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NIST Privileged Access Management: Complying with the NIST Requirements

Privileged accounts are the crown jewels of any IT environment. Admin credentials, root access, service accounts. These are what attackers go after first, because compromising one can hand them the entire organization. Forrester puts the number at 80% of security breaches involving privileged accounts. NIST frameworks, particularly SP 800-53, exist to make sure you're not leaving that door unlocked.

From Access Details to Actually Connected: Introducing the Apono Access Launcher

Approved access shouldn’t mean you’re done waiting. For most developers, it just means the friction is about to start. You request access to a database. It gets approved. Now what? You open the portal, navigate to your request, find the session, click into Access Details, hunt for the right tab, copy a hostname, switch to your database client, create a new connection profile, paste in the hostname, go back for the username, go back for the password. And finally, connect. Whew.

New in miniOrange PAM: Bringing EPAM to Windows and macOS

Privileged access has become significantly more complex over the last few years. Security teams are managing Windows and macOS devices, administrators rely on native tools to do their jobs, network infrastructure continues to expand, and operational technology environments are becoming increasingly interconnected. At the same time, manual approval processes and fragmented controls often create more friction than protection.

PAM essentials for effective compliance with the Australian Essential Eight and the ISM controls

The Australian Essential Eight and the Information Security Manual (ISM) together define the cybersecurity baseline for organisations operating in Australia. While the ISM contains over 700 security controls, the Essential Eight distils the most critical of these into eight prioritised mitigation strategies and each strategy maps to multiple ISM controls underneath it. At the heart of both frameworks lies one recurring theme: restricting and governing privileged access and that's where privileged access management becomes your most powerful compliance lever.

How to Manage AI Agent Access Control

AI agent access control is about governing what autonomous software agents are allowed to do and access across your cloud infrastructure, data systems, and internal tools at runtime. It’s about identity ownership and action-level authorization, so your AI agents operate within tightly scoped, time-bound, and policy-enforced permissions that you can keep track of.

Aembit Extends IAM for Agentic AI to Microsoft Copilot Studio

Aembit on Tuesday announced support for Copilot Studio, extending its identity and access management capabilities to Microsoft's enterprise AI agent platform. The integration, unveiled at Identiverse 2026, gives security teams the tools to manage what Copilot Studio agents can access, under what conditions, and with a complete record of every decision. The company also released an interactive enterprise AI readiness checklist to help organizations assess their agent deployments before they go into production.

Agentic IAM: The Complete Guide to Identity Security for Autonomous AI Agents

If you’ve deployed your first AI agent, then you must have given it access to your CRMs, ticketing systems, and your cloud storage. This AI agent is programmed to run 24/7, make decisions, call external APIs, and trigger actions (without a human in the loop). Now, answer these questions: If you cannot answer these questions, then you have an agentic AI identity issue. Traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) was built for service accounts with static API keys and users with usernames.

Apono Joins 1Password

Today, Apono is joining 1Password. This is a major step forward for the company we set out to build, the customers who helped shape it, and the future of access governance. When we started Apono, we set out to eliminate the friction that access management creates between security and engineering teams. Access in the cloud was dynamic, but the systems meant to govern it were not. Widespread standing access became an accepted cost of doing business. Engineers waited on tickets.