Beyond the Login: Key Considerations for Evaluating Identity Security

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 1pm ET

Celebrating a successful go-live often masks a critical security reality: managing logins is not the same as governing access. As enterprise environments expand across multi-cloud architectures and non-human identities like AI agents, observing risk is no longer enough, organizations must actively resolve it.

Without native entitlement-level governance, security teams bear the hidden burden of custom scripts, manual workarounds, and sudden audit findings. When an audit arrives or anomalous behavior surfaces, organizations quickly discover the structural limits of an access-first approach.

In this interactive session explore key evaluation criteria for identity security, explain why observe-only tools fail in an AI-driven landscape, and outline a framework for complete access control.

Join us live to learn:

How to identify whether your current platform is truly governing access at the entitlement level or merely authenticating logins.
The operational cost of the “half-finished” platform—and why the gap between detecting a risk and enforcing a fix creates unmanaged exposure.
Strategies for mapping your true governance perimeter across hybrid infrastructure, third-party apps, and autonomous AI agents.
Practical guidance from on architecting an identity framework that satisfies strict audit demands while reducing long-term TCO.
Speaker:

Neil McGlennon, Principal Architect, SailPoint
Neil McGlennon is the Principal Architect for Technology Services, which helps define strategic solutions, develop best practices, advise product, as well as enable field teams. Through his 16 year tenure at SailPoint, Neil has worked with customers, partners, and developers across the world, at all levels, to be successful in implementing SailPoint’s identity security solutions.

Moderator:
Terry Sweeney, Moderator – Contributing Editor, Dark Reading
Terry Sweeney is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor who’s covered business technology for three decades. He’s written about cyber security for more than 15 years and was one of the founding editors of Dark Reading. Terry has covered enterprise networking extensively, as well as its supporting technologies like storage, wireless, cloud-based apps and the emerging Internet of Things. He’s been a contributing editor to The Washington Post, Crain’s New York Business, Red Herring, Information Week, Network World, SearchAWS.com, and Stadium Tech Report.