The Minimum Viable Company Part 1: Why True Cyber Resilience Starts with Identity

Semperis argues that testing backups under ideal conditions creates only an illusion of resilience; real cyber resilience is about staying recoverable when the plan fails and the assumptions behind it collapse.

Semperis argues AI-driven attacks are outpacing identity teams as machine identities outnumber human ones 10:1, and urges building organization-wide cyber resilience around hybrid identity protection before the next crisis.

Cyber resilience is a whole-organization effort. Which roles a resilient org needs in place before the next identity crisis hits—and why HIP 2026 is worth a team trip.

A four-point checklist for assessing cloud identity resilience in Entra ID and Okta: crisis response preparedness, fault tolerance and high availability, monitoring and logging, and load testing.

Examines why incident response plans that audit cleanly fail in practice: one-off training, tabletop exercises without real pressure, and responders not cut out for 3 a.m. containment.

Semperis won three 2021 Global InfoSec Awards from Cyber Defense Magazine—AD Forest Recovery (ransomware recovery), Directory Services Protector (IAM) and its Hybrid Identity Protection conference—plus details on DSP v3.5 and ADFR automation.