{"podcast":{"title":"Identity at the Center","slug":"identity-at-the-center-344918","podcast_index_feed_id":344918,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/c5fefcc/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://idacpodcast.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/1976139/1976139-1687984222617-91fa1466c536c.jpg","author":"Identity at the Center","episode_count":433,"summary":"Identity at the Center is a weekly podcast all about identity security in the context of identity and access management (IAM). With decades of real-world IAM experience, hosts Jim McDonald and Jeff Steadman bring you conversations with news, topics, and guests from the identity management industry. Do you know who has access to what?","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T18:19:10.496727+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/identity-at-the-center-344918"},"episode":{"title":"#415 - Identity Management Day 2026 with Jeff Reich","slug":"415-identity-management-day-2026-with-jeff-reich","published_at":"2026-04-13T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/identity-at-the-center-344918/415-identity-management-day-2026-with-jeff-reich","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/identity-at-the-center-344918","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/identity-at-the-center/episodes/415---Identity-Management-Day-2026-with-Jeff-Reich-e3hgh0d","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/c5fefcc/podcast/play/118030797/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-6%2F5acf6f98-cd89-0e18-8630-8e6518480b2b.mp3","summary":"Jeff and Jim welcome back five-time guest Jeff Reich, Executive Director of the Identity Defined Security Alliance, just ahead of Identity Management Day 2026 on April 14th. Jeff walks through the structure of the 21-hour global event, this year's theme of Finding Identity: The Search for You, Me, and the Machines, and highlights from each regional program including a remarkable 11th grader presenting on cybersecurity and neuroscience. The conversation expands into AI guardrails, the growing obsolescence of traditional PAM, zero standing privilege as a long-term goal, the march toward a passwordless world through passkeys, and what quantum resilience actually means for practitioners today. Connect with Jeff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jreich/ Learn more about the Identity Defined Security Alliance: https://www.idsalliance.org/ Connect with us on LinkedIn: Jim McDonald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmcdonaldpmp/ Jeff Steadman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsteadman/ Visit the show on the web at http://idacpodcast.com Timestamps: 00:00 Welcome and podcast life behind the scenes 02:00 Identiverse 2026 updates and conference discount codes 05:00 Introducing Jeff Reich, Executive Director of IDSA 07:00 Identity Management Day: structure of a 21-hour global event 11:00 Oceania and Asia region highlights 13:30 EMEA highlights and powerhouse panelists from Copenhagen 16:00 Americas region and the 11th grader presenting on cybersecurity 20:00 Theme reveal: Finding Identity, The Search for You, Me, and the Machines 23:30 AI and identity: guardrails, frameworks, and what organizations are missing 28:30 Standing privilege is crumbling in the age of ephemeral workloads 30:00 Is traditional PAM becoming obsolete? 34:30 Zero standing privilege and the passkey journey 40:30 Gettin…","meta_description":"Jeff and Jim welcome back five-time guest Jeff Reich, Executive Director of the Identity Defined Security Alliance, just ahead of Identity Management Day…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3701,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/identity-at-the-center-344918/episodes/415-identity-management-day-2026-with-jeff-reich/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/identity-at-the-center-344918/415-identity-management-day-2026-with-jeff-reich.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}