QIZ Security Raises $17 Million for Cryptographic Governance Platform

SecurityWeek roundup: QIZ Security and 8Layers raised funding for cryptographic/post-quantum and identity-security platforms. UK government announced an agentic AI defense plan alongside an industry pledge. Multiple high-impact security incidents and patches: Palo Alto Networks released fixes for 13 PAN-OS vulnerabilities (buffer overflow, DoS, command injection, SSRF, auth bypass, etc.); Japanese telco KDDI suffered a breach affecting ~12 million users after attackers exploited a third‑party zero-day; a 15‑year‑old Linux kernel vulnerability dubbed “GhostLock” was disclosed (allows local root