Topic: machine identities
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Unlock Cyber Safety: Your 2025 Awareness Guide
Cybersecurity Awareness Month highlights the need to move beyond basic security practices as machine identities and AI-driven threats create unmanaged attack surfaces that organizations are unprepared for. Experts advise treating machine identities with the same seriousness as human accounts, emb...
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AI Complicates Identity Management: New Challenges Ahead
Identity security is increasingly critical for enterprise protection, but many organizations struggle with the complexities introduced by AI and machine identities, creating significant risks. A majority of companies are in early stages of identity program maturity, relying on manual processes, w...
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TLS Deadline: 47 Days to Avert System Outages
Major technology providers are mandating that all public TLS certificates must have a maximum validity of 47 days by 2029, drastically reducing the current 398-day standard to enhance security. This change introduces significant operational challenges, as organizations already struggle with certi...
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Agentic AI: A CISO's Identity Crisis and Accountability
Agentic AI introduces a new, complex identity class that shatters traditional security assumptions, combining autonomous, decentralized operation with human-like intent and machine-scale persistence. These AI agents create severe security risks by multiplying existing identity vulnerabilities, su...
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The Hidden Dangers of Unmanaged Identities
Unmanaged identities, including both human and machine accounts outside formal oversight, create critical security vulnerabilities by expanding the attack surface and undermining compliance and operational stability. These identities pose distinct risks such as excessive administrator permissions...
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Automate Identity Governance with Veza Access AuthZ
Veza's Access AuthZ automates identity governance by streamlining access granting and revocation across enterprise systems, targeting the "last mile" of identity management with scalability and compatibility for legacy and custom platforms. The solution addresses inefficiencies in IGA deployments...
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50 Companies' Biggest Cloud Identity Security Mistakes
Businesses face significant cloud identity security risks, with an average of 40 high-risk control failures per organization, exposing them to breaches and compliance failures. Common vulnerabilities include missing multi-factor authentication, excessive permissions, outdated credentials, and poo...
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Zero Trust for AI: Extending "Never Trust, Always Verify"
Businesses are rapidly adopting AI assistants to boost productivity, but this introduces new security vulnerabilities that traditional models cannot handle, requiring the extension of Zero Trust principles to these autonomous agents. AI agents operate with dynamic, evolving access needs and often...
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Gen AI Attacks Drive 40% of Cybersecurity Budgets to Software
Organizations are shifting cybersecurity budgets toward software, which now accounts for 40% of spending, to counter AI-powered threats that operate faster than human response capabilities. Generative AI is enabling threats like personalized phishing at scale, deepfakes bypassing biometric securi...
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AppGate Secures AI Workloads with Zero Trust Agentic AI Core
AppGate has introduced Agentic AI Core Protection to extend zero-trust security principles directly to AI workloads, enabling secure innovation across on-premises and cloud environments. Traditional security models are inadequate for AI agents, as their exposed interfaces create new attack vector...
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Why Ransomware Attacks Spike on Weekends
Threat actors deliberately target organizations on weekends and holidays when security staffing is minimal, exploiting slower detection to infiltrate systems more deeply. Business transitions like mergers and acquisitions create vulnerabilities, with 60% of incidents occurring after such shifts d...
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