Identity in the AI-era: A Conversation with Francis Odum and Lumos

The past decade in Identity was marked by an explosion in the size of the task of provisioning, securing, and governing identity, driven by migration to the cloud, SaaS adoption, and the rise of machine identities. However, until recently, there had been no corresponding boost to the capacity of IT, Security, or Governance teams tackling these challenges.

AI promised to finally fix this imbalance—to autonomize the work of identifying and remediating risks, enforcing least privilege, and providing the right access at the right time. However, companies that had not invested in visibility into access could not rely on AI to generate secure access policies or identify threats. Likewise, companies that had not built out identity infrastructure could not leverage AI to automate the work of providing secure access to their ever-growing catalog of apps and systems.

In this on-demand recording, Francis Odum, Founder @ Software Analyst Cybersecurity Research, and Andrej Safundzic, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lumos, discussed how Identity posture could benefit from AI and how infrastructure and data choices made today could set companies up for AI success.

Key Takeaways:

• The opportunity of Autonomous Identity, powered by modern AI.
• How to create visibility into Identity and Access, compile the right data to train models, and generate AI-powered access decisions.
• How to build an automation-ready identity stack to empower AI agents and reduce the burden on IT, Security, and Governance teams.

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