AI, the Access-Trust Gap & The Droids We're Looking For
May 05, 2025
I have been a Star Wars fan since the moment I took my seat in the theatre and saw Princess Leia's rebel ship trying to outrun an Imperial Star Destroyer. It's impossible to see that movie (or its greatest successor, Andor ) and not take the side of the underdog rebels, who are determined to escape the iron fist of imperial control. Of course, in my work as a security professional, "control" is the name of the game. I've spent as much of my career trying to stop my own end-users from going outside the lines as I have trying to guard against malicious outsiders. I personally still think I'm the good guy, since my ultimate goal is to protect sensitive data, but I understand why IT and security teams are often seen as the bad guys. After all, we do operate according to something called the "rule of no." It's not great branding, and increasingly, it just isn't working. Here's the situation in 2025: we have a galaxy's worth of diverse applications, devices, and user identities accessing...
