Identity Is the New Perimeter
From The ITSM Practice: Elevating ITSM and IT Security Knowledge by Luigi Ferri
June 2, 2026 · 10 min · Season 3 · Episode 13
About this episode
This episode explores the critical role of identity governance in the evolving landscape of AI and cybersecurity.
AI is changing cybersecurity faster than most organizations can govern it. In this episode of The ITSM Practice Podcast, Luigi Ferri explores why identity has become the true enterprise perimeter. As organizations race to deploy Agentic AI, autonomous agents, cloud platforms, and APIs, many are building on identity governance models that were never designed for machine-scale decision-making. From Zero Trust Architecture and Identity & Access Management (IAM) to the lessons behind major breaches at MGM, Snowflake, and Uber, this episode examines a critical question: If enterprises struggled to govern human identities, how will they govern autonomous AI identities? Discover why AI governance without identity governance is impossible, why identity is evolving into the operational control plane of digital business, and what CIOs and CISOs must do before AI adoption outpaces organizational control. In this episode, we answer: Why is identity becoming the new perimeter in the age of AI? What risks emerge when autonomous agents operate without strong identity governance? How can organizations redesign trust before AI scales faster than governance? Resources Mentioned in this…
People in this episode
Host: Luigi Ferri
Topics covered
- cybersecurity
- identity governance
- AI
- Zero Trust Architecture
- autonomous agents
- digital business
Keywords
- identity governance
- AI governance
- Zero Trust
- autonomous AI
- cybersecurity risks
- digital business
- identity as perimeter
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: MGM, Snowflake, Uber, NIST, European Commission
More episodes of The ITSM Practice: Elevating ITSM and IT Security Knowledge
- What DoDAF Can Teach Leaders About Architecture and Complexity · June 9, 2026 · 11 min
- FINMA and ITIL 4: Building Resilient Swiss Banks · May 26, 2026 · 10 min
- Broken Transmission: Why Fintech Strategy Fails · May 19, 2026 · 6 min
- FINOS vs ISO 42001: What to Choose · May 12, 2026 · 9 min
- Who Owns Cloud Security? · May 5, 2026 · 9 min
- CISO Strategy: Where Product Security Fails at Scale · April 28, 2026 · 8 min
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The ITSM Practice: Elevating ITSM and IT Security Knowledge podcast page.