All news with #pam tag

🔐 This article examines how identities — user, machine, and AI agent credentials — have become primary attack paths across hybrid environments. It uses real-world examples like cached access keys and forgotten role assignments to show how isolated identity weaknesses chain into exploitable routes. The piece explains why traditional IGA and PAM tools miss these cross-boundary paths and calls for unified mapping of identity, permissions, and environment context to prevent breaches.

🔐 Idira is Palo Alto Networks' next-generation identity security platform, unveiled at IMPACT following the company's integration with CyberArk. It discovers every human, machine and AI agent, inventories entitlements across network, cloud, endpoints and browsers, and evaluates whether access is necessary. Idira replaces standing accounts with dynamic, just-in-time privileges and automates continuous governance, shrinking the fragmentation that delays incident response. The platform embeds AI to surface risky entitlements and drive rapid remediation, while integrating with Strata, Cortex and Prisma to enforce controls where users and agents work.

🔒 This article outlines five practical steps to harden identity security across human, machine, and workload identities and to build attack resilience through least privilege and continuous validation. It recommends prioritizing MFA for high‑privilege accounts, deploying PAM to control administrative access, inventorying all identity types, and establishing real‑time behavior validation. The guidance emphasizes quick wins—enforce MFA for privileged users immediately and expand to all users within 30 days—to reduce credential‑based breaches and limit lateral movement.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks has completed its $25 billion acquisition of Israel-based CyberArk, integrating privileged access management into its core platform strategy. The deal aims to extend privileged controls across human, machine, and AI identities to reduce standing privileges, limit lateral movement, and accelerate breach response. Palo Alto will continue offering standalone CyberArk while pursuing deeper integration, though analysts warn of transition friction and potential licensing or vendor lock-in.

🔐 Privileged accounts frequently remain active across enterprises, with a reported 91% of end-users operating at their highest privilege. Analysts link this to legacy governance, fragile integrations, and cumbersome PAM tooling that drives users to bypass controls. The growth of non-human identities—service accounts, APIs, CI/CD pipelines—exacerbates the issue because they authenticate programmatically and rarely expire. That standing access raises risks from accidental outages and data exposure to lateral attacker movement and weakened compliance.

🔒 This article describes a pre-built Tines workflow that automates Just-In-Time (JIT) access to applications by orchestrating Okta, Jira, and Slack (or Teams) for request intake, approval, provisioning, and revocation. Users submit a self-service request via a customizable Tines Page; approvers receive interactive notifications and can approve instantly. On approval the workflow adds the user to the correct Okta group, logs actions in Jira for auditability, and enforces a timed revocation. The outcome is faster access for users, enforced least privilege, and a clear, auditable trail without manual click-ops.

🔐Agentic AI introduces a new class of identity that behaves with humanlike intent yet scales and persists like machines. Traditional IAM and PAM were designed for employees and predictable workloads; AI agents are decentralized, easy to create, cross‑platform, and often granted broad privileges, creating serious blind spots. CISOs should apply lifecycle management: assign clear ownership tied to the identity provider, define explicit measurable purpose and scope, enforce least privilege, maintain continuous visibility to detect privilege drift, and automate revocation when agents go idle.

🤖 Robotic Process Automation (RPA) bots are rapidly becoming first‑class Non‑Human Identities (NHIs) that streamline provisioning, deprovisioning and credential handling while reducing human error. Left unmanaged, bot identities and embedded secrets expand the attack surface and enable privilege misuse or lateral movement. Organizations should treat bots like human users — using secrets managers, PAM, JIT access and unified IAM with Zero Trust controls to preserve least‑privilege and maintain auditability.

🔒 Remote Privileged Access Management (RPAM) provides a cloud-native approach to securing privileged accounts beyond traditional perimeters, enabling administrators, contractors and third-party vendors to connect securely from any device or location. RPAM enforces least-privilege, Just-in-Time access and multi-factor authentication while recording detailed session logs without relying on VPNs. By supporting zero-trust principles and scalable deployments, RPAM reduces attack surface and streamlines compliance.

🔐 This article outlines Mandiant's practical framework for securing privileged access across modern enterprise and cloud environments. It emphasizes a three-pillar approach—Prevention, Detection, and Response—and details controls such as PAM, PAWs, JIT/JEA, MFA, secrets rotation, and tiered access. The post highlights detection engineering, high-fidelity session capture, and SOAR automation to reduce dwell time and blast radius, and concludes with incident response guidance including enterprise password rotations and protected recovery paths.

🔒 Astrix introduces the industry's first Agent Control Plane (ACP) to enable secure-by-design deployment of autonomous AI agents across the enterprise. ACP issues short-lived, precisely scoped credentials and enforces just-in-time, least-privilege access while centralizing inventory and activity trails. The platform streamlines policy-driven approvals for developers, speeds audits for security teams, and reduces compliance and operational risk by discovering non-human identities (NHIs) and remediating excessive privileges in real time.