Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of June 26th: Bitdefender, Entrust, Cequence, 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 June 26th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Bitdefender, Entrust, Cequence, 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 June 26th.

Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of June 26th

Acsense Expands Its Solution with Support for Microsoft Entra ID

Acsense, an Identity Control Plane for enterprise identity infrastructure, has expanded its solution to include support for Microsoft Entra ID. This means the Acsense Identity Control Plane now covers the two most widely deployed enterprise identity platforms: Okta and Microsoft Entra ID. The update centralizes backup, configuration management, disaster recovery, and compliance workflows, enabling teams to monitor changes, detect drift, roll back misconfigurations, and orchestrate recovery from a single system.

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Bitdefender Launches RealCheck, an iOS and Android App

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity company, has introduced RealCheck, a standalone iOS and Android app built to analyze videos for manipulation and possible deceptive intent. Rather than offering a simple real-or-fake verdict, the app produces a structured report that evaluates the likelihood of tampering, transcript-level signals, and whether content appears intended to steal money, credentials, or personal information. Bitdefender positions the tool as a response to the growing spread of deepfake scams across social platforms, including impersonation campaigns involving public figures.

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Cequence Security Reveals Two New Features

Cequence Security, an application security provider, has launched Intent Graph and Biometric Check, two new capabilities that extend the behavioral architecture of Cequence’s solution. These will help enterprises distinguish legitimate users, AI agents, and automated traffic across web, mobile, API, and agentic AI channels. Additionally, teams can use them to emphasize behavioral detection rather than browser signals that sophisticated bots can evade, while also adding friction-free human verification for suspicious interactions.

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Entrust Details Its Identity-Centric Approach to Authentication

Entrust, an identity-centric security platform, has unveiled a new approach to preventing account takeover in the age of AI. To that end, Entrust’s Biometric Authentication solution will bring identity-centric assurance to critical interactions, enabling organizations to reduce fraud and deliver fast, easy end-user experiences. Mike Baxter, Chief Technology & Product Officer at Entrust, says, “Preventing account takeover in the age of AI requires confirming the person behind every interaction. Entrust helps organizations apply the right level of assurance at the right moments while delivering secure, low-friction experiences.”

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Exabeam Reveals an Open-Source Avenue for Implementing Agent Behavior Verification

Exabeam, a Behavior Intelligence provider for the agentic enterprise, has announced Agent Behavior Verification (ABV), a new security discipline that helps organizations determine whether AI agents are configured, authorized, and governed to align with their intended responsibilities before deployment. To support organizations in operationalizing the discipline, Exabeam is releasing Praxen, an open-source reference implementation of ABV. Praxen will identify and report on gaps between intended and implemented behavior, provide actionable recommendations, and highlight behavioral risks for developers ahead of deployment.

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Flare Introduces New Capabilities to Its Platform

Flare, an identity-first cyber threat intelligence (CTI) provider, has expanded its platform with new capabilities that deepen its identity-first threat intelligence model within investigation and remediation workflows. The update adds a more centralized intelligence browser, AI-assisted reporting, sandbox and file analysis, and STIX/TAXII feeds to help teams operationalize findings without stitching together multiple point tools. Flare also added Okta support to its Identity Exposure Management offering, extending validation of exposed credentials and identity risks into live enterprise identity systems.

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Keeper Security Debuts a New Application for Microsoft Teams

Keeper Security, a zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security and Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform, has introduced the Keeper Teams App, which brings privileged access management workflows directly into Microsoft Teams. The integration lets users request and approve access, one-time shares, just-in-time privilege elevation, SSO cloud device approvals, and secret creation without leaving the collaboration environment. This will make it easier for teams to reduce visibility gaps caused by access requests submitted via email or separate portals.

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Netwrix Announces New AI Governance Capabilities

Netwrix, an identity and data solution provider, has added new AI governance capabilities to its 1Secure SaaS platform for hybrid Microsoft environments, including Active Directory, Entra ID, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Windows File Servers, and SQL Server. With the update, Netwrix is introducing a conversational assistant, a sensitive data posture dashboard, PingCastle-powered checks, GPO auditing, and Windows Server activity reporting to help teams monitor risk and respond faster.

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One Identity to Become an Independent Company

One Identity, an identity security company, has announced plans to become an independent company and has named its Cork, Ireland, office as its global headquarters. The move will support its identity security strategy and its focus on protecting both human and non-human identities. Praerit Garg, CEO of One Identity, says, “Our customers are dealing with environments that are more distributed and harder to govern than anything legacy frameworks were designed for. Operating as a standalone company gives us the focus this problem requires and the speed our customers demand.”

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SpyCloud Launches an AI-Powered Investigation Tool

SpyCloud, an identity threat protection solution, has launched its Research Agent, an AI-powered investigation tool built to help security teams move from a single clue to finished intelligence faster. The company says the agent can automatically pivot across identities, aliases, devices, infrastructure, and exposed data, then produce analyst-ready reports with far less manual effort. SpyCloud is positioning the product as a way to streamline identity threat investigations and scale investigative expertise across teams without requiring every analyst to perform the same repetitive workflow.

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AI Literacy, Human Skills, and the Workforce Transformation You Can’t Afford to Ignore | The Human Conversation

Ben Tasker—an AI capability and workforce transformation expert and former dean of AI at Southern New Hampshire University—calls the moment we’re in “the AI between times”: not yet out of the old way of working, not yet into the AI-enabled future, and moving faster than most organizations are prepared for. In this episode of The Human Conversation podcast, Tasker makes the case that the organizations winning at AI adoption are the ones shifting from job-role thinking to skills-based thinking, building learning plans before the change hits, and communicating to employees why the shift is happening rather than just mandating it.

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Solutions Review to Publish The State of Cybersecurity Report, Reintroducing Its Vendor Map Series

Solutions Review is also excited to announce the upcoming release of an all-new flagship State of Cybersecurity Report. This comprehensive industry round-up will be the first annual analysis of how artificial intelligence is reshaping security operations, team design, and vendor strategy across the enterprise market. The report will also reintroduce our Vendor Maps, providing security buyers with an at-a-glance reference to the leading and emerging players in the cybersecurity marketplace.

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