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Checklist: Prepare Your Identity Fabric for the Agentic Era
- Alex Weinert | Chief Product Officer
- Jul 30, 2026
Your business leaders are racing to adopt generative and agentic AI to move faster and unlock new efficiencies. As your business bets more on agents, it bets more on your identity fabric. Use this checklist to be sure you’re ready.
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.
Bringing Identity Context Into the Microsoft Security Workflow: Semperis’ Integration with Sentinel and Copilot
- Ran Harel
- Jun 23, 2026
We now have a working, field-ready integration that brings Semperis Lightning Intelligence into the Microsoft security ecosystem. This is not just another screen for defenders to look at. It’s a way to make identity risk actionable inside the workflows security teams already use every day.
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.
Zero Trust vs Breach Prevention: What’s Your Identity Security Objective?
- Vital Cilliac
- Jun 04, 2026
For many organizations, meeting goals for Zero Trust maturity is a key requirement. But to go beyond checkbox compliance—and reduce risk—you need a deeper understanding of real-world vulnerabilities, attack paths, and operational weaknesses.
How to Secure Entra ID Workload Identities—Before AI Agent Sprawl Catches Up
- Semperis
- May 15, 2026
AI agents may be raising the stakes, but many organizations still need to secure the workload identities already operating in Microsoft Entra ID. Revisit a HIP Conf Europe session that delivers practical, technical guidance on guardrails, delegated management, threat detection, and governance—making it a smart watch for identity security practitioners.
Identity Resilience Checklist: 6 Ways to Think Beyond Backup
- Darren Mar-Elia | Principal Security Strategist
- May 04, 2026
Resilience means you can recover your identity system in a trustworthy way to a level that restores critical business functions. When evaluating any identity resilience solution, demand that your vendor meet this list of non-negotiable requirements—and prove it.
