The CyberArk Blog

One unmanaged machine identity—whether a TLS certificate, SSH key, code signing certificate, or API secret—that’s all it takes to crash your website, halt transactions, and leave customers...

Do you know why Shai-Hulud should raise your hackles? Unless you’ve spent time on Arrakis in Frank Herbert’s Dune or the npm ecosystem this month, the name Shai-Hulud might not ring a bell. In...

We’ve spent decades treating persuasion like an art—something you could master if you had charisma, practice, or luck. Lawyers use it to hone arguments. Marketers use it to craft taglines. On the...

Across financial services operations, machine identities play critical roles, but in many organizations, these cryptographic keys, API tokens, certificates, and service accounts remain chronically...

Financial cybersecurity has never been a static discipline. Over two decades in this industry, I’ve seen it transform from a compliance checkbox to a cornerstone of business resilience—usually...

When new security research hits the headlines, it often sparks a predictable wave of worry: should we turn off features we rely on? Should we rethink basic workflows? That’s exactly the case with...

This blog was originally published by Zilla Security, now a CyberArk Company and may reference legacy product names that are now part of the CyberArk IGA portfolio. Protecting company assets and...

Picture this: You’re having your morning coffee when your phone buzzes with the kind of alert that makes security professionals break into a cold sweat. A single API key, leaked on GitHub months...

It was recently reported that Salesloft’s Drift application was breached, allowing unauthorized access to its customers’ Salesforce data and affecting hundreds of organizations, including...

Fast-moving cloud environments demand speed, but without the right access controls they invite risk. Resources such as virtual machines, containers, and services are created, modified, and...

As the world’s top organizations prepare for the future, you can bet that certificate lifespans will continue to shorten. Factors such as the pace of continuous development and rapidly evolving...

In a bad dream, you open the closet. You think you know exactly what’s in there: a few SSH keys, a bunch of TLS certificates, and some secrets like API keys locked in what you...

The quantum threat isn’t theoretical—it’s operational. Quantum computing is rapidly shifting from research to reality, forcing chief information security officers (CISOs) to rethink cryptography,...

For many of us, the term “cloud security breach” conjures meticulous attack plans executed by sophisticated criminal syndicates. But in reality, “attacks” can be far more mundane: maybe some...

For years, separating day-to-day user activity from administrative tasks through secondary accounts was considered a security best practice. But as identity threats grow more sophisticated and...

For every enterprise CISO in the world right now, the burning question isn’t about cloud, TPRM, or internal threats. It’s about how to securely and responsibly adopt AI—specifically, agentic AI,...

Understanding the ‘Plague’ Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM*) backdoor in Linux systems ‘Plague’ represents a newly identified Linux backdoor that has quietly evaded detection by traditional...

AI agents are on the rise. They can spin up, act independently, use tools, and make decisions—often without real-time human oversight. They promise incredible productivity but also introduce new...