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How to Redefine Cyber Resilience: Start by Rethinking Hybrid Identity Protection
- Guido Grillenmeier | Principal Technologist, EMEA
- Aug 19, 2026
Cyber resilience isn't a single team’s job anymore. Learn about the roles a resilient organization actually needs assembled, long before the next crisis forces the point—and make your case for sending more than one person to the 2026 Hybrid Identity Protection Conference.
How the Five Eyes AI Warning Changes Board Thinking About Cyber Recovery and Resilience
- Nick Lowther
- Aug 04, 2026
AI has changed the face of the attack surface. It has changed how attackers advance and how we defend systems. And it changes the way that Boards must think about the intersection of AI adoption, identity security, and recovery.
AD Group Risks: Hidden Dangers in Backup Operators
- Tim Beasley
- Jul 28, 2026
Defenders tend to shrug off the idea that the Backup Operators AD security group harbors hidden risks. That’s a mistake. Under the hood, it has rights that can enable serious—and in the wrong hands, catastrophic—abuse.
The Minimum Viable Company Part 3: Enabling Visibility, Control, and Operational Resilience
- Kriss Stephen | Principal Solutions Architect
- Jul 21, 2026
True cyber resilience doesn’t begin with recovery. It starts much earlier, through stronger visibility, tighter control, and—crucially—identity resilience that enables the organization to correct issues before they became business-disrupting events.
Windows Privilege Abuse: How Attackers Escalate from Accounts with Dangerous Rights to Active Directory Compromise
- Andrea Pierini
- Jul 06, 2026
Discover the most attractive Windows privileges from an attacker’s perspective: those that permit a direct privilege escalation.
When the Lights Go Out: What the Foxconn Breach Tells Us About Identity-First Ransomware
- Benjamin Lim
- Jun 19, 2026
Understanding how an identity-first exploit enabled ransomware attackers to disable Foxconn can open your eyes to possible gaps in your own identity security. Discover how attackers take advantage of complexity in manufacturing organizations—and steps you can take to defend your organization’s business operations.
11 Real-World Risks Hidden in Active Directory Migrations
- Mike Masciulli
- Jun 12, 2026
An Active Directory migration and consolidation project is not just a data move. If you carry over legacy delegation mistakes, group nesting, trust relationships, and overprivileged accounts, you simply recreate risky attack paths. Learn how a security-first approach helps you make your new AD environment more secure.
RC4 and AD Migration: Uncover the Break Scenarios Hiding in Your Source Domain
- Mike Masciulli
- May 29, 2026
A quiet AD migration can turn into a noisy outage when RC4-dependent accounts fail. Migration services expert Mike Masciulli helps you understand where RC4-related failures hide—and how to find and fix them before cutover.
