In 2021, more firms will employ AI to battle cyberattacks, trying to gain an edge in a game of one-upmanship with hackers and attackers. A survey of 20 cybersecurity experts recently surveyed by Forbes showed some patterns. For example, open source software can be an easy way into organizations. Gaining more visibility into open source contributions is possible with the use of AI and machine learning, according to Maty Siman, CTO of Checkmarx, a software security company based in Ramat Gan, Israel. "Rarely does a week go by without the discovery of malicious open source packages," Siman stated.

Looking to extend its industry leading security capabilities, Blue Prism announced a partnership with SailPoint, a market leader in enterprise identity management. This partnership gives enterprises added visibility and transparency into governing digital workers, resulting in improved compliance reporting, full automation lifecycle management and better security. The integration of Blue Prism's connected-RPA platform with SailPoint helps organizations maintain and control credentials of digital workers, including those that meet defined Separation of Duties (SoD) policies. By maintaining these credentials and granting access through SailPoint, digital workers can execute systems-based tasks, just as their human counterparts do, securely and at scale. This ability to disable or delete credentials quickly and accurately, while monitoring and auditing access, gives enterprises improved compliance reporting and full lifecycle management and security.

The exciting buzz of "artificial intelligence" has almost every industry clamoring to take advantage of its ability to crunch data and accelerate business productivity in many creative ways. The field of enterprise identity governance is now the next in line to experience enlightening advances utilizing this technology as SailPoint releases IdentityAI. IdentityAI extends SailPoint's open identity platform by bringing data analysis and machine learning to identity governance programs. Learning from both data and human interactions, IdentityAI solves some of the most common challenges that identity programs face when it comes to effective and efficient governance. IdentityAI can focus a reviewer's time by surfacing users who have had significant or risky changes to their access since the last review.