Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive security service, raised $40M co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, taking its total funding to $65M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Hadrian’s $40M funding round underscores strong market demand for AI-powered offensive security tools that can continuously probe for weaknesses and help organizations find exposures before attackers do. For CIOs and IT leaders, this points to a strategic shift from periodic, manual testing toward always-on, automated security validation that can improve resilience, accelerate remediation, and stretch scarce security talent across a larger attack surface.