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Access issues don’t usually come from one big mistake. They build up over time through small decisions. Temporary access gets extended, roles change but permissions stay the same, and vendor accounts remain active longer than expected. Individually, these situations don’t seem urgent but over time, they make it difficult to track who has access to what, and whether that access is still required. This is where access certification becomes important.

What’s changed in the cybersecurity world after the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? The speed of response has gone up. The Security Operations Center (SOC) and internal cybersecurity teams are able to detect, respond to, and mitigate attacks faster than ever. It’s a no-brainer that AI agents can neutralize identity-based attacks within seconds, before a human analyst checks the alerts.

We’ve been collaborating with others to explore how agentic commerce and enterprise agents will work. Alfonso Gómez-Jordana Mañas, co-founder of Crossmint shares his thoughts on the current state of payment security and how compliance mechanisms like KYC and AML need to evolve to support agentic commerce. OpenClaw provided users with an open-source framework to launch AI agents.

AI agents are being deployed in the real world at pace. In the enterprise realm, they’re accessing APIs, shipping code, and running decisioning workflows on behalf of the organizations and individuals who deploy them. Entirely new businesses have sprung up, leveraging AI agents to streamline customer support and sales processes.

Non-human identities (NHIs) such as service accounts, API keys, tokens, and workload identities now outnumber human users by 10x or more in most organizations. Unlike human identities that follow HR-driven lifecycles, NHIs are often created ad hoc, granted excessive permissions, and rarely decommissioned. Effective NHI lifecycle management spans five stages: discovery and inventory, secure provisioning, ongoing monitoring, credential risk management (including rotation), and decommissioning.

In Australia, the introduction of the Social Media Minimum Age Act increased the importance of gauging a user’s age without compromising their privacy. To help organizations navigate these requirements, Persona now supports an integration with ConnectID, an Australian digital identity network.

Employees are adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to enhance their productivity, but they rarely consider the security implications of doing so. When an employee pastes sensitive customer data into an unapproved AI tool, that data is processed by a third-party model outside the organization’s control, often leaving no audit trail for security teams to review.

Each year, Identity Management Day (IMD) serves as a global reminder that managing digital identities is more than a technical requirement; it is a cornerstone of modern trust. Now in its sixth year, IMD continues to emphasize how identity itself is evolving, stretching beyond human users to encompass machines, automated agents, and even AI-generated personas.