Modern attacks increasingly abuse credentials, tokens, service accounts, and machine identities, making privilege control central to security.
Len Noe — Solutions Architect at BeyondTrust
Jun 22, 2026
Modern attacks are not primarily defeating infrastructure. They are inheriting trust.
Identity Did Not Become Important. It Became Infrastructure.#
Security teams still talk about identity as though it is one security discipline among many, sitting beside endpoint protection, cloud security, network defense, and vulnerability management. That framing no longer reflects how modern enterprises actually operate.
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