Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

There’s a moment every IT and security team recognises. You’ve done the hard work: rolled out SSO, tightened access policies, and moved sensitive tools behind stronger authentication. On paper, it looks like progress.

For security and IT professionals, the past decade has brought a series of tectonic shifts that have toppled old assumptions and created new opportunities. First, the SaaS revolution destroyed the paradigm of an IT-governed corporate network. Next, COVID-19 forever altered how and where work gets done. Then, the biggest shockwave of them all arrived: AI-based tools that are rewriting the very definition of “identity.”

Since 1Password began, we have built security into the places where work actually happens. Security is not treated as an overlay or a separate workflow, we build directly into the browser, command lines, developer tools, and IDEs, where decisions are made and actions take place. We believe that if you want to improve security outcomes, you build where the work happens, making the secure path the simplest one.

1Password has achieved a significant milestone in our collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS): We are officially the first partner globally to successfully transact through express private offers on AWS Marketplace, a new AI-driven capability that automates personalized pricing, allowing teams to bypass manual negotiations and receive a tailored quote in minutes.

The era of secrets living in fixed systems and accessed through a handful of workflows is long gone. Modern development is faster, more automated, and increasingly AI-assisted. Developers need access to secrets everywhere their code runs – across CI/CD pipelines, local environments, and AI-driven workflows.

Agent swarms are having a moment.

As we embed AI agents into our lives and workflows, we’re learning the (sometimes surprising) ways in which they outperform human beings, and other ways in which they fall short. And occasionally, we find an example where agents, paradoxically, are both better and worse than their human users.

Onboarding and offboarding are two of the most important and frustrating jobs IT owns. When onboarding works, new hires are productive on day one. When offboarding is done correctly, access is removed cleanly, data remains protected, and audits are much less painful. When either breaks down, the consequences appear quickly: lost productivity, security gaps, wasted spend, and hours of manual cleanup.

The return on your SaaS management platform investment is very dependent on the quality of your rollout.

Identity has become the defining security challenge for organizations navigating SaaS sprawl, AI adoption, and an increasingly distributed workforce.