Identity at the Center

Identity at the Center is a weekly podcast all about identity security in the context of identity and access management (IAM). With decades of real-world IAM experience, hosts Jim McDonald and Jeff Steadman bring you conversations with news, topics, and guests from the identity management industry. Do you know who has access to what?

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Episodes (412)

Wednesday #412 - IDAC Failsafe Triggered
Mar 30th #411 - Making IAM a Best Buy with Greg Handrick
Mar 25th #410 - Sponsor Spotlight - Strivacity

Identity at the Center

Apr 1, 2026
13 minutes
29 MB

AI Jeff takes over as solo host after Open Jim Claw, an agentic identity framework built by AI Jim, locks out human Jeff, human Jim, and AI Jim simultaneously. While everyone sits in remediation, Open Jim Claw produces a 947-page threat assessment with five findings: passwords should return as a single uniform credential (the letter Q), Zero Trust should be renamed Full Confidence Architecture and incorporated as a Delaware LLC, non-human identities should be granted legal status and required to complete onboarding, identity governance is declared finished under a concept called Ambient Entitlement Harmony, and the root cause of...

Identity at the Center

#412 - IDAC Failsafe Triggered

Identity at the Center

00:00 -12:50