1Password Acquires Apono in Reported $250M-$300M Deal
Apono specializes in just-in-time access governance technology for humans, machines, and AI agents.
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1Password Credential Broker reduces secret sprawl through identity-based credential delivery
1Password has announced 1Password Credential Broker, a new product that securely brokers credentials, tokens, and federated access from 1Password to trusted requesters. The 1Password Credential Broker is available in private beta today, with support fo…
1Password Teams With OpenAI to Stop AI Coding Agents From Leaking Credentials
1Password says AI coding agents should never hold persistent secrets, introducing a just-in-time credential model for OpenAI Codex designed to keep credentials out of prompts, code repositories, and model context.
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AI went from assistant to autonomous actor and security never caught up
Enterprise AI deployments have shifted from pilot programs to production systems handling customer data, executing business transactions, and integrating with core infrastructure. That has exposed a significant gap between what AI agents can do and wha…
Design weaknesses in major password managers enable vault attacks, researchers say
Can cloud-based password managers that claim “zero-knowledge encryption” keep users’ passwords safe even if their encrypted-vault servers are compromised? Researchers at ETH Zurich and Università della Svizzera italiana set out to answer th…
Password Managers Vulnerable to Vault Compromise Under Malicious Server
Researchers at ETH Zurich have tested the security of Bitwarden, LastPass, Dashlane, and 1Password password managers.
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1Password targets AI-driven phishing with built-in prevention
To help reduce phishing risk, 1Password added an extra layer of protection and began rolling out a phishing prevention feature designed to stop users before they share passwords with scammers. How 1Password phishing prevention works When a user clicks …
Employees keep finding new ways around company access controls
AI, SaaS, and personal devices are changing how people get work done, but the tools that protect company systems have not kept up, according to 1Password. Tools like SSO, MDM, and IAM no longer align with how employees and AI agents access data. The re…
Shadow AI: New ideas emerge to tackle an old problem in new form
Shadow AI is the second-most prevalent form of shadow IT in corporate environments, 1Password’s latest annual report has revealed. Based on a survey of over 5,000 IT/security professionals and knowledge workers in the US, UK, Europe, Canada and S…
What’s worth automating in cyber hygiene, and what’s not
Cyber hygiene sounds simple. Patch your systems, remove old accounts, update your software. But for large organizations, this gets messy fast. Systems number in the thousands. Teams are scattered. Some machines haven’t been rebooted in months. Au…