identity management
5 stories filed under identity management on Beyond Market Intelligence. The newest of them: “How a blocked attack turned a security agent into a DNS hijacker”, “Okta strengthens identity security for the age of AI agents”, and “Your AI agents have real access. Their security controls don't.”. A security agent read a Cloudflare log, found an attacker's prompt-injection payload sitting inside it, and rewrote the company's DNS. Okta's acquisition of Permiso, reportedly around $200 million, signals a clear response to a growing reality: not every identity in your cloud is human. Acme AI is the next-generation, AI-powered spreadsheet platform built to replace Excel and redefine how analysts, data scientists, and enterprise teams work… The list below is every identity management story on Beyond Market Intelligence, newest first.
How a blocked attack turned a security agent into a DNS hijacker
A security agent read a Cloudflare log, found an attacker's prompt-injection payload sitting inside it, and rewrote the company's DNS. The firewall had already blocked that payload, and blocking it is what wrote it into the log. That chain is GhostJacking, and it makes one thing clear: a high block rate is not a security boundary. The fix is an authorization gate outside the model, one that lets an agent propose a change but never approve it.
Okta strengthens identity security for the age of AI agents
Okta's acquisition of Permiso, reportedly around $200 million, signals a clear response to a growing reality: not every identity in your cloud is human. As AI agents multiply, so do the access points that demand scrutiny. This move gives Okta serious threat detection for non-human identities, which is precisely where enterprise security gets tricky. It's a practical step, not a flashy one. For teams wrestling with agent sprawl, this feels timely.
Your AI agents have real access. Their security controls don't.
The majority of enterprises are already feeling the agent security gap, 54% have faced an incident or near-miss. Yet most are still securing autonomous agents with shared credentials and borrowed provider guardrails, leaving identity and isolation controls behind. The gap is clear: agents are proliferating faster than the controls needed to contain them. Explore how your defenses measure up and discover where the structural weaknesses actually live.
AI agents are outpacing the security designed to contain them
Most enterprises are already feeling the agent security gap, 54% have hit an incident or near-miss, yet most agents still share credentials. The controls that would contain them, like scoped identity and sandboxing, lag furthest behind. The result is a stack borrowed from providers, comfortable to use but thin on containment. The data is clear: adoption is running ahead of the controls meant to hold it. It's time to close that distance before the next near-miss becomes the incident.
Oak emerges with $60M to solve AI-driven identity complexity
Oak is stepping out of stealth with $60 million in seed funding, and the timing couldn't be more telling. As AI agents increasingly fumble through identity and access, the mess they leave behind is becoming a real liability. Shai Morag, the cofounder, knows this space well, and Oak is positioning itself to clean it up. It's a practical, needed response to a problem that's only growing.