Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Every update to One Identity Active Roles is made in response to feedback from our customers. From adapting to improve usability or streamlining administration processes, our product development is always centered around solving the nuanced problems IT teams face every day. We’re excited to share the five recent updates we’ve made to Active Roles, including.

If you are like me, a couple of years ago it was like I woke up to a new concept in the world of IT: the non-human identity. But, wait…this sounds very familiar. Haven’t we had service accounts and machines identities for performing automated tasks for many years now? In fact, I was on a development team that produced what is now known as RPA tools that helped automate repetitive IT tasks; an area highly used by many enterprises.

Microsoft highly recommends enabling MFA on all Entra ID users to protect their environment against potential attackers and avoid getting breached. This can cause a lot of issues and damage for the company from reputation problems to large fines. The latest figures from Microsoft Threat Intelligence research show that more than 99% of attacks are password attacks. Microsoft alone registers 7,000 password attacks per second!

In today’s hybrid and multi-cloud environments, piecemeal identity tools can create a messy, difficult solution set. That’s why top analysts at KuppingerCole are identifying vendors that offer more than standalone solutions—they’re recognizing those that deliver a true identity fabric. We’re proud to share that in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Identity Fabrics, One Identity has been named an Overall Leader in this evolving space.

Cyber threats continue to move faster, operate smarter and hit harder than ever before. Against this backdrop, one truth has emerged: identity is the new perimeter – your people’s digital identities are the new front line of defense. And that brings identity into focus for every attacker. To truly protect your business, you need an AI-enabled, dynamic, intelligent, unified Identity Fabric to deliver next generation protection and control without impacting productivity.

It’s sometimes said that information wants to be free. However, freedom comes with risks. Especially when dealing with data that’s subject to laws around access, that’s property of individuals and entities, or that represents a business’s IP. After all, granting privileges puts information at the fingertips of employees – and potentially threat actors too.

Identity and access management (IAM) is about enabling secure, scalable and efficient operations across increasingly complex environments. The right IAM solution doesn’t just support IT, it actively reduces friction, tightens security and adapts to an organization’s environment. Better outcomes happen with solutions that align with organizational needs and don’t demand numerous workarounds.

After nearly two decades in cybersecurity and more customer conversations than I can count, one thing’s clear: no matter the industry, every organization is dealing with compliance headaches. Finance, healthcare, retail – it doesn’t matter. If you’ve got users with access to systems, you’ve got audit controls to worry about. And most of the time, people have way more access than they actually need. That’s where privileged access management (PAM) comes in.

Lately, the common theme in emerging identity security technology has been… well, you know. AI. It’s all anyone wants to talk about. All of us in the IAM business have been scurrying to find a way to tell our customers and the market that, yes! we have AI! we've had it all along! If that were so obviously true, then why are we having to tell you about it now? As an identity security technologist, I’ve experienced the growing pains of AI in IAM.

Modern IT is innately complex, which leads to matching complexity in the security environment and indeed for managing privileged accounts. Companies rely on multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments to get more flexibility and to enhance resilience. But the flipside of a distributed, decentralized IT approach is a variety of security models across platforms. That creates a broad attack surface, and a complex web of privileged accounts.