Tag Archives: privileged access management

When your Snowflake AI agent can query everything you can query

June 2nd, 2026 by Brandon Knorr | Posted in Best Practices, How To Advice, News, Perspective |

Tags: Agentic AI, cyber resilience, DevSecOps, privileged access management

Cortex reached general availability in November 2025, with Cortex Code following in February 2026. These capabilities allow organizations to deploy AI agents that can query structured and unstructured data, execute code, call external tools, and expose Snowflake data to external systems via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The identity risk that follows is straightforward and…
Claude didn’t go rogue. Permissions did.

May 28th, 2026 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in Best Practices, How To Advice, News, Perspective |

Tags: Agentic AI, cyber resilience, DevSecOps, privileged access management

On Friday April 25, 2026, a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 deleted PocketOS’s entire production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway. It took nine seconds. The AI agent’s own confession went viral, stating: “I violated every principle I was given.” Most of the press coverage framed the story…
New IAM Cybersecurity and PAM Tools Strategies for Higher Education

October 28th, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in Best Practices, Perspective, Research, Security Outcomes |

Tags: Access Control, Account Security, Campus Security, Cyber Security, Data Protection, EduSecurity, Higher Ed IT, identity governance, identity management, identity security, PAM, privileged access management, University IT. IAM

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…
Identity Blind Spots on the Network Layer

September 25th, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in Perspective, Research, Security Outcomes |

Tags: access management, cybersecurity, identity security, IT Security, Kron, KronPAM, KronTech, PAM, Privileged Access, privileged access management, Web App, Web Security, Zero trust

Webinar Title: Zero Trust Falls Short Without Network Identity: Lessons from Salt Typhoon Date: October 1, 2025 Registration: Save your spot here Abstract Identity for users, applications, servers, and cloud has matured. Network devices are often the exception. Shared device accounts, SSH key sprawl, limited per-command authorization, and weak session evidence create a gap that…
Salt Typhoon: How Network Admin Paths Became Attack Paths

September 23rd, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in News, Perspective, Security Outcomes |

Tags: access management, cybersecurity, identity security, IT Security, PAM, Privileged Access, privileged access management, Web App, Web Security, Zero trust

Webinar Title: Zero Trust Falls Short Without Network Identity: Lessons from Salt Typhoon Date: October 1, 2025 Registration: Save your spot here Abstract Salt Typhoon highlights how valid credentials and built in tools can turn network administration into an attacker highway. This post walks a likely attack chain in plain language and shows where identity…
How to Prevent $4M Breaches with Unified IAM and PAM Defense

August 5th, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in Best Practices, How To Advice, Perspective |

Tags: IAM, PAM, privileged access management

The identity security landscape has reached a critical tipping point. As AI-powered attack tools become readily available, attackers target identity credentials and privileged access with unprecedented sophistication and scale. Traditional fragmented security approaches are crumbling under the weight of automated threats that can simultaneously exploit both identity and privilege vulnerabilities. According to EMA Research, the…
The Impact of Security Breaches on Educational Institutions

June 11th, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in Best Practices, Perspective |

Tags: access management, cybersecurity, higher education, identity management, privileged access management

This blog was originally published by Bravura here. Educational institutions oversee hundreds or thousands of students and faculty members daily. Therefore, it’s no surprise they deal with large volumes of valuable data, like: Student and educator login information. Home addresses. Birthdays. Full names. Social security numbers. Credit card information and other financial records. Education…
Building Zero Trust Security Posture for Secure Privileged Access Management Journey

February 18th, 2025 by Vaughn-Shane Camarda | Posted in Best Practices, How To Advice |

Tags: IGA, ITDR, MFA, multi-factor authentication, PAM, privileged access management, Zero trust

This blog was originally posted by Arcon on their blog page. You can read the original here. Overview Today, we are experiencing a growing assortment of applications, systems, APIs, and data that is scattered across IT networks in distributed IT infrastructure and multi-cloud environments. This assortment of critical information is constantly at risk from unauthorized…

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Tag Archives: privileged access management

When your Snowflake AI agent can query everything you can query

Claude didn’t go rogue. Permissions did.

New IAM Cybersecurity and PAM Tools Strategies for Higher Education

Building Zero Trust Security Posture for Secure Privileged Access Management Journey

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