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Explore how today’s security leaders are navigating rising identity threats, intense pressure, and limited resources—with resilience, urgency, and a mission-first mindset.

Most companies treat user access reviews (UARs) as a compliance checkbox, but that’s a missed opportunity. This blog explores how leading security teams use UARs to reduce risk, eliminate unused access, and enforce policies more effectively, with real-world examples you can implement today.

Many teams confuse SaaS management tools with identity governance platforms, but they solve entirely different problems. Learn why SMPs can’t secure your business and what it really takes to manage access risk.

Discover how Baton-SQL helps organizations integrate legacy and homegrown applications into their identity governance programs, no APIs or custom code required. Learn how our open-source connector enables fast, scalable access to identity and access data directly from any SQL database.

In 2025, non-human identities from service accounts to AI agents have become the fastest-growing and most urgent identity risk, forcing security teams to rethink access governance at scale. Learn more from our 2025 FIS report.

How ConductorOne built a secure, extensible multi-agent system for identity governance — including the trust models, sandboxing, and audit guardrails that let AI agents take real action without compromising security or control.

At C1, we talk to security and IT teams every day. And we’ve noticed a troubling trend. We’re not doctors, but the symptoms are hard to ignore. After years of watching identity pros suffer in silence, we’re finally giving the condition a name: Identity Governance Anxiety Disorder.

The 2025 Future of Identity Security Report reveals how security leaders are accelerating into an AI-driven era: embracing risk, scaling up identity budgets, and rethinking access for both humans and machines. Read on for key trends shaping the next wave of identity security.

Security leaders aren’t just experimenting with AI—they’re rapidly integrating agentic AI into high-stakes workflows like identity provisioning and network defense. C1’s 2025 Identity Security Outlook Report reveals that urgency is driving adoption, but with thoughtful strategies and real concern for risk.