Identity Security stories
New Zealand buyers can now get phishing-resistant security keys faster, after a local Auckland stockholding cut import delays for agencies and firms.
The hire comes as enterprises in Asia Pacific and Japan face rising demand for identity security in AI-driven systems and real-time access control.
Organisations face a growing gap in controls as AI agents and machine identities outpace perimeter defences and widen credential-based attack risk.
AI agents and service accounts are exposing Australian and New Zealand firms to regulatory, financial and reputational risk as controls lag.
A Monday-morning Microsoft 365 login from Germany was flagged, letting a partner reset a compromised account before attackers could act.
More than 40 critical software groups will use Claude Mythos Preview to hunt flaws, as Anthropic commits USD $100 million in credits.
A 1,151% jump in iOS injection attacks in late 2025 has put mobile identity checks under fresh pressure, iProov says.
Weak identity controls are now driving most attacks on Australian organisations, with breaches hitting revenue, customers and supply chains.
Hundreds of Microsoft 365 users are being compromised daily as attackers bypass passwords with device code phishing and OAuth tokens.
The approval lets defence bodies use 1Kosmos’s identity platform for sensitive workloads, tightening access controls against phishing and credential theft.
Malicious downloads can now be caught at runtime, as the new tool records hidden network calls and file writes before deployment.
Delinea is aiming to widen partner-led sales as customers increasingly buy identity security through resellers, service providers and advisers.
It aims to cut Google Drive and Gmail recovery from days to minutes, as firms face growing cyber and outage risk from cloud collaboration tools.
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.
Enterprise security teams will get round-the-clock prioritisation of vulnerabilities as the partners aim to speed remediation across cloud, identity and data systems.
Identity teams could face slower patching and costlier upgrades when “SaaS” turns out to be hosted software, experts warn.
Chillisoft’s local support is helping Entrust reach more ANZ resellers as tighter budgets, AI threats and shorter certificate lifespans raise risk.
Rising cloud adoption is leaving Australian and New Zealand firms exposed to credential abuse, misconfigurations and costly automated attacks.
Security teams are turning to continuous, risk-based assessment as fragmented tools leave them unable to see which exposures matter most.