ConductorOne and WideField funding, Aembit for AI, StrongDM and Leash

This Weeks Mystical Quartet

Curated Industry Headlines

• Aembit: Announcing Aembit IAM for Agentic AI

• Cisco: SSE That Thinks in Identity and Adapts Access

• ConductorOne: Identity Security Platform of the AI Era, Raises $79M Series B

• Google: Keys to the Kingdom: A Defender’s Guide to Privileged Account Monitoring

• Orca Security: 2025 State of Cloud Security Report

• Ping Identity: Signs agreement to acquire Keyless, expanding privacy-first authentication across the entire user journey

• PlainID: Launches Policy 360°, Delivering the Industry’s Most Comprehensive View of Access Policy Management

• Sophos: Launches ITDR Solution

• Strata Identity: Training for the Unexpected — Why Identity Simulation Matters More Than Unit Tests

• StrongDM: StrongDM Delivers Policy Enforcement for Agentic AI with Leash

• Teleport: Zero Standing Privileges vs Credential Vaulting

• WideField: How Identity Security Became Impossible to Ignore

• WSO2: Announcing WSO2 Identity Server 7.2: Powering the Future of CIAM and Secure AI Agents

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Identity Threat Intelligence Updates

• CoPhish: Using Microsoft Copilot Studio as a wrapper for OAuth phishing

• Checkmate: Command line utility for checking configurations within Auth0 tenants.

• Critical Claroty Authentication Bypass Flaw Opened OT to Attack

• Inside the Data on Insider Threats: What 1,000 Real Cases Reveal About Hidden Risk

• Golden Ticket: How a forged Kerberos ticket can compromise an entire domain

• Harvesting Credentials: Phantom Stealer’s Agricultural Obfuscation Campaign

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Up Coming Event Attendance:

• Future Identity Festival - London - Nov 10/11 (hosting panels NHI/cloud)

• Blackhat EMEA - London - Dec 10/11 (attendee)

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Free Identity Security Cheat Sheets

• Cheat Sheet: Top 30 IAM Metrics for B2C

• Cheat Sheet: Top Metrics for B2E IAM

• Cheat Sheet: MCP Security

• Cheat Sheet: Agentic-AI Identity Security

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Recent Content

Why PAM Needs to Evolve

• A deep dive interview with P0 Security CEO Shashwat Sehgal on the evolution of privileged access, the creation of identity data lakes and how to solve the ever growing issue of more identities and more systems.

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Recent Industry Webinar:

• 17 September - Detect, Protect and Defend: A Holistic Approach to Human and Non-Human Identity Security with Permiso

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Recent Podcasts

• E64 The Analyst Brief: The Growing Impact of Digital Dependency

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Recent Research Reports:

• The Cyber Hut: A Market Guide to Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM): The Role of Data-Centric Identity Observability

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Recent Insight and Comment:

• Building App Policies with Continuous Identity

• Why PAM Needs to Evolve

• Shifting Left of Boom in Identity

• Stale access, stale risk: is Continuous Identity the answer?

• Comment on the role of IAM in Operational Technology for Industrial Cyber magazine

• Migrating to Data-Centric ISPM

• Siloes of Failure: Identity as the Unifying Control

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Recent Industry Webinars

• Identity-First Security for AI Agents with Token Security

• Addressing the IAM Data Problem: A fireside chat with Radiant Logic

• An Identity Security Playbook: The What and The Why with Silverfort

• Putting the AI in IAM a fireside chat with Apono

• Too Many IDPs: Why Now, How to Rationalize?

• The First Step to Tackling the NHI Security Challenge

• Addressing Blind Spots in Identity Security for 2025

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Recent Academy Episodes:

• 37: What is Identity Risk Management?

• 36: What is Identity Data Management?

• 35: What are Initial Access Brokers?

• 34: What is SPIFFE?

• 33: What Role does AI play in IAM?

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Recent Vendor Assessment Reports:

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Recent Vendor Introduction Interviews:

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Recent Video Shorts:

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Order IAM and Identity Security Books on Amazon:

• IAM at 2035: A Future Guide to Identity Security - Paperback, Audio, Kindle and Hardback

• CIAM Design Fundamentals - Paperback, Audio and Kindle

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