Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In the current AI boom, we race to use copilots, orchestration scripts, CI workflows, retrieval pipelines, and background jobs. Sometimes, we take for granted that every one of these things needs an identity. Service accounts. OAuth apps. API keys. Short-lived tokens. As AI velocity increases, so does the number of these non-human identities (NHIs). Instead of obsessing over model quality, latency, hallucinations, and GPU costs, we also need to consider how these identities impact security.

Your Privileged Access Management (PAM) tool is running. Your vaults are configured. Your sessions are monitored. And somewhere in the environment, a former contractor’s account still has domain admin rights. This is the problem that Privileged Access Governance (PAG) solves. In this blog, we'll see why having the right Privilege Access Management tools isn’t the same as having privileged access under proper control.

Among the many updates to Windows Server 2025, there’s a new Forest Functional Level (FFL) for Active Directory. This first new FFL since Windows Server 2016 underscores Microsoft’s long-term commitment to AD.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, when hybrid and remote work became common, Identity and Access Management (IAM) worked in the background. It was important, but mostly invisible outside IT and security teams. That’s not the case anymore. Today, identity shows up in almost every digital interaction. Employees move between devices. Customers expect sign-ins to just work. Compliance teams want clear answers about access trails. Industry trends reflect this shift.

NEW YORK – March 18, 2026 – Apono, the agentic-forward cloud-native Privileged Access Management platform, today announced the launch of Agent Privilege Guard, a new product that gives enterprises the ability to deploy AI agents at full velocity without creating security risks they cannot control.

In most organizations, identity governance and administration (IGA) solutions are supposed to answer one simple question: who has access to what, when, and why? But in cloud-native teams shipping daily, that question gets messy fast. Permissions sprawl and temporary access quietly become permanent. The blast radius is colossal. Third-party involvement in breaches doubled to 30% over the last year, which is exactly what happens when access decisions are scattered across vendors, apps, and infrastructure.