Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of September 25th: BeyondTrust, Omada, Cofense, 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 September 25th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from BeyondTrust, Omada, Cofense, 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 September 25th.

Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of September 25th

BeyondTrust Releases New Integrations for CrowdStrike’s SIEM

BeyondTrust, a privilege-centric identity security provider, has announced new integrations between BeyondTrust’s Pathfinder Platform and CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. These integrations bring BeyondTrust’s identity and privilege intelligence to the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, enabling joint customers to correlate identity relationships and privilege exposure insights across human, non-human, and AI agent identities.

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Cofense Expands Its AI-Driven Phishing Defense Platform

Cofense, an intelligence-driven post-perimeter phishing defense, has expanded its AI-driven Phishing Defense Platform through Cofense Command Center, its orchestration layer for measurement and reporting. With the new Competency Dashboard, security teams can measure how employees recognize, report, and respond to phishing threats. Other additions in the release include phishing remediation and unified reporting capabilities.

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Cynet Unveils the Features Available In Its Latest Platform Update

Cynet, an AI-powered cybersecurity platform, has released several new features, including a cross-site dashboard, SIEM module, dedicated regional infrastructure, execute report white labeling, more sources for log ingestion, the additions of AI insights in the platform’s Cross-Site Dashboard, and a a dedicated category giving teams granular visibility and policy control over the usage of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and other AI platforms.

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Entrust Details Its Partnership with The Cyber Helpline

Entrust, a global provider of identity-centric security solutions, has announced a partnership with The Cyber Helpline, a nonprofit organization that offers free, expert support to victims of cyber-crime, digital fraud, and online harm. Rory Innes, CEO and Founder of The Cyber Helpline, says the partnership will then “put specialist cybersecurity expertise directly into the hands of more victims, helping people understand what has happened, take action, and regain control.”

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KnowBe4 Reveals a Native Browser Extension for Chrome and Edge

KnowBe4, a digital workforce security company, has expanded its Agent Risk Manager solution by launching a new native browser extension for Chrome and Edge, giving security teams real-time control over shadow AI. Matt Duren, SVP of AI and data, KnowBe4, says, “With this extension, the same capability that discovers shadow AI can now act on it in real-time without forcing security teams to choose between locking AI down and letting it run unchecked.”

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Morphisec Announces the General Availability of Its Data Exfiltration Control Solution

Morphisec, a global provider of prevention-first cybersecurity and anti-ransomware protection, has announced the general availability of Data Exfiltration Control (DXC). With the release of DXC, Morphisec is providing security teams with policy-driven, enterprise-grade governance over the data-transfer tools deployed in modern double-extortion attacks, with zero content inspection, and on the same Morphisec Protector they already run.

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Omada Acquires EmpowerID

Omada, a global Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) company, has acquired EmpowerID, a pioneer in AI agent governance. The acquisition will bring EmpowerID’s runtime agent governance capabilities into the Omada ecosystem, strengthening its ability to provide security controls for human, non-human, and agent identities. For example, the combined platform will empower teams to decide in real-time what agents are permitted to do and intervene immediately if an agent steps outside those boundaries.

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Portnox Launches New Capabilities for Detecting Shadow AI

Portnox, a provider of cloud-native enterprise access control, has announced new capabilities for detecting unauthorized AI applications and agents on managed devices. These tools will also automatically enforce security policy by restricting, quarantining, or removing unapproved or risky applications as soon as they’re detected. With this release, Portnox can extend its existing posture detection and access controls to a new class of applications, providing IT teams with the policy-based control over Shadow AI they need.

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Secure Passage Debuts an Identity-First Physical AI Operating System

Secure Passage, a security software engineering company, has launched Truman 2.0, an Identity-First Physical AI Operating System that helps organizations understand, secure, and operate complex physical environments in real-time. Key capabilities include real-time operational intelligence, AI-assisted investigations, identity correlation, digital twin visualizations, autonomous fleet operations, intelligent workflows, operational technology monitoring, and Ask Truman, an AI-powered interface for investigating detections and querying operational conditions in natural language.

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Semperis Details Its New Migrator for Active Directory 2.0

Semperis, an identity-driven cyber resilience and crisis response company, has announced the global availability of Semperis Migrator for Active Directory 2.0, a ground-up architectural update that makes Active Directory (AD) migration observable, controlled, and security-centric. This release introduces several new features, including a Secure Access and Control Agent, deployment validations, a unified searchable log, and Directory Synchronization Sets (DSS) for project-scoped, wave-based execution.

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Expert Insights Section

Watch this space each week as our editors will share upcoming events, new thought leadership, and the best resources from Insight Jam, Solutions Review’s enterprise tech community for business software pros. The goal? To help you gain a forward-thinking analysis and remain on-trend through expert advice, best practices, trends, predictions, and vendor-neutral software evaluation tools.

Solutions Review Releases The State of AI-Native Cybersecurity Report, Reintroducing Its Vendor Map Series

Solutions Review has announced the official release of its inaugural The State of AI-Native Cybersecurity Report, a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence is reshaping security operations, team design, and vendor strategy across the enterprise market. The report is available today. The report also features commentary from thought leaders across the cybersecurity marketplace, pairing Solutions Review’s analysis with practitioner and executive perspectives on where the discipline is heading and what buyers should prioritize now.  

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What to Expect at Mini Jam, Q3 2026: Education & Abundant Intelligence on September 29th

This quarterly Mini Jam on Insight Jam virtual event brings together educators, EdTech leaders, workforce development experts, and learning model innovators to explore the human impact of education in an era of abundant intelligence. All-in, Mini Jam Q3, 2026 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain insights, engage with experts, and stay at the forefront of the conversation on the human impact of AI on education.

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Super Intelligence Meaning: What “SI” Refers to and How It Differs from AI and ASI

In a recent announcement, the U.S. administration said all of its documents will now refer to artificial intelligence (AI) as “super intelligence” (SI), as reported by The Washington Post. With that in mind, the editors at Solutions Review wanted to offer a quick definition and rundown of what “Super Intelligence” means and how it differs from AI, if at all.

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