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Salt Security and KushoAI release dueling reports on the same day showing API security has become the critical blind spot of the agentic AI era, with nearly all attacks now originating from authenticated sources.

India's Reserve Bank enforces mandatory two-factor authentication for all digital payments from April 1, while NIST's updated identity guidelines and Microsoft's passwordless-by-default accounts mark a coordinated global shift toward phishing-resistant authentication.

The UAE mandates all banks abandon SMS OTP by March 31 while Microsoft auto-enables passkey profiles across Entra ID, as FIDO Alliance data shows 87 percent of enterprises now deploying passkeys.