Identity has become the foundation of modern security — and the fastest-growing attack surface.
Every user, service account, workload, and now AI agent operates through identity. But most security architectures were never designed to protect identity holistically. The result is fragmented visibility, siloed controls, and growing gaps that attackers exploit for lateral movement and privilege escalation.
In this expert Q&A, Silverfort’s Ben Goodman and Adrian Sanabria of The Defenders Initiative explore how organizations can rethink Identity Security for today’s borderless environments. Topics covered, include:
- Why attackers target identity first — and how credential theft, MFA bypass, and “log in, don’t break in” tactics dominate modern attacks
- How Identity Security has evolved — from users and AD to cloud identities, service accounts, APIs, and emerging AI agents
- What a “borderless attack surface” actually looks like — across AD, SaaS, cloud, and environments not fully covered by SSO
- Where traditional IAM, PAM, and IGA fall short — and how attackers exploit the gaps between siloed identity tools
- And much more