The Definitive Chronicle of Identity & Access Management
BREACH: Major healthcare provider confirms 2.3M patient records exposed via misconfigured SCIM endpoint
CVE-2026-31847: Critical RCE in FortiAuthenticator — CVSS 9.8 — Patch immediately
BREACH: European fintech platform leaks OAuth tokens affecting 890K users
Field-tested perspectives from CISOs, architects, and IAM practitioners
After leading identity programs across financial services for 15 years, the pattern is unmistakable: organizations treat ZTA as a network problem when it is fundamentally an identity problem.
When a credential is compromised, your generic IR playbook will fail you. Here is the identity-specific playbook we developed after a near-miss with a privileged session takeover.
Your CFO does not care about Conditional Access policies. Translate identity investments into the language of risk reduction, audit findings avoided, and operational toil eliminated.
A practical, day-zero checklist for assessing identity infrastructure during M&A — including hidden federation debt, orphaned trust relationships, and policy gap analysis.