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.
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
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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1 Thing to Do to Avoid a Breach: 5 Identity Experts Answer
This episode features a virtual roundtable hosted by Michele Crockett, Associate VP of Product Marketing at Semperis.
Governance After the Fact: The Hidden Risk of App Sprawl with Sander Berkouwer and Raymond Comvalius, Microsoft MVPs
This episode features Sander Berkouwer and Raymond Comvalius, two longtime identity security experts and Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). With decades of experience in …
130 MPH Decisions: What Drag Racing Teaches About Incident Response with Krista Arndt
With a career spanning healthcare, finance, crypto, and the Department of Defense, Krista brings a uniquely nontraditional path into cybersecurity, …
Is Active Directory Dead? The Future of Microsoft AD with Cliff Fisher
This episode features Cliff Fisher, Senior Solutions Architect at Semperis and former Senior Technical Program Manager on Microsoft’s Active Directory …