The Hidden Dangers of AD CS with Jake Hildreth, Principal Security Consultant at Semperis

Passkeys are now the default authentication method in Entra ID. How do you roll out passkeys at your company without breaking the user experience—or the business? This episode features Nathan McNulty, Microsoft MVP and Principal Security Solutions Architect at Patriot Consulting, and Eric Woodruff, Microsoft MVP and Chief Identity Architect at Semperis, who explain what you need to know about timing the shift to passkey authentication, the dangers of hanging back, the technical details you need to bridge the transition, and how “phishing-resistant” changes attacker tactics.

Recorded live at Black Hat 2026, this episode features Sarah Gosler, Managing Director and Head of Cyber Resiliency and Human Defense at Wells Fargo. Sarah and Sean discuss why humans are the largest attack surface rather than the weakest link, how AI has industrialized social engineering, and why simple human-centric tools like safe words are becoming critical defenses against deepfakes.

This episode features Wylie Shanks, a cybersecurity consultant who leads an OT cybersecurity program for a large North American energy company. In this episode, Wylie explains how operational technology environments are actually built, why Active Directory quietly became critical infrastructure inside them, and why resilience is now the measure that matters most.

This episode features Marc Jason Grens, President of Chaintrax.

This episode features Chris Steinke, Director of Product Strategy at Semperis, a technology executive with more than 20 years of experience across cybersecurity, digital identity, and infrastructure. In this episode, Chris explains why moving identity to the cloud creates a single point of failure, why backup and recovery alone aren't enough, and why the next frontier is making trust portable, so applications aren't locked to a single identity provider.