A must-watch for CIOs and CISOs navigating the collision between agentic AI and identity security.
Alex Weinert, Chief Product Officer at Semperis, spent 30 years at Microsoft and built its identity security team while helping protect systems processing roughly 20 billion sign-ins a day. He was involved in the response to major identity attacks including SolarWinds, Storm-0558, and Midnight Blizzard, and now helps Semperis protect more than 100 million identities across Active Directory, Entra, Okta, and Ping. Alex explains why years of accumulated identity permissions become far more dangerous once autonomous agents enter the environment, and how security leaders can reduce that exposure before an incident forces the issue.
Why you should watch: If you are responsible for enterprise identity or cyber resilience, Alex's perspective on what actually needs fixing before agentic AI scales, versus adding another security tool, will change how you prioritize identity risk.
Alex explains:
- Why 99% of permissions granted inside many enterprises are never used, and why agents make that dormant access far more dangerous
- How thinking of an AI agent as a hyperintelligent, hyperactive five-year-old changes the way you design identity boundaries
- Why real ransomware incidents can leave attackers inside response calls, recovery documents, and even physical access systems
- The first identity security action CISOs should take before buying another tool or building another long-term roadmap
- How to explain identity resilience to a board by asking what happens if nobody can log in for four weeks
- Why posture, detection, and recovery must operate as one resilience system, not just three separate security products
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