This episode features Tim Beasley, a Senior Incident Response Consultant at Semperis with decades of experience in compromise recovery and post-breach response.
With a background that includes leading recovery efforts at Microsoft’s DART team and helping build the Compromise Recovery Security Practice, Tim brings deep operational insight into what happens after attackers gain access. His work spans ransomware, nation-state intrusions, and large-scale identity compromises across public and private sector organizations.
In this episode, Tim explains why gaining access is only the beginning of modern attacks and why identity remains the primary path for escalation. He breaks down how attackers exploit credential exposure and identity infrastructure, and why prevention alone fails without a recovery-first mindset. He shares real-world lessons from incident response and recovery, including how teams contain threats and limit the impact of identity compromises.
This episode reframes identity security as a resilience problem and offers a clearer way to think about preparing for the breach you haven’t detected yet.
