When businesses grow, managing who can access what becomes serious business. One wrong access permission can lead to data leaks, compliance penalties, or financial damage. In fact, IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 found that the average global data breach cost reached $4.88 million, the highest ever recorded. These numbers necessitate the requirement of having strong access control in place.

Every year, security and tech leaders come to the RSA conference in San Francisco to take the industry’s pulse, and every RSAC tends to be dominated by a single, overarching theme. Last year, the theme was: “AI agents are coming, and governance isn’t ready.” And sure enough, the theme of RSAC 2026 was: “AI agents are here, and governance needs to catch up.”

Researchers at LayerX warn that custom fonts can fool AI web assistants into thinking phishing pages are benign, while the human user sees something completely different. “There is a structural disconnect between what an AI assistant analyzes in a page’s HTML and what a user sees rendered by the browser,” the researchers explain.

Although artificial intelligence (AI) seems relatively new to a lot of people, it was first officially created in 1956 and has been a large, improving branch of computer science ever since. The mass appeal of AI took off in late 2022 when OpenAI publicly released ChatGPTicial iintelligence (AI) seems relatively new to a lot of people, it was first officially created in 1956 and has been a large, improving branch of computer science ever since.

Imagine this: you're running a Shopify Plus store that supplies products to several companies. One customer wants their employees to log in with a simple email and password. Another asks if their staff can use a secure company login. A third keeps requesting one-time passwords for quick access. Managing all these different expectations is difficult since Shopify only offers one login method, i.e., email OTP, and forcing everyone to use it is a headache.