NewCore Named Visionary in Identity Management for AI Agents & Identity & Access Management in Cyber Defense Magazine's 2026 Top InfoSec Innovator Awards

14^th Annual InfoSec Awards held during Cyber Defense Magazine's CyberDefenseCon 2026

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- NewCore, the next-gen IdP for humans and agents, today announced it has been named a winner for the following award categories from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry's leading electronic information security magazine: Visionary in Identity Management for AI Agents and Visionary in Identity & Access Management.

NewCore secures and governs the modern workforce of humans and AI agents. It discovers every identity across systems and directories, surfaces orphaned, dormant, and over-privileged accounts, and brings authentication, access, security, and governance into a single identity core.

For AI agents, NewCore Agent Guardian delivers the governance and accountability enterprises need to deploy them with confidence. It continuously discovers every agent, including shadow agents no one registered. Agents receive just-in-time, task-scoped credentials and never hold standing secrets, and each agent has a named, accountable owner. Every call is evaluated by policy, high-risk actions pause for human approval, and every action leaves a verifiable record, with access revocable instantly.

NewCore's architecture is also designed to eliminate entire classes of identity attacks. Its patent-pending Secure Split Key (SSK) cryptographically splits token-signing authority between NewCore and the customer, so neither side can sign alone. That removes the single signing key that Golden SAML and token-theft attacks depend on. Together, these capabilities give organizations defense-grade security and unified governance across human and agentic identities.

"AI agents are fundamentally changing the identity security landscape. They draft contracts, close tickets, reconcile accounts, write and deploy code, and run workflows across enterprise SaaS, code bases, and production systems. They have permissions and access, but no governance or accountability," said NewCore co-founder and CEO Zohar Alon. "At NewCore, we ensure every agent has a verified identity, a clear owner, defined permissions, and accountability for its actions. We've rebuilt identity from the ground up to secure humans and AI agents as first-class identities through a single, unified architecture. This recognition validates our vision for where identity security must go next."

"NewCore embodies three major features we judges look for with the potential to become winners: understanding tomorrow's threats today, providing a cost-effective solution, and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach," said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.

The full list of the Top InfoSec Innovators for 2026 is found here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2026/

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About NewCore

NewCore is the next-gen IdP for humans and agents. Rebuilt from the ground up, it secures, enables, and governs every human and agentic identity under a single, scalable architecture. Founded by cybersecurity veterans and Unit 8200 alumni. Backed by Cyberstarts, Index Ventures, and Evolution Equity Partners. Identity Secured.™

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