Access Control stories

OpenAI expands its enterprise AI push with a biology-focused model aimed at speeding target discovery, analysis and early drug development.

Protegrity rolls out AI Team Edition to shield business knowledge during inferencing, using semantic preserving encryption and policy automation.

Banks and regulators race to assess Anthropic's controlled Mythos access, as AI cyber testing raises fears over payments, trading and wider financial stability.

Survey finds AI agents are spreading faster than security teams can track them, with most firms lacking visibility, rollback controls and identity governance.

Sentra and Wiz link cloud risk findings to sensitive data, helping security teams prioritise the alerts most likely to expose PII, PHI or IP.

Emergent's Wingman puts autonomous AI agents to work across email, calendars and chats, with human approval for higher-risk actions.

Keeper Security adds approval workflows and audit logging to Endpoint Privilege Manager as enterprises tighten control over temporary admin access.

Capsule Security emerges from stealth with $7 million backing to police AI agents at runtime as enterprises widen their use.

Thoughtworks warns AI-assisted coding is swelling software complexity, as developers lean on older controls to curb security and oversight risks.

OpenAI broadens Trusted Access for Cyber to verified defenders, giving vetted users GPT-5.4-Cyber for tougher security work and code analysis.

Denodo survey finds real-time data, security and context are the main barriers as firms struggle to trust agentic AI at scale.

Ledger names Ian Rogers as Chief Human Agency Officer, putting hardware approval and human oversight at the centre of its AI security push.

KnowBe4 unveils Agent Risk Manager to monitor autonomous AI agents in real time, flag prompt injections and curb rogue data access.

Cloudflare launches Mesh to give AI agents secure access to private networks across clouds, data centres and internal systems.

Gallagher Security says ISC West 2026 underlined demand for easier migrations and tighter integrations as it unveiled QuickSwitch and AccessNow.

Portnox hires Jonathan Skinner as Chief Marketing Officer to drive global growth, with the cybersecurity veteran tasked with sharpening go-to-market strategy.

Experts warns that AI agents and other non-human identities are exposing dangerous enterprise blind spots as firms race to scale automation.

N-able adds an MCP server and in-product assistant for N-central and N-sight, aiming to bring real-time AI action to managed IT operations.

Machine accounts and AI agents are now eclipsing human users in many IT estates, prompting warnings that outdated identity controls are no longer enough.

AI-driven bots and machine accounts are exposing long-running identity security gaps across Australian and New Zealand organisations, experts warn.