CyberWire Daily

Weak passwords meet strong motives

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Dec 11, 2025
Kavitha Mariappan, Chief Transformation Officer at Rubrik and expert in data security, delves into the rising challenges of identity-driven threats. She emphasizes the urgency of bolstering identity resilience in response to increasing attacks. Kavitha also discusses the importance of managing non-human identities, advocating for human oversight in AI systems, and implementing zero-trust controls. Listeners gain insights into crafting effective identity recovery plans and the critical need for observability in today's digital landscape.
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INSIGHT

Identity Is The New Frontline Risk

  • Identity-driven attacks are now a top organizational risk and perceptions rose in six months.
  • Compromised identities break login and recovery, elevating identity to the security frontier.
ADVICE

Monitor And Rewind Non‑Human Agents

  • Gain visibility into non-human agents and their interactions with data and applications.
  • Build observability and the ability to remediate or rewind agent actions to a known clean state.
ADVICE

Design Human Oversight For Agent Scale

  • Keep humans in the loop for assistive AI and design new oversight models for authoritative AI.
  • Ensure humans can create guardrails and reverse agent actions across distributed processes.
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