JR Weekly Cyber Watch: AI Risk Reshapes Cyber Priorities

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JR Weekly Cyber Watch: AI Risk Reshapes Cyber Priorities

May 17, 2026

Notable Product Announcements:

SailPoint Agentic Fabric. This week, SailPoint (SAIL, OW) announced

Agentic Fabric, a platform for discovering, governing, and protecting AI

agents and non-human identities at scale. The solution maps every AI

agent to human ownership, enforces least-privilege access in real time,

and integrates with SailPoint's existing Identity Security Cloud to provide

unified governance across all identity types. Two new packaging tiers

(Agentic Business and Agentic Business Plus) introduce zero-standing

privilege and just-in-time access controls, while a free Discovery Tool offers

immediate visibility into shadow AI across customer environments. Agentic

Fabric and agentic packages will be available this summer. We highlight

that SailPoint agentic offerings are gaining momentum, with non-human

identities accounting for ~25% of SaaS identity growth in F4Q.

Palo Alto Idira. This week, Palo Alto unveiled Idira, a next-generation

identity security platform built on its CyberArk acquisition that extends

privileged access management to human, machine, and agentic identities.

The platform includes zero-standing-privilege and just-in-time enforcement

and addresses the 109:1 ratio of machine-to-human identities. Existing

CyberArk SaaS customers can upgrade to Idira capabilities with additional

licensing for agentic and machine identity protections. The launch lands

within a few weeks of Cisco's ~$400M Astrix acquisition and SailPoint's

Agentic Fabric announcement, confirming NHI and agentic identity security

as a hotly contested category in cybersecurity.

Earnings Announcements:

Allot 1Q26 Strong SECaaS Momentum Combined with Product Upside

Drives a Healthy Beat.