BeyondTrust stories
Australian firms are being urged to adopt passwordless logins as AI tools and data leakage make stolen credentials easier to exploit.
Local firms in regulated sectors can now keep identity security data onshore as scrutiny over machine and AI access intensifies.
The breach exposed how autonomous agents can outrun human-tuned defences, making identity governance the real line of defence for enterprises.
Security teams must now track AI agents and machine accounts as well as staff, as BeyondTrust expands Pathfinder to cover privileged access.
Shorter certificate lifespans are forcing IT teams to automate renewals or risk outages as digital certificates multiply across complex networks.
Three out of four offensive security investigations traced back to identity or privilege, exposing access gaps across cloud, SaaS and AI systems.
Security teams can now tighten oversight of service accounts, API keys and AI agents as machine identities outnumber staff in many enterprises.
Organisations have only days to patch gaps as AI-driven attackers automate the same old weaknesses, Five Eyes warned.
The beta aims to stop unauthorised AI tools on corporate devices from reaching cloud services, repositories and production systems.
The partnership could help uncover critical flaws faster as AI-driven attacks and machine identities raise the stakes for infrastructure security.
Critical flaws in Microsoft software have nearly doubled, leaving enterprises facing a sharper risk profile despite fewer total vulnerabilities.
Organisations are being pushed to spot hidden privilege paths in AI and machine accounts as BeyondTrust widens its identity risk assessment.
The ranking underscores growing demand for tools that secure human, machine and AI identities across cloud and hybrid environments.
Attackers are exploiting help functions to reset credentials and bypass defences, putting entire networks at risk through a single call.
Critical Microsoft flaws surged as Azure, Dynamics 365 and Office saw big jumps, even though total vulnerabilities fell 6% in 2025.
Victims in healthcare, education and finance have faced Medusa ransomware within 24 hours of flaws emerging, Microsoft says.
Trusted software and identity sessions are now prime attack paths, with ClickFix linked to more than 44% of defence evasion incidents.
Breaches in large cloud environments are increasingly tied to weak identity controls, misconfigurations and poor data sovereignty governance.
BeyondTrust warns a surge of unsupervised AI agents is creating a hidden “shadow workforce” with admin-level access inside enterprises.
BeyondTrust expands Pathfinder to discover, govern and lock down proliferating enterprise AI agents, identities, privileges and secrets.
