The rise of AI-powered agents—like MCP, Copilot, Cursor, Jules, and others—is transforming how businesses operate. These intelligent agents can automate tasks, access sensitive data, and even make decisions on behalf of users. As organizations integrate more agents into their workflows, they are pushing traditional identity and access management (IAM) platforms to their limits.

In today's evolving enterprise security landscape, how your organization manages access control can make or break your security posture. As companies grow, they typically progress through an Access Maturity Model – from a loose, high-trust environment to a rigorous Zero Trust framework. This journey spans four stages (Direct Access, Managed Access, Orchestrated Access, and Monitored Access), each with distinct implications for security, productivity, and scalability. Understanding these stages will help IT managers align IT security maturity with business growth, ensuring that enterprise security models keep pace with organizational needs.

Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a cybersecurity approach aimed at protecting, controlling, and monitoring privileged accounts—such as administrator or root accounts—which have elevated access and pose significant risks if compromised. Understanding PAM’s evolution helps clarify why it’s critical for organizations today.

In today's threat landscape, ensuring secure access to systems and data isn't just best practice—it's a regulatory necessity. Compliance frameworks like ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, and GDPR mandate strict access control measures to protect sensitive information. In this guide, we'll break down the access security requirements for major compliance frameworks to help you align your IT security policies with regulatory standards.

In a major leap forward for artificial intelligence, Google has unveiled the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol—an open standard designed to enable seamless interoperability between AI agents across different platforms, languages, and systems. As organizations increasingly adopt multi-agent AI ecosystems, the need for secure, structured communication becomes essential.

On May 11, 2025, Coinbase, Inc.—a leading cryptocurrency exchange and a subsidiary of Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN)—was the target of a major cybersecurity incident. The company disclosed this event in a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 14, 2025. In this post, we break down what happened, what information was compromised, Coinbase's response, and what it means for users and investors alike.

ISO 42001 is a globally recognized standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). It offers a structured approach for organizations to develop, deploy, and govern AI systems in a trustworthy, ethical, and legally compliant way

Building intelligent agents using large language models (LLMs) involves employing effective design patterns that enhance performance, scalability, and maintainability. This guide explores five critical LLM agent design patterns to boost efficiency and deliver superior results.

Learn the top security risks affecting Model Context Protocol (MCP) Stdio and SSE servers—including credential leaks and SQL-style injections—and discover actionable, least-privilege defenses such as JIT access, SSO integration, and full auditability.

Secrets and secret managers have long been a foundational component of application configuration and deployment. From API keys and database credentials to OAuth tokens and service accounts, secrets play a pivotal role in enabling applications to communicate securely. However, managing and securing these secrets presents a growing challenge — especially with the rise of Non-Human Identities (NHI)

Adaptive announced its modern new approach to data protection — a control plane that brokers access and safeguards sensitive information. By protecting data closer to its source and brokering access across all surfaces, Adaptive minimizes sensitive data exposure.

Protect your network from unauthorized intrusion and data breaches with essential tools like firewalls and VPNs. Learn to configure firewall rules on AWS, use dynamic tools like firewalld or iptables, and explore different VPN types for enhanced security.

Discover how Data Fabric centralizes data across various platforms, transforming business intelligence, cybersecurity, and multi-cloud strategies by mitigating risks, automating discovery, enforcing governance, and supporting real-time processing. Explore implementation challenges and why Adaptive's platform with features like Data Discovery, Classification, and Activity Monitoring enhances data security.

PostgreSQL (Postgres) is a powerful, open-source relational database management system widely used by Big Tech like AWS, Google, and Microsoft. This article explores Postgres' robust security features including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Transport Layer Security (TLS), and Row-Level Security (RLS). Learn how to set up user roles, enable SSL, implement RLS policies, and leverage tools like column encryption, connection limitations, and logging. Enhance data security, manage multiple databases, and discover third-party solutions like Adaptive for comprehensive data protection across your infrastructure.

Explore the critical roles of AWS IAM and PAM in enhancing cybersecurity. Learn how they operate together to improve security management, ensure compliance, and protect sensitive information in organizations.

Explore the future of cyber attacks with advancements in AI, as new study reveals language learning models can autonomously identify vulnerabilities and launch attacks on a network. Delve into the complexity of traditional network attacks and the evolution of the One Click Attack, enabled by AI, as well as what organizations can do to protect their sensitive data amid more advanced threats.

Explore the challenges and security issues surrounding the use of AI and vector databases in organizations. Learn about potential vulnerabilities like data manipulation, phishing, and data insertion attacks and discover how to maintain a strong security posture through methods like data discovery in unstructured data, privileged access management, and database activity monitoring.

An in-depth look into the critical nature of data privacy and protection in the healthcare industry. Highlights the role of HIPAA in ensuring data security, the implications of data breaches, and best practices for complying with regulations. The role of technology in managing and protecting patients' health information is also discussed.

Delve into the emerging field of AI and upcoming regulations set to ensure its ethical development. The article details the concerns surrounding AI, data privacy, and the importance of transparency and compliance for all companies involved in AI R&D, services, and integration. Lastly, discover why regular audits and continuous monitoring of data security are vital for organizations in the evolving technological landscape.

Explore the challenges of database activity monitoring in cloud systems and remote workforces, and learn about four effective techniques to overcome these issues. Understand how each method from agentless replication logs to network-based agents, and database triggers to general logs, are useful in different scenarios. Finally, discover how Adaptive offers a comprehensive solution with sensitive data classification, policy formulation, and privileged access management to ensure a robust security posture for your organization.

An exploration into how the traditional model of Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) has evolved into a more comprehensive and versatile model, Data Detection and Response (DDR), due to the increasing complexity of data security across multi-cloud environments.

In 2023, organizations globally are expected to generate over 73,000 exabytes of unstructured data - data that is not explicitly structured. ML and AI models can efficiently go through large amounts of information and identify underlying patterns in the unstructured data as well to deliver greater business value.

Zero Trust treats external and internal users as potential malicious actors, requiring authentication at each step, and limits lateral movement in the network.

DSPM focuses on securing sensitive data stored in the cloud, whereas DAM safeguards all types of data within an organization, not just data stored in cloud.

Network Access Control is an approach used to manage and regulate access to network infrastructure to ensure that only authorized users access the network.

Sensitive Data is any information that must be protected from unauthorized access to safeguard an individual or an organization.

SSH logs help find out who is trying to access your Linux SSH servers and this article explains how you can view the SSH logs.

Understanding the tailwinds of what makes modern day infrastructure access complex and how we need to rethink the infra access strategies to manage it.

Adaptive is excited to announce that we've completed our System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II Audit.

Breaking down the infamous Sony Pictures breach from 2014 - how a red skull took down the complete Sony Pictures infrastructure.

Dissecting the famous Target 2013 breach - how a refrigeration and HVAC vendor cost the retail giant over $200 illion.

Understand the evolution of Networking and Access within organizations and adoption of advanced networking solutions for remote work.

SOX is a compliance standard introduced with the aim of protecting common investors from any malicious practices by publicly-listed corporations.

Kind or Kubernetes inside Docker is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using lightweight Docker container “nodes” used for local development, testing, and prototyping.

The blog explains 3 ways to SSH into Docker containers - using the Docker exec, via SSH, and via another Docker container.

At Adaptive Automation Technologies, we are proud to announce that we have achieved SOC 2 Type I compliance in accordance with AICPA standards for SOC.

Privileged Identity Management enables organizations to manage who can access what resources within an organization such as DBs, servers, and SSH keys.

Principle of Least Privilege is a concept based on limiting a user's access only to minimum resources required for a task to eliminate unauthorized access.

The HIPAA Compliance Checklist 2023 is an 8-step easy guide to help organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and safeguard the privacy and security of PHI.

Alternate Use cases for a Bastion Host are VPN alternative, authentication gateway, file transfers, share credentials, intrusion detection, software, etc

Identity & Access Management is a framework ensuring only authorized individuals in an org have access to resources needed to carry out their responsibilities.

SOC 2 compliance is important to all businesses for data privacy, security and also assuring their customers about safeguarding their confidential information.

Credential management is a process of creating, storing, and using digital credentials and certificates, to authenticate and authorize users or devices.

Authentication protocols define contents of the authentication data, its mode of transfer, and the communication between a server and a client in the network.

A Bastion Host is a dedicated computer used to access an infrastructure resource and helps compartmentalize the downstream resources.