TechSpective’s Identity and Access Management section covers one of the most rapidly shifting domains in enterprise security — where the definition of “identity” itself is being rewritten by AI agents, non-human accounts, and automated traffic that now outnumbers human users online. A dominant theme is how non-human identities require the same lifecycle management as human employees, and why treating AI agents as untrusted devices is a practical security necessity.
The browser sits in an awkward place in enterprise security. Everyone knows it matters. It’s where users work, where applications run, and where data moves. But it is also treated as something adjacent to “real” security controls—either locked down with
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There’s a question I’ve been sitting with lately: Are we prepared for what AI is about to expose in our organizations—not just technically, but operationally? In this episode of the TechSpective Podcast, I sit down with Kavitha Mariappan, Rubrik’s Chief
Building Security for a World That’s Already Changed Read More »
AI search tools are reshaping enterprise workflows. A single natural-language prompt can pull insights from years of documents, emails, and cloud repositories. That’s great for productivity. It’s far more complicated for security teams who are discovering that AI is exposing
Semperis Confronts the Identity Chaos Exposed by AI Search Read More »
Technology evolves faster than we can adapt, but the human brain remains the constant target. At the HIP 2025 Conference, Professor Mary Aiken—a pioneering cyberpsychologist and one of the world’s foremost experts on human behavior in digital contexts—delivered a keynote
Why the Human Factor Is the New Attack Surface Read More »
Imagine you’re a security engineer monitoring your identity dashboards. Enterprise IAM? Green. Customer authentication? Smooth. Access controls? Mapped and monitored. Everything seems perfectly normal. But there’s a dangerous security gap hiding beneath this “normal” surface. So, when your support engineer
The Customer Access Gap: When Enterprise IAM Meets Customer Identity Read More »
Resilience gets a lot of airtime, but when you peel back the layers, most organizations still prepare for recovery, not continuity. That difference is subtle until disaster strikes. If your Active Directory or Single Sign-On is encrypted, a “recovery-first” plan
HIP 2025 Puts Identity and AI at the Center of Cyber Defense Read More »
When Palo Alto Networks announced its acquisition of CyberArk, many in the cybersecurity world took notice. Not just because it was a high-profile deal between two major players, but because of what it implied: identity is no longer a feature
Identity Is the New Infrastructure: What the Palo Alto–CyberArk Deal Really Signals Read More »
As enterprises scale their use of artificial intelligence, a hidden governance crisis is unfolding—one that few security programs are prepared to confront: the rise of unowned AI agents. These agents are not speculative. They’re already embedded across enterprise ecosystems—provisioning access,
The Unclaimed Identity: Why Autonomous AI Agents Are the Next Governance Crisis Read More »
On Sunday, thousands of fans saw something they never expected: Elmo, the happy red monster from Sesame Street, posting hate speech on X (formerly Twitter). Antisemitic and racist messages, plus a political attack, suddenly appeared on an account best known
The Elmo Hack Shows Why No Brand Is Safe on Social Media Read More »
Identity is the frontline of today’s cybersecurity battles. Whether it’s stolen credentials, over-provisioned access, or dormant accounts, attackers have found that the easiest way in is often through the front door—by posing as someone who already belongs. And yet, for
Making Identity Governance Accessible Read More »
