Samantha Holstine

Identity risk rarely announces itself. Most organizations grant access once and rely on periodic reviews to catch issues later, but in modern environments, identities, systems, and permissions change constantly. As teams grow, roles shift, contractors rotate, and cloud services expand, access models that were once accurate quickly fall out of sync. How do you manage access when nothing stays still? How do you govern permissions when roles, systems, and risk are always in motion? This session introduces adaptive identity and explains how it works in Identity Security Cloud, framing identity and access as a continuously evolving system rather than a one-time configuration. Focusing on ongoing signals, context, and change explains why static identity models fall behind and how continuous evaluation surfaces risk earlier. Adaptive identity offers a clearer way to understand identity risk, spot hidden assumptions, and reduce both security exposure and operational overhead as environments grow and change.