The Identity Problem No One Saw Coming

Every once in a while, a conversation forces you to stop and rethink something you thought you already understood. Recording this latest TechSpective Podcast episode with Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman did exactly that—and it has everything to do with how AI is quietly rewriting the rules of identity security.

If you’ve been following the industry for a while, you know the story: hybrid environments are the norm, identity is the new perimeter, and permissions hygiene is the decades-old chore nobody has enough time—or patience—to do well. None of that is breaking news.

What is new is what happens when you drop modern AI into the middle of that reality.

We’re not talking about sci-fi leaps or theoretical risk models. We’re talking about something much more immediate: AI tools that can surface old data, forgotten data, and misconfigured access paths you didn’t even know existed. Years of “we’ll fix that later” suddenly become a living, breathing attack surface the moment AI starts connecting dots faster than any human ever could.

Mickey and I unpack why this shift is so significant and why organizations often misunderstand the real implications. We also get into the emerging gray zone of agentic AI—systems that operate like users, make decisions like users, and introduce a whole new category of identity no one had to account for before. It’s an area where the guardrails are still being built, even as the tools accelerate.

I won’t spoil the conversation here, because part of the fun is hearing how Mickey frames the problem—and the opportunities—through the lens of someone working directly with organizations grappling with this right now. Let’s just say the old assumptions don’t hold, and the path forward involves more than bolting AI onto existing processes.

If you care about identity, security, or the rapidly approaching future where AI plays a central role in both offense and defense, this is a conversation worth your time.

Check out the full episode here:

And as always, stay tuned. At the pace things are evolving, this probably won’t be the last time we revisit the topic—and the next wave may hit sooner than any of us expect.

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