1 Thing to Do to Avoid a Breach: 5 Identity Experts Answer
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This episode features a virtual roundtable hosted by Michele Crockett, Associate VP of Product Marketing at Semperis.
The panel brings together five practitioners with deep experience in identity security: Alex Weinert, Chief Product Officer at Semperis; Christopher Brumm, Cyber Security Architect at glueckkanja; Eric Woodruff, Chief Identity Architect at Semperis; Jorge de Almeida Pinto, Senior Incident Response Lead at Semperis; and Michael Van Horenbeeck, CEO and Senior Solution Architect at The Collective Consulting. Collectively, they represent experience across incident response, Microsoft product development, enterprise architecture, and security leadership.
In this discussion, the panel addresses how to allocate limited security budgets across prevention and recovery, why the same AD misconfigurations keep appearing in assessments year after year, and what AI means for defenders and attackers alike.
This episode is a practical, field-tested conversation about what moves the needle when resources are constrained.
Guest Quote "80% of permissions that are out there are users that have access to systems they don't need. Going back to that Tier 0 system, a hundred percent of what's got access to Tier 0, you should know what it is, why it has access, why it needs it, [and] what's going on... Any apps that you can't prove what they're there for, turn them off. See who yells."
Time stamps 0:00 Meet the Panelists 00:00 AI in Cybersecurity 02:23 Budgeting for Identity Security 05:08 Field Lessons and AD Misconfigs 08:48 Prioritizing Prevention and Funding 12:59 Current Attacker Trends 14:56 Hybrid and Multi Cloud Risks 17:02 Entra Private Access POC 18:28 Lightning Round
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