New Leadership at a Machine Identity Firm: The Decisions That Matter
Leadership changes at infrastructure security vendors rarely travel far beyond the trade press. Yet the appointment of a new chief executive at a machine identity firm carries more signal than…
Certificates, Keys and Control Planes: What the Venafi Deal Still Teaches
When CyberArk moved to acquire Venafi in a deal valued at roughly $1.54 billion, the announcement was framed as consolidation in certificate management. That reading undersells it. The transaction marked…
Clutch Security’s Seed Round and the Case for Universal NHI Coverage
Seed rounds in cybersecurity are usually a story about a product idea finding a market. Clutch Security’s $8.5 million seed tells a slightly different story. The company went to market…
When the Security Console Becomes a Conversation: MCP and NHI Triage
Security tooling has a usability problem that vendors rarely discuss openly: the people who need answers fastest are the least likely to have time to learn a new console. Non-human…
Building Incident Playbooks for Machine Identity Breaches
Incident response has spent two decades rehearsing for a human attacker who breaks in, moves laterally, and exfiltrates data. The playbooks, the tabletop exercises, the escalation trees: all of it…
Privilege Data Meets Endpoint Telemetry: BeyondTrust and CrowdStrike Falcon
Security teams have spent a decade trying to correlate identity data with endpoint telemetry, and mostly failed for a mundane reason: the two datasets live in different systems, use different…
BluDive and Delinea Push Privileged Access Maturity as AI Reshapes Enterprise Risk
Security awareness campaigns have spent years telling employees not to reuse passwords. The message has largely worked on humans and almost entirely failed on machines. A renewed push by BluDive…
Delinea and the Channel Question: Who Actually Delivers Privileged Access Management
The channel is where privileged access management deals are actually won, and it is also where they most often stall. A recent partner spotlight on Delinea is a useful prompt…
Agentic AI Is an ‘Old New’ Identity Problem: What PAM Teams Should Hear
Agentic AI has become the identity industry’s favourite framing device, and BeyondTrust’s recent commentary lands on a deliberately unfashionable point: the problem autonomous agents create is not new. It is…
BeyondTrust Brings Just-In-Time Privilege Controls Into ServiceNow Workflows
Privileged access has long lived in a separate lane from the tools service desks use every day. An engineer needs elevated rights to resolve a ticket, so they request access…
A $145M Treasury IAM Contract and What Federal-Scale Identity Governance Requires
The US Treasury Department’s award of a $145 million identity and access management implementation contract is the kind of procurement that rarely attracts public attention but says a great deal…
Saviynt, Procurement Risk and the Ownership Gap in Identity Governance
Award finalist interviews are usually treated as industry colour rather than substantive commentary, but they often surface the operational realities that vendor marketing avoids. The security leader’s observations on the…