Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of October 16th: Descope, Incode, Hexnode, 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 October 16th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from Descope, Incode, Hexnode, 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 October 16th.

Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of October 16th

DataBee Introduces New Updates for Its Cyber Risk Management Platform

DataBee, a Comcast Company, has announced significant advancements for its cyber risk management platform, including the latest evolution of DataBee Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM), new innovations in DataBee Frontier AI Defense, and expanded capabilities for DataBee User Access Review (UAR). These additions and updates vsn help organizations automate the manual work behind monitoring controls, assess application exposures, and review user access.

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Descope Debuts the Agentic Identity Hub 3.0

Descope, a developer-friendly customer and agentic identity platform, has debuted Agentic Identity Hub 3.0, which brings governance, policy enforcement, and auditing to the AI agents and MCP servers that organizations run internally. The new capabilities include an agentic governance suite, new MCP gateway integrations, advanced client authentication, and ID-JAG issuance for internal agents, providing an SSO-like experience for internal AI agents accessing any MCP server.

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Hexnode Expands Its Enterprise Controls for Linux

Hexnode, the enterprise software division of Mitsogo, has expanded Linux support via patch management in Hexnode UEM and cloud identity-based device login through Hexnode Access. Sahad M, CTO of Hexnode, says, “Enterprises should be able to choose the operating systems their workloads demand while maintaining consistent standards of control. That means deciding which software changes reach which devices, controlling how those changes are introduced, and connecting device access to identities the organization already manages.

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Incode Technologies Launches TrustGraph

Incode Technologies, a global provider of AI-powered identity verification and fraud prevention, has launched TrustGraph, a privacy-preserving trust network that helps institutions detect repeat and agentic fraud and recognize legitimate customers using signals from across the network, without pooling, exchanging, or exposing customer data. TrustGraph is available today as part of the Incode platform and operates alongside the identity verification, onboarding, and authentication processes companies already run.

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NordLayer Details a New Solution for AI Usage Visibility

NordLayer, a network security platform provider, has introduced AI Scout, a solution providing enterprises with consolidated visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned AI usage. Specifically, AI Scout combines shadow AI detection with AI-specific data loss prevention, inspecting prompts on-device before submission and issuing warnings, redactions, or blocks when sensitive data is at risk. It also extends oversight into agentic AI through an MCP server catalog and an inventory of coding-agent skills and capabilities.

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Speakeasy and Tailscale Announce a Partnership

Speakeasy, an AI control plane for enterprises. has announced a partnership with Tailscale, an identity-first networking company. Together, the companies will bring private networking to enterprise Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling companies to run the Speakeasy MCP gateway as a node on their Tailscale tailnet. The integration will also compose with Speakeasy’s MCP tunnels, which connect MCP servers running in a private network to the gateway over an outbound-only connection.

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The Cybersecurity Landscape in 2026: AI Became the Foundation

“For most of the cybersecurity field’s history, artificial intelligence was a feature. It was a capability you added to a detection engine, a line item on a platform datasheet, a way to cut false positives or speed up triage. You could point to where the AI lived, and you could turn it off. In 2026, that description no longer works, as AI has become the ground the field stands on, shaping how threats are generated, how defenses respond, and how the people in between spend their days.”

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What to Expect from the Solutions Spotlight with Ping Identity on November 18th, 2026

For this Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team has partnered with Ping Identity, an identity security company for the digital enterprise. Join Ping Identity and AWS for an online, hands-on “Immersion Day” event focused on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, showcasing how teams can build, deploy, and secure autonomous AI agents across enterprise use cases and environments.

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