All news with #iam tag

🔒 BeyondTrust's 2026 predictions argue that the next major breaches will stem from unmanaged identity debt rather than simple phishing. The report highlights three identity-driven threats: agentic AI acting as privileged deputies vulnerable to prompt manipulation, automated "account poisoning" in financial systems, and long-dormant "ghost" identities surfacing in legacy IAM. The authors recommend an identity-first posture with strict least-privilege, context-aware controls, real-time auditing, and stronger identity governance.

🔑 Identity is becoming the new perimeter as organizations accelerate the move to Zero Trust, making robust Identity & Access Management essential for secure access and continuity. This roundup examines leading IAM vendors and highlights capabilities in IGA, PAM, IDaaS, CIEM and risk-based authentication. Profiles cover strengths, pricing and integration trade-offs for vendors including CyberArk, Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint, Avatier and BeyondTrust to help CISOs match products to requirements.

🔍 The Unit 42 2025 Incident Response analysis explains that attackers exploit complexity, visibility gaps and excessive trust to succeed against organizations of all sizes. The report notes almost a third of incidents were cloud-related, IAM failures appeared in 41% of cases and attackers often moved within an hour, causing outsized disruption and cost. The recommended response is to consolidate telemetry into an integrated platform like Cortex, extend protection into cloud with Cortex Cloud, secure browser activity with Prisma Browser, and engage Unit 42 for advisory and retainer services.

🔁 AWS Transfer Family now lets administrators change a server's identity provider (IdP) type without service interruption. This update allows dynamic switching among service-managed, Active Directory, and custom IdP authentication for SFTP, FTPS, and FTP servers, enabling zero-downtime migrations and faster compliance adaptation. The capability is available in all AWS Regions where Transfer Family operates.

🔐 Self-service password reset (SSPR) can significantly cut help desk costs and reduce downtime by letting users securely change forgotten or expired credentials without contacting support. Industry research cited in the article highlights that password-related calls are common and expensive — Gartner and Forrester figures are referenced and a Specops analysis reports average savings per user. The piece outlines security best practices including tiered risk controls, MFA, enrollment hygiene, and detection measures like rate limiting and location checks. It describes Specops uReset capabilities for Entra ID and Active Directory, automated enrollment, reporting, and a First Day Password add-on to reduce onboarding friction.

🔐 Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports tag-based access control for database-level and per-query metrics powered by RDS Performance Insights. Instance tags defined on RDS and Aurora are now automatically evaluated to authorize Performance Insights metrics, enabling IAM policies to use tag-based access conditions across logical groups of databases. This reduces manual, resource-level permission management and improves governance and security consistency. The feature is available in all AWS regions where Database Insights is offered.

⚠️ Enterprises now face a reality where autonomous AI agents run with system privileges, executing code and accessing sensitive data without human oversight. Fewer than 4 in 10 AI agents are governed by identity security policies, creating serious visibility and control gaps. Mature identity programs that use AI-driven identity controls and real-time data sync deliver stronger ROI, reduced risk, and operational efficiency. CISOs must move IAM from compliance checkbox to strategic enabler.

📞 Outsourced helpdesks are increasingly targeted by vishing and other social‑engineering campaigns. Attackers can exploit service‑desk privileges to reset passwords, disable MFA, enroll devices or elevate access, enabling lateral movement. Clients should require evidence of ISO 27001 compliance, enforce least‑privilege, strict caller authentication and continuous, scenario‑based agent training. Technical controls such as caller ID spoofing detection, deepfake audio checks and MFA on helpdesk tools — combined with MDR monitoring — help close this gap.

🔐 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity centralizes and secures identities and credentials for AI agents, integrating with existing identity providers such as Amazon Cognito to avoid user migration and rework of authentication flows. It provides a token vault encrypted with AWS KMS, native AWS Secrets Manager support, and orchestrates OAuth 2.0 flows (2LO and 3LO). Declarative SDK annotations and built-in error handling simplify credential injection and refresh workflows, helping teams deploy agentic workloads securely at scale.

🤖 Organizations are rapidly adopting agentic AI that does more than suggest actions—it opens tickets, calls APIs, and even remediates incidents autonomously. These agents differ from traditional Non-Human Identities because they reason, chain steps, and adapt across systems, making attribution and oversight harder. The author from Token Security recommends named ownership, on‑behalf tracing, and conservative, time‑limited permissions to curb shadow AI risks.

🔐 Ransomware intrusions increasingly begin with compromised identities: recent analyses attribute roughly three quarters of incidents to stolen or misused credentials. Defenses must shift from infrastructure-centric controls to identity-first models like Zero Trust, combining RBAC, MFA and context-aware authentication. Adaptive, risk-based access and passwordless methods reduce friction while improving detection and auditability. Regulatory regimes such as NIS2 and DORA further mandate auditable access controls.

🔒 This post contrasts Amazon Cognito's two primary UI approaches—managed login and a fully custom UI—and outlines feature, security, and operational trade-offs to guide architects and developers. Managed login (offered as a modern branding editor or the Hosted UI classic) offloads hosting, scaling, and maintenance while providing OAuth2 flows, federation with social and OIDC/SAML providers, passwordless options, and CloudTrail action logging. A custom UI gives full control over UX, session management, localization, and supports custom authentication flows via Lambda triggers, but requires development, hosting, and operational responsibility under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model.

🔐 The 2025 State of Cloud Security Report from Fortinet and Cybersecurity Insiders highlights how accelerating cloud adoption and a widespread cybersecurity skills shortage are expanding organizational risk across SaaS, APIs, and hybrid environments. Many incidents result from human error — misconfigurations, exposed APIs, and overprivileged accounts — rather than sophisticated targeted attacks. The post recommends five practical measures, including embracing shared responsibility, enforcing MFA and least privilege, integrating security into CI/CD, automating configuration management, and monitoring SaaS and APIs, and stresses that tools must be paired with user awareness and cultural change.

🔒 CISOs are re-evaluating organizational roles, processes, and partnerships as AI accelerates both attacks and defenses. Leaders say AI is elevating the CISO into strategic C-suite conversations and reshaping collaboration with IT, while security teams use AI to triage alerts, automate repetitive tasks, and focus on higher-value work. Experts stress that AI magnifies existing weaknesses, so fundamentals like IAM, network segmentation, and patching remain critical, and recommend piloting AI in narrow use cases to augment human judgment rather than replace it.

🔐 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports corporate identities for interactive Apache Spark sessions using AWS Identity Center trusted identity propagation. Data engineers and scientists can sign on to JupyterLab Spark sessions with organizational credentials while administrators apply fine-grained access controls and maintain end-to-end data access traceability. The integration leverages AWS Lake Formation, Amazon S3 Access Grants, and Amazon Redshift Data APIs, and includes comprehensive AWS CloudTrail logging for interactive and background sessions to streamline compliance.

🔒 AWS Storage Gateway now supports VPC endpoint policies, allowing administrators to attach fine‑grained endpoint policies to VPC endpoints that control access to Storage Gateway direct APIs. Administrators can scope access by principal, action, and resource to reduce attack surface and enforce data protection controls. The capability is available in all Regions where Storage Gateway operates; review endpoint policies to align with your security and compliance requirements.

🔒 AWS has added four service-specific IAM condition keys for AWS Transfer Family, enabling administrators to write more granular policies and SCPs. These keys let you constrain server protocols, endpoint types, and storage domains at request time. For example, use transfer:RequestServerEndpointType to block public servers or transfer:RequestServerProtocols to allow only SFTP. The keys are available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🔔 AWS IAM Identity Center is now deployable in 36 AWS Regions, including Asia Pacific (Bangkok) and Mexico Central (Querétaro). The service provides centralized workforce access, single sign-on, and integration with existing identity sources to streamline account and application access across AWS. It powers personalized experiences in AWS applications such as Amazon Q and supports user-aware access auditing for services like Amazon Redshift. IAM Identity Center is available at no additional cost in these Regions.

🔒 Security hardening boosts protection for organizations, especially SMBs, by reducing their attack surface without large additional investments. Key measures include strong authentication and authorization—enforcing strict passwords, multifactor authentication, least-privilege access and network access controls—alongside timely patching, data encryption and segmented, tested backups. Regular staff training, account audits and permission reviews complete a practical, low-cost defense posture.

🔐 AWS Lambda now supports code signing in AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) through the managed AWS Signer service. Lambda validates signatures at deployment to ensure code has not been altered and that it originates from trusted signers. Administrators can create Signing Profiles, bind allowed profiles to functions, and configure whether failed signature checks produce warnings or reject deployments. Access and permissions are controlled via IAM, and there is no additional charge to use this capability.