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Attackers hit Check Point Management Servers and Spark firewalls, F5 BIG-IP APM instances

Check Point Software has released emergency fixes for a critical Check Point Management Server vulnerability (CVE-2026-93616) that has been exploited as far back as July 23, …

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98% of fraudulent hires have company credentials by the time they’re caught

A 90-day period between hiring and onboarding is creating a blind spot in enterprise identity security, according to HYPR’s State of HR Identity Fraud Detection report. …

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NIST and CISA finalize playbook to stop token theft and forgery

NIST and CISA have finalized guidelines to help federal agencies and cloud service providers (CSPs) protect identity and access tokens from forgery, theft, and misuse. The …

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NIS2 compliance: Fixing IAM and access control before the 2026 audit

The NIS2 Directive places direct obligations on organizations across supply chain risk management, incident reporting, and board-level accountability. October brings a new …

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Weak IAM affects up to 98% of cloud environments

Misconfiguration remains one of the leading threats to cloud environments because a single configuration error can result in public network access, unrotated keys, missing …

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AI agents are changing where cybersecurity seed funding lands

Founders pitching a cybersecurity seed round this summer are joining a line that keeps getting longer. Product Hunt launches hit their highest level since late 2023 last …

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Your vendor’s vendor might be the real breach risk

In this Help Net Security video, Chris Boehm, Field CTO, Zero Networks, breaks down how a vendor breach can become your breach. He explains that attackers now target the …

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Anthropic’s Claude Tag gives AI agents independent identities

Anthropic introduced an agent identity model for Claude Tag, its AI assistant designed for team collaboration in shared workspaces. The model gives Claude its own identity, …

Delinea securing machine identities
The rise of machine identities and agentic AI: Securing trust in the next era of digital autonomy

In the latest episode of Identity Insider, I sat down with Chris Hughes, a cybersecurity expert who’s involved in OWASP’s work on non-human and machine identity …

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ETSI sets security requirements for AI data centers and cloud platforms

ETSI has published TS 104 033, a technical specification that defines security requirements for AI computing platforms. The specification establishes a security framework for …

Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra pushes passkeys, tightens identity security

Microsoft has released multiple identity and network access capabilities for Entra, its family of identity and network access products that help organizations implement a zero …

Delinea managing machine identities
Manage machine identities: The hidden privileged access layer you need to manage

Why are machine identities becoming the majority of “things with access”? Every automation, integration, and workload needs a way to authenticate and the right permissions to …

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