Two authentication announcements coming out of the recent RSA Conference both point in the same direction: Organizations need a more flexible, unified approach to identity security, especially as AI agents start acting alongside human workers.
Microsoft recently uncovered a large-scale, sophisticated AI-driven phishing campaign that uses automation and legitimate authentication processes to compromise accounts more effectively than traditional phishing attacks.
At its recent I/O developer conference, Google positioned artificial intelligence agents not as a distant research project, but as a product strategy spanning Search, personal assistants, productivity software, developer tools, and smart glasses.
Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.7, an updated large language model that it says outperforms its predecessor on software engineering tasks, image analysis, and multi-step autonomous work.