Identity and data security themes at Black Hat 2025

<p>If you were one of the 20,000 attendees at <a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/conference/Guide-to-the-latest-Black-Hat-Conference-news”>Black Hat 2025</a> in the 103-degree heat of Las Vegas, I hope you’ve recovered. For those of you who could not attend or want to get a perspective on the identity security and data security aspects of Black Hat, let’s dive in.</p>
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<h2 class=”section-title”><i class=”icon” data-icon=”1″></i>Security for agentic AI</h2>
<p>The unquestionable winner of the Black Hat 2025 buzzword bingo is [drumroll please]: <a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/definition/agentic-AI”>agentic AI</a>.</p>
<p>While nearly every vendor used AI to improve existing security tooling and operations, many vendors also placed an emphasis on security for AI.</p>
<p>Enterprises are currently embracing agentic AI, but much of the activity is within a vendor walled garden. Enterprises are adopting Salesforce Agentforce agents or Microsoft Security Copilot agents to streamline their work within these platforms. That’s a great first step down the agentic AI path that can provide an immediate impact.</p>
<p>A bigger <a href=”https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/feature/Real-world-agentic-AI-examples-and-use-cases”>opportunity for agentic AI</a> will come in using AI agents with core enterprise systems and data stores to streamline operations, i.e., reduce costs, or create new revenue streams, i.e., increase revenue. It’s still early days as enterprises work with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Google’s Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol and wrestle with security challenges such as fine-grained authorization, customer data privacy and data loss prevention. Okta has made some big strides in identity standards for agentic AI with its <a target=”_blank” href=”https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/23/okta-debuts-cross-app-access-secure-ai-agent-interactions/” rel=”noopener”>Cross App Access</a> extension for OAuth that helps manag

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