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Forrester and KuppingerCole research shows 2026 IAM spending moving from SSO refresh to identity fabric, ITDR, and non-human identity governance as AI agents and machine credentials create new attack surfaces.
Microsoft and Frost & Sullivan put CSPM market at $2.82B in 2025, growing to $6.96B by 2030. The shift: posture tools must now feed identity, workload, and SOC workflows inside CNAPP platforms.
CISA added four actively exploited flaws affecting Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, and PTC to its KEV catalog. Oracle E-Business Suite payments and Cisco UC platforms face pre-auth compromise.
Sysdig identified the first ransomware operation run end-to-end by an AI agent with no human intervention. Enterprise buyers must now budget for identity-centric controls and behavior-based detection that can operate at machine speed.
Delinea Secret Server gained FedRAMP High ATO on July 8, creating the first credentialed alternative to CyberArk for high-impact federal systems. AI agent governance is now a mandatory PAM feature.
Microsoft now gates attack-path analysis and DevOps integration behind a paid Defender CSPM plan, while basic posture checks remain free. Enterprise buyers face a new consolidation calculus.
Anthropic's zero trust framing for AI agents shifts access controls from identity verification to behavior monitoring, expanding the attack surface to autonomous actors inside trusted workflows.
A critical unauthenticated RCE in Oracle PeopleSoft was exploited in the wild before emergency patching. Meanwhile, CISA added actively exploited flaws in Langflow AI apps and Joomla extensions to the KEV catalog.
Q1 2026 attack volumes held steady at elevated levels, confirming ransomware is now a sustained operating expense rather than a spike. Expect multi-year EDR, backup, and incident response line items.
Machine identities now outnumber humans 144-to-1 in enterprise environments, growing 44% year-over-year. Traditional IAM pricing and architecture models break under the load.
Microsoft's July 2026 Secure Future Initiative report adds 100+ new posture detections and secure-by-default baseline configurations to Microsoft 365 and Azure tenants at no additional license charge.
New market data shows zero trust architecture spend at $17.6 billion in 2026, with 39% concentrated in identity and authentication. EU's NIS2 Directive now exposes 160,000 organizations to penalties up to €10 million for inadequate access controls.