Identity as the Control Plane

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Identity as the Control Plane

Combined Session
Thursday, November 26, 2026 10:30—11:30

PANEL: When Identity Is the Perimeter, Who's Actually Watching the Wall?

10:30—10:50

Christopher Schütze

Cybersecurity Practice Director & Chief Information Security Officer

KuppingerCole Analysts

Christopher Schütze has been working as Director Practice Cybersecurity and Lead Analyst for KuppingerCole Analysts AG since 2019. Prior to that, he was Head of Cloud Security at an auditing...

Charlene Spasic

Senior Advisor

KuppingerCole Analysts

Charlene Spasic joined KuppingerCole and is a Senior Advisor. Prior to this, she was primarily focusing on IAM from a functional perspective aiming to build the bridge between business and IT...

AI Changes the Game: Why IAM Becomes Your First Line of Defense [Intermediate]

10:50—11:10

AI-powered attacks bypass traditional perimeter security in seconds, rendering conventional defense models insufficient. Identity emerges as one of the most critical control points in modern cybersecurity architecture. This talk covers the underlying concepts and illustrates them in examples, among others from the Siemens identity landscape.

Thomas Parsch

Senior Key Expert

Siemens AG

Thomas Parsch is a Senior Key Expert for cloud computing at Siemens IT, where he applies his expertise in advancing the API-first strategy across diverse projects such as financial services,...

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