Identity governance stories

Survey finds AI agents are spreading faster than security teams can track them, with most firms lacking visibility, rollback controls and identity governance.

KnowBe4 unveils Agent Risk Manager to monitor autonomous AI agents in real time, flag prompt injections and curb rogue data access.

Experts warns that AI agents and other non-human identities are exposing dangerous enterprise blind spots as firms race to scale automation.

Machine accounts and AI agents are now eclipsing human users in many IT estates, prompting warnings that outdated identity controls are no longer enough.

Security chiefs warn organisations that AI agents, machine accounts and stolen credentials are shifting cyber risk from the perimeter to identity.

AI-driven bots and machine accounts are exposing long-running identity security gaps across Australian and New Zealand organisations, experts warn.

Identity failures are now the main way cyber attackers breach firms, with experts warning that non-human credentials are widening the risk.

Executives at Docusign, BeyondTrust and Saviynt say identity, data sovereignty and tighter access controls are now shaping cloud security priorities.

Cloud security specialists say organisations must rethink defences as control plane exposure, swelling telemetry and fragmented tools create fresh risks.

Security teams risk sleepwalking into danger as vendors slap the SaaS label on hosted legacy tools disguised as modern cloud identity.

Australian and New Zealand businesses are being urged to harden cloud defences as experts warn of identity flaws, misconfigurations and AI-fuelled attacks.

US banks and regulators are urged to adopt passkeys, mobile driving licences and tougher verification as generative AI fuels deepfake fraud.

OpenID Foundation appoints Kantara Initiative to oversee testing service applicants as it expands independent assurance for digital identity standards.

Radiant Logic adds Badge's zero-knowledge authentication to RadiantOne, aiming to simplify cross-domain access for enterprises, public sector and AI agents.

As AI agents spread through businesses, organisations are being urged to create HR-like oversight to manage access, risk and accountability.

Most organisations cannot distinguish AI agents from human staff, exposing widening identity and access risks as autonomous tools spread.

BeyondTrust warns a surge of unsupervised AI agents is creating a hidden “shadow workforce” with admin-level access inside enterprises.

Saviynt unveils an AI identity security platform to govern autonomous agents across major enterprise AI stacks and close emerging access gaps.

Ping unveils Identity for AI, a runtime identity framework to govern autonomous software agents' access, actions and accountability.

Rubrik links Microsoft Defender with new AI governance engine SAGE to speed identity attack recovery and tighten control of autonomous agents.