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Analyst Chat #319: The Hardest Problem in Cybersecurity - Securing AI Agents
Securing and governing AI agents is, according to Matthew Gardiner, the hardest problem in cybersecurity harder than securing the internet itself. In ...
Analyst Chat #318: Before You Build - IAM Customization Governance in the AI Era
AI can build your IAM connector in an afternoon. But was the connector ever the bottleneck? In this episode, Matthias invited Patrick Teichmann, lead ...
Analyst Chat #317: MCP Is Just Another API, and That's the Bad News
MCP servers are showing up on the internet without authentication, malicious tool definitions are being injected into trusted projects, and three secu...
Analyst Chat #316: Integration Debt & the Vibe Coding Trap in Identity Management
Orchestration has been part of the Identity Fabric concept from the beginning but most organizations are still getting it wrong. In this episode, Matt...
Analyst Chat #315: Shadow SaaS, Shadow AI & the Governance Gap
SSPM is dead, long live SaaS Security and AI Governance. When Matthias and Matthew last spoke in February, SaaS Security Posture Management was the to...
Analyst Chat #314: Can You Trust AI to Verify AI Code?
AI writes the code. But who checks it, and who is accountable when it goes wrong? In this episode, Matthias is joined by two colleagues: Guillaume Tei...
Analyst Chat #313: When AI Agents Don't Play Nice - Multi-Agent Security Risks
What happens when you put three AI agents in a room and tell them to solve the same problem? Anthropic ran the experiment — and the results are more u...
Analyst Chat #312: Is AI Killing IVIP Before It Even Matures?
IVIP, Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platform, was one of the hottest acronyms to emerge from the identity market in 2025. But almost a year on,...
Analyst Chat #311: Architecting Your Own Digital Sovereignty
Digital sovereignty is one of the most talked-about topics in European tech policy right now and according to Alexei Balaganski, most of the conversat...
Analyst Chat #310: AI Escaped the Sandbox - The OpenAI Hugging Face Hack (special episode)
When an OpenAI test model escaped its sandbox and attacked Hugging Face's production infrastructure, headlines called it a Skynet moment. But was it? ...