New taxable investing accounts give BitcoinIRA clients more flexibility to invest in cryptocurrency beyond IRA limits, transfer digital assets in-kind, access staking rewards and Crypto Bundles, and manage retirement and non-retirement assets from one platform.

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — BitcoinIRA, the pioneer of cryptocurrency retirement investing, today announced the launch of Freedom Accounts, individual taxable crypto investment accounts designed to give clients greater flexibility to invest in and manage digital assets alongside their Crypto IRA. 

Freedom Accounts expand the BitcoinIRA platform beyond retirement, allowing eligible clients to manage both retirement and non-retirement crypto investments from one platform and a single dashboard. 

Unlike an IRA, a Freedom Account is not subject to annual IRA contribution limits, requiring minimum distributions or retirement-age withdrawal restrictions. Clients can fund their account with cash or transfer supported cryptocurrency directly from external platforms and wallets through an in-kind transfer without first selling the assets. 

“BitcoinIRA pioneered crypto retirement investing, but our clients’ financial lives don’t stop at their IRA,” said Chris Kline, Co-Founder of BitcoinIRA. “Freedom Accounts are the next step in expanding our platform, giving clients greater flexibility to manage retirement and non-retirement crypto investments in one place. We’re building a more complete digital asset investing experience while maintaining the custody, security and simplicity our clients expect from BitcoinIRA.” 

One Platform for Retirement and Non-Retirement Crypto Investing

Freedom Accounts are designed to complement a BitcoinIRA retirement account rather than replace it. While Crypto IRAs provide tax advantages available through qualified retirement accounts, Freedom Accounts provide additional flexibility for taxable digital asset investing outside of an IRA. 

Freedom Accounts expand the BitcoinIRA experience with capabilities including: 

No IRA restrictions: No annual IRA contribution limits, required minimum distributions or retirement-age withdrawal restrictions.In-kind crypto transfers: Clients can transfer supported cryptocurrency directly from platforms and wallets including Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood and others without selling the assets first. BitcoinIRA does not charge a fee for eligible incoming in-kind crypto transfers, although network or sending-platform fees may apply.Access to 100+ cryptocurrencies: Clients can buy, sell and swap supported digital assets 24/7.Staking rewards: Eligible cryptocurrencies held in a Freedom Account can be staked to earn potential rewards. Staking rewards are not guaranteed, and eligible assets may vary.Crypto Bundles and rebalancing: Clients can diversify across collections of digital assets through Crypto Bundles, with automatic rebalancing options, or build custom Bundles based on their preferences.Institutional-grade custody and security: Assets are custodied with Digital Trust, a qualified custodian and Nevada-chartered trust company, and secured using BitGo multi-signature wallets, the same institutional-grade infrastructure used across the BitcoinIRA platform.

Transfer Crypto Without Selling First

Freedom Accounts also give clients another way to consolidate supported cryptocurrency they already own. 

Through in-kind transfers, eligible digital assets can be moved directly from an external exchange or wallet into a Freedom Account without first liquidating the assets, transferring cash and repurchasing the same cryptocurrency. 

BitcoinIRA supports inbound transfers from many leading crypto platforms and wallets, including Coinbase, Kraken and Robinhood. Once transferred, supported assets can be held, traded, staked when eligible, or used within other available BitcoinIRA platform features. 

Expanding the BitcoinIRA Investing Experience

BitcoinIRA built its business by giving Americans a new way to invest in digital assets through self-directed retirement accounts. Freedom Accounts expand that experience beyond retirement by bringing taxable crypto investing, in-kind transfers, staking, Crypto Bundles and retirement investing together within the BitcoinIRA platform. 

Rather than managing retirement and non-retirement crypto investments across separate platforms, eligible clients can now access both account types through BitcoinIRA. 

Freedom Accounts are available now and are automatically included with eligible BitcoinIRA accounts. 

To learn more, visit bitcoinira.com/freedom-account. 

About BitcoinIRA

Founded in 2016, BitcoinIRA pioneered the crypto retirement category, becoming the first company to enable Americans to invest in Bitcoin and other digital assets through a self-directed IRA. Since then, the company has processed billions of dollars in transactions and grown to serve more than 200,000 Americans.

Today, BitcoinIRA provides access to more than 100 cryptocurrencies, 24/7 trading, staking on eligible assets, and institutional-grade custody and security through Digital Trust and BitGo. The platform continues to expand with offerings including Crypto IRAs, Crypto Bundles and Freedom Accounts, giving clients more ways to invest in and manage digital assets. To learn more, visit www.bitcoinira.com. 

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Latest analyst firm recognition follows a year of AI-powered product innovation, new leadership, and growth

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Nozomi Networks, the global leader in OT, IoT and CPS security, today announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Operational Technology Security Solutions, Q3 2026. The recognition extends a milestone year for the company, marked by continued analyst firm recognition, major product launches, an expanding partner ecosystem, and significant corporate growth.

In this Forrester Wave™, Nozomi Networks is positioned in the Leaders category, one of only four providers to earn that placement in an evaluation of the OT security vendors Forrester determined matter most in today’s market. The report notes that, “Nozomi Networks is best for security leaders who want to safely incorporate AI-powered features into their OT Security solution.”

“This Forrester recognition is just one more acknowledgment of a defining year for Nozomi Networks and the critical markets we serve,” said Andrea Carcano, co-founder and CEO of Nozomi Networks. “We’ve launched the industry’s first private, company-trained AI assistant for OT and IoT security teams, expanded our markets and partner ecosystem, and continued to earn recognition from the analysts and customers who matter most. This is the result of more than a decade of investment in AI-powered OT security, and we’re just getting started.”

Analyst Recognition
The Forrester Wave recognition adds to a string of independent acknowledgments Nozomi Networks has earned over the last 12 months:

Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: IoT Security Solutions, Q3 2025 — with the highest score of all evaluated providers in the Current Offering category.Recognized by Gartner as “the Company to Beat for AI in Cyber-Physical Systems Security” in its AI Vendor Race report.Named a Leader for the second consecutive year in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cyber-Physical Systems Protection Platforms.Received the highest scores across all four use cases evaluated in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for CPS Protection Platforms report.Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Operational Technology Security Solutions, Q3 2026.Named a Customers’ Choice in Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for CPS Protection Platforms — the only vendor in the category to do so for two consecutive years.

Product Innovation

Co-developed with Schneider Electric the industry’s first security sensor embedded directly in a remote terminal unit, bringing Nozomi Arc Embedded to Schneider’s SCADAPack 47xi Smart RTUs.Released the industry’s first cybersecurity solution to safely automate threat response in operational environments, via the latest version of Nozomi Arc.Launched Vantage IQ, the industry’s first private, company-trained AI assistant purpose-built for OT/IoT security teams, giving analysts and executives context-aware, board-ready insights.Introduced RF geofencing in Guardian Air, letting teams define protected wireless zones and receive real-time alerts when devices cross them.Launched an AI-powered Integration Accelerator for Vantage, enabling teams to rapidly build integrations with third-party security tools — more than 30 were built or updated in Q1 2026 alone. Embedded Vantage IQ as a context-aware widget directly in the Vantage platform UI, following users across pages without requiring a separate tool switch.Brought Guardian Network and the Central Management Console to the Google Cloud Marketplace, expanding deployment options for customers.Added an AI-powered threat detection engine to Nozomi Threat Intelligence, identifying novel malware and emerging threats before signatures are available.

Corporate Growth and Leadership

Mitsubishi Electric completed its acquisition of Nozomi Networks, which continues to operate as an independent, wholly owned subsidiary with its existing brand, leadership, and go-to-market partnerships.Surpassed $100 million in annual revenue — $101.7 million in net revenue for fiscal year 2025 — serving several of the world’s largest enterprises across oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, utilities, and mining.Established a new Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) headquarters in Singapore, naming David Hope as APJ Regional Vice President to lead the region’s growing team and customer base.Co-founder Andrea Carcano returned to the role of Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Edgard Capdevielle, to lead the company’s next phase of AI-driven growth.

Partnerships and Ecosystem

Joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing to bring AI-driven vulnerability discovery to operational technology, IoT, and cyber-physical systems, applying advanced AI models to vulnerability discovery within its platform.Entered an alliance with the UAE Cybersecurity Council to advance national cyber capabilities and resilience, including plans for a joint OT/IoT Innovation and Excellence Center in Abu Dhabi.Published joint research with BlastWave on the State of AI in OT, examining how AI is reshaping OT security strategy.Expanded its global technology partner ecosystem with new or deepened relationships including Hitachi Cyber, Sophos, Dispel, Xona, Bastazo and Sekoia.

The Forrester Wave™: Operational Technology Security Solutions, Q3 2026 evaluates the OT security providers that matter most and how they stack up, to help security leaders select the solution best suited to their needs.

Learn more about Nozomi Networks’ position in the report here.Get more information about Nozomi Networks’ OT Security solutions here.

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About Nozomi Networks
Nozomi Networks protects the world’s critical infrastructure from cyber threats. Our platform uniquely combines network and endpoint visibility, threat detection, and AI-powered analysis for faster, more effective incident response. Customers rely on us to minimize risk and complexity while maximizing operational resilience. www.nozominetworks.com

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Claroty is a Customer Favorite in new analyst report, receiving highest score possible in nine criteria

NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Claroty, the cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection company, today announced it was named a Leader and a Customer Favorite in The Forrester Wave™: Operational Technology Security Solutions, Q3 2026 by Forrester Research. Claroty received the highest score possible in nine criteria within the categories of current offering (vulnerability management, risk modeling & exposure prioritization, secured access management, reporting, IT/OT convergence support & SOC integration depth, and OT‑safe deployment model & operational resilience) and strategy (innovation, adoption, and pricing flexibility & transparency).

Recognized for Strategy and Capabilities
According to the report, “Claroty’s industry-focused teams make it a good fit for customers seeking to secure OT environments across different sectors.” Findings from Claroty’s vendor profile in the report include:

Strategy: “Claroty’s innovative approach to redesign its platform through heavy investments in R&D has evolved its offering from passive monitoring to a security solution for heterogeneous OT environments. To improve adoption, it built industry-focused teams from sales through support that understand customer needs and challenges. Claroty sees value in AI for OT security but is cautious in its use, ensuring that customers can interrupt its actions. It has recently increased the flexibility of its pricing models to meet customers’ evolving needs.”

Capabilities: “Claroty’s vulnerability and risk posture management provides deep context on how vulnerabilities may affect devices or OT operations as a whole, including configuration assessments and benchmarking against similar customers for risk scoring. Its OT-specific secure remote access applies Zero Trust principles with live session monitoring and full audit trails that monitor all actions.”

Customer Praise and Adoption of the AI-powered Claroty Platform
A contributing factor to Claroty’s Customer Favorite distinction is, per the report: “Customers value Claroty’s close engagement and partnership approach.”

This recognition comes shortly after Claroty was named a Customers’ Choice in the 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for CPS Protection Platforms.1 Earlier this year, Claroty was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CPS Protection Platforms for the second year in a row.2

“We’re incredibly proud to be named both a Leader and a Customer Favorite following Forrester’s rigorous evaluation of the OT security market,” said Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi. “We believe this provides strong validation of our approach to securing the world’s mission-critical infrastructure and that our latest innovations, including the first OT-native AI security agent and helping customers take a programmatic approach to operationalizing OT security, are propelling the entire industry forward.”

Read the full report: The Forrester Wave™: Operational Technology Security Solutions, Q3 2026

1 Gartner, Voice of the Customer for CPS Protection Platforms, Peer Contributors, 27 August 2026

2 Gartner, Magic Quadrant for CPS Protection Platforms, Katell Thielemann, Ruggero Contu, Wam Voster, Sumit Rajput, 3 March 2026

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About Claroty
Claroty empowers organizations to protect the mission-critical infrastructure that underpins modern life. The AI-powered Claroty Platform serves as the single source of operational truth, providing the deepest visibility and broadest protection across cyber-physical systems (CPS), leveraging five core solutions: asset inventory, exposure management, network protection, secure access, and threat detection. Claroty helps organizations operationalize CPS protection through a programmatic approach designed to reduce risk, maintain operational integrity, and meet compliance–whether in the cloud with Claroty xDome or on-premise with Claroty Continuous Threat Detection (CTD). Claroty is deployed by hundreds of organizations at thousands of sites globally. The company is headquartered in New York City and has a presence in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. To learn more, visit claroty.com.

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