Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

When the AI Agent Security Summit launched in San Francisco last October, agent-based threats had already escalated from a novel consideration to a predominant blocker for enterprise adoption. The security community was laser-focused on recognizing and minimizing the blast radius posed by agentic vulnerabilities, whether that meant indirect prompt injection, MCP poisoning, or hallucinations.

Traditionally, engineers have relied on shared database passwords. When someone needs to run a query, they either already have standing access granted via a static credential everyone on the team knows, or someone has to scramble to create a quick workaround. Every new user, exception rule, or port forward through a bastion host becomes a “just this once” fix.

Keeper Security has been named Cyber Security Solution of the Year at the 2026 National Technology Awards, recognising the company’s continued innovation in enterprise cybersecurity and identity protection. Hosted by National Technology News, the National Technology Awards celebrate organisations and technology leaders driving excellence, innovation and transformation across the UK technology sector.

A Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) in cybersecurity is a third-party organization that remotely manages and secures a client’s IT systems, networks and data. MSSPs provide cybersecurity services, including threat monitoring, incident response and compliance support. By outsourcing these functions, organizations can improve their security posture and reduce the burden on internal teams without requiring a large in-house security operations team.

ITDR automation best practices close the gap between when identity detection fires and when containment executes. Most programs detect identity attacks reliably but route the response to a human queue, turning active defense into a forensics workflow. Pre-built playbooks tied to high-confidence detection rules, plus protocol-layer blocking, are what convert ITDR from alert generation into attack containment. Identity-based attacks progress in minutes.

A lot of teams are in the same spot right now. Users say the VPN feels unstable, finance reports timeouts in a cloud app, a firewall throws intermittent alerts, and nobody can tell whether the problem is congestion, a misconfigured interface, a failing device, or something hostile moving through the network.