Understanding Identity Security Posture: See the Big Picture of Your Hybrid Environment

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.

Hybrid Identity Protection Conference panel: identity and endpoint security can no longer be managed separately, consolidation is the first step to taming hybrid complexity, and IAM is a practice—not something a single product provides.

As enterprises integrate Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) with on-prem AD, this piece examines hybrid identity risks—above all permission sprawl—and urges a look-before-you-leap approach to cloud identity adoption.

Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman on why AD is a keystone: 47% of organizations rely on it as their primary identity store, and cloud identities still sync back to on-prem AD—so compromise cascades. Tested recovery plans and AD monitoring are urged.

Chris Roberts rebuts the 'AD is dead' narrative: Active Directory still anchors hybrid identity, can't be replaced by identity vendors, and overlooked assets like printers remain hacker favorites.

Azure AD Connect syncs 151 attributes by default and they can't be fully removed later; Semperis' Darren Mar-Elia recommends app, attribute, domain and OU filtering to limit exposure in Azure AD.