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It’s that time of year. Back-to-school prep is in full swing, from last-minute shopping lists and school supplies to pick-up schedules and extracurricular activities. And with every new school year comes new passwords to manage, such as school portals and streaming services. For families looking to manage the chaos, we’ve already shared a series of back to school tips for parents and students.

AI agents are rapidly transforming how software is accessed, operated, and integrated, such as automating workflows, calling APIs, and interacting with tools and SaaS platforms on behalf of users. This paradigm unlocks powerful new capabilities, but it also raises urgent questions about how sensitive data, especially credentials and secrets, should be managed.

SaaS sprawl and shadow IT create significant security vulnerabilities, exposing organizations to unmanaged apps, unauthorized access, and compliance risks. It’s simply not enough to secure access to the applications you’re actively managing. You also need to secure everything else. That’s one of the reasons we acquired Trelica earlier this year. Organizations must be capable of identifying and managing applications that are used outside of IT and security’s purview.

Rolling out 1Password across your company should be fast, simple, and secure. But if you’re an IT admin deploying to thousands of employees, it can quickly become tedious. That changes today. We’re excited to launch two powerful improvements to help enterprise teams roll out 1Password faster, more securely, and with more control: Let’s take a closer look.

1Password is continually finding ways to protect millions of users and over 165K businesses, delivering a secure, seamless experience across our products. 1Password Extended Access Management builds on that focus by helping teams ensure that every identity is authentic, every application sign-on is secure, and every device is healthy. We are excited to take another step forward in delivering on that.

Omdia, a global analyst and advisory leader, recently released a report called “How Extended Access Management (XAM) closes the gaps in security.” This report describes how existing approaches to access management have failed to address the security, budgetary, and compliance risks posed by unmanaged identities, applications, and devices.

Omdia, a global analyst and advisory leader, recently released a report called “How Extended Access Management (XAM) closes the gaps in security.” The report argues that existing access management approaches have failed to adequately address the risks posed by unmanaged identities, applications, and devices.

Around 16 billion login credentials have been leaked online, potentially affecting services like Apple, Google, Facebook, and more. Learn how to check if you’re impacted and discover practical steps to secure your accounts with tools like 1Password. Sixteen billion leaked login credentials. That’s the number of records security experts at Cybernews recently identified, making this one of the most significant credential leaks ever discovered.

This blog has been adapted from a section of 1Password’s ebook: Why SSO is not enough for identity security. To read the complete ebook, click here. Single sign-on (SSO) solutions integrate with a company’s identity provider (IdP) to allow users to authenticate to multiple applications via a single log-in. By reducing the number of access points and employee credentials, SSO reduces a company’s attack surface.

A new integration between 1Password and AWS Secrets Manager makes it faster and easier to sync secrets across environments – all from within the 1Password desktop app. This update enables all 1Password and AWS Secrets Manager joint customers to simply and securely deliver secrets to AWS Secrets Manager. It’s the fast, familiar 1Password experience you know and trust – now extended to include environment variables and secrets support.