identity
The Identity Visibility Gap: Why IAM Investment Alone Isn’t Enough Â
Identity must be treated not merely as an administrative function but as a strategic security control. Organizations that close the visibility gap don't just reduce their attack surface. They finally know what ...
Security Boulevard
Authentication vs Authorization: A 2026 Founder’s Guide
A founder's guide to the difference between authentication and authorization in 2026, with passkeys, agent auth, JWT pitfalls, and the mistakes I see at scale ...
The Customer Access Gap: When Enterprise IAM Meets Customer IdentityÂ
There's no slowing down the rise in customer expectations for real-time service and right-now fixes — and there's no turning back the complexity of SaaS- and cloud-powered customer ecosystems ...
Security Boulevard
I Spent a Decade Building a Password Company. Here’s Why I’d Tell You to Kill Yours
Deepak Gupta - Tech Entrepreneur, Cybersecurity Author | | Cybersecurity, future of passwords, identity, identity management, Passkeys, Password, passwordless
I spent ten years engineering, scaling, and defending password-based authentication for a CIAM platform that grew to a billion users. The lesson I took out of that decade is not the one ...
I Spent a Decade Building a Password Company. Here’s Why I’d Tell You to Kill Yours
Deepak Gupta | | Cybersecurity, future of passwords, identity, identity management, Passkeys, Password, passwordless
I spent ten years engineering, scaling, and defending password-based authentication for a CIAM platform that grew to a billion users ...
19 Billion Passwords Are Circulating. The Number Isn’t the Story
Deepak Gupta - Tech Entrepreneur, Cybersecurity Author | | Breach, customer data, Cybersecurity, future of passwords, identity, Password
Every headline put the 19 billion figure in 60-point type. Almost none of them mentioned that the unique entry rate is in the single digits. Here is what the number actually means, ...
19 Billion Passwords Are Circulating. The Number Isn’t the Story
Every headline put the 19 billion figure in 60-point type. Almost none of them mentioned that the unique entry rate is in the single digits ...
Identity Is the New Attack Surface (And Most Teams Aren’t Prepared)
Christine Castro | | Blog / Insights, identity, Identity Risk, Identity Risk Intelligence, surface attack
Security has shifted—but many strategies haven’t For decades, cybersecurity strategies have focused on protecting infrastructure: Firewalls Endpoints Networks But attackers have evolved. Today, they don’t need to break in. They log in ...
Your Next Employee Might Not Exist: LexisNexis Report Exposes the Synthetic Identity Explosion
The cybercrime landscape has always rewarded speed — smash-and-grab credential theft, rapid account takeovers, opportunistic phishing. But the LexisNexis Risk Solutions 2026 Cybercrime Report, derived from analysis of more than 116 billion ...
Security Boulevard
What Is CIAM? A Complete Guide to Customer Identity and Access Management in 2026
Deepak Gupta - Tech Entrepreneur, Cybersecurity Author | | Best Practices, CIAM, customer data, Digital Identity, guide, iam, identity, identity management, Learning, zero trust
CIAM is the technology layer that decides how your customers log in, what they can access, and how their data is protected. Here's a complete breakdown of what it is, how it ...

