Tag: iam
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Always-on privileged access is pervasive, and fraught with risks
Tags: access, api, automation, cloud, credentials, cybersecurity, framework, governance, iam, risk, saas, serviceParadigm shift ahead: Forrester analyst Geoff Cairns stresses the cybersecurity risks at play when organizations do not rein in excessive credential use. “Persistent standing privilege, yes, I think that is rampant,” he says. “It is something that attackers can target and then leverage to move laterally through systems and create havoc. The elevated privilege makes that…
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AWS adds IPv6 support to IAM Identity Center through dual-stack endpoints
Amazon Web Services has added IPv6 support to IAM Identity Center through new dual-stack endpoints. The update allows identity services to operate over IPv6 networks while … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/01/27/aws-iam-identity-center-ipv6/
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Rethinking Cybersecurity in a Platform World
How Consolidation Is Forcing CISOs and CIOs to Rethink Security Architecture For more than a decade, enterprise security has relied on point solutions. Companies invested in separate tools – endpoint detection, firewalls, cloud security and IAM – each designed to address a specific threat or compliance requirement. But that approach is starting to break down.…
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Workforce IAM vs CIAM: Identity Management Models Explained
Discover the key differences between Workforce IAM and CIAM. Learn why CTOs need distinct strategies for employee security and customer experience in enterprise SSO. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/workforce-iam-vs-ciam-identity-management-models-explained/
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Workforce IAM vs CIAM: Identity Management Models Explained
Discover the key differences between Workforce IAM and CIAM. Learn why CTOs need distinct strategies for employee security and customer experience in enterprise SSO. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/workforce-iam-vs-ciam-identity-management-models-explained/
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Flaws in Chainlit AI dev framework expose servers to compromise
/proc/self/environ file is used to store environment variables, and these can contain API keys, credentials, internal file paths, database paths, tokens for AWS and other cloud services, and even CHAINLIT_AUTH_SECRET, a secret that’s used to sign authentication tokens when authentication is enabled.On top of that, if LangChain is used as the orchestration layer behind Chainlit…
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The Hidden Risk of Orphan Accounts
The Problem: The Identities Left BehindAs organizations grow and evolve, employees, contractors, services, and systems come and go – but their accounts often remain. These abandoned or “orphan” accounts sit dormant across applications, platforms, assets, and cloud consoles.The reason they persist isn’t negligence – it’s fragmentation. Traditional IAM and IGA systems are designed First seen…
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JustTime (JIT) Provisioning: How Automated User Provisioning Works in SSO
Learn how Just-in-Time (JIT) provisioning automates user account creation in SSO. Expert guide for CTOs on SAML, SCIM vs JIT, and enterprise IAM security. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/just-in-time-jit-provisioning-how-automated-user-provisioning-works-in-sso/
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Driving Passwordless Adoption with FIDO and Biometric Authentication
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, banking, breach, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, credentials, cyber, data, defense, fido, finance, fraud, government, Hardware, iam, identity, insurance, login, mobile, passkey, password, phishing, risk, service, technology, threat, trainingDriving Passwordless Adoption with FIDO and Biometric Authentication madhav Tue, 01/13/2026 – 06:13 For decades, passwords have been the default mechanism for securing digital access. They are deeply embedded in enterprise systems and workflows, yet they were never designed to withstand today’s threat landscape. Cybersecurity Sarah Lefavrais – IAM Product Marketing Manager More About This…
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CrowdStrike to acquire SGNL for $740M, expanding real-time identity security
Market consolidation accelerates: The $740 million price reflects broader consolidation as cybersecurity vendors race to expand identity capabilities. The deal marks the latest in a wave of identity security acquisitions as platform vendors expand beyond core products. Liu compared the move to Palo Alto Networks’ acquisition of CyberArk in 2025, noting both vendors are racing…
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CrowdStrike to acquire SGNL for $740M, expanding real-time identity security
Market consolidation accelerates: The $740 million price reflects broader consolidation as cybersecurity vendors race to expand identity capabilities. The deal marks the latest in a wave of identity security acquisitions as platform vendors expand beyond core products. Liu compared the move to Palo Alto Networks’ acquisition of CyberArk in 2025, noting both vendors are racing…
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Gestohlene IAM-Keys starten Krypto-Mining direkt in AWS Klau reicht: Angreifer starten Mining in AWS ohne jede Lücke
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/aws-krypto-mining-a-4b261723d832727305516431f7890644/
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Enterprises still aren’t getting IAM right
Tags: access, ai, api, authentication, automation, cloud, control, credentials, cybersecurity, data, email, governance, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, least-privilege, password, risk, saas, service, toolJust 1% have fully implemented a modern just-in-time (JIT) privileged access model;91% say at least half of their privileged access is always-on (standard privilege), providing unrestricted, persistent access to sensitive systems;45% apply the same privileged access controls to human and AI identities;33% lack clear AI access policies.The research also revealed a growing issue with “shadow…
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When the Vendor Becomes the Customer: Building Internal Tools on an Agentic IAM Platform
4 min readIt began, as an engineer’s attempt to fix a nagging problem often does, with irritation. Each night, automated test pipelines ran across an expanding surface area of the Aembit Workload IAM Platform, validating that core components behave as expected across environments. By morning, the results existed, but they were scattered across interfaces and…
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What is Identity Dark Matter?
The Invisible Half of the Identity UniverseIdentity used to live in one place – an LDAP directory, an HR system, a single IAM portal.Not anymore. Today, identity is fragmented across SaaS, on-prem, IaaS, PaaS, home-grown, and shadow applications. Each of these environments carries its own accounts, permissions, and authentication flows.Traditional IAM and IGA tools govern…
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AI, Quantum, and the New Threat Frontier: What Will Define Cybersecurity in 2026?
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, computer, computing, container, control, crypto, cryptography, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, detection, encryption, exploit, finance, flaw, framework, governance, government, healthcare, iam, identity, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, metric, monitoring, network, nist, open-source, oracle, regulation, resilience, risk, service, skills, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, waf, zero-day, zero-trustAI, Quantum, and the New Threat Frontier: What Will Define Cybersecurity in 2026? madhav Tue, 01/06/2026 – 04:44 If we think 2025 has been fast-paced, it’s going to feel like a warm-up for the changes on the horizon in 2026. Every time this year, Thales experts become cybersecurity oracles and predict where the industry is…
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API Authentication Methods Explained: API Keys, OAuth, JWT HMAC Compared
A deep dive comparing API Keys, OAuth 2.0, JWT, and HMAC for CTOs. Learn which api authentication method fits your enterprise SSO and IAM strategy. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/01/api-authentication-methods-explained-api-keys-oauth-jwt-hmac-compared/
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What features in IAM solutions make IT managers feel relieved
What Makes Identity and Access Management Solutions a Game-Changer for IT Managers? Is your IT team constantly battling with cybersecurity threats while struggling to maintain operational efficiency? Ensuring the security of non-human identities (NHIs) becomes as crucial as safeguarding human user credentials. Non-human identities, which include service accounts, bots, and other machine entities, play a……
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Can advanced IAM solutions reassure companies on NHI security
How Can Your Organization Ensure NHI Security with IAM Solutions? Have you ever wondered how secure your organization’s machine identities are? Non-Human Identities (NHIs) play a crucial role, especially with the increasing dependency on cloud environments. With the advent of advanced Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, organizations can ensure comprehensive NHI security, thereby reassuring……
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Implementing NIS2, without getting bogged down in red tape
Tags: access, ai, automation, backup, bsi, business, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, email, encryption, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, law, least-privilege, metric, monitoring, network, nis-2, regulation, saas, sbom, service, siem, soc, software, startup, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-dayIT in transition: From text documents to declarative technology: NIS2 essentially requires three things: concrete security measures; processes and guidelines for managing these measures; and robust evidence that they work in practice.Process documentation, that is, policies, responsibilities, and procedures, is not fundamentally new for most larger companies. ISO 27001-based information security management systems, HR processes, and…
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The 3% Rule: How To Silence 97% of Your Cloud Alerts and Be More Secure
Tags: access, ai, attack, breach, business, cloud, cve, cvss, data, data-breach, flaw, iam, identity, infrastructure, least-privilege, malicious, metric, network, ransomware, risk, security-incident, service, software, strategy, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementPrioritizing what to fix first and why that really matters Key takeaways The 97% distraction: Discover why the vast majority of your “Critical” alerts are just theoretical noise, and how focusing strictly on the 3% of findings that represent real, exploitable risk can drastically improve your security posture. Identity is the accelerant: Breaches rarely happen…
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The Biggest Cyber Stories of the Year: What 2025 Taught Us
Tags: access, attack, authentication, awareness, banking, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, container, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, email, encryption, endpoint, exploit, government, healthcare, iam, identity, incident, incident response, Internet, law, metric, mfa, monitoring, network, privacy, regulation, resilience, risk, service, software, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-day, zero-trustThe Biggest Cyber Stories of the Year: What 2025 Taught Us madhav Thu, 12/18/2025 – 10:30 2025 didn’t just test cybersecurity; it redefined it. From supply chains and healthcare networks to manufacturing floors and data centers, the digital world was reminded of a simple truth: everything is connected, and everything is at risk. Data Security…
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Complying with the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Cloud Advisory: How Tenable Can Help
Tags: access, advisory, attack, authentication, best-practice, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, country, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, finance, fintech, framework, google, governance, government, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, kubernetes, least-privilege, malicious, malware, mfa, microsoft, mitigation, monitoring, oracle, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, risk-management, service, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, vulnerability-management, zero-trustThe Monetary Authority of Singapore’s cloud advisory, part of its 2021 Technology Risk Management Guidelines, advises financial institutions to move beyond siloed monitoring to adopt a continuous, enterprise-wide approach. These firms must undergo annual audits. Here’s how Tenable can help. Key takeaways: High-stakes compliance: The MAS requires all financial institutions in Singapore to meet mandatory…
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Compromised IAM Credentials Power a Large AWS Crypto Mining Campaign
An ongoing campaign has been observed targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers using compromised Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to enable cryptocurrency mining.The activity, first detected by Amazon’s GuardDuty managed threat detection service and its automated security monitoring systems on November 2, 2025, employs never-before-seen persistence techniques to hamper First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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CIAM vs IAM: Comparing Customer Identity and Identity Access Management
Understand the key differences between CIAM and IAM. Learn which identity management solution is right for your business for customer and employee access. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/12/ciam-vs-iam-comparing-customer-identity-and-identity-access-management/
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NIS2 umsetzen ohne im Papierkrieg zu enden
Tags: access, ai, compliance, control, cyberattack, detection, encryption, germany, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, least-privilege, mail, monitoring, nis-2, resilience, sbom, service, siem, soc, software, startup, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementDie EU-Richtline NIS2 ist in Deutschland am 06. Dezember 2025 in Kraft getreten. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, wie sich mit DevSecOps ein Großteil der Pflichtarbeit automatisieren lässt.NIS2 ist symbolisch für das Kernproblem europäischer Richtlinien und Verordnungen: Sie erzeugen unnötigen Papierkrieg und entfalten ihre Wirkung zu selten. Sei es das Lieferkettengesetz, die DSGVO”‘Folgenabschätzungen oder das IT”‘Sicherheitsgesetz sie haben…
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NIS2 umsetzen ohne im Papierkrieg zu enden
Tags: access, ai, compliance, control, cyberattack, detection, encryption, germany, iam, identity, incident response, infrastructure, least-privilege, mail, monitoring, nis-2, resilience, sbom, service, siem, soc, software, startup, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementDie EU-Richtline NIS2 ist in Deutschland am 06. Dezember 2025 in Kraft getreten. Dieser Beitrag zeigt, wie sich mit DevSecOps ein Großteil der Pflichtarbeit automatisieren lässt.NIS2 ist symbolisch für das Kernproblem europäischer Richtlinien und Verordnungen: Sie erzeugen unnötigen Papierkrieg und entfalten ihre Wirkung zu selten. Sei es das Lieferkettengesetz, die DSGVO”‘Folgenabschätzungen oder das IT”‘Sicherheitsgesetz sie haben…
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Microsoft-365-Sicherheit Kuppingercole bescheinigt Coreview herausragende Tiefe
Das Analyseunternehmen Kuppingercole attestiert Coreview herausragende Fähigkeiten im Bereich der Microsoft-365-Sicherheit und -Resilienz: ‘Für Unternehmen, bei denen Microsoft-365 ein Element der kritischen IT-Infrastruktur ist, bietet Coreview wesentliche Cyber-Resilienz-Funktionen, die weder Microsofts native Tools noch breite Plattformlösungen wie generische IAM-Werkzeuge in ausreichender Form bereitstellen.” Da Unternehmen Microsoft-365 zunehmend ‘als ihre sensibelste Identitätsplattform ansehen, ist Coreviews fokussierter…
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Identitäten definieren Sicherheit 2026 – Diese sieben IAM-Trends prägen die Sicherheitsarchitekturen
Tags: iamFirst seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/sieben-iam-trends-2026-identity-first-security-a-e781816d66468085f539532f8a7bec07/
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Identitäten definieren Sicherheit 2026 – Dieser sieben IAM-Trends prägen die Sicherheitsarchitekturen
Tags: iamFirst seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/sieben-iam-trends-2026-identity-first-security-a-e781816d66468085f539532f8a7bec07/