Podcast
Welcome to the Hybrid Identity Protection Podcast. If your job is defending hybrid identity environments from cyberattacks, this is the podcast to put on repeat.
Join our host, 15-year MVP alum Sean Deuby, for thoughtful conversations with global identity experts who share their strategic visions and practical guidelines for securing Active Directory and Entra ID, preventing and remediating identity-based attacks, and recovering from identity system attacks.
What Cloud Identity Really Costs When It Fails with Chris Steinke, Director of Product Strategy at Semperis
This episode features Chris Steinke, Director of Product Strategy at Semperis, a technology executive with more than 20 years of experience across cybersecurity, digital identity, and infrastructure. In this episode, Chris explains why moving identity to the cloud creates a single point of failure, why backup and recovery alone aren’t enough, and why the next frontier is making trust portable, so applications aren’t locked to a single identity provider.
All Podcast Episodes
Explore conversations with global identity security experts about securing hybrid cloud identities, including Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta.
What Cloud Identity Really Costs When It Fails with Chris Steinke, Director of Product Strategy at Semperis
This episode features Chris Steinke, Director of Product Strategy at Semperis, a technology executive with more than 20 years of experience across cybersecurity, digital identity, and infrastructure. In this episode, Chris explains why moving identity to the cloud creates a single point of failure, why backup and recovery alone aren’t enough, and why the next frontier is making trust portable, so applications aren’t locked to a single identity provider.
Inside a Veteran CISO’s Playbook for Crisis and Communication with Philip Keibler, VP and CISO at Meijer
This episode features Phil Keibler, Vice President and CISO at Meijer, who has held CISO roles at Bass Pro Shops and Finish Line across nearly three decades in security leadership. Phil shares why CISOs who struggle to get budget usually have a storytelling problem, how he defines success in a role where stopping every attack is impossible, and why fundamentals matter more than chasing new tools.
The Entra ID Recovery Gap with Tim Wolf and Tim Springston, Semperis
In this episode, they walk through what the shared responsibility model actually means for Entra tenant data, how token-based attacks sidestep phishing-resistant authentication, and what happens when a threat actor hard-deletes objects and locks you out.
Practice Makes Progress in Cyber Resilience with Jim Bowie, VP and CISO at Tampa General Hospital
This episode features Jim Bowie, VP and CISO at Tampa General Hospital, joined by co-host Courtney Guss, Director of Crisis Management at Semperis. He discusses why healthcare is uniquely exposed during cyber incidents, why recovery is where most organizations are losing time, and how disciplined rehearsal is the highest-leverage move available to resource-constrained security teams.
Agentic AI and the Authorization Gap No One Closed with Geoffrey Mattson, CEO of SecureAuth
This episode features Geoffrey Mattson, CEO of SecureAuth, joined by co-host Sarah Cecchetti, Director of Product Management at Semperis. He discusses why agentic …
Where Gartner Sees Identity Security Heading with Mark Diodati, Managing VP of IAM at Gartner
In this episode, Mark explains how Gartner’s research model works and what his team is prioritizing across identity verification, authorization, ITDR, and decentralized identity. He also breaks down what AI means for identity right now and why securing AI agents is harder than most teams realize.