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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.

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Explore conversations with global identity security experts about securing hybrid cloud identities, including Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta.

The Entra ID Recovery Gap with Tim Wolf and Tim Springston, Semperis

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

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

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

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.

Why Identity Security Needs Its Own Program with Angie Klein, IAM Business Technology Manager at Federated Insurance

Why Identity Security Needs Its Own Program with Angie Klein, IAM Business Technology Manager at Federated Insurance

In this episode, Angie dives into the organizational and cultural work that most identity programs skip. She shares why identity deserves its own program, how to apply OCM to bring resistant stakeholders on board, and why governance must come first. Angie’s core argument is that if identity security creates too much friction, people will route around it, and that’s where the real risk lives.

Securing Non-Human Identities in the Age of Agentic AI with Sarah Cecchetti, Director of Product Management at Semperis

Securing Non-Human Identities in the Age of Agentic AI with Sarah Cecchetti, Director of Product Management at Semperis

This episode features Sarah Cecchetti, Director of Product Management at Semperis. A veteran identity executive, Sarah co-founded IDPro and co-authored NIST SP 800-63-3C Digital Identity Guidelines. She previously led Amazon Cognito as Head of Product at AWS, where she also open-sourced Cedar, the policy language at the center of this conversation.

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