The recognition highlights Cymulate’s competitive strategy, continuous innovation, and customer-centric approach to strengthening cyber resilience across complex enterprise environments.

SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan pleased to announce that Cymulate has received the 2026 Indian Competitive Strategy Leadership Recognition in the breach and attack simulation industry for its outstanding achievements in continuous security validation, platform innovation, and customer impact. The recognition highlights Cymulate’s leadership in advancing proactive cybersecurity strategies, strengthening enterprise cyber resilience, and helping organizations validate the effectiveness of their security controls in an increasingly complex threat landscape.

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. Cymulate excelled in both, demonstrating its ability to align its strategic initiatives with evolving enterprise cybersecurity requirements while executing with innovation, consistency, and scale.

“The Cymulate platform differentiates itself through one of the industry’s broadest attack libraries, covering a wide range of tactics, techniques, and procedures across email security, endpoint security, data protection, cloud environments, and other critical domains. Its rapid deployment enables organizations to begin simulations quickly, accelerating time to value and helping security teams identify configuration weaknesses and prioritize remediation without lengthy implementation cycles,” said Rajarshi Dhar, Associate Director at Frost & Sullivan.

Guided by a long-term strategy that centers on continuous security validation and threat exposure management, Cymulate has played an important role in advancing the breach and attack simulation market in India. The company introduced continuous attack simulation to enterprises at a time when penetration testing and red teaming were the primary approaches to offensive security assessment, helping establish a better understanding of the value of continuously validating deployed security controls.

Innovation remains central to Cymulate’s approach. Its threat exposure validation platform enables organizations to simulate real-world cyberattacks, assess the effectiveness of security controls, identify vulnerabilities, and prioritize remediation efforts. With broad attack coverage across email, endpoints, data protection, cloud environments, infrastructure, and other critical domains, the platform provides enterprises with objective evidence of their cyber resilience across increasingly interconnected IT and eligible OT environments.

Cymulate’s commitment to customer success strengthens its position in the Indian cybersecurity market. Through a combination of local expertise, a growing partner ecosystem, technical workshops, knowledge transfer, and continuous operational support, the company helps customers progressively expand their validation capabilities as their cybersecurity priorities evolve. Its modular architecture enables organizations to strengthen coverage over time without replacing existing security infrastructure, while integrations with enterprise cybersecurity platforms support more efficient remediation workflows and informed security decision-making.

A customer-centric approach has contributed to customer retention exceeding 90%, according to the company, while its platform has demonstrated measurable operational value across complex enterprise environments. By enabling organizations to continuously validate newly disclosed vulnerabilities and emerging attack techniques, Cymulate helps security teams move beyond point-in-time assessments toward a more proactive and evidence-based approach to cyber resilience.

Frost & Sullivan commends Cymulate for setting a high standard in competitive strategy, continuous innovation, and market responsiveness. Through its comprehensive attack coverage, rapid deployment capabilities, ecosystem integrations, and focus on long-term customer outcomes, the company is helping shape the future of the breach and attack simulation industry and continuous security validation.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents the Competitive Strategy Leadership Recognition to a company that demonstrates outstanding strategy development and implementation, resulting in measurable improvements in competitive positioning and customer value. The recognition highlights forward-thinking organizations that are reshaping their industries through innovation, strategic excellence, and sustained growth.

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About Cymulate
Cymulate is the leader in proactive, AI-powered security that continuously proves, prioritizes and adapts against real attacker behavior – before incidents occur. More than 1,000 enterprise security teams rely on Cymulate for autonomous threat validation and cyber defense engineering. Founded and led by experienced red teamers who know that testing alone does not deliver better security, Cymulate goes beyond threat validation to build threat- and exposure-informed cyber defenses. For more information, visit www.cymulate.com.

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STOCKHOLM, Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — During the period September 28 – October 02, 2026, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (“Ericsson”) (LEI code 549300W9JLPW15XIFM52) repurchased own Class B shares (ISIN: SE0000108656) as follows:

The share repurchases are a part of the share buyback program of up to SEK 15,000,000,000 which Ericsson announced on April 16, 2026, and which runs between April 23, 2026, and March 31, 2027, at the latest. The Board of Directors intends to propose to the 2027 Annual General Meeting that the repurchased shares, other than those used to fulfil Ericsson’s obligations under its share-related incentive programs, are cancelled.

The share buyback program is executed in accordance with the Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on market abuse (MAR) and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 of 8 March 2016 supplementing MAR (the Safe Harbour Regulation).

All acquisitions have been carried out on Nasdaq Stockholm by Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE on behalf of Ericsson. A full breakdown of the transactions is attached to this announcement.

Following the repurchases above, Ericsson’s holding of treasury stock amounts to 117,888,663 Class B shares. There are in total 3,371,351,735 shares in Ericsson, 261,755,983 shares of Class A and 3,109,595,752 shares of Class B.

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Five-day event set for Miami (11–15 December 2026) alongside the G20 Leaders’ Summit at Trump National Doral.Convenes global sovereign, pension, and institutional allocators representing every G20 and allied nation.SWFI targets US$5 trillion in capital deployment into key American growth sectors.

NEW DELHI, Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute (SWFI) has officially announced G20 Investment Week and the inaugural I20 Summit, taking place in Miami from 11–15 December 2026. Held alongside the official G20 Leaders’ Summit at Trump National Doral, this invitation-only gathering aims to direct US$5 trillion in long-term institutional capital into the United States.

The five-day program opens with a welcome dinner on 11 December, followed by specialized investor days, and concludes on 15 December with Global Leaders Day and the GOOD Fellows Awards. Over three core days, SWFI will host parallel sector sessions bringing sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, endowments, central bank reserve managers, and state officials into direct alignment. American governors and economic development authorities will present shovel-ready projects across twelve key growth sectors, including energy & LNG, SI & data center infrastructure, critical minerals, advanced manufacturing, real estate, private credit, and digital assets.

Announced at iBRICS 2026 in New Delhi, the initiative engages allocators across the Global South and allied economies spanning G20 members, the European Union, the African Union, and invited guest nations such as Qatar, Singapore, the UAE, Norway, and Finland.

Lakshmi Narayanan Ramanujam, Chairman, SWFI said: “The G20 sets the direction of the world economy. The I20 is where capital decides whether to follow. We unveiled this project at iBRICS 2026 in New Delhi because capital does not belong to a bloc. It looks for scale, rule of law and returns, and no market offers more of all three than the United States.”

Chip Rogers, Advisor and spokesperson to SWFI, said: “American states have projects that are permitted and ready for capital. What they rarely get is a week in the same city as the funds that can finance them. Miami gives them that week.”

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The I20 Summit is SWFI’s independent convening of long-term investors for the United States’ G20 host year. https://i20summit.com/

About the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute

Established in 2008 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, SWFI has convened sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and family offices across 60 cities in 20 countries, at venues including the House of Commons, Guildhall and Mansion House. www.swfinstitute.org

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