Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The biggest challenge for developers building AI applications is no longer the translation of user intent into action, but rather limiting its scope to stay within stated business goals and prevent abuse. This challenge has moved from theoretical to mission-critical as AI agents transition from experimental projects to mainstream business tools, where a single compromised agent can expose customer data, execute unauthorized transactions, or violate compliance requirements across thousands of interactions.

In most organizations, identity governance and administration (IGA) solutions are supposed to answer one simple question: who has access to what, when, and why? But in cloud-native teams shipping daily, that question gets messy fast. Permissions sprawl and temporary access quietly become permanent. The blast radius is colossal. Third-party involvement in breaches doubled to 30% over the last year, which is exactly what happens when access decisions are scattered across vendors, apps, and infrastructure.

NEW YORK – March 18, 2026 – Apono, the agentic-forward cloud-native Privileged Access Management platform, today announced the launch of Agent Privilege Guard, a new product that gives enterprises the ability to deploy AI agents at full velocity without creating security risks they cannot control.

Executive tabletop exercises are commonly positioned as cyber incident rehearsals. They tend to focus on breach containment decisions, regulatory notification timelines, and communications planning. Those elements are necessary; however, they are not what ultimately defines the true risk to the enterprise and what keeps the C-suite up at night. For senior leadership and board members, a cyber event is first and foremost a business disruption.

Healthcare Interactive, Inc., also known as HCIactive, is an Ellicott City, Maryland-based provider of AI-powered software solutions for insurance enrollment and benefits administration. Founded in 2006, the privately held company has fewer than 100 employees but serves healthcare organizations and insurers nationwide. As a HIPAA business associate, HCIactive processes and stores protected health information for multiple covered entities, giving it access to large volumes of sensitive patient data.

The market is flooded with claims. One vendor tops a leaderboard. Another raises nine figures on a pitch deck. Meanwhile, your developers shipped three AI-generated services before lunch. Here's the conversation the industry isn't having, and the one we've been building toward for years. There's a version of this conversation happening inside every Security team right now. Someone demos an AI coding assistant. The speed is undeniable and the team is in awe. Still cautious, sometimes skeptical.

Starting the week of March 9, 2026, Arctic Wolf observed malicious activity in customer environments potentially linked to the exploitation of CVE-2025-32975 on unpatched Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) instances that were publicly exposed to the internet. This vulnerability was patched in May 2025. Quest KACE SMA is an on-premises appliance for centralized endpoint management, providing inventory, software deployment, patching, and endpoint monitoring capabilities.

I am very proud of our customer community here at KnowBe4. It is a place where customers can discuss our products amongst each other and interface with KnowBe4’s developers and product managers. Allowing customers to interface with other customers allows them to hear suggestions and solutions that people using our product have discovered and used, and if they have a problem that a fellow customer can’t answer, our team is there.

CVE-2025-47813 is an information disclosure vulnerability in Wing FTP Server that reveals the application's full installation path when attackers send an oversized UID cookie value. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog in March 2026, indicating active exploitation in the wild.

Sensitive data discovery tools vary widely in hybrid coverage, identity context, and time-to-value. Most platforms handle cloud or on-premises infrastructure well, but rarely both. The strongest options connect discovery to identity and permissions, turning a file inventory into actionable risk intelligence. For Microsoft-heavy hybrid teams, that integration determines whether discovery produces reports or drives remediation.