Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of August 21st: Tufin, Pathlock, Netwrix, 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 August 21st. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Tufin, Pathlock, Netwrix, 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 August 21st.

Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of August 21st

Keeper Security Releases a Certified Microsoft Power Platform Connector

Keeper Security, a zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security platform, has announced the availability of a certified connector that integrates the Keeper Secrets Manager with Microsoft Azure Logic Apps. The connector, available now on the Microsoft Power Platform marketplace, will allow enterprise teams to create and retrieve credentials at runtime, directly from automated workflows, without hardcoding sensitive values in flows. It operates through a Python middleware service deployed as an Azure Function App that communicates with the Keeper Vault via the Keeper Secrets Manager SDK.

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Netwrix Expands The Capabilities of Its PingCastle and Threat Manager Products

Netwrix, an identity and data security company, has announced new capabilities across the Netwrix PingCastle and Netwrix Threat Manager solutions. The new tools will add visibility into AI agent identities, expand Entra ID risk coverage to over 100 risk checks, and introduce threat detection for Azure Files. These features are designed to complement Microsoft’s native tooling with independent assessment and visibility across the Microsoft identity plane. Netwrix will also launch agent-specific threat detection tools in a later release, building on the visibility foundation this update provides.

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Pathlock and mindsquare AG Announce Their Partnership

Pathlock, a provider of Converged Identity Governance, ERP Cross-Application Security, and GRC Controls Automation for the Agentic Era, has announced a strategic partnership with mindsquare AG, a technology consulting firm with deep SAP expertise and a strong presence in the DACH market. The partnership will expand to Pathlock’s modern, cross-application access governance and GRC capabilities for enterprises in the DACH region. Additionally, mindsquare consultants will be trained on Pathlock’s solutions to successfully deliver them to customers.

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Prevalent AI Raises $22 Million in a Growth Investment

Prevalent AI, an AI-powered enterprise context platform, has announced a $22 million growth investment from Integrity Growth Partners (IGP). The company will use the investment to deepen its presence in existing markets, accelerate its expansion into the U.S., ontinue strengthening its leadership team, extend its knowledge graph beyond cybersecurity into broader risk and enterprise use cases, and formalize its global go-to-market organization across sales, marketing, customer success, and partnerships.

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Teleport Announces Support for Linux Desktop

Teleport, an AI Infrastructure Identity company, has announced support for Linux Desktop as a protected resource within the Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform. With this update, engineering teams can apply the same cryptographic identity, least-privilege access controls, and session auditability to Linux desktops that they rely on for their servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, GitHub, and cloud environments. This means developer workstations will exist in the same unified identity layer as the rest of a company’s infrastructure.

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Tufin Launches a Segmentation Intelligence Capability

Tufin, an agentic AI network security company, has launched Segmentation Intelligence, a new AI-powered solution designed to help enterprises continuously validate that their critical segmentation policies are operating as intended. With this release, teams can analyze policies, zones, subnets, and objects to better understand how to segment their organization’s environment and where to enforce controls. This will also enable them to ensure their segmentation remains aligned with their intended strategy, even as the environment evolves.

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Tufin Details the New Features Available in the Tufin Orchestration Suite 5.3

Tufin also announced the availability of Tufin Orchestration Suite (TOS) 5.3, an update that helps enterprises further simplify security operations and maintain consistent control in complex, multi-vendor, hybrid environments. Specifically, the update will extend Tufin’s Unified Control Plane with new integrations, AI-powered intelligence, and additional automation capabilities. These will make it easier for organizations to consistently govern policy,  validate network security posture, and maintain continuous assurance across environments.

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