Beacon Funding notes that Fortinet acquired Virtue AI on August 17, moving into runtime protection and validation for agentic workloads.
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The AI security battle is quietly shifting from what agents can do to what they are allowed to do. While the market fixates on frontier capability, the security industry…
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Beacon Funding
Founded in 1990, Beacon Funding is a commercial truck and equipment financing solutions provider for US businesses.
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Location
- Northbook, US
- Company size
- 51–200 employees
About Beacon Funding
Here at Beacon Funding, we’ve spent nearly 30 years establishing ourselves as the premier, full-service provider of financing solutions to all types of organizations throughout a wide variety of industries. Whether you’re an equipment manufacturer looking for a vendor financing partner or you’re looking to finance an equipment purchase for your business (think tow truck, boom truck, embroidery equipment), we have the expertise and support to help you succeed. At Beacon, we like to think that we have developed the ideal blueprint for running an equipment financing operation. It takes talented and dedicated employees nationwide to deliver competitive and dependable equipment financing programs that our vendors and clients have come to expect. Not only do we have the financing knowledge, but we’re also experts on the equipment we finance, so we have both sides of the equations covered. This means that we’re able to provide financing services to all types of businesses: new, established, and financially healthy and even those with a troubled credit history.
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Beacon Funding notes that Visa closed a 2.4 billion dollar acquisition of behavioral biometrics firm BioCatch on August 3, binding identity assurance directly to the payment network.
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Beacon Funding notes that Okta agreed to buy Axiom Security on August 26, deepening its hold on privileged access.
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