2025: Finalist in the Startup Spotlight

FireTail was one of four startups selected as a finalist in the Black Hat USA 2025 Startup Spotlight Competition. This week was unforgettable and reaffirmed the urgent demand for AI security solutions.

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July 8, 2025

Startup Spotlight at Blackhat USA 2025

FireTail has been selected as aone of just four finalists for the Blackhat USA 2025 Startup Spotlight Competition. We're delighted to be taking part and can't wait to showcase how FireTail helps enterprises discover, assess, and secure AI usage while preventing threats like shadow AI, data leaks, and AI-specific attacks.

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April 25, 2025

AI Innovation at Risk: FireTail’s 2025 Report Reveals API Security as the Weak Link in Enterprise AI Strategies

FireTail, the leading AI & API security platform, has released its annual report, The State of AI & API Security 2025, revealing a critical blind spot in the way organizations are securing their AI investments. Despite record-breaking AI adoption, the report warns that most enterprises are overlooking the most exposed part of the AI stack: the API layer.

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April 23, 2025

Securing AI Innovation Without Sacrificing Pace

The AI race is driving developers to release more and more AI models in competition and security teams are struggling to keep up. So how do we continue to innovate at this speed, while still ensuring the security of our AI models?

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March 26, 2025

Startup Spotlight at Blackhat Asia 2025

FireTail has been selected as a finalist for the Blackhat Asia 2025 Startup Spotlight Competition. We're delighted to be taking part and can't wait to showcase how FireTail helps enterprises discover, assess, and secure AI usage while preventing threats like shadow AI, data leaks, and AI-specific attacks.

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March 3, 2025

API Security IS AI Security

Security teams today face a dual challenge: protecting AI systems from external threats while securing the APIs that power them. The reality is clear—if your APIs aren’t secure, neither is your AI.

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February 12, 2025

FireTail Expands with AI Security: A New Era of Protection for AI Integrations

AI is revolutionizing industries at an unprecedented pace. But as organizations integrate AI into their workflows, they are encountering serious security risks. In fact, 97% of organizations using generative AI have reported security incidents. Traditional security tools are failing to keep up, leaving companies vulnerable to data breaches, adversarial attacks, and compliance risks.

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January 10, 2025

Closing the AI Compliance Gap: Avoiding GDPR Violations in the AI Era

GDPR demands transparency, accountability, and user control over personal data. However, many organizations are inadvertently falling short of these obligations due to the unmonitored integration of AI tools—often via APIs—into their systems. The result? Compliance gaps that could lead to fines, operational chaos, and reputational damage.

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October 22, 2024

FireTail Joins Wiz Integration (WIN) Platform

Technology Partnership Enables Mutual Customers to Reduce Cloud Risk and Enhance API Security.

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September 10, 2024

FireTail Selected for TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield 2024

We are thrilled to announce that FireTail has been selected to compete in TechCrunch Disrupt’s prestigious Startup Battlefield 2024! Being part of this prestigious event is an honor and testament to the hard work our team has put into building a cutting-edge API security platform.

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May 20, 2024

The State of API Security 2024

We're excited to announce the release of our latest State of API Security 2024 report! With the rapid adoption of microservice-based architectures, cloud-native solutions, containerization, and AI, the API attack surface is expanding faster than ever.

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April 24, 2024

APIs, Microservices and Risk Management

Although microservices are widespread, they are often misunderstood by business leaders. While they present substantial benefits, they also have the potential to introduce new risks into the API environment. Understanding the benefits and risks of microservice utilization is a major step towards effective product development.

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April 23, 2024

APIs at the Edge of Modern Cloud Apps

The cloud might be a popular talking point, but the edge of the cloud – where APIs and distributed computing intersect – is the true unsung hero of modern cloud application development and deployment. Today, we’re going to look at APIs at the edge of modern cloud applications.

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April 17, 2024

APIs and Competitive Advantage in the Travel Sector

In the travel sector, securing a competitive edge is vital. In a hyperconnected industry, where demand fluctuates, pricing is dynamic and customers have endless options, efficient and well-secured APIs can make a huge difference.

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March 13, 2024

The Importance of APIs in FinTech Ecosystems

Fintech is a growing industry, and with this growth comes data. With data - and the sensitivity of the data in financial services in particular - comes the need to implement security solutions effectively at scale. Thankfully, fintech providers can turn to many readily available solutions to increase their security posture and deliver better, more secure products at scale.

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February 29, 2024

API Security in an Era of Open Banking

Open Banking can best be thought of as a “microservices” approach to banking. It's a powerful concept that enables porting from service to service, and allows consumers to integrate this data with other providers. APIs are at the core and effective API security is a must.

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January 5, 2024

Jeremy Snyder of FireTail on the Founder to Founder Podcast

Jeremy Snyder, the CEO and Co-Founder of FireTail, talks to Teja Yenamandra of Gun.io about his entrepreneurial journey, insights on various tech trends and FireTail's mission to secure the world's APIs.

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November 16, 2023

FireTail Advisory Board Welcomes Mikko Hypponen and Sounil Yu

We are delighted to welcome two outstanding individuals to our advisory board – Mikko Hypponen and Sounil Yu. These new additions bring unparalleled expertise and strategic insights that will drive continued innovation and address the evolving API security needs of today's leading organizations.

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November 7, 2023

API Security by Design - API World 2023

Timo Rüppell, VP of Product at FireTail, looks at the concept of ‘API Security By Design,' showing how to protect your APIs from inception to operation. Recorded live at API World 2023

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October 23, 2023

FireTail at Apidays Australia

FireTail CEO, Jeremy Snyder, was at Apidays Australia in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre this month. There, he delivered a talk that analyzed some high-profile API breaches and took a look at what we could learn from these breaches in order to improve our API security strategy.

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October 4, 2023

FireTail at Identity Week USA

We were delighted to get the opportunity to participate in Identity Week USA in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday and Wednesday. Identity Week is a conference that brings together the brightest minds from all parts of the identity sector to promote innovation and new effective identity solutions.

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October 2, 2023

FireTail Joins European Cyber Security Organisation

Since 2016, ECSO has been leading the way in European cybersecurity, building upon the foundation left behind by the Public-Private Partnership in Cybersecurity (cPPP). At FireTail, we are excited to be a part of this journey to bring even greater innovation to the European Cybersecurity landscape.

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September 27, 2023

FireTail Now Available on AWS Marketplace

The addition of FireTail marks a significant milestone in our mission to provide state-of-the-art API security solutions to organizations around the world. Now, AWS customers can unleash the power of FireTail quickly, easily and confident in the knowledge that the platform integrates perfectly with their cloud environment.

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September 15, 2023

FireTail Secures SOC 2 Type 2 Certification

At FireTail, we are very pleased to announce that we have achieved SOC 2 Type 2 accreditation. This certification is an important milestone in our ongoing journey to ensure we adhere to the highest industry standards when it comes to data protection and cybersecurity.

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September 1, 2023

CYFIRMA & FireTail: Working Together for Complete Visibility and Robust API Security

FireTail is proud to announce our partnership with CYFIRMA, a leading provider of external threat management solutions.

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May 20, 2023

FireTail Presenting API learnings and security innovation at Infosecurity Europe 2023

Join FireTail at Infosecurity Europe in London to learn more about API security and FireTail’s approach to helping organizations eliminate API vulnerabilities with a hybrid approach to API security

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May 12, 2023

FireTail Recognized in CyberTech 100 List 2023: Shaping the Future of Cybersecurity

We are delighted to announce that FireTail has been included in the CyberTech100 list for 2023. The CyberTech100 is an annual evaluation of the top 100 most innovative CyberTech companies worldwide.

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May 5, 2023

API Security Essentials: A Comprehensive Checklist for Securing your API

APIs have become critical for seamless data exchange between different software systems and protecting sensitive data. This makes them a target for hackers. The level and volume of API threats is steadily on the rise, so developers must be vigilant to keep up with API security.

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January 9, 2023

Join FireTail at CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2023

FireTail looks forward to attending our first event of 2023: CloudNativeSecurityCon in Seattle, Washington on Feb. 1-2. If you will be there, find our booth in the Startup Zone, where co-founder and CEO Jeremy Snyder and Director of Customer Success Paul Geoffrion will be eager to meet you.

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