All field notes

Identity is the control plane

Cloud and SaaS security converge on one question: who can do what, from where, and how quickly can that access be contained?

The perimeter moved into identity

Modern environments are stitched together by workforce accounts, service principals, API keys, and delegated trust. One overprivileged identity can bypass layers of otherwise sound infrastructure.

Start with high-impact paths

Prioritize administrative roles, non-human identities, stale access, recovery mechanisms, and the systems that can mint new credentials.

Good identity security makes normal work easy, privileged work deliberate, and abnormal behavior expensive.