For years, Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) have been treated as foundational and a solved security challenge. Organizations deployed vaults, enforced policies, and checked the compliance box for their privileged users.  Fast forward to today, and that model no longer holds up.    What’s emerging now is not an incremental shift, but a structural one. Identity is no longer centered on […]

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An FTC report says that Americans last year lost $2.1 billion in social media scams, such as shopping and investment schemes. Social media site have become the place where most of these scams start, and more than half of that money was stolen in scams began on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.

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Reduce credential risk in hybrid authentication environments by securing the password layer that remains alongside passkeys.

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7 proven passkey deployment lessons from eBay, HubSpot, Revolut, and VicRoads. Covers enrollment design, mobile-first strategy, account recovery UX, device rotation handling, and the login success rate metric that actually predicts FIDO2 rollout success.

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Discover the 9 most dangerous identity-based threats in 2026, from AI phishing attacks and deepfake authentication bypass to MFA fatigue and harvest-now-decrypt-later quantum threats. Learn why legacy authentication fails against each one and how phishing-resistant, passwordless authentication changes the equation.

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Discover the 13 hidden costs of password-based authentication, from $70-per-reset help desk overhead to SMS OTP fees and breach exposure. Includes a simple ROI worksheet formula to calculate your organization's annual password tax and build the business case for passwordless authentication

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Run a quick self-audit against 10 warning signs that your authentication stack has critical vulnerabilities. Each sign includes a diagnostic check, an explanation of why it's dangerous, and a concrete fix. Covers SMS OTP risk, bot detection gaps, session management failures, and more.

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2 min readThere’s a conversation happening inside almost every enterprise right now. Leadership has decided that AI agents are going to change how the organization works. Claude for Work licenses are being purchased. Rollouts are being planned. Employees are being told that their personal AI assistant is here and that it will change everything about how they […]

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A group of unauthorized users reportedly has gained access to Anthropic’s controversial Claude Mythos Preview AI frontier model despite the AI vendor’s efforts to keep it out of public hands by limiting the organizations that can use it. Bloomberg reported that the unnamed group had tried multiple ways to gain access to the AI model..

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NIST said it overwhelmed by the surge in the number of CVEs submissions in recent years, so it is paring back the analysis work it does on the dangerous security flaws. Security experts say the number of new vulnerabilities detected will only grow during the AI era and that the private sector will need to pick up the slack left by NIST's decision.

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5 min readA developer needs to connect a service to an API. The documentation says to generate an API key, store it in an environment variable and pass it in a header. Five minutes later, the integration works.

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6 min readAI agents are no longer just chatbots. They're executing multistep workflows across tools and data sources, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes these interactions.

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6 min readZero trust has reshaped how organizations secure user access. Multifactor authentication, single sign-on and continuous posture checks are now standard for human identities. But the same rigor rarely extends to the nonhuman side of the house.

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Stop guessing and start operating. Discover why large enterprises are shifting from reactive Salesforce management to continuous system understanding, and how visible metadata provides the critical context needed for both humans and AI agents to act with confidence.

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AI agents are the new "high-speed insiders." Discover why traditional identity models fail autonomous systems and how Privileged Access Management (PAM) is evolving into a real-time authorization control plane.

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PAM tools are too complex for most orgs. Here’s why legacy apps drive risk and how PEDM offers a simpler fix.

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6 min readMost organizations still treat credentials as something that must be protected, stored, and rotated. But a second model is quietly reshaping how machine authentication works: eliminate static secrets altogether and authenticate workloads using identity and just-in-time access.

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6 min readThe OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications is the most widely referenced framework for understanding these risks. First released in 2023, OWASP updated the list in late 2024 to reflect real-world incidents, emerging attack techniques and the rapid growth of agentic AI.

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While companies use "perp walks" for terminated employees, 48% of manufacturers fail to revoke digital access within 24 hours. Explore the growing risk of dormant accounts, the 74% automation gap in provisioning, and why experts like Darren Guccione and James Maude call overprivileged identities a "frictionless path" for modern cyberattacks.

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Akamai researchers saw a 245% spike in cyberattacks in the first two weeks after the start of the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran as Iranian nation-state groups and independent hacktivists launch increasingly decentralized and destructive cyberattacks, which are expected to increase as long as the kinetic battle continues.

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