The Identity Navigator

In this episode of The Identity Navigator , Rohit explores workload identity from first principles: what it is, why it matters, and how it is reshaping modern identity security for microservices, Kubernetes, CI/CD...

In this episode we explore together the “uncanny valley” of identity categorization , where taxonomy looks mature on paper but doesn’t meaningfully change controls in practice. We talk about Taxonomic Debt and control...

In late November 2022, a little-known app called Lensa went from obscurity to everywhere. Celebrities, influencers, and millions of ordinary people uploaded their selfies and got back stunning AI-generated portraits...

Imagine this: Tuesday morning. Security dashboard green. MFA at 100%. Privileged accounts vaulted. Fortress built. Then an attacker logs in as your CFO via a stolen browser cookie. No password guess. No brute force...

In March 2016, a machine made a move in the ancient game of Go that changed everything. A commentator, a world-class professional, watched it and said: "This is not a human move." Lee Sedol, one of the greatest Go...

Most AI projects don’t fail because the models are dumb. They fail because the business questions are. In this episode, we breaks down why “95% accuracy” has become the most dangerous comfort blanket in enterprise AI...

23 People and One Visionary: The Birthday Paradox Lesson Steve Jobs Understood The birthday paradox, the mathematical reality that just 23 people create a 50% probability of shared birthdays reveals something...

In this episode of The Identity Navigator , I dig into how my favorite cloud secrets managers—AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager, Kubernetes Secrets, and HashiCorp Vault—can quietly turn into an...

Who Really Owns Your Consent? From Messaging Apps to Payroll System In this episode we discuss how to build a privacy-first payment ecosystem and are we ready to challenge the convenience-first mindset that says “Just...

Identity Governance & Administration didn’t arrive fully formed, it evolved. In this episode we walk through the journey of IGA. From homegrown scripts and spreadsheets to heavyweight platforms like Sun, Oracle, and CA...

Remember when smoking looked cool? For years in tech, holding root access was the same, a badge of honor, proof you were trusted, heroic, untouchable. In tech, we have our own “smoking”, permanent root/admin access. For...

Have you ever wondered why we haven’t discovered alien life? And how does this connect to IAM maturity, systems thinking, and organizational psychology? In this episode, I dive deep into the Fermi Paradox, explore the...

This episode was inspired by Ozark: A crime drama where a financial advisor is pulled into the world of money laundering Ever wondered why simply holding a token grants you access—no passwords, no challenges, just pure...

In the context of IAM, resource mining refers to theprocess of discovering, cataloging, and analyzing resources within an organization's environment to understand their structure, permissions, ownership, and access...

A self-healing IAM system enhances enterprise security by automating identity governance, mitigating operational risks, and ensuring adaptive security resilience. By leveraging this framework organizations cancreate...