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A cybersecurity vendor is promoting 'Identity Telemetry,' a real-time monitoring approach meant to complement traditional Identity Governance tools like role-based access and periodic reviews. The pitch argues that static governance policies alone cannot detect breaches as they happen, and organizations need continuous visibility into identity events to catch active threats.
Google's Threat Intelligence Group disclosed a credential-harvesting operation where attackers compromised cloud infrastructure and deployed a multi-agent AI framework that scanned for vulnerabilities, fixed its own errors, and rotated IP addresses largely without human input. The entire campaign, which compromised thousands of third-party credentials, took less than six hours to execute. Separately, Microsoft found AI-assisted phishing messages reaching click-through rates of 54%, compared to roughly 12% for conventional campaigns.
Okta reported quarterly revenue up 11% to over $800 million and net income more than doubling to $116 million, beating Wall Street estimates and sending shares up 19%. The company said new products, including its Okta for AI Agents tool now available to all customers, drove 30% of total bookings, with dozens of new AI-related deals closed including a multi-million-dollar healthcare contract.