Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of May 1st: Keeper Security, JumpCloud, Silverfort, 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 May 1st. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Keeper Security, JumpCloud, Silverfort, 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 May 1st.

Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of May 1st

AvePoint Introduces New Updates to Its Platform

AvePoint, a global AI data protection company, has announced new advancements to the AvePoint Confidence Platform to help organizations transition from AI visibility to active enforcement, while accelerating adoption and mitigating risks. Specific additions and updates include multi-cloud cyber resiliency, infrastructure protection, active governance and security for AI agents, and scalable multi-tenant IT operations and governance functionalities for partners. These enhancements will address the critical governance and security gaps that are exposed by the rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents and the increasing complexity of multi-cloud data estates.

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BeyondTrust Expands Its Pathfinder Platform

BeyondTrust, a privilege-centric identity security company, has announced new AI capabilities for its Pathfinder platform. Included in this launch are PathfinderAI and a new Pathfinder MCP Server, which will allow AI agents to securely interact with BeyondTrust’s identity security capabilities. Brian Hanrahan, VP of Product Management, BeyondTrust, says, “Enabling AI to tie into the Pathfinder platform helps organizations move from manually searching for identity risks to proactively uncovering, prioritizing, and reducing hidden paths to privilege.” Both offerings are available now in early access.

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Cequence Security Announces Agent Personas for the Cequence AI Gateway

Cequence Security—an application, API, and Agentic AI protection provider—has announced the general availability of Agent Personas in Cequence AI Gateway. These Agent Personas will give enterprises granular, infrastructure-level control over what AI agents are permitted to do, with the goal of closing the critical privilege gap that identity alone cannot address. The capabilities of the Agent Personas include a scoped virtual MCP endpoint per agent role, natural-language persona creation, a single source of truth for each agent, pre-tool policy enforcement, agent access keys, full audit trails, and a model-agnostic design.

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C1 and Wiz Announce an Integration Partnership

C1, an identity platform for the agentic workforce, has announced a collaboration with cloud security company Wiz, now part of Google Cloud, by joining the Wiz Integration Network (WIN). With C1’s integration, cloud security findings from Wiz can flow directly into C1’s governance engine, helping teams enforce continuous least privilege, provide approvers with important cloud context, and trust their systems to automatically trigger access decisions, policy enforcement, and entitlement revocation.

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Jumio Appoints a New CEO

Jumio, an AI-powered identity intelligence platform, has appointed Mark Lorion as chief executive officer. Lorion succeeds Bala Kumar, who has served as president and interim CEO since the start of 2026, and who will continue his leadership as Jumio’s president and chief product and technology officer. Lorion will use his three decades of experience scaling high-growth B2B companies to help Jumio accelerate its growth and meet the next generation of identity challenges.

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JumpCloud Reveals an Agentic IAM Solution

JumpCloud, an AI-powered unified IT management platform for managing the modern workforce, has launched Agentic IAM, a new extension of its identity and device management solution. Agentic IAM is built to replicate patterns of human workforce identity and access management (IAM), while ensuring that all non-human identities are discovered, onboarded, and registered as corporate identities. The solution will provide those identities with the correct credentials and ensure they can use them only for the specific resources to which they are entitled.

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Keeper Security Releases an Anti-Phishing Capability for Its Browser Extension

Keeper Security, a zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security and Privileged Access Management (PAM) platform, has released Verify Mode, a new anti-phishing capability in version 17.8 of its browser extension. The Verify Mode capability will provide teams with real-time validation of where credentials are entered, helping prevent users from entering passwords into malicious or unrecognized websites. It also offers configurable protection levels to align with organizational risk tolerance, ranging from Medium, High, to Maximum. These levels will empower security teams to balance protection with a seamless user experience across roles and environments.

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Keeper Security Unveils the Keeper Agent Kit

Keeper Security also launched its Keeper Agent Kit, a new suite of specialized AI skills that integrates the Keeper Secrets Manager and Keeper Commander tools with AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and GitHub Copilot. The Keeper Agent Kit is specifically designed for modern developer workflows, offering teams secure secret retrieval, automated vault administration, streamlined configurations, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integration for teams operating in hosted or orchestrated AI environments

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Optro Debuts a Model Context Protocol Server

Optro (formerly AuditBoard), an AI-powered GRC platform, has announced a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed to seamlessly connect customers’ enterprise AI directly to their GRC data. The integration establishes a universal API for AI, enabling an organization’s preferred LLM to securely communicate with its live Optro GRC environment. Additionally, the MCP plug-in will allow customers to use natural language within their existing AI chat interface, leveraging enterprise-grade security, out-of-the-box interoperability, and real-time, dynamic context.

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Ridge Security Reveals an Integration with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM

Ridge Security, an autonomous cybersecurity validation solution provider, has announced an integration that enables automated penetration testing insights from the RidgeBot platform to flow into the CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. With the integrations, teams can take automated penetration testing results from RidgeBot, plug them into the Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, and then correlate them with other security data to provide a centralized view of validated cyber risk. Lydia Zhang, co-founder and president of Ridge Security, says, “By integrating RidgeBot with CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, we’re helping organizations bring validated attack insights directly into their workflows so they can prioritize and remediate threats faster.”

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Silverfort Acquires Fabrix Security

Silverfort, an Identity Security company, has acquired Fabrix Security, an AI-native Identity Security company. Together, Silverfort and Fabrix will provide companies with autonomous Identity Security at runtime, protecting identities and access at a speed and scale humans can no longer handle. For example, by combining Fabrix’s identity-centric AI decisioning engine with Silverfort’s unique Runtime Access Protection (RAP) technology, companies can continuously enforce decisions across the entire organization, accelerate their adoption of agentic AI, and scale their business without losing control.

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Silverfort Announces an Integration with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Silverfort has also announced an integration that brings its runtime Identity Security approach to Agent Gateway, part of Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. By using Silverfort’s Agent Gateway integration, organizations can gain additional visibility into agent activity without requiring their teams to deploy additional infrastructure or redesign their agent architecture. Silverfort’s integration with Google Cloud’s Agent Gateway will be available soon and will enable organizations that run AI agents on Google Cloud to get started without installing agents or modifying existing workflows.

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SpyCloud Details New Integrations with Ping Identity

SpyCloud, an identity threat protection company, has announced new integrations with Ping Identity, a global company focused on securing digital identities. These integrations will connect SpyCloud’s Workforce Threat Protection and Consumer Threat Protection offerings with Ping Identity’s DaVinci flows and the PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud (AIC) solution, respectively. Companies can use these integrations to quickly deliver exposure intelligence at the point of authentication while automatically detecting and remediating compromised credentials across workforce and consumer identity journeys at scale.

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Sublime Security Launches Its Channel Partner Program

Sublime Security, an agentic email security platform, has launched its channel partner program. With Sublime Security now operating as a 100 percent channel-led company, the new program is designed to maximize partner success and expand the reach of Sublime’s email security approach. The channel partner program is led by Timm Hoyt, VP of Worldwide Partners & Alliances, a seasoned channel executive with a career spanning partner-led growth initiatives at organizations. Core elements of the program include a partner-first go-to-market motion, dedicated partner resources, enhanced technical enablement and training services, and support for co-Marketing and demand generation.

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Trustpair and Coupa Expand Their Partnership

Trustpair, a platform for automated vendor payment fraud prevention, has expanded its partnership with Coupa, an autonomous spend management solution provider. As part of their collaboration, Trustpair is now available as a certified solution in the Coupa App Marketplace for the Coupa Platform. Additionally, the companies will embed Trustpair’s verification and fraud intelligence capabilities into Coupa’s platform, enabling joint customers to validate vendor banking information at scale and reduce the risk of payment fraud from vendor impersonation, account manipulation, and social engineering.

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“Use It as a Lever, Not a Crutch” | The Human Conversation

Dr. Joe Perez, a data analytics expert and international keynote speaker, joins this week’s episode of The Human Conversation with a warning: if we let AI do all our thinking, we won’t be replaced by machines…we’ll become them. His conversation with Doug also follows the economic logic of mass AI adoption to its quietly terrifying conclusion, where companies eliminate every job, slash every cost, and discover too late that the people they fired were also their customers.

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AI Asset Management in Cybersecurity: Why Visibility Is the New Perimeter

For years, the foundational truth in cybersecurity has been simple to state and nearly impossible to act on: you cannot protect what you do not know exists. Every mature security program acknowledges this, although almost none have fully solved it. Asset management, the discipline of cataloging and governing every device, identity, configuration, and data flow in an enterprise environment, has been perpetually underfunded, underestimated, and under-executed, and AI is about to make that gap significantly wider.

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