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Rethinking the Identity Stack: Why Modern PAM Is Essential

As enterprises scale their infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid and cloud environments, traditional Identity and Access Management (IAM) tools are struggling to keep up. Legacy Privileged Access Management (PAM) platforms were built to support static infrastructures and were not designed for today’s multi-cloud environments. They have been shown to increase complexity, create gaps in security coverage and cause significant budget strain.

Why access management needs a challenger mindset

Cybersecurity never stands still. Every login, session, and connection shifts the balance between freedom and control. Effective access management today isn’t about restriction—it’s about enabling trust at the speed of innovation. Modern enterprises achieve this by evolving their controls to be seamless, adaptive, and invisible to the user.

Admin MCP

Apono announces the launch of our Admin MCP (Model Context Protocol), a new tool that simplifies organizational access management through natural language queries. The product works with MCP-supported clients like Claude and Cursor, allowing administrators to quickly answer access questions without manually navigating through dashboards and permissions. This demo shows how users can instantly check if someone can access database resources or get comprehensive audit reports for AWS production accounts.

Apono Raises $34M Series B to Redefine Privileged Access for the Agentic Era

NEW YORK – November 18, 2025 – Apono, the cloud identity-security company pioneering Zero Standing Privilege (ZSP) access management, today announced a $34 million Series B led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), with participation from Swisscom Ventures, Vertex Ventures, 33N Ventures, and existing investors. The round brings Apono’s total funding to more than $54 million. Over the past year, Apono established product-market fit with a fourfold increase in client count.

Protecting your financial institution from cyberattack: Identity security solutions to real-world problems

Today’s financial institutions face evolving threats on a global scale. Online attackers without expertise (known as ‘script kiddies’) have had access to as-a-service malware for quite some time. AI is being weaponized for social engineering attacks at unprecedented speeds. And along with the potential of monetary rewards, today’s thefts also involve taking something that’s often even more profitable: Data.

One Identity Safeguard Named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for PAM

At One Identity, we’re proud to share that Gartner has recognized us as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management (PAM). In a market transforming faster than ever, we believe innovation and proven performance matter most. Our placement as a Visionary reflects what we see every day with our customers and partners – a shared commitment to simplify security, accelerate adoption and bring intelligence to identity protection.

Cephalus Weaponizes Stolen RDP Credentials to Deploy Ransomware

New research out of AhnLab documents the Cephalus ransomware group has been aggressively exploiting stolen Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials to break into networks and execute rapid, destructive encryption campaigns. The pattern is straightforward and brutal: credentials get you in, and once inside the attackers move fast to blind and break recovery.

9 Must Have Components for a Privileged Access Management Audit

Privileged accounts are often treated as background plumbing until something goes wrong. They sit across cloud consoles, databases, and pipelines and have the power to alter configurations or bring production to a halt, making them a favorite target of bad actors. Credential theft surged 160% in 2025, making stolen identities one of the fastest-growing attack vectors.