Insights

Insights

Identity, security, and AI, written from the inside: by someone who runs the programs, not just the commentary.

LatestIAM Strategy · October 8, 2026 · 12 min readThe Speed of TrustWhat Digital Trust Looks Like When You Measure ItExecutives buy digital trust and almost nobody measures it. The measure is how fast you can safely let an outsider in — and how fast you can take it back.Read the essay Identity enablement scorecard · freeMeasure your current programThe essays make the argument. The scorecard puts a number on yours: six areas, about five minutes, and the band you're in.Take the scorecard

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IAM Strategy · Sep 24, 2026 · 9 min readThe Box Is Not the ProgramWhere IAM Should Report, and Why It Keeps MovingCybersecurity or infrastructure is the wrong argument. Identity behaves like a platform in whichever tower owns it, and five questions predict what your placement will break.Behind the ownership test IAM Strategy · Sep 16, 2026 · 8 min readTwo Jobs, One AcronymWhat IGA Was Always Supposed to MeanIdentity governance decides who should have access. Identity administration makes it so. Programs that fund one half and call it IGA pay for both and get neither.Behind the governance domain IAM Strategy · Sep 11, 2026 · 11 min readThe Customer Experience EquationYour Sign-In Screen Is Losing Customers You Already Paid ForMarketing pays to bring customers back and then hands the moment they return to a password field, which is why customer identity should be run as a growth function.IAM Strategy · Jul 15, 2026 · 5 min readThe Collaboration MultiplierWhy Your Ecosystem Moves at the Speed of AccessHalf of all breaches now arrive through someone else's door — and the same access decisions that let partners in are the ones deciding how fast you can work with them at all.Cybersecurity · Jun 12, 2026 · 11 min readThe Silent WorkforceYour Machines Outnumber Your People 109 to 1, and Nobody Owns ThemEvery deploy hires staff you never interviewed, and most companies have no way to scope what those workers can reach, no review of what they did, and no way to fire them.Behind the non-human identity worksheet

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Where it started.

May 20, 2025Revenue Runs on IdentityWhy IAM is the C-Suite's Most Critical Growth EngineIAM Strategy · 3 min May 10, 2025The Invisible Infrastructure AdvantageWhy the Best Security is the Security You Never SeeCybersecurity · 3 min Mar 29, 2025The Hidden Cost of "No"Why Legacy Identity Is Your Most Expensive Innovation BottleneckIAM Strategy · 5 min

From essay to tool

Three of these became something you can use

The argument first, then the instrument. Each lives in the Identity Lab.

From “The Box Is Not the Program”The ownership testFive questions. Put a name against each.Open in the Lab From “Two Jobs, One Acronym”The governance domain sheetCoverage and maturity, layer by layer.Open in the Lab From “The Silent Workforce”Non-human identity worksheetAn inventory with an owner for every machine.Open in the Lab