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<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nThe editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy Identity Management and Information Security news from the week of October 25th. This round-up covers announcements and updates from SailPoint, Accenture, Securonix, and more.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Keeping tabs on all the most relevant\u00a0Identity Management<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Information Security<\/a><\/strong> 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 October 25th.<\/p>\n Accenture, through Accenture Ventures, has made a strategic investment in Reality Defender, a cybersecurity company that specializes in deepfake detection. Together, Accenture and Reality Defender will collaborate to equip clients in the financial services, high-tech, and media industries with the resources required to identify, detect, respond to, and prevent deepfake fraud. Additionally, Accenture plans to integrate Reality Defender’s capabilities into its existing deepfake detection and protection solutions, alongside extending it to its call center AI automation offering.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n AuthenticID, a global provider of identity verification and fraud prevention solutions, has released AuthenticID360, a new holistic identity verification platform. The new platform aims to deliver robust verification and risk signaling capabilities to clients, including a two-second response time for identity transactions. Those capabilities include an automated decision engine, KYC and KYB data validations, orchestration tools for building decisioning workflows, and a collection of fraud protection features, including liveness detection, face matching, deep-fake injection attack sections, bad actor watchlist, and proprietary anti-fraud algorithms.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Keeper Security, a zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity provider, has introduced several updates to its KeeperFill browser extension. The update will allow users to customize the viewing experience with landscape, a new option that expands the view of the extension window. Other additions include a customizable passphrase generation, a refreshed user interface for the traditional password generator, and the ability to access the tool’s web vault from the browser extension with a new shortcut.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n OLOID, a provider of workplace technology for access and identity management, has received $6 million in a Series AI funding round. The funding was led by Yaletown Partners, Exposition Ventures, George Kaiser Family Foundation, and Carya Ventures, with participation from existing investors. The company also announced that it has become a Workday Innovation Partner and achieved Workday Certified Integration status, which will enable OLOID to provide customers with a streamlined integration between Workday’s solutions and OLOID’s Time Clock tool.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Permiso Security, an identity threat detection and response startup, has released an open-source tool designed to obfuscate, deobfuscate, and detect obfuscated JSON documents. The tool, SkyScalpel, also includes an emphasis on IAM policies to control permissions in AWS cloud environments. With SkyScalpel, companies can introduce, identity, or resolve single-element action arrays, Unicode encoding, reorder properties, action wildcards, random casing, insignificant whitespace, and others. SkyScalpel is available now on GitHub.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Qpoint has closed $4 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Mango Capital with participation from Preface Ventures, Scribble Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta. Qpoint leverages eBPF technology to equip platform teams and operators with deeper visibility and control over their applications’ external dependencies and traffic flows. The company has founding members from Shopify, DigitalOcean, Instacard, NS1, and Hashicorp. The team has a history of successfully building software and scaling operations for global technology companies.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n SailPoint, a unified identity security provider for enterprises, has launched SailPoint Machine Identity Security, a new product built specifically for machine accounts. Machine Identity Security is built on SailPoint Atlas and aims to unify the process of identity security for machine and human identities, making it easier for companies to manage all identities. Additionally, the SailPoint Machine Identity Security solution can automate the governance and lifecycle management processes to help businesses approach the compliance process with more confidence.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n SailPoint also announced several new and updated capabilities for its Identity Security Cloud. The updates include three new capabilities, including access model metadata, dynamic access roles, and data segmentation, which aim to enhance its existing application onboarding capability. SailPoint also revealed details on its agentic AI tool, which will equip users with an intelligent assistant designed to answer questions about their identity solution and drive governance and security actions via simple, conversation-based formats.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Securonix\u2014a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) provider\u2014has announced a strategic alliance with AVANT, a platform for IT decision-making. The collaboration will help Securonix bring its SIEM and AI-reinforced cybersecurity solutions to AVANT’s expansive network, equipping more organizations with the tools needed to counter evolving cyber threats. Additionally, via the newly enhanced Securonix Elevate partner program, AVANT\u2019s Trusted Advisors can access exclusive benefits like tiered pricing, robust enablement resources, and AI-augmented CyberOps capabilities.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Sevco Security, an asset intelligence and exposure management solution provider, has added two prominent leaders to its executive team. Ken Shelton, the former VP of Engineering at Qualys and VP of Engineering at Randori, has joined Sevco as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Additionally, Aaron Griffin, a seasoned cloud-native SIEM architect, has been promoted to Chief Architect. The appointments reinforce Sevco’s ongoing commitment to driving innovation in vulnerability management solutions.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Sift, an AI-powered fraud platform, has announced details for its latest quarterly product updates. The new update features an enhanced solution designed to protect businesses from account takeover (ATO) fraud in the customer journey. With the Sift ATO offering, companies can use AI-powered insights, real-time behavioral analysis, multi-factor authentication (MFA), expanded device fingerprinting, industry-specific automations, advanced behavior signals, and low-code integrations with other solutions to strengthen their defenses against potential ATO fraud.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Symmetry Systems, a data+AI security company, has announced details on a significant expansion for its Data+AI Security and DSPM capabilities. These expansions aim to combat the emerging threat of ConfusedPilot attacks and will help Symmetry strengthen its ability to ensure the safe adoption of Gen AI technologies. The updated product line focuses on six capabilities: advanced document scanning, decision impact analysis, content integrity monitoring, information flow barriers, external data source alerting, and prompt monitoring.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we called for the industry\u2019s best and brightest to share their comments about the past, present, and future of the evolving cybersecurity landscape. The experts featured represent some of the top Cybersecurity solution providers with experience in these marketplaces, and each projection has been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value.<\/p>\n Read on for more.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n John Visneski, the Chief Information Security Officer at Sumo Logic, recently shared some guidance on how companies can identify the best AI security solutions for their needs. In his article, he talks about AI washing, the risks of “falling for the hype,” and the importance of following the data, having data scientists on staff, and asking a vendor for proof that backs up their claims.<\/p>\nFor early access to all the expert insights published on Solutions Review, join Insight Jam<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, a community dedicated to enabling the human conversation on AI.<\/div><\/p>\nIdentity Management and Information Security News for the Week of October 25th<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nAccenture Makes a Strategic Investment in Reality Defender<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nAuthenticID Releases an Identity Verification Platform<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nKeeper Security Introduces Several Updates to its Browser Extension<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nOLOID Receives $6 Million in a Series AI Funding Round<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nPermiso Security Launches an Open-Source Tool for Combating Policy Obfuscation<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nQpoint Raises $4 Million in a Pre-Seed Funding Round<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nSailPoint Reveals a New Machine Identity Security Solution<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nSailPoint Announces Updated Capabilities for its Identity Security Cloud<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nSecuronix and AVANT Announce a Strategic Alliance<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nSevco Security Expands its Executive Team with Two New Appointments<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nSift Details a New Solution for Protecting Against Account Takeover Fraud\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\nSymmetry Systems Expands its Data+AI Security Capabilities<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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