non-human identity

Agent Identity Becomes an Underwriting Question: Can You Account for Your AI Agents?

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A new launch puts agent identity at the center of a simple underwriting premise. Carriers cannot insure what they cannot measure. Ceros launched today as what its maker calls the first trust layer purpose-built for autonomous AI agents. Beyond Identity, the company behind it, pitches Ceros as a single layer for agent identity, observability, and … Read more

Developer Laptops Are Now Credential Stores – Underwriters Should Treat Them That Way

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For a decade, the secret-sprawl problem lived in source code. The supply-chain campaigns of the past year moved it onto the laptop. That shift should reach the underwriting questionnaire. A run of incidents over the past twelve months has followed one pattern. Attackers land on a developer or build-server endpoint, harvest valid credentials sitting in … Read more

Your Password Is Now The Perimeter – Sophos Finds 71% Of Firms Hit By Identity Attacks

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The Breach Nobody Saw Coming Imagine it’s Tuesday morning. The CFO gets a call: systems are locked, and a ransom note appears on the screen. The attacker didn’t break in physically; they used a stolen password. This happened to seven out of ten organizations Sophos surveyed last year. The State of Identity Security 2026 report, … Read more

Non-Human Identity Sprawl Is a Cyber Liability Insurance Problem Now

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People often talk about human mistakes causing data breaches and cyber insurance claims. But there’s another problem: non-human identities. These include bots, service accounts, apps, automations, and AI agents that act on our behalf. We give them access easily and then forget about them. Some reports say there are now up to 45 non-human identities … Read more