Displaying items by tag: Identity security

• New AI-powered digital agents accelerate identity security operations and decision-making 
• SailPoint sets its sights on securing the rising number of AI agents in the enterprise

GUEST RESEARCH:  77% of security leaders view securing machine identities as vital to protecting the future of AI  

COMPANY NEWS:  Leading AI software company turns to CyberArk to secure workforce and developer identities across its modern enterprise

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• Revolutionary technology redefines Identity Security by revealing previously undetectable Paths to Privilege attackers attempt to leverage
• Prioritised remediations enhance security across endpoints, servers, Cloud and SaaS environments, reducing alert fatigue and enabling organisations to strengthen their defenses before attacks occur

Mutual customers will benefit from boosted endpoint threat detection and response capabilities

GUEST OPINION: The cybersecurity landscape is poised for transformative shifts in 2025 driven by technological innovation and evolving threats. As cybercriminals become more sophisticated, organisations must stay ahead by proactively adopting strategies that prioritise identity security and business resiliency.

CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the global leader in identity security, announced the launch of FuzzyAI, a cutting-edge open-source framework that has jailbroken every tested AI model. Fuzzy AI helps organisations identify and address AI model vulnerabilities, like guardrail bypassing and harmful output generation, in cloud-hosted and in-house AI models.  FuzzyAI’s fully extensible framework is available as open-source software on CyberArk Labs’ GitHub Page.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Organisations with advanced identity security experience “bending of the curve,” see accelerated value from reduced cyber risk to increased workforce productivity

Key findings:

•  83% of organisations reported fewer identity-related security issues due to their security investments in 2023
• Organisations with mature identity security reported seeing disproportionately higher returns, “bending” the identity security-to-value curve
• Organisations with more mature identity security practices are, on average, seeing about 1.7 times higher adoption of AI-powered identity security solutions
• Machine identities are expected to increase about 30% in the next 3-5 years, growing faster than all other identity types, making coverage of these identities increasingly important for organisations of all maturity levels

COMPANY NEEWS:  CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the identity security company, today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management. CyberArk is positioned as a Leader for the sixth consecutive time and is positioned furthest in Completeness of Vision, which evaluates vendors on offering (product) strategy, innovation and market understanding among other evaluation criteria.

COMPANY NEWS:  CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), The identity security company, today announced that it has earned the Trusted Cloud Provider trustmark from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organisation dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. The Trusted Cloud Provider trustmark helps organisations to identify providers that have invested to achieve the highest standards of cloud security in their product offerings.

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire interviewed SailPoint's EVP of Product, Grady Summers. 

Most organisations now have the basic identity and access management technology yet continue to struggle with identity management, which could be due to the complexity in orchestrating dynamic workplaces, hybrid and remote workforces, and the rise of non-human identities, according to a new research report analysing the State of Identity in Australia and New Zealand.

COMPANY NEWS by CyberArk &  Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre:  With the ongoing cybersecurity hacks Australia has been experiencing, it is essential organisations are equipped with the knowledge and skills to be cyber resilient, particularly in the area of critical infrastructure.  

Identity security provider CyberArk has announced the availability of Cloud Entitlements Manager, Endpoint Privilege Manager and its Workforce Identity solutions on Amazon Web Services marketplace.

GUEST OPINION by Ashley Diffey, Ping Identity: As the number of infections rises around the world, many companies have directed their employees to work from home as a cautionary measure in an effort to assist in flattening the curve. What at first was seen as a short term situation is being extended without a known or defined end date.

GUEST OPINION by Ashley Diffey, Ping Identity: As the number of infections rises around the world, many companies have directed their employees to work from home as a cautionary measure in an effort to assist in flattening the curve. What at first was seen as a short term situation is being extended without a known or defined end date.

Authentication with facial recognition will take off this year, according to identity defined security company Ping, which says that advances in biometrics, the mass exposure of personally identifiable information from numerous data breaches, and a blockchain craze will take hold in 2018.

Global security vendor Centrify has warned that the major data breach revelations that have marked the past year would continue in 2018 as organisations struggle to recognise that “unmanaged trust is at the core of their cyber security vulnerability”.

Security is always a concern with financial transactions conducted online and the explosion in smartphone use for everything from mobile banking, buying event tickets to paying bills means that it’s a number one priority for both consumers and financial services providers.

Unified identity management software vendor Centrify has been named to the 'Hot 100' list of best privately held software companies by US investment bank JMP Securities.