Ping add Keyless, FusionAuth add Permify, Apono and Check Point

This Weeks Mystical Quartet

Curated Industry Headlines

• AccuKnox: LLM Security Risks: How Enterprises Can Safeguard AI Workloads

• Apono: Apono and Check Point Software Launch Real-Time Zero Trust Access Integration for SASE Environments

• Auth0: Model Context Protocol Nov 2025 Specification Update: CIMD, XAA, and Security

• BeyondIdentity: Beyond Identity Joins NVIDIA Inception Program to Advance Hardware-Enforced Security for the AI Era

• ConductorOne: The Path to Identity Maturity

• CyberArk: Post-quantum identity security: Moving from risk to readiness

• FusionAuth Acquires Permify, Unifying AuthN + AuthZ in a Single Deploy Anywhere Platform

• Ping: Completes acquisition of Keyless

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Identity Threat Intelligence Updates

• The Fragile Lock: Novel Bypasses For SAML Authentication

• Exploiting AWS IAM Eventual Consistency for Persistence

• Top Malware Families 2025

• Digital identities as the primary target of modern cyber operations in 2026

• Lack of MFA Is Common Thread in Vast Cloud Credential Heist

• GRU-Linked BlueDelta Evolves Credential Harvesting

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Up Coming Event Attendance:

• RSAC 2026 - San Francisco - March 23-26

• 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:

• HYPR

• Axiad

• FusionAuth

• Apono

• WSO2

• Hydden

• AuthSignal

• Entro Security

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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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Recent Webinar:

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

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Recent Podcasts

• E66 The Analyst Brief: End of 2025 Review

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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

• 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

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

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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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Recent 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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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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