Launch Week Roundup: The Agentic Control Plane
C1, a cybersecurity company, launched four products last week to help organizations secure AI agents: Shadow AI Discovery, Agentic Vault, Agent Runtime Governance, and a fourth unnamed product. The la…
C1, a cybersecurity company, launched four products last week to help organizations secure AI agents: Shadow AI Discovery, Agentic Vault, Agent Runtime Governance, and a fourth unnamed product. The la…
DeckSpace launched Claude Accounts, a paid utility for macOS and Windows that lets users run multiple isolated copies of the official Claude desktop app, one per account, eliminating the need to log i…
Okta's Enterprise AI Index, published July 16, found that most of more than 20,000 organizations analyzed used multiple AI platforms by June 2026, with single-provider use falling 1.2 percentage point…
Okta's Enterprise AI Index shows Anthropic, OpenAI, and Cursor led corporate customer growth between June 2022 and June 2026, while incumbents like Google Workspace, GitHub, Microsoft 365, Slack, Adob…
Vercel Passport reached general availability on July 31, 2026, gating internal apps and AI agents behind a company's own identity provider, including Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, or any OpenID Con…
Okta announced Thursday it has signed a deal to buy Permiso Security, a cloud-based firm specializing in identity threat detection and response, to merge real-time threat detection with identity secur…
Okta acquired AI security startup Permiso for approximately $200 million to add threat detection capabilities for AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments, addressing enterpr…
Okta signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, a cloud identity threat-detection provider founded by former FireEye executives Paul Nguyen and Jason Martin, to push identity security …
Okta has agreed to acquire Permiso Security for close to $200 million in an almost all-cash deal, the company announced on July 30, 2026, adding cloud identity threat detection as AI agents create new…
Okta agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security for about $200 million in an almost all-cash deal, a source told TechCrunch. The acquisition, expected to close in the third quarte…
AI agents multiply credential risk by creating secrets that are never revoked, stored in plaintext, and invisible to traditional identity controls, according to a guide from cybersecurity firm CyberAr…
Multifactor authentication (MFA) remains vulnerable to bypass attacks including fatigue, social engineering, token theft, and weak authentication, according to a CSOonline analysis of recent exploits …
Anthropic released MCP 2026-07-28, the fifth specification of the Model Context Protocol, shifting to a stateless core to simplify server deployment and scale adoption across Claude products. The upda…
Anthropic released MCP 2026-07-28, the fifth spec of the Model Context Protocol, moving to a stateless core with request/response model, standardizing extensions like MCP Apps and Tasks, and hardening…
Snowflake Inc. on Tuesday launched the Cortex AI Gateway, a centralized control plane to govern, secure, and track autonomous AI agents across internal and third-party systems, addressing security and…
Snowflake announced Cortex AI Gateway on July 28, 2026, as a centralized control layer for governing AI agent access to models, tools, MCP servers, data and enterprise systems. The company says the pr…
A developer re-implemented the ID-JAG (Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant) mechanism in Go as an MCP server, addressing authorization challenges for AI agents accessing internal systems. ID-JA…
Shadow AI — unsanctioned AI tools, agents, and integrations operating without approval or visibility — poses a greater risk than traditional shadow IT because AI systems authenticate independently, mu…
World Foundation raised $52.5 million through a strategic WLD token sale with a 12-month lockup, led by Pantera Capital, to expand World ID infrastructure as AI transforms the internet. Over 39 millio…
World Foundation raised $52 million in a locked token sale led by Pantera Capital to expand World ID, its iris-scan-based proof-of-human system, as integrations with Zoom, Docusign, Okta, and Tinder a…