Identity Decoded | The Identity Security Podcast

Episode Summary: Chris Linklater from Mandiant has spent his career helping organizations respond to cyber incidents, recover from breaches, and strengthen their security foundations. In this episode of Identity Decoded, he joins Roy Akerman and Rob Ainscough to unpack why identity has become one of the most common paths attackers use to gain access, move laterally, and exfiltrate data. Drawing fr...

Andrew Cameron has over two decades at General Motors watching identity evolve from an IT function to the core of enterprise security. In this episode, he shares about that journey and explains why GM now treats identity as the control plane across an incredibly complex environment that includes factories, legacy OT systems, and robots on the plant floor. Andrew gets into the real tension between...

Is “identity is the new perimeter” more of a marketing slogan than a real security strategy? In this episode, Roy Akerman and Rob Ainscough sit down with Susanne Senoff from Conga to discuss how AI agents are starting to behave more like threat actors, and why traditional ideas like “perimeter” and “zero trust” are becoming harder to define. Susanne shares firsthand experience, including an AI age...

Mythos changed the rules of security. Again. In this episode, Roy and Rob sit down with Sree Ashokkumar, VP of Cybersecurity at Interactive Brokers, to talk about what happens when frontier AI models like Mythos start exposing foundational weaknesses in identity and collapsing the security controls we've relied on for years. Mythos has quickly become one of the biggest conversations in cybersecuri...