TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 20, 2026--
IDENTOS, a leading Canadian identity, privacy, and authorization company, today announced that PolicyArc is now generally available. The new solution gives security, platform, and compliance teams a single place to define, enforce, and audit access policy across their applications. PolicyArc is built to solve one of the fastest-moving problems in enterprise software: how to safely extend access not just to people and services but to the AI agents now acting on their behalf.
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PolicyArc builds on more than 12 years of IDENTOS identity and access work across Canadian government and healthcare systems.
Why now
Companies are adopting AI agents that act inside their systems, pulling data, taking actions, and making decisions. Traditional access control wasn’t built to give an agent just enough access, for just long enough, and nothing more. According to IBM and Ponemon Institute's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report, 92% of organizations that experienced an AI-related breach lacked proper AI access controls. PolicyArc is designed to address that risk, along with a more familiar challenge: access policies that are slow to change and difficult to audit.
What PolicyArc does
Who it's for
PolicyArc is built for the teams who own access decisions and have to answer for them: platform and security engineering leads managing authorization across a growing product surface, compliance and risk leaders who need to prove access was appropriate, and teams shipping AI-agent features who need a safe way to delegate access without building that infrastructure themselves.
Quotes
"Today marks a natural evolution for IDENTOS in the era of AI. PolicyArc takes everything we've learned about access and identity and applies it to the question every enterprise is now asking: how to adopt AI without losing control." - Mike Cook, CEO, IDENTOS
"Most systems only know how to grant broad, standing access. That's fine for a person, but reckless for an agent. We built PolicyArc so a team can hand an agent exactly the permission it needs for one task, nothing more. When the task ends, the access disappears, and every decision is on record." - Alec Laws, CTO, IDENTOS
Availability
PolicyArc is generally available now: https://policyarc.com/
About PolicyArc
PolicyArc, powered by IDENTOS, is the authorization layer for regulated enterprises. It decides, enforces, and proves every access decision, so that security teams can adopt AI with accountability built in. Designed for every AI agent, service, and person across the tools organizations already run. Learn more at policyarc.com.
About IDENTOS
IDENTOS is Canada’s leading identity, privacy and authorization company securing enterprise AI and enabling connected, citizen-facing digital services. Founded in 2014, the company has spent over a decade pioneering access for sensitive enterprise systems, differentiating itself in some of the most complex and regulated sectors, such as health and government, where reliable access control is fundamental to delivering critical services. IDENTOS is ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified, with all products built on 100% Canadian data residency. IDENTOS's core product is PolicyArc, a policy-based access control platform. For more information, visit identos.com.
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IDENTOS introduces PolicyArc, giving enterprises one place to define, enforce and audit access for every person, service and AI agent across their applications.
LONDON (AP) — The birthplace of The Beatles is about to get even more of the Fab Four.
Plans were announced Tuesday for a huge new visitor attraction that backers say will give Liverpool a tourist draw about its famous sons to rival Elvis Presley’s Graceland and Dolly Parton’s Dollywood.
Apple Corps Ltd., the company that oversees The Beatles’ business interests, said an expanded version of The Beatles Story museum is coming to the center of Liverpool in 2028. It’s scheduled to open soon after the release of Sam Mendes’ quartet of feature films about John, Paul, George and Ringo, which are expected to unleash a new wave of global interest in the band that transformed rock ‘n’ roll.
The plan will see Apple Corps take over The Beatles Story and move it from its current home in Liverpool’s docklands to the former St. John’s Market, a 100,000-square-foot (9,290-square-meter) site across from the city’s main Lime Street train station.
Apple Corps said the new venue will use “immersive technology, original artifacts and spectacular reconstructed sets” to take visitors from the band members’ childhoods in postwar Liverpool through their hardscrabble years in the bars of Hamburg, Germany, to the explosion of “Beatlemania” and global fame.
Sets and props from Mendes' movies will create versions of Liverpool’s Cavern Club, where the band got its start; the famous Abbey Road studios in London; and Shea Stadium, the site of their legendary 1965 performance.
The nearby St Johns Beacon, a 400-foot (122-meter) former radio tower, will be transformed into a tourist attraction inspired by the band’s song and animated movie “Yellow Submarine,” offering views over the city.
“Just like Graceland or Dollywood, it’s fitting that The Beatles will have a world class destination for fans to visit in the center of the city where the story started,” Apple Corps chief executive Tom Greene said.
Apple Corps said a portion of the ticket revenue will support a charity set up to nurture new artists in Liverpool.
The two surviving Beatles welcomed the development. Paul McCartney said the band’s success “couldn’t have happened without Liverpool and I can’t wait for people to be able to step into our story and share the experience.” Ringo Starr said “Liverpool was, and still is, music city.”
The announcement is the latest chapter in a Beatles boom, 56 years after the band’s breakup. Apple Corps has already announced that a new fan experience will open in late 2027 in the band’s former London headquarters at 3 Savile Row, whose rooftop was the site of The Beatles’ last public performance in 1969.
Mendes is directing a quartet of biopics starring Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, Paul Mescal as McCartney and Barry Keoghan as Starr. All are due for release in April 2028.
The legacy of The Beatles has helped transform Liverpool into a culture and nightlife destination, reviving the city’s economy after decades of decline following the closure of its docks.
Mike Jones, a Beatles expert at the University of Liverpool, said the “double boost” of the films and attractions will bring in many more Beatles fans.
“I’m not sure that the city’s quite prepared for it,” he said, calling it both a risk and an opportunity. “What we have to resist is the Disneyfication of Liverpool, the Disneyfication of the Beatles."
That said, there's a lot more that people should know about the band and its legacy, Jones said.
“There’s a rich story to be told about the relationship between Liverpool and the Beatles, a very rich story," he said. "And I’m not sure that story’s been told."
FILE - The Beatles, from left, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, arrive in Liverpool, England, on July 10, 1964, for the premiere of their movie "A Hard Day's Night." (AP Photo, File)
