News for today:
- AppOmni adds AI security capabilities. AppOmni released new AI-powered security capabilities for SaaS and AI applications. Capabilities: understand risk exposure, discovery of sanctioned and unsanctioned (shadow) AI applications, threat detection, and more. Customers using AppOmni can set policy controls for securing SaaS and AI applications. Available immediately, with a 90-day free trial for AppOmni Foundations (the starter package). AppOmni
- Counteracting North Korea’s fake IT worker program. The US, Japan, and South Korea are taking additional steps to counteract North Korea’s efforts to infiltrate global organizations with North Korean IT operatives. Under the program, North Korean programmers pose as freelancers using fake identities and locations, in order to gain cash for the North Korean government’s weapons program. By earning high level IT jobs, organisational data and infrastructure are also at high risk. Bloomberg
- Token Security and Descope – plus others – security guide for Agentic AI adoption. Token Security and Descope released a security guide for Agentic AI adoption, offering a four-phase maturity model for addressing AI autonomy risks. It emphasizes identity and access management (IAM) for Non-Human Identities (NHIs), policy-based controls, and continuous governance for both internal and third-party AI tools. Available immediately. Descope