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Credentials insights from Verizon DBIR Report

Credential and Secrets Theft: Insights from the 2025 Verizon Data Breach Report

Stolen credentials remain the most common way attackers get in. The 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, covering more than 22,000 security incidents and 12,000 confirmed breaches, makes the case plainly: credential abuse was the leading initial access vector for the second consecutive year.
Dan Kaplan
Apr 2026
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5 min read
Connectivity of boxes

Secrets Management vs. Access Management: What You Need to Know

When your team stores API keys in a vault and rotates them on a schedule, it feels like the access problem is handled.
Apurva Davé
Apr 2026
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5 min read
What is Agentic AI

What Exactly Is Agentic AI (and Why It Matters Now)

For years, artificial intelligence has been reactive. You prompted it, and it responded by analyzing data, generating text or predicting outcomes, but only when asked.
Apurva Davé
Apr 2026
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5 min read
JIT Access for Wordkloads

Just-in-Time Access for Workloads: Eliminating Standing Privileges

Most workload credentials, the API keys, tokens and passwords that connect your services, carry “always on” access that never expires.
Apurva Davé
Apr 2026
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6 min read
Split-screen image: on the left, a person types commands into a dark terminal window; on the right, a person interacts with a glowing, abstract API network interface representing connected services.

MCP or CLI? How to Choose Right Interface for Your AI Tools

What starts as a tooling decision ends up shaping cost, reliability, and how far your workflows actually scale before they break down.
Holden Hewett
Apr 2026
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4 min read
Attestation-based identity

​​Attestation-Based Identity: How It Works and Why It Matters

Attestation-based identity verifies workloads using cryptographic environment evidence rather than stored secrets. Learn how it works across hardware and cloud.
Ashur Kanoon
Apr 2026
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8 min read
AI Agent Identity: The Multi-Protocol Authentication Gap

AI Agent Identity: The Multi-Protocol Authentication Gap

AI agent identity breaks down when agents authenticate across OAuth, API keys and managed identities simultaneously. Learn why single-protocol solutions fail.
Apurva Davé
Apr 2026
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6 min read
What Identity Federation Means for Workloads

What Identity Federation Means for Workloads in Cloud-Native Environments

Instead of duplicating accounts or sharing credentials, one identity system can validate identities issued by another and grant access based on that trust.
Dan Kaplan
Mar 2026
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6 min read
service accounts

The Real Risk Behind Service Accounts (And Why Nobody’s Watching Them) 

While companies pour resources into securing employee accounts with MFA, zero trust and regular access reviews, service accounts still get created with static credentials, granted sweeping permissions and then left unmanaged. This creates a growing population of identities that operate outside traditional IAM controls.
Apurva Davé
Mar 2026
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6 min read
JWT vs. OAuth

JWT vs. OAuth: Understanding Tokens and Authorization

OAuth is an authorization framework that defines how to grant access. JWT is a token format that defines how to package and transmit claims. They solve different problems, and most production systems use both.
Ashur Kanoon
Mar 2026
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6 min read
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