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Privileged Access Management (PAM) has become a cornerstone of enterprise security, but the environments it protects have changed dramatically. Organizations now manage cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, remote workforces, third-party vendors, machine identities, and AI-driven workloads that constantly request privileged access. Security teams need to verify every identity, understand the context of each request, and grant only the minimum level of access required.

Modernize and protect your Active Directory (AD) using Active Roles by One Identity Active Roles version 8.5 provides several highly requested features to fortify and enrich the integration capabilities of Active Roles. These new features bring unmatched flexibility and security to Active Directory environments, supporting customers where they are today and where they want to go in the future.

Most organizations deploy access management tools and believe they have identity security covered. They do not. What they have is a way to let users in, but no systematic way to ask whether those users should still have that access at all. Access governance and access management are related but distinct disciplines.

The end of an era is upon us, as SAP has announced the end of life for their identity governance and administration (IGA) platform — a platform that supported several SAP products. Without this pivotal identity management tool, where are customers to go to protect the digital identities of their organization? And how can they know that any new platform will be trustworthy? SAP hasn’t left their customers in a lurch.

Most identity governance and administration (IGA) programs do a good job answering one question: who should have access to what. The platform provisions accounts, runs certifications, enforces segregation of duties and feeds compliance reporting. After the request has been approved and the account exists in Active Directory, the IGA tool typically stops looking. What happens inside the directory after that is somebody else’s problem.

AI agents and LLMs are already building, analyzing, and deploying code across your software development lifecycle. As software supply chains become increasingly AI-driven, proactive security and access controls are your only path to success. To effectively govern authentication and permissions without sacrificing development speed, you must update your access management strategies.

You can stand up a vault in two weeks. The team at One Identity says that’s about how long it takes to get the basics running, from discovery scans to approval workflows. Two to four weeks of work, and a respectable PAM foundation is in place. That’s not the hard part. The hard part starts the next morning, when actual users start working around the system.

AI agent guardrails are the controls that define what an AI agent can access, which tools it can use, what actions it can take, and when human approval is required. In cloud, SaaS, CI/CD, and production environments, these guardrails are especially important because agents can inherit permissions and affect sensitive resources faster than a human operator could manually review.