Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

NEW YORK – March 18, 2026 – Apono, the agentic-forward cloud-native Privileged Access Management platform, today announced the launch of Agent Privilege Guard, a new product that gives enterprises the ability to deploy AI agents at full velocity without creating security risks they cannot control.

A lot happens during a user’s identity lifecycle. However, many organizations don’t always ensure user identities are securely created, removed and managed. There are also the risks around compliance violations, insider threats, lower productivity and higher costs from managing sprawling and complex environments. That’s why it’s business-critical to deliver holistic identity lifecycle management (ILM).

Modern organizations are complex, evolving and often balancing legacy systems with emerging technologies. These scenarios are reflected in their Microsoft directory environments, where it’s common to find both AD domains and Entra ID tenants.

The question enterprises are asking is no longer whether to deploy AI agents. It is how to do it without creating security risk they cannot control. In December 2025, Amazon’s own AI coding tool Kiro triggered a 13-hour AWS outage after autonomously deciding to delete and recreate a production environment.

Remote and hybrid operating models have fundamentally changed how enterprises secure users, systems, and data. In 2026, the "workplace" is no longer limited to a traditional corporate office setup; it is a distributed ecosystem of home offices, transit hubs, and cloud-native applications. Workforce Identity and Access Management (IAM) has therefore evolved from an IT convenience into a primary security control governing how modern organizations operate safely at scale.

IDM Light with Active Roles An “IDM Light” solution refers to a simplified identity management (IDM) approach that provides core identity and access management capabilities without the complexity, cost and implementation effort of a full-scale enterprise IDM suite.

We log into tons of apps each day, running on digital identities. With just one click, you can access thousands of apps without breaking a sweat. However, digital identities bring with them cyber threats, which are growing sharper each day, and compliance is getting tighter. So, who is the right person to trust to safeguard your digital identities? As organizations, you collect, store, analyze, and process sensitive data, which needs to be safeguarded with the right tech and tools.

Permission creep rarely looks dangerous at first. It starts as a temporary fix, such as granting an admin role to unblock a deployment. Over time, those temporary decisions become permanent standing permissions. The result is an AWS estate littered with high-privilege roles that sit idle for months, expanding your attack surface without anyone actively noticing. It takes organizations an average of 277 days to identify and contain a breach.