By By David Ramel10/07/2026
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 00:00:00
Cybersecurity Expert: AI Raises the Stakes for Who — and What — Gets Access
A successful morning login shouldn’t settle the question of whether an employee’s actions are trustworthy for the rest of the day. As artificial intelligence makes impersonation more convincing and software agents gain the ability to act on users’ behalf, organizations need to evaluate the risk of what an identity is doing, not simply whether it supplied the right credentials.
That was a central message from technology author and former 22-time Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Brien Posey during today’s (Oct. 7) RedmondMag free online
event, Tech Spotlight | Beyond Passwords: Modern Authentication Strategies for the AI Age. Sponsored by Okta and Auth0, the event opened the Tech Spotlight series and is being made available for on-demand viewing.
“You’ve authenticated. We know proof positive who you are, but should we really trust what it is that you’re doing right this moment?”
Brien Posey, Cybersecurity Expert
Posey described a shift from treating authentication as a one-time event to evaluating identity, device health, behavior and the sensitivity of a requested action throughout a session. A familiar device and valid credentials provide useful evidence, but they don’t settle…
