Palo+CyberArk Completes, Omada State of IGA '26, AuthSignal Account Recovery, GitGuardian $50M Series C

Plus a round up of Identity Threat Intelligence updates

Strategic & Emerging Headlines

Curated Industry Announcements

• Auth0: A Guide to Securing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Auth0 for AI Agents

• AuthSignal: Account recovery is the identity industry’s most overlooked challenge

• Axiomatics: 2026: A reflection on what’s ahead for Axiomatics, authorization, agentic AI, and more

• Cisco: Redefining Security for the Agentic Era

• CyberArk (Palo Alto): Identity Security Is the Foundation of the AI Era

• CyberArk: Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of CyberArk to Secure the AI Era

• GitGuardian: $50 Million Series C Raised For Secrets And Non-Human Identity Security Platform

• Hydden: Why Nobody Owns Your Most Privileged Accounts

• Omada: Read The State of Identity Governance 2026

• Teleport: How to Prevent Prompt Injection in AI Agents

• Yubico: Yubico previews passkey-enabled digital signatures in upcoming YubiKey 5.8 firmware

Identity Threat Intelligence Updates

• Astrix Openclaw Scanner

• The 5 Most Valuable Credential Types Hidden in Stealer Logs

• In Bypassing MFA, ZeroDayRAT Is 'Textbook Stalkerware'

• Keys to JWT Assessments - From a Cheat Sheet to a Deep Dive

• How recruitment fraud turned cloud IAM into a $2 billion attack surface

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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: Application Governance

• 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:

• Silverfort

• CyberArk

• HYPR

• Axiad

• FusionAuth

• Apono

• WSO2

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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

• E69 The Analyst Brief: The Rise of IAM Resilience and Why Semperis is buying MightyID…

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Our Recent Research Reports:

• A Market Guide to Securing the Production Stack

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Our Recent Comments and Analyst Insight

• OpenClaw: A Productivity & Cyber Security Clash

• 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

What are digital employees? How can they help with the identity and access management ticket workload? An interview with Twine Security to find out more…

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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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