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Ory Update — August 2026
Welcome to the August update. We have multiple items to share with you. Have an idea for next month? Email damon.tepe@ory.com.
Device Binding Now Available!
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Device Binding also known as Device Authentication is now available!
Tie user accounts to a private key held in the device's own hardware, attested by Apple or Google. Unlike a password of SMS code, it can't be phished, copied, or used from anywhere else. Available now on Ory Network Enterprise and Kratos OEL. Read the blog.
As always, for a full list of our recent releases, check out the Ory Changelog
The Hugging Face Breach Proved Legacy IAM Can't Handle AI
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The recent compromise at Hugging Face, driven entirely by an autonomous AI agent, highlighted a critical flaw in modern tech stacks: legacy IAM models were designed strictly for human users. The moment an AI agent goes off-script or suffers an exploit, standard authorization tools fail to distinguish between normal machine workflows and an active breach.
Read how Ory could have prevented this breach and how its modern approach can help you get AI agents under control
Customer Spotlight: RetailMeNot
Customer Case Study: RetailMeNot Hero
Learn how RetailMeNot (a Ziff Davis company) modernized their CIAM infrastructure with Ory, boosting mobile app registrations by 20% and saving $200k in the first year alone.
Read the Case Study
Watch the Case Study
Customer Spotlight: Deriv
Customer Case Study: Deriv Hero
Learn how global broker, Deriv, migrated 3 million users to Ory, cutting engineering overhead by 80% and increasing visitor-to-signup conversions up to 10%.
Read the Case Study
Watch the Case Study
Learn More with Solution Briefs
Ory Agent Security - Authentication, authorization, and audit for agents everywhere
Ory for Financial Services - Modular identity infrastructure built for open banking compliance, zero trust security, and advanced fraud mitigation in an agentic era.
ICYMI - In Case You Missed It
Ory In the News
Ory Names Rob Murray Chief Revenue Officer aand Colleen Shannon Chief Financial Officer to Fuel Its Next Wave of Growth
Why AI Agents Need Idenitity, Not Just Guardrails
Webinars
Locking Down tthe Machine: Securing and Accelerating Enterprise AI Agents with Ory (on-demand)
Zero Trust for a World of Machines: APIs, AI Agents, and Autonomouse Action (on-demand)
Blogs
Ory Agent Security Is Expanding to 11 Harnesses and 13 Agent SDKs
Why Most CIAM and B2B Platforms Fail At Data Residency, and What Ory Does Differently
Ory on Kubernetes: Enterprise Helm Charts Built For Performance, Security, and Observability
From Static Skill Scans to Runtime Agent Control: How Ory Agent Security Addresses the 'Story of Skills' Threat
Ory Hydra Powers OAuth at Cloudflare Scale: and It's Just Getting Started
Changelog Roundup
This update also marks the release of exciting new features, more quality of life improvements and bug fixes:
Ory Network, Ory Hydra, Ory Kratos, Ory Keto, Ory Oathkeeper, Ory Elements v26.3.4: Identity schema deduplication, zero-downtime OAuth2 client secret rotation, partial configuration updates in Hydra, and YugabyteDB support for Enterprise deployments.[changelog]
Ory Netowrk, Ory Hydra, Ory Kratos v26.3.3: Per-project configuration for OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant, customizable legal footer links in Account Experience, and a dedicated FIPS 140-3 build for Kratos. [changelog]
Ory Network, Ory Hydra, Ory Kratos, Ory Keto, Ory Oathkeeper v26.3.2 released: Strengthens security across the network by enforcing strict DNS-label boundaries on wildcard return URLs and CORS origins to prevent matching attacker-registrable hosts. [changelog]
Ory Network, Ory Hydra, Ory Kratos, Ory Polis v26.2.22 released: More reliable and lower-memory identity search, significantly faster database-free OAuth2 logouts, and improved cross-tenant security for Polis identity provider selection. [changelog]
As always you can find the full list of changes over on our changelog.
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