Trust Is Won at the Point of Access, and Built or Broken in Every Digital Interaction
Access is the tip of the spear for trust. When users log in, they shouldn’t be met with barriers that feel like complicated systems or...
Category : Industry Perspectives
Why Non-Human Identities are Security’s Biggest Blind Spot
For years, CIOs and CISOs have hardened defenses around the human user. Multi-factor authentication, phishing-resistant credentials, and identity-aware access controls have meaningfully raised the cost...
Why Hidden Friction Is Holding Back AI in the Enterprise and How CIOs Can Fix It
In most large enterprises, employees are constantly navigating stalled systems, broken workflows, and hidden inefficiencies. Atera’s recent research shows 88% of employees lose time every...
Humans are the New Firewall
Cybersecurity teams spend most of their time defending against malware, software vulnerabilities and unpatched systems, but the most dangerous cybersecurity vulnerability in 2026 is the...
AI Risk and Readiness, a Reality Check
For most organizations, this will be the year that AI fully transitions from a workplace novelty into core, indispensable infrastructure. We have entered an era...
GenAI Governance Is the New GDPR, and Most CISOs Are Already Behind
Despite advanced warning, GDPR still caught many businesses off guard. Once in place, organizations hurried to update privacy policies, train employees, and respond to auditors with one...
Goals Are Not Strategy and IT Is Paying the Price
Many organizations entered 2026 with clear goals. Move workloads to the cloud. Modernize endpoints. Adopt AI. Reduce operational cost. What is often missing is something...
You Can’t AI Away Your Problems, No Matter How Hard You Try
AI has made its way into seemingly every vendor pitch, every conference keynote, every board deck and every product roadmap. The enthusiasm makes sense on...
APIs Are Now the Front Line of Cyber Risk, and AI Is Expanding the Attack Surface
Security leaders have long prioritized endpoints, networks, and identities. That focus remains necessary, but it is no longer sufficient. Recent data points to a concrete...
AI Adoption Is Outpacing Identity Governance
Most organizations are already using AI, and many are moving it into production environments. The challenge isn’t adoption, it’s what comes after. The gap between...