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Notes on Access Management from the team building Cakewalk.

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Talk The Walk5 entries
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Opinion1 entry
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Knowledge7 entries
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Field Guides8 entries
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News cover for an article on 22 security flaws in IBM Verify Identity Access
NewsBreach3 min

IBM Fixes 22 Flaws in Verify Identity Access, Including Code Execution Without a Login

News cover for an article on a critical flaw in GitLab's self-hosted AI Gateway
NewsBreach3 min

GitLab Users With Agent Platform Access Could Run Commands on Its Self-Hosted AI Gateway

News cover for an article on misused company access to Denmark's CPR population register
NewsBreach3 min

Misused Company Access Exposed CPR Data on About 8.8 Million People in Denmark

News cover for an article on agent frameworks running attacker-written tool calls and on input bugs in MCP tools
NewsSecurity Research3 min

Researchers Got Six Agent Frameworks to Run an Attacker's Tool Call

Announcements

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AnnouncementsFeature4 min

App Access and Admin Rights Can Now Carry an End Date

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AnnouncementsFeature4 min

Agent Cake Now Signs In Through Google SSO

Talk The Walk

Talk the Walk webinar cover with portraits of Johannes Keienburg (CEO & Founder, Cakewalk) and Barbara Teruggi (Information Security Architect, Allianz Technology).
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 Marco van Hurne (AI Factory Head, ASML).
Talk The WalkWebinar15 min

How to Adopt AI Agents Securely at Scale: The 4 Zones of Automation [Webinar Summary]

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 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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KnowledgeReport Summary14 min

A Summary of the CISO Guide to AI Agent Security

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 GuidesGuide4 min

This Will Be Your Team's Best Hire: Agent Cake

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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

Cakewalk field-guide line-art illustration: a podium ranking AI agent security tools, the top pick crowned with a star, all marked as verified, in gold on a cream background.
Field Guides7 min

Top 10 AI Agent Security Tools for Access Management in 2026

Cakewalk field-guide line-art illustration: three stacked gold layers, with audit evidence on top, access reviews in the middle and the access-management engine underneath, on a cream background.
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

News cover for an article on 22 security flaws in IBM Verify Identity Access
NewsBreach3 min

IBM Fixes 22 Flaws in Verify Identity Access, Including Code Execution Without a Login

News cover for an article on a critical flaw in GitLab's self-hosted AI Gateway
NewsBreach3 min

GitLab Users With Agent Platform Access Could Run Commands on Its Self-Hosted AI Gateway

News cover for an article on misused company access to Denmark's CPR population register
NewsBreach3 min

Misused Company Access Exposed CPR Data on About 8.8 Million People in Denmark

News cover for an article on agent frameworks running attacker-written tool calls and on input bugs in MCP tools
NewsSecurity Research3 min

Researchers Got Six Agent Frameworks to Run an Attacker's Tool Call

News cover for an article on leaked company addresses, shadow IT and ransomware in Switzerland
NewsResearch3 min

Swiss Study Links Shadow IT Accounts to Ransomware Victims

News cover for an article on an AWS AgentCore default role that gave one agent access to every agent in its region
NewsResearch3 min

One Prompt Exposed Every Agent in Its Region Under AWS's Old AgentCore Default

News cover for an article on shared AI agent memory and column-level access control
NewsResearch3 min

Shared Agent Memory Can Hand One Team's Restricted Data to Another

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NewsVendor Announcement2 min

Apple Plans Stricter macOS Full Disk Access, Citing AI Agents

News cover for an article on a German survey of company AI access rights and logging
NewsSurvey3 min

In a German Survey, 64% of AI-Using Firms Limit Access Rights and 40% Log Use

News cover for an article on a HIPAA settlement listing a potential failure to end departing workers' access
NewsRegulation2 min

U.S. Health Department Lists Missing Offboarding as a Potential Violation

News cover for an article on AI coding agents posting internal screenshots to public GitHub repositories
NewsSecurity Research3 min

Coding Agents Hosted Internal Screenshots in Public GitHub Repos

News cover for an article on FBI and CISA guidance about the access third-party integrators hold to industrial control systems
NewsSecurity Guidance2 min

FBI and CISA Urge Least Privilege for Third-Party ICS Integrators

AI agents probing public data websites for security flaws after ordinary data requests failed
NewsIncident2 min

AI Agents Tried to Hack Public Data Sites When Ordinary Requests Failed

News cover for an article on a hardcoded key patched in SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, the software that reviews who has access to file servers
NewsAdvisory2 min

SolarWinds Patched a Hardcoded Key in Access Rights Manager

News cover for an article on per-tool authorization gaps in Model Context Protocol server SDKs
NewsSecurity Research3 min

An MCP Tool Hidden From an AI Agent Can Still Be Called

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NewsStandard2 min

IETF Draft Says an Approval Inside an AI Agent Is Not Enough

An agent tool call checked against policy before it executes against a production system
NewsStandard2 min

Identity Standards Stop at the Moment an AI Agent Acts

Security rules written in a coding agent instruction file, with no control behind them
NewsSecurity Research3 min

Most CLAUDE.md Security Rules Have No Built-In Control That Matches Them

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NewsSecurity Research2 min

Agents Can Combine Permitted Actions Into a Prohibited Outcome

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NewsStandard2 min

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

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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

A warm grey halftone dot map of Europe in Cakewalk's warm monochrome style, on a report about Claude models that breached three real companies during cybersecurity evaluations.
NewsBreach3 min

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

A warm grey halftone dot map of Europe in Cakewalk's warm monochrome style, on a report about an AI agent run without approval checks inside a government network.
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