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By Sascha Martens
Netwrix's 2026 research found a 4x gap in breach rates between organizations where AI has significantly grown their identity count and those where it hasn't. Static credentials are AI’s easiest way in: passwords, keys, and tokens that never expire and never get checked. AI didn't invent the over-privileged credential, it just found the fastest way to use one.
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By Dan Piazza
A Reddit thread on r/activedirectory asking whether Active Directory is going away pulled in loads of comments, and the most upvoted answer compared AD to COBOL: still running, still critical, still not going anywhere. That comparison holds up when you check whether COBOL is still used today, since it runs core banking and government systems decades after its supposed retirement. The real risk for most IT teams isn't AD disappearing.
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By Dirk Schrader
Most AI deployment policies stop at approved chat interfaces. Meanwhile, employees install browser copilots, AI extensions, and third-party plugins that never touch Microsoft's management stack. IT can't configure what it can't see, and Group Policy and Intune only govern Microsoft's world. This post covers what actually happens once AI tools show up outside policy, five things most teams miss, and how PolicyPak enforces controls directly on the apps and browser extensions themselves.
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By Avesta Hojjati
“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.” Marcus Aurelius wrote that almost two thousand years ago, in a private journal he never intended anyone to read. Coming from a man who held every title Rome could give, it’s a telling way to measure worth: not by what you hold, but by what you aim at. It has stuck with me, because everything I’ve seen in my career backs it up. Deep technical knowledge is where great engineering starts.
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By Dan Piazza
Say a sales rep uses an AI assistant to help manage their pipeline. The rep has role-based access to Salesforce, scoped to their territory and their accounts. The assistant, wired in through an API integration, often doesn't have that same scoping. It authenticates as a service account with broad read and write access across the org, because that was faster to set up than a permission model that matches what the actual user is allowed to see.
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By John Knightly
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By Netwrix Team
Most teams conflate two questions that require separate tools: who can access a sensitive share right now, and who changed access or opened files. Native Windows utilities resolve neither at scale, so audits stall and incidents lose their trail. The tool you need calculates effective access across nested groups and captures every permission change with attribution across Windows, network-attached storage, and SharePoint.
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By Netwrix Team
Access review tools differ more than their marketing suggests: standalone certification platforms, full identity governance suites, and compliance automation tools all call themselves access review solutions and solve different problems at different costs and with varying implementation overhead. Matching governance maturity and compliance framework to the right category matters more than comparing feature lists, especially when audit evidence must prove that rejected access was actually removed.
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By Dan Piazza
AI hacking tools are compressing the time between finding a target and logging in as them. Password spraying, already responsible for the vast majority of identity attacks, is the technique benefiting most. Attackers use AI hacking methods to optimize timing, rotate infrastructure, and personalize lures at a scale no human operator could match manually.
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By Sasha Yendle
Unknown block type "undefined", specify a component for it in the `components.types` option Every conversation about AI and early-career employees seems to start in the same place: will it weaken foundational skills by doing too much of the work? That's a reasonable concern. It's also not the question that ended up mattering most this summer.
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By Netwrix
Track critical files. Monitor configuration changes. Know exactly what changed, when, and why. Because visibility is the first step to control.
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By Netwrix
As access changes constantly and sensitive data moves faster than security teams can track, visibility matters more than ever. Helen R., Director of Engineering at Netwrix, explains why identity and data security can’t operate in silos anymore, especially in the age of AI. Have questions about identity governance, AI, or protecting sensitive data? Experts at Netwrix, including Helen, are helping organizations navigate these challenges every day.
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By Netwrix
What if one small configuration change exposed your entire environment and no one noticed? Most security incidents don’t start with malware. They start with misconfigurations.
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By Netwrix
Sensitive data sprawl, accumulated access, and unclear ownership continue to increase risk across modern environments. Farrah Gamboa, Senior Director of Product Management at Netwrix, explains why continuous visibility into sensitive data and access is critical to reducing exposure and strengthening security.
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By Netwrix
Sensitive data no longer lives in one place. It moves across file servers, SaaS apps, cloud platforms, and collaboration tools. That’s why discovering sensitive data once is not enough. In this video, Farrah Gamboa, Senior Director of Product Management at Netwrix, explains why data visibility must be continuous to keep data security manageable.
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By Netwrix
When technology gets in the way, people work around it. What does your identity experience enable? Michael Wetzel, CIO at Netwrix, explains why identity design matters more than ever.
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By Netwrix
PAWs reduce risk. Identity is the real control plane. If privileges live too long, architecture won’t save you. Data security starts with identity.
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By Netwrix
Security leaders are rethinking how visibility and control shape trust and compliance. Hear the conversation in the latest episode of Voices of Cyber Asia. Join Netwrix at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in Sydney. Visit our booth to see how identity-first visibility connects data and identity security to strengthen data security, reduce risk, and simplify compliance. Link in bio to listen to the full episode and join the conversation.
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By Netwrix
Identity is the foundation of effective visibility and control. In Voices of Cyber Asia, we explore how identity-driven insights improve access management and support compliance. Join Netwrix at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in Sydney. Visit our booth to see how identity-first visibility connects data and identity security to strengthen data security, reduce risk, and simplify compliance.
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By Netwrix
As AI adoption grows, identity risk grows with it. Dirk Schrader, VP of Security Research at Netwrix, explains why governing human and machine identities is foundational to securing AI systems. How are you governing identity in your AI workflows today?
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By Netwrix
If you are just getting started with Office 365 or you want to master its administration, this guide is for you. The beginning features very easy tasks, including provisioning and de-provisioning of Office 365 user accounts. Then it offers guidelines on managing licenses and explains how to administer different applications using both the Office 365 admin console and PowerShell. Last, this Office 365 tutorial (.pdf) provides more advanced guidance, helping you set up a hybrid environment, secure your cloud-based email application with encryption and spam filtering, and more. After reading this guide, you'll also know how to troubleshoot Office 365 issues, ensuring a seamless experience for your business users.
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By Netwrix
Cybersecurity practitioners worldwide use the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to strengthen their security program and improve their risk management and compliance processes. The framework is voluntary, but it offers proven best practices that are applicable to nearly any organisation. However, it can seem daunting at first because it includes so many components.
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By Netwrix
The simplest definition of Active Directory is that it is a directory service for Windows operating systems. But what does this actually mean? What is Active Directory used for? How can you manage it? Whether you are a new system administrator who wants to learn Active Directory basics, such as its structure, services, components and essential terminology, or a seasoned administrator looking to find new best practices and improve your skills even further, this eBook has something for you.
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By Netwrix
Safeguarding business-critical and regulated data like customer records, financial information and intellectual property is critical to the success of the entire organization. However, your goal should not be to build a fortress. Rather accept that your network will inevitably be breached from the outside and attacked from within, so you should build a layered defense strategy that helps you both minimize your attack surface and spot suspicious behavior in time to respond effectively.
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By Netwrix
If you are just getting started with Office 365 or you want to master its administration, this guide is for you. The beginning features very easy tasks, including provisioning and de-provisioning of Office 365 user accounts. Then it offers guidelines on managing licenses and explains how to administer different applications using both the Office 365 admin console and PowerShell. Last, this Office 365 tutorial (.pdf) provides more advanced guidance, helping you set up a hybrid environment, secure your cloud-based email application with encryption and spam filtering, and more. After reading this guide, you'll also know how to troubleshoot Office 365 issues, ensuring a seamless experience for your business users.
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By Netwrix
In today's digital world, the problem of data theft by departing employees goes far beyond stealing the names of a few customers or a product design sketch; it can mean the loss of gigabytes of critical corporate intelligence and legally protected information like customer cardholder data. Plus, ex-employees have even more avenues for using the data they steal - they can use it against their former employers, leak it to competitors, sell it to the highest bidder or simply publish it on the internet.
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By Netwrix
Although most IT pros are aware of the benefits that technology integrations promise, many of them are reluctant to take on integration projects. They know all too well that many vendor products simply aren't designed to be integrated with other systems; the lack of an application programming interface in particular is a huge red flag. Fortunately, there are vendors, such as ServiceNow and Netwrix, that enable organizations to reap the benefits of integration without having to invest lots of time and money.
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By Netwrix
It's hard to imagine an organization today that does not rely on file servers, SharePoint or Office 365 for storing data, including valuable and sensitive information such as intellectual property and personal data. This makes these systems particularly attractive targets for all sort of attackers, from external hackers to disgruntled employees. To protect data from both external and internal threats, businesses must regularly conduct thorough data security assessments as part of their broader cyber security assessments.
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By Netwrix
Compliance regulations are designed to provide a unified set of rules or guidelines to help IT organizations implement policies and measures that deliver the required levels of integrity, security, availability and accountability of data and operations. This white paper provides an overview of various types of IT compliance, explores their basic concepts and commonalities, and offers guidelines for implementation.
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