access management
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, …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
Proton Pass adds monitored credential sharing for AI agents
Proton Pass, a secure, end-to-end encrypted password manager, added credential sharing through AI access tokens, allowing users to give AI agents access to selected items and …
Your IAM was built for humans, AI agents don’t care
Identity and access management was built for a simpler world. One where the hardest problem was a human logging in, and where “Who are you?” was sufficient to …
Attackers are exploiting RCE vulnerability in BIG-IP APM systems (CVE-2025-53521)
A critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-53521) in F5’s BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) solution is under active exploitation, the US …
ShinyHunters claims new campaign targeting Salesforce Experience Cloud sites
Salesforce customers have, once again, been targeted by the ShinyHunters group – or, at least, it’s what the group claims. Attackers modified and abused benign …
Who’s on the other end? Rented accounts are stress-testing trust in gig platforms
Fraud has become a routine part of gig work for many earners, and the ways workers respond are creating new security problems for platforms. A recent TransUnion study of U.S. …
Rethinking OT security for project heavy shipyards
In this Help Net Security interview, Hans Quivooij, CISO at Damen Shipyards Group, discusses securing OT and ICS in the shipyard. He outlines how project-based operations, …
The next big IT security battle is all about privileged access
Leostream predicts changes in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) in 2026 driven by new realities of cybersecurity, hybridization, AI, …