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A curated collection of current identity-security reporting, research, and guidance addressing challenges organizations face in the real world.

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RoyalT reviews authoritative industry sources and highlights useful material on identity attacks, cloud access, privileged accounts, MFA, OAuth, AI identities, and governance. Every article opens on the original publisher’s website.

Identity attacks

Identity security is the new pressure point for modern cyberattacks

Explains how fragmented directories, access policies, and security signals create blind spots as human, non-human, and AI identities multiply.

Microsoft Security · March 25, 2026

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Cloud breach

How Storm-2949 turned a compromised identity into a cloud-wide breach

A real-world account of social engineering, stolen Microsoft Entra credentials, and data exfiltration from Microsoft 365 applications.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence · May 18, 2026

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Phishing-resistant MFA

Require Multifactor Authentication

Practical federal guidance for protecting business accounts, prioritizing administrators and sensitive access, and moving toward phishing-resistant authentication.

CISA · Current guidance

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OAuth security

OAuth redirection abuse enables phishing and malware delivery

Research showing how attackers abuse legitimate OAuth redirection behavior and trusted sign-in flows to deliver phishing and malware.

Microsoft Defender Research · March 2, 2026

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Cloud identity sprawl

Measure and manage cloud identity risk

Addresses a common enterprise problem: security teams cannot confidently identify who has access to which cloud resources or where standing privilege is accumulating.

CyberArk · March 10, 2026

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AI and identity

Businesses at Work 2026

Research on AI-agent adoption, identity readiness, application trends, and the governance and access risks influencing enterprise adoption.

Okta · 2026 report

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