APIs are the backbone of modern applications, enabling seamless data exchange between systems. However, the rise of AI agents fundamentally shifts how APIs are utilized. Regular APIs, originally built for deterministic, non-AI use cases, are not inherently designed to handle the complexities and unpredictability of AI-driven applications. Using your regular APIs directly for AI agents or allowing AI agents to integrate without safeguards exposes your systems and data to significant risks.

Third-party vendors are essential for many business operations, from cloud providers to SaaS applications. However, they add to the ever-growing scope of an organization’s risk management. Third-party risk management (TPRM) is the process of identifying, assessing, and mitigating the security risks posed by vendors, contractors, and service providers that have access to your organization’s data or systems.

Tanium’s Essential Eight strategy surpasses traditional Essential Eight (E8) reporting approaches of using sample sets of endpoints and/or point-in-time auditing, with a solution that enables you to not only audit but resolve non-compliance at the touch of a button. Reporting simply becomes an outcome of managing and securing IT environments effectively using Tanium.

Data tokenization is a critical technique for securing sensitive information by substituting it with non-sensitive tokens. This process plays a crucial role in data protection, especially in industries handling large volumes of personal or financial information. Here, we explore the top data tokenization tools of 2024 to help organizations find the right solutions for protecting their data.