Hybrid Identity Protection Podcast

The HIP Podcast is the premier podcast for cybersecurity pros charged with defending hybrid identity environments. Hosted by 15-time Microsoft MVP and Active Directory security expert, Sean Deuby.Presented by Semperis: the pioneers of identity-driven cyber resilience for the hybrid enterprise.

Hybrid Identity Protection Podcast is a technology podcast hosted by Semperis, with 102 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #103

  In OT, There Can Be Lives at Stake with Wylie Shanks, OT Cybersecurity Consultant

  Sep 15, 202658 minS1

  This episode features Wylie Shanks, a cybersecurity consultant who leads an OT cybersecurity program for a large North American energy company's business unit. Wylie has spent more than twenty-five years working with critical infrastructure organizations, designing, defending, and recovering environments that span enterprise IT through industrial control systems. In this conversation, he walks Sean Deuby through the Purdue model level by level, then explains what changed when Windows servers, domain controllers, and vendor-managed accounts moved into environments built to run for decades without interruption. Wylie and Sean cover why safety and availability outrank everything else on the plant floor, why MFA and patch cycles that work in IT can be unworkable in OT, how forest architectures set up twenty years ago constrain organizations today, and how new resilience mandates in the US and Canada are pushing operators to prove they can run disconnected for 90 days. This episode makes the case that OT security is less about importing IT controls than about translating between two groups of experts who have never had to speak the same language. Guest Bio Wylie Shanks is a cybersecurity consultant who currently leads an OT cybersecurity program for a large North American energy company's business unit. With over twenty-five years of experience working with critical infrastructure organizations, he designs, defends, and recovers environments spanning enterprise IT to industrial control systems. His expertise spans security architecture, incident response, privileged access management, and cyber risk management, translating complex challenges into practical, auditable solutions. Wylie holds numerous certifications, including GIAC Security Expert (GSE), ISSAP, GIAC Response in Industrial Defense (GRID), and GIAC Cyber Incident Leader (GCIL). Guest Quote "Safety, of course, is critical. That's one of the differences between, say, an IT and an OT environment is in OT, there can be lives at stake. The environment can be impacted. You have different concerns about reliability and safety." Time stamps 02:40 Meet Wylie Shanks: 25 Years in Critical Infrastructure 04:59 Defining the OT Environment 05:51 Walking Through the Purdue Model 08:45 Explaining OT with a Thermostat 12:11 Ranking Safety, Reliability, and Integrity 13:39 Revisiting Stuxnet 15:21 Why MFA Breaks on the Plant Floor 18:36 Finding Windows and Active Directory in OT 21:29 Applying PAM and Least Privilege 27:14 Comparing AD Forest Architectures 31:19 Earning Trust with Plant Operators 35:41 Meeting New Resilience Mandates 40:49 Mapping the Threat Vectors 44:49 Facing AI-Assisted Attacks 47:41 Learning from Colonial Pipeline 53:15 Making Resilience Measurable 56:42 Conclusion and Final Thoughts Sponsor The HIP Podcast is brought to you by Semperis, the leader in identity-driven cyber resilience for the hybrid enterprise. Trusted by the world's leading businesses, Semperis protects critical Active Directory and Entra ID environments from cyberattacks, ensuring rapid recovery and business continuity when every second counts. Visit semperis.com to learn more. Links Connect with Wylie on LinkedIn Connect with Sean on LinkedIn Don't miss future episodes Learn more about Semperis

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  Episode #102

  Why Less Than 20% of Ransomware Victims Ever Pay with Marc Jason Grens, President of Chaintrax

  Aug 31, 202640 minS1

  This episode features Marc Jason Grens, President of Chaintrax. Marc has led Chaintrax for twelve years, growing it from a compliance and anti-money-laundering firm in cash-to-crypto services into a licensed blockchain forensics practice after entering the ransomware payment business in 2017. He has since advised on more than 4,000 incidents. In this episode, Marc explains why ransomware victims decide to pay, why that payment can violate US sanctions law if it isn't vetted first, and why tracking the money afterward is how law enforcement works to recover it. This episode makes the case that paying a ransom is only the beginning of a compliance and recovery process, not the end of one. Guest Bio Marc Grens is the President of Chaintrax, which has been providing cutting-edge financial, technological, and consulting services for the payments and incident response industry for the last 12 years. He is a serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the investment industry. Prior to Chaintrax, Marc held senior positions at Charles Schwab, HighTower Advisors, and Alpha Strategies. He received his M.B.A. from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University in 2010, and a B.A. from Illinois State University. Marc is an active angel investor and serves on multiple advisory boards of companies in the Chicago tech community. Sponsor The HIP Podcast is brought to you by Semperis, the leader in identity-driven cyber resilience for the hybrid enterprise. Trusted by the world’s leading businesses, Semperis protects critical Active Directory and Entra ID environments from cyberattacks, ensuring rapid recovery and business continuity when every second counts. Visit semperis.com to learn more. Links Connect with Marc on LinkedIn Connect with Sean on LinkedIn Connect with Jeff on LinkedIn Don't miss future episodes Learn more about Semperis HIP Conference 26 is coming to Nashville, September 8–10, 2026. Join us to explore this year's theme, Redefining Resilience, at the world's premier practitioner-led conference focused on securing hybrid identity environments. If you love the conversations on the HIP Podcast, this is where the community comes together in person. Learn more and register at https://www.hipconf.com/.

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  Episode #101

  What Cloud Identity Really Costs When It Fails with Chris Steinke, Director of Product Strategy at Semperis

  Aug 18, 202639 minS1

  This episode features Chris Steinke, Director of Product Strategy at Semperis. Chris has spent more than 20 years across cybersecurity, digital identity, infrastructure, and operations, including leadership roles at American Express and Early Warning Services (Zelle) and early work at MightyID, where he helped bring one of the industry's first dedicated identity resilience platforms to market. In this episode, Chris explains why moving identity to the cloud creates a single point of failure, why backup and recovery alone aren't enough, and why the next frontier is making trust portable, so applications aren't locked to a single identity provider. This episode reframes identity resilience as a continuity problem: not just recovering after an outage but keeping the business running through one. Guest Bio Chris Steinke is Director of Product Strategy at Semperis and a technology executive with more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, digital identity, infrastructure, and operations. Throughout his career, including leadership roles at American Express and Early Warning Services (Zelle), he has helped organizations build resilient digital ecosystems and defend against large-scale identity threats. As an early pioneer at MightyID, Chris helped bring one of the industry's first dedicated identity resilience platforms to market. Today, his work focuses on the future of digital trust, including identity resilience, multi-IdP architectures, and trust portability - the next evolution in ensuring business continuity in an identity-centric world. Guest Quote “We spent years making identities portable, and that's what we did really at the start. We were worried about the identities. So, the next challenge is how do we make trust portable?” Time stamps 02:11 Meet Chris Steinke: 20+ year Technology Executive 03:10 Why Identity Resilience Matters 08:43 Hidden Risks in Cloud Identity 15:52 Multi-IdP Failover Playbooks 23:06 Applications Are the Hard Part 31:46: The IRON Framework 37:35 Conclusion and Final Thoughts Sponsor The HIP Podcast is brought to you by Semperis, the leader in identity-driven cyber resilience for the hybrid enterprise. Trusted by the world’s leading businesses, Semperis protects critical Active Directory and Entra ID environments from cyberattacks, ensuring rapid recovery and business continuity when every second counts. Visit semperis.com to learn more. Links Connect with Chris on LinkedIn Connect with Sean on LinkedIn Don't miss future episodes Learn more about Semperis HIP Conference 26 is coming to Nashville, September 8–10, 2026. Join us to explore this year's theme, Redefining Resilience, at the world's premier practitioner-led conference focused on securing hybrid identity environments. If you love the conversations on the HIP Podcast, this is where the community comes together in person. Learn more and register at https://www.hipconf.com/ .

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  Episode #100

  Inside a Veteran CISO's Playbook for Crisis and Communication with Philip Keibler, VP and CISO at Meijer

  Aug 4, 202635 minS1

  This episode features Philip Keibler, Vice President and CISO at Meijer, one of the nation's largest privately held retailers. With nearly three decades of security leadership, including CISO roles at Bass Pro Shops and Finish Line, Phil brings a rare long-view perspective on what the job actually requires day to day. He also talks about his feature in Semperis' upcoming documentary Midnight in the War Room, premiering at Black Hat on August 5. In this episode, Phil explains why CISOs who struggle to get budget usually have a storytelling problem, how he defines success in a role where stopping every attack is impossible, and what it takes to lead a team through an active incident. He also dives into why fundamentals are what actually address most of an organization's risk. This episode makes the case that the hardest parts of the CISO job are rarely technical, and that mastering the basics matters more than chasing the newest tool. Guest Bio Philip Keibler has spent nearly three decades at the intersection of technology, risk, and business building information security programs that work in the real world. As Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Meijer, Phil leads security for one of the nation's largest privately held retailers, overseeing the protection of supply chains, customer data, and critical operations across hundreds of locations in the Midwest. Phil's career spans industries where the stakes are high and the margin for error is low. Before joining Meijer in 2015, he served as CISO at Bass Pro Shops and previously held the CISO role at Finish Line. Earlier in his career he led security at Herff Jones, bringing security discipline to the manufacturing sector. He began his career at EDS and spent years consulting in the Aerospace sector where he got his start in security. What sets Phil apart is not just longevity, it is perspective. He has watched information security evolve from a reactive, audit-driven function into a proactive capability that enables business velocity. His approach centers on integrating security into how organizations operate, not as a checkbox, but as a competitive advantage that lets teams move fast while managing risk in practical ways. Beyond the day-to-day, Phil is a passionate contributor to the broader security community. He has served as a guest lecturer on cybersecurity and data privacy at the University of Chicago Law School, sits on the Institute for Cybersecurity Education and Research Advisory Board at Grand Valley State University, serves on the IT Advisory Committee at Kent County Technical Center, and is a board member the Meijer Credit Union. He is also featured in Midnight in the War Room, a Semperis documentary examining the human reality behind enterprise cyber defense. Phil has held his CISSP certification since 2009, attained his MBA from Davenport University, and a career's worth of operational experience across retail, aerospace, insurance, and manufacturing. Guest Quote “A successful CISO understands that it's not about prevention, it's about resilience, it's about recovery, and it's about identifying those things in your program that you can do incrementally better every single day. We're in the pursuit of perfection, but we understand we'll never get there.” Time stamps 02:46 Meet Philip Keibler: From Sysadmin to Security 04:35 Becoming a CISO 06:20 What CISOs Really Do 08:50 Defining Success and Resilience 10:41 Storytelling to the Board 13:29 Semperis' Midnight in the War Room 17:47 Team Care and Crisis Leadership 21:47 Advice for CISOs 24:24 The Case for Mastering the Fundamentals 31:02 Conclusion and Final Thoughts Sponsor The HIP Podcast is brought to you by Semperis, the leader in identity-driven cyber resilience for the hybrid enterprise. Trusted by the world’s leading businesses, Semperis protects critical Active Directory and Entra ID environments from cyberattacks, ensuring rapid recovery and business continuity when every second counts. Visit semperis.com to learn more. Links Connect with Phil on LinkedIn Connect with Sean on LinkedIn Don't miss future episodes Learn more about Semperis HIP Conference 26 is coming to Nashville, September 8–10, 2026. Join us to explore this year's theme, Redefining Resilience, at the world's premier practitioner-led conference focused on securing hybrid identity environments. If you love the conversations on the HIP Podcast, this is where the community comes together in person. Learn more and register at https://www.hipconf.com/ .

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  Episode #99

  Why AI Makes Your Legacy Systems the Biggest Target with Andre Priebe, CTO at iC Consult Group

  Jul 21, 202647 minS1

  This episode features Andre Priebe, Chief Technology Officer at iC Consult Group, the world's largest independent provider of identity security services. Andre has spent more than two decades leading IAM projects for large-scale enterprises across workforce, customer, and device identity domains. As CTO, he steers iC Consult's Centers of Excellence, service portfolio, and vendor strategy, and advises strategic customers on shaping their identity programs. In this episode, Andre explains why the gap between identity security awareness and actual maturity is growing every day, and how AI is making it faster and easier for attackers to find the weaknesses organizations already know they have. He breaks down why recovery is the most underestimated phase of the NIST cybersecurity framework and what it really costs when organizations haven't prepared for it. This episode is a candid look at the state of identity security from someone who sees it across hundreds of organizations every year. Guest Bio Andre Priebe serves as the Chief Technology Officer at iC Consult Group, a vendor-independent system integrator specializing in Identity & Access Management and Identity Security with a global team of over 850 employees. Boasting more than two decades of experience managing IAM projects focused on workforce, customer, and device identities within large-scale enterprises, Andre steers the Centers of Excellence, the service portfolio, and vendor strategy at iC Consult. Andre's role involves a deep focus on emerging approaches, trends, and technologies within the IAM sector, assessing their business value for iC Consult's clientele. He is an innovator with a patent in DevOps-related IAM methodologies, and he holds a B.Sc. and an MBA. Guest Quote “Threat actors, for them, it's easier than ever before, faster, more efficient to identify that kind of technical debt, the weaknesses. They are not going for your latest Entra ID, conditional access, configuration with all the fancy stuff in place to really make sure that nobody else accessing that resource. No. They're going for the old systems, for old protocols, for areas that might be out of control, out of visibility. Third parties, contractors, unmanaged devices.” Time stamps 0:40 Meet Andre Priebe: Veteran IAM Expert 2:43 The State of Identity Security Awareness 4:51 The Reality of Technical Debt 6:16 How AI Is Changing the Attack Landscape 10:37 Zero Trust Is Mandatory but Almost Nobody Has Achieved It 15:06 What Customers Are Actually Asking About Now 19:19 Planning for Identity Recovery 26:08 The Most Underestimated Part of Recovery 29:56 Return to Trustworthiness vs Return to Operations 39:42 AI Agents and Non-Human Identities 44:02 Conclusion and Final Thoughts Sponsor The HIP Podcast is brought to you by Semperis, the leader in identity-driven cyber resilience for the hybrid enterprise. Trusted by the world’s leading businesses, Semperis protects critical Active Directory and Entra ID environments from cyberattacks, ensuring rapid recovery and business continuity when every second counts. Visit semperis.com to learn more. Links Connect with Andre on LinkedIn Connect with Sean on LinkedIn Don't miss future episodes Learn more about Semperis HIP Conference 26 is coming to Nashville, September 8–10, 2026. Join us to explore this year's theme, Redefining Resilience, at the world's premier practitioner-led conference focused on securing hybrid identity environments. If you love the conversations on the HIP Podcast, this is where the community comes together in person. Learn more and register at https://www.hipconf.com/ .

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