# The Identity Gap Behind Nearly Every Breach | A Brand Spotlight Conversation with Kevin Surace, CEO of TokenCore

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Podcast: [The ITSPmagazine Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-itspmagazine-podcast-938250)
Published: 2026-06-24T12:21:01+00:00
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## Resource

Roughly ninety percent of successful breaches now begin by defeating the identity layer, and the multi-factor tools most companies just finished rolling out are exactly what attackers are walking through. Kevin Surace explains how AI turned faces, voices, and one-time codes into easy forgeries, and what it takes to prove a real human is the one logging in.

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