Okta stories
New compliance reporting rules from April 2026 mean New Zealand agencies and firms must prove cyber controls are planned, repeatable and effective.
New Zealand buyers can now get phishing-resistant security keys faster, after a local Auckland stockholding cut import delays for agencies and firms.
Businesses may see faster resolutions as Zendesk ties charges to verified outcomes and expands AI agents across service channels.
Customers can now govern AI agents across mixed systems as Okta adds Bedrock support and lets firms keep existing identity providers.
Greater demand for sovereign cloud and repeatable platform tools is driving Cycloid's channel strategy as it adds a senior Europe partner lead.
Stolen credentials and post-login attacks are pushing security teams to seek unified monitoring across endpoints and identities.
Australian organisations are racing ahead with AI agents, but most still lack the identity controls needed to secure non-human users at scale.
Only about 10% of APAC organisations say their identity systems can fully secure AI agents, bots and service accounts.
Strong recurring revenue growth lifted Commvault’s full-year sales to USD $1.184 billion, while SaaS jumped 52% and cash flow hit a record.
Leak-site noise is making it harder for firms to tell real breaches from extortion theatre, as active sites hit 91 in the first quarter of 2026.
Enterprise users can now cut response times by up to 25% while adding ransomware detection, single sign-on and migration tools.
The funding will help the stealth start-up scale real-time defence as enterprises face faster, AI-driven attacks and rising security costs.
Organisations face a growing gap in controls as AI agents and machine identities outpace perimeter defences and widen credential-based attack risk.
Rising deepfake and synthetic-identity attacks are prompting banks and regulators to back new guidance on hardening fraud defences.
Enterprises with fragmented identity systems can now avoid forest trusts as the integrated product covers humans and AI agents across domains.
Most Australian organisations are using or planning AI agents for security tasks before formal controls are in place, Semperis found.
Critics warned the tax changes could deter long-term investment, while fresh funding for AI and digital ID was welcomed as a boost to productivity.
Identity breaches now take months to spot, prompting ThreatDown to add post-authentication monitoring for smaller IT teams and MSPs.
Most firms are deploying AI agents without proper oversight, leaving non-human identities exposed as security teams race to catch up.
The upgraded system aims to curb bots and impersonation across dating, ticketing, meetings and AI tools as World widens its reach.
