A survey of 512 cybersecurity professionals finds 76% report that over half (54%) of the security incidents that occurred in the past 12 months involved some issue relating to identity management. Conducted by Permiso Security, a provider of an identity security platform, the survey also finds 95% are either very confident (52%) or somewhat confident..

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Cloud security titan Zscaler Inc. has acquired SquareX, a pioneer in browser-based threat protection, in an apparent move to step away from traditional, clunky security hardware and toward a seamless, browser-native defense. The acquisition, which did not include financial terms, integrates SquareX’s browser detection and response technology into Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange platform. Unlike traditional..

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Orchid Security today added an ability to conduct audits to its platform that enables cybersecurity teams to track behaviors of specific identities. Company CEO Roy Katmor said Identity Audit is designed to make it possible to unify proprietary audit data captured from unmanaged applications with audit logs data collected from third-party identity and access management..

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As the enterprise world shifts from chatbots to autonomous systems, Operant AI on Thursday launched Agent Protector, a real-time security solution designed to govern and shield artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The launch comes at a critical inflection point for corporate technology. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2026, 40% of enterprise applications will feature..

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The chatbot era has ended. For two years, we’ve interacted with digital assistants that summarize emails and suggest recipes, but the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) now draws a definitive line between machines that talk and machines that act. Their newly released Request for Information (RFI) signals a fundamental paradigm shift in how..

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Cyber fusion centers make zero-trust more effective by improving visibility, automating response, and shrinking the window for attacks.

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