The 2026 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index makes one thing clear: attackers don’t need zero-days when identity gaps remain wide open. With a 44% increase in public-facing application exploitation and more than half of disclosed vulnerabilities requiring no authentication, adversaries are scaling through credential abuse, privilege escalation, and session hijacking—not sophistication.

Identity is no longer an access layer. It is foundational infrastructure.

In this webinar, IBM security experts will examine how modern identity governance and dynamic secrets management—delivered through IBM Verify and HashiCorp Vault—directly address the attack patterns highlighted in this year’s report. Learn how to:

• Replace static credentials with short-lived, dynamically issued secrets
• Enforce least-privilege and risk-based access across workforce and machine identities
• Strengthen session management to prevent token theft and replay attacks
• Secure AI platforms, APIs, and service-to-service communication
• Reduce supply-chain risk by validating third-party and workload identity trust

Join us to see how integrating identity, access, and secrets into a unified security architecture reduces exposure, limits lateral movement, and turns identity from an attacker advantage into your strongest line of defense.

Speakers:

Bob Kalka, Global Lead IBM Security