Ory + HID, CrowdStrike + Natoma, Descope AI Hub

Strategic & Emerging Headlines

Curated Industry Announcements

• AWS: Exploring common centralized and decentralized approaches to secrets management

• Beyond Identity: Opens Early Access for the AI Security Suite

• Cisco: Privacy and Data Governance — Keys to Innovation and Trust in the AI Era

• Descope: Unveils Agentic Identity Hub 2.0, the Most Comprehensive Identity Platform for AI Agents and MCP Servers

• Natoma: Announce partnership with CrowdStrike

• Ory: Partners with HID to Deliver First Enterprise FIDO2 Identity Platform of the Converged Physical and Digital Era

• RSA Security: Announces New $135 Million Capital Infusion and Debt Refinancing to Accelerate AI Product Innovation and Organic Growth

• Transmit Security: The 2025 Mosaic Rewind: How AI, Standards and Smarter Defenses Shaped Identity Security

Identity Threat Intelligence Updates

• Linking Privileged Accounts to Identities in Microsoft Defender: Benefits & Use Cases

• As Strong As Your Weakest Parameter: An AI Authorization Bypass

• Understanding DocuSign Credential Harvesting Campaigns: A Case Study

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Up Coming Event Attendance:

• RSAC 2026 - San Francisco - March 23-26

• IDSA - Identity Management Day 2026 - April 14

• IAM Tech Day - Sao Paolo - April 22-23

• Identiverse - Las Vegas - June 15-18

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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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Identity Security Vendor Summary Reports

Recently Added:

• CyberArk

• HYPR

• Axiad

• FusionAuth

• Apono

• WSO2

• Hydden

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Recent Content Updates

Improving the MTTA

• A deep dive into the concept of improving the mean time to access for a range of different stakeholders to a broad array of high risk systems

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Our Most Recent Industry Webinar

• 3 December - Modernizing AD Protection Against Lateral Movement and Privileged Access Abuse with Silverfort

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Our Recent Podcast Episodes

• E67 The Analyst Brief: End of 2026 Acquisitions and Technology Consolidation

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Our 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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Our Recent Comments and Analyst Insight

• The Identity Underground 2026 Pulse: “From Operations to Strategic Enabler: Why IAM Must Adapt”

• Review of CrowdStrike acquiring SGNL

• Architecting Identity for a Real-time World

• Defining and Securing The Enterprise Production Stack

• Analysing Application Activity

• Building App Policies with Continuous Identity

• Why PAM Needs to Evolve

• Shifting Left of Boom in Identity

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Our Recent Industry Webinars

• Always On, Always Aware: Building a Continuous Identity Strategy

• 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?

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Our Recent Training Academy Episodes

• 38: How does Identity and Access Management relate to Zero Trust?

• 37: What is Identity Risk Management?

• 36: What is Identity Data Management?

• 35: What are Initial Access Brokers?

• 34: What is SPIFFE?

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Our Recent Deep Dive Vendor Assessment Reports

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Our Recent Vendor Introduction Interviews

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Our 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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