#444 - August 2026 Mailbag

Jeff and Jim open with the unavoidable topic of AI agents and the tension between enabling innovation and governing agent permissions, then run through a packed fall conference schedule. The August mailbag pulls questions from Singapore, Toronto, Prague, Johannesburg, Helsinki, and Seoul. They discuss when externalized authorization makes sense, why passkey recovery can become the weak link in phishing-resistant authentication, what EU digital identity wallets may mean for enterprises, how continuous access evaluation changes the meaning of terminating access, and how to build resilience around a centralized identity provider without creating a second full-scale IdP. The episode closes with a lighter question: if every IAM product needed a giant warning label, what should it say?

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00:10 - Welcome and have we talked about AI too much?

01:32 - Governing AI agents without becoming the progress prevention department

03:50 - Fall conference season and IDPro

04:40 - Cybersecurity Summits in Chicago and Atlanta

06:40 - SailPoint Navigate, InfoSec World, FIDO Authenticate, and Identiverse DC

10:40 - 3D printing, challenge coins, and superfan status

11:56 - August mailbag begins

12:19 - Singapore: Is externalized authorization ready for mainstream IAM?

20:30 - Toronto: Passkeys, account recovery, and help desk social engineering

25:55 - Prague: What should enterprises do about EU digital identity wallets?

31:44 - Johannesburg: Continuous session revocation and what “terminate access” really means

38:04 - Helsinki: Designing identity resilience around a centralized IdP

45:23 - Seoul: What warning label should every IAM product have?

48:26 - Wrap-up and how to send future mailbag questions

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