Workforce users, service accounts, non-human identities, and now AI agents — across Active Directory, cloud, OT, and legacy systems that couldn't be protected before. Acta Beacon helps Australian organisations see, secure, and validate every authentication so AI adoption moves at the speed of the business, not the speed of risk.
The perimeter you defended in 2018 is gone. What replaced it is plural, autonomous, and moving at runtime — and most security stacks were never built to see it.
Workforce, third-party, privileged, service accounts and non-human identities now share the access plane — and outnumber humans by orders of magnitude. IAM, PAM and IGA each operate in silos. Attackers slip between them.
Static posture is no longer enough. Decisions about who or what can access a system must be made at runtime — in the authentication flow itself — with full context and risk analysis, before access is granted.
Autonomous agents authenticate, call APIs, and access data — at machine speed, in parallel, often outside IAM's line of sight. Without runtime identity security, “safe AI adoption” is an article of faith.
Runtime identity security is now the foundation. Visibility everywhere is the starting point.
Five blind spots show up in nearly every incident response we read. They are the reason credential-based attacks remain the dominant breach vector — and the reason most identity programs feel one step behind.
Identity is no longer a hygiene problem. It is the attack surface.
AI adoption is happening with or without the security team. Shadow AI agents, autonomous agent-to-agent workflows, and rogue or impersonated agents authenticate using the same identity fabric as your humans — but at machine speed and machine scale. The way you enable AI safely is the same way you enable everything else: make every identity visible, and validate every authentication.
Find every AI agent already operating in your environment — sanctioned, shadow, and unknown — and the identities they authenticate as.
Apply real-time access controls in the authentication flow itself — for human, machine, and AI identities alike. No app changes. No proxies. No friction.
Prove AI agents are doing only what they're supposed to do, only where they're supposed to do it — with auditable evidence boards and regulators can read.
Eight capabilities, one identity security fabric. Discover what others miss. Control what others can't. Secure every identity, in real time, from a single platform.
Discover every identity and access relationship across on-prem, cloud, OT and legacy — in one inventory.
Agentless MFA on systems that were never meant to support it — without rebuilding, refactoring, or replacing.
Stop credential-based attacks in real time at the authentication layer — before they spread.
Discover, monitor and protect every non-human identity — the over-permissioned accounts attackers love most.
Go beyond vault-based PAM. Continuous discovery and enforcement for every privileged identity, everywhere.
Identity-first incident response. Cut off attacker re-entry without taking down the business.
See, know and secure every user access into AD — the system attackers reach for first, and lean on the longest.
Discover, monitor and protect AI agents using the same runtime controls — so AI adoption stays a business move, not a risk one.
Australian regulators are no longer asking whether you have MFA — they are asking where it doesn't reach, and why. The latest ASD Essential Eight update made it explicit: phishing-resistant MFA, on every account, on every web portal handling sensitive data.
Phishing-resistant MFA is now at the forefront of the Essential Eight — every account, every web portal, every system handling sensitive data.
Paraphrased. Australian Signals Directorate — Essential Eight Maturity Model update, Nov 2023. Reinforced in the 2023–2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy.
Command-line tools, file shares, on-prem apps, scripts, jump hosts. Agentless MFA enforced inline in the authentication flow — no rebuild required.
Operator workstations, engineering stations and OT jump paths now sit inside the MFA perimeter — without disrupting the plant floor.
Step-up controls on non-human and AI identities the moment their behaviour drifts from baseline. The same control layer. Every identity type.
Point fixes leave the gaps. The model that works runs the full loop — discover, analyse, enforce — across every identity type, every environment, and every resource. Without disrupting the business already running on top of it.
Workforce, privileged, third-party, service, non-human, AI agent. On-prem, cloud, hybrid, OT, legacy. Mapped to the resources they touch and the relationships between them.
Continuous analysis of every authentication attempt — risk context, behavioural drift, attack-path exposure, posture weaknesses — surfaced in real time, not in a quarterly review.
Inline controls at the authentication layer. MFA, deny, step-up or allow — applied uniformly across legacy, cloud and AI. No proxies. No app changes. No user friction.
// One platform. Every identity. Every environment. That is what end-to-end actually means.
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