Identity threat detection closes the gap modern adversaries exploit. Field notes on behavioral baselines, non-human identity monitoring, and ITDR coverage in 2026.

Cloud IAM is the single most consequential and most over-permissioned control surface in the modern enterprise. Field notes on the graph problem masquerading as a policy problem.

A senior identity architect walks through three privileged access failures — including a domain admin account that outlived the employee by three years — and the disciplined PAM architecture that closes the gap.