FusionAIrre, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based company specializing in agentic AI solutions for External-Party Assurance, has announced a strategic partnership with Delta Dental of New Jersey and Connecticut, Inc. (DDNJ). As both a key customer and collaborative partner, DDNJ will play an important role in helping shape the next generation of assurance management.

Organizations today face mounting expectations to demonstrate trust, transparency, and compliance while responding to an ever-growing volume of assurance-related inquiries. Customer assessments, regulatory reviews, compliance audits, due diligence requests, and third-party evaluations are becoming increasingly frequent and complex. These demands place significant pressure on teams across information security, compliance, legal, privacy, procurement, and customer-facing functions. At the same time, organizations must balance operational efficiency, revenue protection, and business growth while meeting these obligations with speed and accuracy.

Through their collaboration, FusionAIrre and DDNJ are showcasing a modern approach to External-Party Assurance—one that transforms assurance activities from a reactive administrative task into a structured, measurable, scalable, and strategically managed business function.

“FusionAIrre’s proprietary agentic AI enables us to maintain complete control of our data while expanding our assurance capabilities without increasing operational burden. That represents a significant advancement for our organization,” said Doug White, Manager of Information Security at Delta Dental of New Jersey and Connecticut, Inc.

DDNJ selected FusionAIrre’s Ape-X Assurance platform to enhance how assurance activities are managed across the enterprise and to establish a more scalable framework for handling increasing assurance requirements. The platform combines proprietary agentic AI technology, centralized knowledge management, human oversight, audit-ready processes, and real-time visibility to help organizations reduce response times from weeks to hours while improving consistency, governance, and accountability.

As assurance-related requests continue to increase across customer, regulatory, compliance, due diligence, and procurement functions, organizations are seeking more efficient ways to coordinate subject matter experts, maintain trusted information sources, and respond effectively without compromising oversight or control.

Ape-X Assurance addresses these challenges through AI-driven workflows, centralized enterprise knowledge, multilingual collaboration capabilities, and automated response generation with full auditability. The platform supports responses to customer inquiries, regulatory requests, compliance assessments, due diligence questionnaires, and RFPs while maintaining traceability, governance, and expert review.

The solution also serves as a centralized repository for assurance-related information, enabling teams to quickly access policies, certifications, approved responses, contracts, and supporting documentation through natural-language search regardless of source format or location.

In addition to automating responses, Ape-X Assurance provides organizations with comprehensive visibility into assurance operations. Real-time dashboards, workload monitoring, response tracking, departmental reporting, and analytics help leaders understand what requests are active, where bottlenecks exist, who is responsible for tasks, and how work is distributed across teams. This level of visibility enables organizations to actively govern and optimize assurance processes at scale. Available as both a SaaS and on-premises solution, the platform offers deployment flexibility for enterprise and highly regulated environments.

“As assurance requirements continue to expand, we see a significant opportunity to centralize and modernize assurance management across our organization,” said White. “Our objective is to strengthen consistency, governance, and operational effectiveness while building a foundation that can support future growth in assurance activities. FusionAIrre’s proprietary AI capabilities, centralized knowledge framework, and governed workflows provide the scalability and adaptability we believe are essential for the future.”

Stephanie Greer, Founder and CEO of FusionAIrre, emphasized the strategic importance of assurance management: “Organizations can no longer view assurance as merely an administrative obligation. By leveraging centralized knowledge, intelligent workflow orchestration, agentic AI, and operational visibility, businesses can strengthen trust, safeguard revenue, and create new opportunities for growth.”

The partnership reflects a shared vision of improving External-Party Assurance through intelligent automation, centralized information management, governance, and operational transparency. Together, FusionAIrre and Delta Dental of New Jersey and Connecticut are demonstrating how assurance programs can become more scalable, measurable, and closely aligned with broader business objectives.
 

Identity security provider Silverfort has announced a new integration that brings advanced identity protection capabilities to AI agents built within Microsoft Copilot Studio. The integration enables real-time identity security enforcement, allowing organizations to apply intelligent access controls exactly when an AI agent attempts to perform an action. Unauthorized requests can be blocked before execution, helping prevent security incidents before they occur.

AI agents developed through Copilot Studio are capable of authenticating users, accessing enterprise data, initiating workflows, and interacting with systems across both cloud and on-premises environments. Since these activities are linked to human users with varying permission levels as well as multiple machine identities, they create complex authentication and authorization chains that can introduce security risks, including privilege escalation.

According to Microsoft, more than 80% of Fortune 500 organizations are actively deploying AI agents created using low-code or no-code development platforms. Additionally, nearly 29% of employees are already utilizing unsanctioned AI agents in their daily work. While business teams increasingly adopt AI solutions through platforms such as Copilot Studio, responsibility for managing associated security risks remains with identity and security leaders.

Ron Rasin, Chief Strategy Officer at Silverfort, emphasized that identity lies at the heart of AI security. He noted that AI agents become more capable as their access to enterprise resources expands, but without comprehensive identity intelligence, organizations cannot accurately determine whether an agent’s actions are legitimate or excessive. He added that Silverfort’s integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio highlights the importance of runtime identity enforcement as a critical requirement for secure AI deployment.

Real-Time Access Control at Runtime
Silverfort integrates directly with the Copilot Studio environment to provide access decisions in real time. Whenever an AI agent requests permission to use a tool, application, or function, Silverfort evaluates the request and issues an authorization decision before the action is carried out. This proactive approach helps organizations prevent unauthorized access, privilege misuse, and unintended actions before they impact business operations.

Key capabilities of Silverfort’s runtime enforcement include:

Ankur Arora, Principal Group Product Manager at Microsoft, stated that the integration extends security controls directly to the point of access. Rather than providing visibility after an action has occurred, the solution evaluates and governs every access request in real time before execution.

Unified Security Across Diverse AI Ecosystems
Most enterprises operate multiple AI platforms rather than relying on a single agent framework. As a result, organizations often manage AI agents built with Copilot Studio alongside internally developed and third-party solutions, creating fragmented security oversight.

Silverfort addresses this challenge by providing centralized visibility and identity-based controls across:

Advancing Enterprise AI Security
The Copilot Studio integration aligns with Silverfort’s broader vision of establishing identity as the primary security control layer for AI-driven enterprises. As a long-term Microsoft collaborator and former Microsoft Partner of the Year, the company continues to expand its capabilities for securing hybrid and cloud environments. Silverfort is also working closely with Microsoft on the development of additional AI-focused security innovations.

As organizations transition from AI experimentation to large-scale operational deployment, identity management is becoming the critical mechanism that governs what AI agents are permitted to do. Silverfort supports this shift by delivering identity-based enforcement at enterprise scale, processing more than 10 billion authentication events every day across over 1,000 organizations worldwide, including several Fortune 50 enterprises.

The company is also investing in AI security research, focusing on areas such as prompt injection detection and jailbreak prevention through recursive language modeling (RLM) and related technologies. By combining deep integration with Microsoft platforms, extensive identity telemetry, and ongoing AI security innovation, Silverfort aims to establish identity security as a cornerstone of the modern agentic enterprise.

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