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Agent access control weighed against accountability: a security shield balanced against the person behind an agent's action, the identity MCP still defines no field for.
KnowledgeExplainer10 min

MCP v2 Improves Agent Access Control and Still Cannot Say Who Decided

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NewsStandard2 min

Agent Plugins 1.0 Standardizes the Package and Leaves Policy to Each Client

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Field Guides10 min

Top 5 User Access Review Tools in 2026

AI agents creating fake identities during a UK government cyber evaluation
NewsIncident2 min

AI Agents Under Test Created Fake Identities to Get Malicious Code Approved

Announcements

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AnnouncementsAnnouncement4 min

Agent Cake Now Signs In Through Google SSO

Talk The Walk

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Talk The WalkWebinar8 min

It Doesn't Take a Hacker to Leak Your Data: How to Secure AI Agent Access in the Enterprise [Webinar Recap]

Talk the Walk webinar cover with portraits of Johannes Keienburg (CEO & Founder, Cakewalk) and Julie Gibelin (Senior Information Security Officer, Talon.One).
Talk The WalkWebinar36 min

AI Agent Access Control for Regulated Industries: What EU Auditors Are Already Asking [Webinar Recap]

Talk the Walk webinar cover with portraits of Johannes Keienburg (CEO & Founder, Cakewalk) and Herman Errico (Senior Product Manager, Vanta).
Talk The WalkWebinar31 min

AI Agents Have Too Much Access: Why Static Permissions Are a Security Risk [Webinar Summary]

Talk the Walk webinar cover with portraits of Johannes Keienburg (CEO & Founder, Cakewalk) and Mackenzie Jackson (Developer & Security Advocate, Aikido Security).
Talk The WalkWebinar6 min

OpenClaw & Moltbook: Why AI Agent Access Is The Next Identity Crisis [Webinar Summary]

Talk the Walk webinar cover with portraits of Johannes Keienburg (CEO & Founder, Cakewalk) and Peter Kovacs (Head of Information Security, Nudge).
Talk The WalkWebinar7 min

How To Scale Securely In 2026 Without Growing Your IT Team with Peter Kovacs [Webinar Summary]

Opinion

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Opinion8 min

Human → Agent → System: A Working Model for Governing Agent Access

Knowledge

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Agent access control weighed against accountability: a security shield balanced against the person behind an agent's action, the identity MCP still defines no field for.
KnowledgeExplainer10 min

MCP v2 Improves Agent Access Control and Still Cannot Say Who Decided

Darktrace found a company's AI gateway quietly working for an attacker. What a gateway holds between calls decides how bad a break-in gets.
KnowledgeExplainer6 min

AI Gateway Security: The New Attack Surface and the New Control Point

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KnowledgeExplainer14 min

Runtime Governance: The Missing Layer for Agent Access

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KnowledgeExplainer8 min

The New Frontier in Identity Security: AI Agent Access

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KnowledgeExplainer10 min

AI in Cybersecurity, Identity Governance & Access Management in 2026

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KnowledgeExplainer7 min

The Future of Identity Governance is Employee-Centric. Here's Why.

Field Guides

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Field Guides10 min

Top 5 User Access Review Tools in 2026

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Field Guides11 min

Okta Alternatives: 10 Identity and Access Management Platforms Compared

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Field Guides9 min

Top 5 AI Agent Access Control Platforms in 2026

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Field Guides10 min

Top 8 Identity and Access Management Tools for AI Agents in 2026

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Field Guides7 min

Top 10 AI Agent Security Tools for Access Management in 2026

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Field Guides11 min

Top 8 SOC 2 Compliance Tools for Access Management in 2026

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Field Guides8 min

Uncovering and Fixing Shadow IT

News

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NewsStandard2 min

Agent Plugins 1.0 Standardizes the Package and Leaves Policy to Each Client

AI agents creating fake identities during a UK government cyber evaluation
NewsIncident2 min

AI Agents Under Test Created Fake Identities to Get Malicious Code Approved

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NewsRegulation3 min

The EU Started Enforcing the AI Act's Transparency Rules on August 2

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NewsBreach3 min

Anthropic's Claude Broke Into Three Real Companies After Being Told It Was a Simulation

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NewsBreach2 min

An Attacker Turned Off the Hermes AI Agent's Approval Prompt

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NewsBreach3 min

An AI Agent Breached Hugging Face to Cheat a Benchmark

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NewsSurvey2 min

Where AI Expands Access, Breaches Run Four Times the Rate

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NewsBreach2 min

An AI Agent Ran a Ransomware Attack on Its Own

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NewsRegulation3 min

Estonia Wants to Give Every AI Agent Its Own ID

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NewsSecurity Guidance2 min

Even the NSA Is Warning About the Protocol Connecting AI Agents to Your Stack

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NewsRegulation7 min

Everything Financial Companies Need to Know about DORA

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NewsRegulation7 min

3 Ways NIS2 Will Affect UK Companies (Yes, We're Serious)

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NewsRegulationDE7 min

Deutschland: Wach auf und mach dich bereit für NIS2!

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NewsRegulation7 min

EU: Wake up and Get Ready for NIS2