Webinar Description
Key Takeaways
- Examines why AI security incidents often trace back to traditional identity failures rather than novel attack vectors
- Addresses limitations of multi-factor authentication and token-based access in the current threat landscape
- Focuses on continuous identity verification beyond the initial login event
- Designed for enterprise security leaders, IAM specialists and C-level executives
About the Webinar
Who’s Really Acting? The New Identity Problem Behind AI Threats is a live webinar hosted by Ping Identity as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The session features presentations from Alex Laurie and Matt Berzinski of Ping Identity, who will examine recent developments in AI-related cyber risk and their implications for identity and access management.
The Identity Problem Behind AI Threats
The webinar challenges the assumption that AI security threats represent entirely new attack categories. According to the presenters, the most concerning AI security incidents stem from familiar identity failures: overprivileged access, stolen sessions, long-lived tokens, weak delegation and unclear ownership. These vulnerabilities become more exploitable as organisations deploy AI agents and automated systems that interact with enterprise resources.
The session will address why conventional security controls are proving insufficient. Confirming that MFA is enabled or that an agent possesses a valid token no longer provides adequate assurance when the actor behind that authentication may be a bot, a compromised account or an AI system operating beyond its intended scope.
Continuous Identity Verification
A central theme of the webinar is the shift from point-in-time authentication to continuous identity verification. Rather than treating login as a single trust decision, the presenters argue that identity must be validated at every moment of action. This approach addresses scenarios where legitimate credentials are hijacked mid-session or where automated agents exceed their authorised scope.
Who Should Attend
The webinar is aimed at enterprise security leaders, IT and cybersecurity professionals, and identity and access management specialists. C-level executives including CIOs, CISOs and CTOs will find the content relevant, as will security architects and engineers responsible for designing access control frameworks. The session is particularly suited to organisations evaluating their security posture against AI-enabled threats and those concerned with digital identity risks in environments where automated agents interact with enterprise systems.