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Issue 001May 13, 2026

Issue 001 — State of IAM Q2 2026.

The five identity stories that defined Q2: Auth0/Okta CIC consolidation, the EU DORA enforcement window, NYDFS Part 500 amendments, and two breach autopsies you should read.

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In this issue

  1. 01. Story of the week
  2. 02. Standards roadmap
  3. 03. Incident analyzed
  4. 04. Vendor moves
  5. 05. From the practice

Section 01

Story of the week

Auth0 customers below the enterprise tier are seeing 28-40% price hikes as the Okta CIC consolidation finalizes. We covered the migration patterns that work in 2026.

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Section 02

Standards roadmap

OAuth 2.1 is now the de-facto baseline; FAPI 2.0 enters mandatory window for UK Open Banking; SCIM 2.1 ships breaking changes.

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Section 03

Incident analyzed

The Change Healthcare incident continues to drive policy — no-MFA Citrix portal, ~$2B remediation, FY26 healthcare CISO budgets reflect it.

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Section 04

Vendor moves

Saviynt Series F closed; CyberArk announced ITDR module; Microsoft brought External ID out of preview; Snowflake rolled out MFA-by-default for new tenants.

Section 05

From the practice

What goes wrong in the second year of an IAM program — the field report from 184 deployments.

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