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Local password manager: how an encrypted, offline vault works

A local password manager stores your credentials in an encrypted vault on your own device or server. You control your data and backups, but you also manage keys and updates yourself. That works for one person. Teams need role-based access, approvals for sensitive accounts, and logs that show who accessed what.

Netwrix Innovation Week: Why agentic AI security matters

As AI agents spread across IT environments, organizations struggle to see what agents they have and what data those agents can access. For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we wanted to share what Netwrix is doing to help IT and security teams improve agentic AI visibility and governance to keep their sensitive data secure. I recently sat down with Jeff Warren, our chief product officer, who has been working through this problem with customers for a while.

No one is taking your AI to court: AI accountability governs authority, autonomy and outcomes

For years, identity governance has had a useful shorthand: Every identity needs an owner. This works reasonably well when the identity represents a person. There may be managers, application owners, entitlement owners, data owners and security teams surrounding the identity, but there is still a human being at the center. For example, Sarah in Finance has an identity. The organization determines what Sarah is permitted to access and execute, but Sarah will also be held accountable for her actions.

Active-Active vs. Active-Passive: A Practical Guide

TL;DR: Active-active runs every node live so traffic distributes across the pool and failover is near-instant, but it forces you to solve multi-writer conflicts through last-writer-wins, vector clocks, CRDTs, or consensus protocols. Active-passive keeps one authoritative primary with an idle standby, trading seconds to minutes of promotion time for predictable behavior, simpler troubleshooting, and lower cost under steady load.

How to Generate Executive Workforce Activity & Application Usage Reports: A Manager's Handbook

Successful executive leadership goes beyond monitoring employees’ every move; it also needs a clear, factual picture of digital workflows, which apps are being used, and how much work available talent can do. Today, when many organizations are dealing with a shift to hybrid work, soaring software subscription pricing, and new productivity requirements, executive workforce activity and app consumption reporting are helping leaders stay on top of it all.

Drata and Aikido: audit-ready pentesting, built into your compliance workflow

Continuous control monitoring and a once-a-year, point-in-time pentest don't sit well together. A manual test means scoping, waiting for a slot, and holding up the audit window for the report. Teams choose Drata to get audit-ready quickly: controls monitored continuously, evidence collected automatically. The pentest is the part that doesn't move at that speed.

More pentesting, same budget, no surprises

Development teams ship faster than ever with AI-assisted coding. Features that previously took weeks can now be delivered in days. But security testing still runs on the old schedule. In Aikido's 2026 State of AI in Pentesting report, we found that 76% of organizations deploy significant production changes weekly or faster, while just 21% validate security on every release. Katie Norton, Senior Research Manager at IDC, summed it up.

DRTV Agency Contracts: Risk Mitigation Guide for CMOs

CMOs managing high-stakes advertising campaigns often find themselves accountable for every dollar spent on direct response television. Scrutiny comes quickly when a commercial underperforms or a media buy yields fewer leads than anticipated. One overlooked contract clause or missed reporting standard can expose the brand to unnecessary financial risk. The best shield against budget surprises and campaign breakdowns is a contract tailored to the realities of DRTV advertising, with safeguards built around performance, compensation, intellectual property, and exit options.

Best AI Development Companies for Business Process Automation in 2027: 7 Companies Compared, Founded Between 1989 and 2016

We compared seven companies that build AI into business processes such as documents, customer support and operations: Azumo, Hicron Software, Simform, Master of Code Global, ScienceSoft, Netguru and SumatoSoft. They were founded between 1989 and 2016, and their sites describe everything from AI agents to document processing. The companies appear in no particular order, since each one fits a different kind of project, and every detail below comes from the company's own website.