Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of January 30th: MIND, Abstract Security, Descope, and More

The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy Identity Management and Information Security news from the week of January 30th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from MIND, Abstract Security, Descope, and more.

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant Identity Management and Information Security news can be time-consuming. As a result, our editorial team aims to summarize some of the top headlines in the space by curating a collection of the latest vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy news. With that in mind, here is some of the top identity management and information security news from the week of January 30th.

Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of January 30th

Abstract Security Announces a Partnership with Netskope

Abstract Security, a company focused on streaming-first security data operations, has announced a partnership with Netskope, a modern security and networking provider. With their integration, the companies will enable joint customers to bring detection directly into the data stream, helping them eliminate indexing delays for more efficient threat detection and to optimize the collection, transformation, and analysis of Netskope One telemetry. The integration will also ensure customers maintain full data sovereignty and visibility while still eliminating the prohibitive costs of high-volume log ingestion.

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Bedrock Data Details a Native Integration for Atlassian Confluence

Bedrock Data—a modern DSPM platform provider for data-centric security, governance, and management—has announced native support for Atlassian Confluence with a new integration. The Bedrock Data integration delivers comprehensive Confluence discovery, streamlined permission resolution, AI-driven classification, unified risk querying, and a least-privilege security model. These capabilities will help companies map how their data flows into AI systems and what information models could expose during inference.

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Descope Introduces New Features to Its Agentic Identity Hub

Descope, a no-code identity provider for customers and AI agents, has announced several updates to its Agentic Identity Hub. These enhancements will provide MCP developers and AI agent builders with standards-based identity infrastructure for their AI systems. This will allow them to use Descope to manage AI agents as first-class identities alongside human users, add OAuth 2.1 and tool-level scopes to their internal and external MCP servers, and govern agent access to MCP servers, all with enterprise-grade policy enforcement. The Agentic Identity Hub also offers AI agent logging and auditing tools that enable organizations to monitor which agents are accessing systems and when.

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Memcyco Raises $37 million in Series A Funding

Memcyco, a real-time digital risk protection platform, has secured $37 million in Series A funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $47 million. The oversubscribed round was led by new investors NAventures, the corporate venture arm of National Bank of Canada, E. León Jimenes, and PagsGroup, with additional participation from existing investors Capri Ventures and Venture Guides. Memcyco will use the capital to fuel the global expansion of its agentless platform.

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MIND Announces DLP for Agentic AI

MIND, a data security platform built to autonomously discover and classify sensitive data, has announced DLP for Agentic AI, a data-centric approach to AI security that helps organizations safely realize the business value of agentic AI by ensuring that sensitive data and AI systems interact safely and responsibly. DLP for Agentic AI will also enable organizations to identify which AI agents are active across the enterprise, detect risky data access by AI agents, monitor agent behavior in real-time, autonomously remediate issues as they emerge, and apply the right controls so data and agentic AI interact safely.

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Insight Jam Launches Mesh Lab to Frame Learning and Work for AI

Insight Jam officially announced the launch of its Mesh Lab, a year-long, monthly series of expert panel discussions focused on re-engineering how humans learn and work as artificial intelligence becomes embedded across society. The forum launched today with episode 1 and will run through December 2026. “AI is moving faster than our frameworks,” said Solutions Review President Doug Atkinson. “The future of work and learning depends on whether we redesign the models that shape human development before the technology defines them for us.”

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Beyond Human Analytics with Bhaskar Sunkara | The Digital Analyst

In this episode of The Digital Analyst, John Santaferraro is joined by Bicycle AI CEO Bhaskar Sunkara to explore the evolution from dashboards to autonomous analytics agents with someone who decoded complex signals at AppDynamics. Bhaskar also reveals why detection without understanding leads to alert fatigue and explains why fragmented data means marketing, payments, and product teams never agree on basic definitions.

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