“For most of the last two decades, identity security was built on a comfortable assumption: One can maintain a firm divide between a small number of powerful administrators and a much larger number of ordinary users; that is enough to secure the organization. That assumption no longer holds,” Peretz Regev, chief product & technology officer at Palo Alto, said in a blog post.
The launch follows Palo Alto’s acquisition and integration of CyberArk, which forms a key foundation of the platform.
Palo Alto’s bet on AI-era identity security
“The fundamental problem today is scale,” said Rohan Vaidya, AVP Sales India and SAARC. “Most organisations are already running AI agents — and those agents authenticate, call APIs, access sensitive data, and can escalate their own privileges to complete a task. No legacy IAM or PAM platform was designed to see any of that, let alone control it.”
With Idira, Palo Alto attempts to address these risks by treating every identity in the organization as privileged.
