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Security: September 2026

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Covers September 2026 (1 September 2026 to 30 September 2026, UTC) · Published 22 October 2026

Press summary

In September 2026, Techarda published 310 stories about Security from 68 companies, 198% more than in August 2026. Reading figures are withheld this month because fewer than 5 people are behind them. AI engines requested Security pages 964 times. The most frequent theme was Vulnerabilities (65 stories).

This report is for anyone tracking Security: buyers, analysts and journalists. It counts what companies published on Techarda and what technologists read and did with it. Every figure is a plain count for one calendar month; the method is at the end.

Reading figures for Security this month rest on fewer than 5 people, so they are withheld and this issue is below our bar for a full report. The publication figures below still stand.

Key figures

The month at a glance, with the change on August 2026 where both months can be published.

Stories published

310

198% more than in August 2026

Companies publishing

68

With at least one story this month.

Reads and actions

Withheld

Fewer than 5 people, so we don't publish it.

AI engine reads

964

Requests from identified AI crawlers and assistants.

Supply and demand

Supply is what companies published; demand is what people read and acted on. Comparing each as a share of all Techarda categories shows whether Security gets more or less attention than its volume of news.

Security accounted for 11.8% of the stories published across all categories this month. The demand side is withheld this month because fewer than 5 people are behind it.

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Security stories published per day, September 2026 · 310 in total

Themes on the rise

The topics that came up most in this month's published Security stories, with August 2026 alongside.

  • Vulnerabilities65 (15 in August 2026)
  • AI agents49 (14 in August 2026)
  • Identity24 (10 in August 2026)
  • Generative AI18 (6 in August 2026)
  • Backup & recovery14 (1 in August 2026)
  • Observability13 (4 in August 2026)
  • CI/CD12 (1 in August 2026)
  • Compliance11 (2 in August 2026)
  • Open source10 (2 in August 2026)
  • Quantum9 (1 in August 2026)

Launches, deals and partnerships

Notable moves from the month's published stories. Each title links to the Techarda summary, which links to the original.

Launches

Acquisitions

Funding

Partnerships

Who published

68 companies published Security stories this month, and the five busiest accounted for 33.2% of them. These are counts of published stories only: Techarda never publishes how many people read a particular company.

  • Cloudflare43 stories
  • Rapid717 stories
  • Proofpoint15 stories
  • Wiz15 stories
  • Qualys13 stories
  • CrowdStrike12 stories
  • Check Point Software11 stories
  • Palo Alto Networks11 stories
  • Sysdig10 stories
  • Sophos9 stories

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Methodology

  • Stories published counts stories a Techarda editor approved, in Security as their main category or as a tagged one, dated by when the source published them. A story tagged to two categories counts in both.
  • Reads and actions counts page views, follows, saves and click-throughs to the source by people on techarda.com. Signed-in Techarda staff are left out, and AI crawler traffic is counted separately.
  • AI engine reads counts requests from identified AI crawlers, assistants acting for a person and the Techarda agent API.
  • Themes come from automatic topic tags on published stories. Launches, deals and partnerships are stories tagged that way.
  • Any figure that describes people is published only when at least 5 people are behind it. A full report also needs 20 or more published stories in the month.
  • The figures are fixed when the month is issued, early in the following month, so they don't drift as late stories arrive.

The full method is under how the Category Pulse is put together. Spotted something wrong? Email engage@techarda.com.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is the Techarda Category Pulse?

A monthly report for each technology category on Techarda: how many stories companies published, how much technologists read and acted on, which themes rose and the launches and deals that mattered. Each issue covers one complete calendar month (UTC).

Why are some figures withheld?

Anything that describes people is only published when at least 5 people are behind it. Below that we leave the figure out and say so, rather than show a number that could point to an individual.

Can I quote the Security figures?

Yes. Cite "Techarda Category Pulse, Security, September 2026" and link to this page. The CSV and JSON downloads hold the same public figures.

Techarda Category Pulse · techarda.com/reports/category-pulse/security/2026-09 · Published 22 October 2026 · engage@techarda.com