Topic: identity security
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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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AI and Complexity: The New Identity Protection Challenge
Identity security is now a strategic cybersecurity pillar due to remote work, cloud adoption, and digital ecosystems, demanding greater organizational focus. Key challenges include AI-driven threats, low trust in identity providers, fragmented visibility, and underutilization of advanced tools li...
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Oak nabs $60M for AI-native identity platform
Oak, an Israeli cybersecurity startup, raised $60 million to build an "identity operating system" that provides a single control plane to govern all identities,human, machine, or AI agent,in real time. The company's software creates a live map of every identity based on actual behavior and automa...
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AI identity startup NewCore raises $66M
NewCore has launched from stealth with $66 million in funding and a $300 million valuation, aiming to become the central system of record for managing identities of both human employees and AI agents within enterprises. The startup's platform issues identities to AI agents, defines their access p...
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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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Beyond Credentials: Why Device Trust Matters in the AI Era
AI has accelerated identity-based attacks by making phishing, credential theft, and MFA bypass faster and more scalable, while traditional trust signals like IP reputation and geolocation are now easily spoofed by attackers using residential proxies and rotating identities. Device trust is emergi...
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Okta acquires AI security startup Permiso for roughly $200M
Okta has acquired AI-focused identity security startup Permiso Security for just under $200 million in an almost all-cash deal, expected to close in the third quarter of fiscal 2027. The acquisition reflects the identity management industry's shift toward continuous monitoring of users, applicati...
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Teleport boosts Identity Security platform with AI agent behavior controls
Teleport introduced three new features,Beams Session Summaries, Agentic Classifiers, and Risk Scoring,to keep AI agent behavior within safe boundaries by detecting and preventing agent misalignment in production environments. The company's white paper argues that zero trust is insufficient for go...
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SailPoint acquires Entro to strengthen Agentic Fabric
SailPoint acquired Entro for approximately $200 million to strengthen its machine identity security, addressing the rapid proliferation of non-human identities where there are now 45 machine accounts for every human user. Entro provides agentless scanning that discovers over 1,000 types of machin...
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Device Security Must Share the Load Beyond Identity
Identity verification alone is no longer sufficient for security, as AI-powered phishing, credential theft, and session hijacking allow attackers to bypass authentication and steal session tokens even after MFA succeeds. Zero Trust frameworks like NIST 800-207 warn against relying on implied trus...
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AppViewX Acquires Eos to Secure AI Agents and Workloads
AppViewX has acquired Eos, merging its machine identity management with Eos's AI-native identity controls to create a unified security platform for autonomous agents and workloads. Archit Lohokare, founder and CEO of Eos, has been appointed as the new CEO of AppViewX, bringing extensive cybersecu...
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Secure Access: The Persistent Vulnerability
The traditional security model of relying solely on identity verification is inadequate for today's distributed workforce, as it fails to assess the risk of the specific device and context used for access. Attackers exploit this flaw by using stolen credentials from untrusted devices, highlightin...
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Reduce Identity Risk & Close Attack Paths with BloodHound Scentry
SpecterOps has launched **BloodHound Scentry**, a service combining BloodHound Enterprise's analytics with expert guidance to help organizations build a scalable identity Attack Path Management (APM) practice for remediation and threat analysis. The service addresses a critical need, as industry ...
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6 Overlooked Okta Security Settings You Must Check Now
Securing identity providers like Okta is critical as they act as central gatekeepers for digital access, with risks arising from misconfigurations and evolving threats. The article outlines six essential Okta security practices, including robust password policies, phishing-resistant MFA, and feat...
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BeyondTrust's 2026 Cybersecurity Forecast: Key Trends Ahead
The cybersecurity landscape is increasingly shaped by the convergence of identity management, AI, and geopolitical factors, with AI becoming a major attack vector due to hasty deployments and expanded vulnerabilities. Emerging trends include "AI Veganism" driving demand for transparency, digital ...
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Delinea and Microsoft Partner for Identity Security in Microsoft Store
Delinea has joined the Microsoft Security Store Partner Ecosystem, strengthening their long-term collaboration to simplify cybersecurity adoption for organizations globally. As part of the ecosystem, Delinea contributes to development by providing certified solutions and AI agents that integrate ...
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Sophos Unveils ITDR to Combat Rising Identity Attacks
Sophos has launched an Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) solution to combat the rapid rise in identity-based attacks, integrating with its XDR and MDR platforms for continuous monitoring and dark web credential scanning. The urgency for ITDR is underscored by a 106% increase in stolen...
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Oktane 2025: Securing Every Identity, AI, and App
The rise of autonomous AI agents in workflows creates unprecedented security challenges, demanding a unified identity security fabric for protection across all users and applications. Legacy authorization models like OAuth are inadequate for AI agents, leading to security blind spots and user cog...
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Account Takeover Threats Are Rising: Key Prevention Tips
Account takeover attacks are surging as attackers exploit the complexity of managing identities across cloud services, BYOD policies, and remote environments, often by compromising legitimate accounts rather than infrastructure. Attackers bypass traditional defenses like MFA through sophisticated...
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BeyondTrust Launches AI Identity Security Controls
BeyondTrust has launched new AI identity security controls to help organizations manage and govern AI agents, offering visibility, secure orchestration, and intelligent decision-making support. The platform includes capabilities such as AI agent insights for discovery and risk-scoring, MCP orches...
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