Access Control stories
Production AI agents often fail on stale or fragmented data, and Redis is betting its new Iris platform can fix that runtime gap.
Poor data quality has been slowing enterprise AI roll-outs, prompting Denodo to link live governed data to AWS agentic tools across multiple services.
The ranking underscores growing demand for tools that secure human, machine and AI identities across cloud and hybrid environments.
The consultancy says its approach keeps records and governance inside existing Microsoft tools, reducing reliance on outside vendors and scattered spreadsheets.
Security teams get free visibility into how Snowflake Cortex agents access sensitive data, helping them prepare for audits and reviews.
Security integrators could cut development time and costs as Brivo updates its platform for natural-language AI tools and wider software links.
Enterprises are testing only about 32% of their attack surface, leaving many assets outside regular security checks as threats grow faster.
It aims to curb over-privileged AI systems by giving each agent its own identity and limiting access to specific tasks and sessions.
Privacy and sovereignty demands are exposing legacy systems, with only 29% of firms making sovereign AI a near-term priority.
Banks and fintech groups could spot rising rejection rates and hidden attack patterns sooner, with 3DiVi's new layer analysing live biometric sessions.
Businesses could cut retrieval times and compliance risks as Foxit adds cloud-based document storage, search and governance to its PDF tools.
With biometric terminals increasingly treated as networked endpoints, the device aims to cut tampering risk and ease large-site access control.
Approval-based access controls now give security teams tighter oversight of privileged accounts as AI agents expand the attack surface.
Businesses can cut document retrieval times and admin overhead as Foxit folds storage, search and governance into its PDF tools.
Security teams can now spot cloud misconfigurations and compliance gaps in real time as VersaONE adds posture management across major public clouds.
Security teams under pressure to prove real exploitability can now test live production systems for attack paths rather than theoretical flaws.
More than nine in ten security incidents now involve anonymising services, leaving many organisations unable to spot malicious traffic in real time.
Employees can now handle leave, payslip and expense queries without leaving Microsoft 365, as Workday pushes HR and finance work into Copilot.
New compliance reporting rules from April 2026 mean New Zealand agencies and firms must prove cyber controls are planned, repeatable and effective.
The award underlines growing demand for mission-critical security integration across New Zealand's infrastructure sector.
