This blog was originally published here. Most organizations never planned for AI to start making real decisions. They started with simple helpers. An agent answered basic questions or generated small automations so teams could avoid opening another IT ticket. It felt harmless. But as these agents become more capable and more autonomous, they begin operating…
Tag Archives: identity security
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The State of Identity Governance in 2026: Why Boards Think Access Is Under Control When It Isn’t
In many organizations, identity governance appears healthy at the executive level. Provisioning SLAs are met. Access reviews complete on time. Audit findings are addressed. Yet identity-related failures continue to surface in breach investigations, audit reports, and post-incident reviews. The issue is not that identity governance processes are inactive. It is that boards are typically shown…
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CIO POV: What Am I Actually Supposed to Do with Agentic AI?
This blog was originally published here. For every enterprise CISO in the world right now, the burning question isn’t about cloud, TPRM, or internal threats. It’s about how to securely and responsibly adopt AI—specifically, agentic AI, the buzziest of today’s AI buzzwords. There’s no shortage of stats on skyrocketing adoption trends. Consider EY’s recent Technology Pulse Poll,…
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Self Assessment: Modern Access Management Maturity
To conclude this 5 part series on the importance of comprehensive and deliberate NHI governance, we are pleased to share this self assessment framework to help organizations understand where they are in their access management maturity journey. In case you missed it, here’s what we’ve covered so far: 1. Outnumbered and underprotected: the hidden risk…
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New IAM Cybersecurity and PAM Tools Strategies for Higher Education
In the classroom, universities and colleges are looking towards the future with their curricula, stretching young minds around evolving concepts and advancements. The irony? Behind the scenes, these same institutions are often unprepared for the changes that developing technology brings to their campuses and networks. Recent digital disruptions, such as AI, have exposed the systems…
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Close the NHI Governance Gap
We’ve spent the better part of the last decade tightening our grip on workforce authentication. SSO is widespread. MFA is table stakes. Access reviews, offboarding workflows, and role-based policies are now standard practice. It took time and iteration, but we got there. Now it’s time to apply that same rigor to machine identities. The service…
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Start Governing NHIs by Managing Access, Not Credentials
This is part 3 in our series on non-human identity (NHI) governance. In this post, we focus on one of the most persistent risks in production infrastructure: static credentials and standing privilege. Static credentials are still at large in most environments and many enable dangerously over-permissioned and under-governed access to sensitive systems and data. API…
