SAN FRANCISCO, May 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Herd Security, an agentic AI creative platform built for continuous security training and simulation, today announced a $3M funding round with strategic investment from Aspiron Ventures alongside participation from Team Ignite, ForwardSlash VC, Forum Ventures, Rightside Capital, and YPO. Designed for security and GRC teams, the platform enables practitioners to leverage AI as a creative partner, replacing static training programs that fail to engage employees with dynamic curricula built for the rise of AI-driven and increasingly advanced threats. The capital will expand product development across new training categories in HR and AI, optimize AI-powered video generation capabilities, and grow the company's partnership ecosystem.

As AI-driven social engineering attacks accelerate, annual compliance programs struggle to keep pace with modern threats. Gartner predicts that by 2028, 40% of social engineering attacks will target executives and the broader workforce, expanding the scope of human risk and putting pressure on enterprises to rethink security awareness. Yet according to the SANS Institute, it can take 3-5 years for organizations to influence employee behavior and up to a decade to shape security culture. This highlights a gap between the speed of evolving threats and time required to foster lasting ...