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AI agents now write code, fix bugs, and ship to production. But in order to do useful work, agents require credentials. At 1Password, one of our core AI security principles is that raw credentials should never be directly exposed to LLMs, but all too often, that’s exactly what happens: most teams sacrifice security for speed and hand agents secrets in plaintext.

Information Technology (IT) security is the practice of protecting an organization’s systems, data and networks from unauthorized access and cyber threats. It encompasses a wide range of processes, policies and technologies designed to secure everything from employee devices to cloud infrastructure.

The NIS2 Directive is the European Union’s updated cybersecurity framework, designed to improve cyber resilience across critical sectors. Building on its predecessor, the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive, NIS2 significantly expands its scope to include industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, energy, transport and managed services. NIS2 also introduces stricter cybersecurity requirements, direct accountability for senior management and defined incident reporting timelines.

"The hardest thing in security is always the chaos," according to Travis McPeak, Head of Security at Cursor. He shared this with Nancy Wang, CTO of 1Password, and Dev Tagare, Senior Director of Engineering at Google, on a recent episode of Zero-Shot Learning, the podcast about how AI gets built, secured, and deployed. "We're always going to have more that we have to be doing than we can actually do.".

At 1Password, we regularly invite outside experts to challenge our assumptions and strengthen our security. We encourage security researchers to participate in our bug bounty programs, and have spent years building a collaborative research environment. We also believe in the benefit of open source software and standards, which raise the bar for the industry as a whole, while ultimately benefiting our 1Password customers.

One of the less surprising findings of the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Incident Report (DBIR) is the fact that incidents targeting the Financial and Insurance sector are on the rise. As they put it, “This sector continues to be a favorite among attackers, which isn’t surprising given that its core business is handling money.”

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a Department of Defense (DoD) framework made to ensure organizations handling federal information maintain adequate cybersecurity controls. While CMMC is often associated with government agencies and defense contractors, research universities involved in DoD-funded projects may also need to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) like research data and technical specifications.

Right now, somewhere in your organization, a service account token is sitting in a CI/CD environment variable with access to your entire cloud environment. The job it was created for got deleted three sprints ago, and nobody knows it's still there.

Database access is one of the largest blind spots in enterprise security. Credentials are often shared, insecurely stored or transmitted without monitoring. KeeperDB is a modern, multi-protocol database client that addresses these gaps by supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and other major protocols from a unified interface.