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Passkeys, Two Years In: What Your Enterprise Rollout Actually Looks Like
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Security February 18, 2026 8 min read

Passkeys, Two Years In: What Your Enterprise Rollout Actually Looks Like

Passkeys were the future in 2024. By 2026 they're the present, the future, AND the helpdesk ticket about a lost iPhone all at once. A field report from the enterprise rollout trenches.

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What Your Manager Means When They Say 'Agent Identity'
IAM

What Your Manager Means When They Say 'Agent Identity'

Your company runs AI agents now. Those agents need to log in to things. The existing IAM stack — designed for people — handles this approximately as gracefully as a cat handles a bath. A practical primer.

January 30, 2026 9 min read
Identity Governance in 2025, or: Why Your Service Accounts Are Still Calling From a Payphone
IAM

Identity Governance in 2025, or: Why Your Service Accounts Are Still Calling From a Payphone

Identity Governance is having a moment. Meanwhile, half your service accounts haven't rotated a password since the second Obama administration. A field guide for the unglamorous middle.

December 10, 2025 7 min read
Jira Service Desk Optimization, or: How I Learned to Love SLA Breach Forecasts
ITSM

Jira Service Desk Optimization, or: How I Learned to Love SLA Breach Forecasts

Scaling a service desk past a few thousand tickets a month surfaces every shortcut you ever took. Three patterns that move the needle without buying another dashboard.

October 22, 2025 5 min read
Automating MFA Enrollment Without Becoming a Helpdesk Punching Bag
Security

Automating MFA Enrollment Without Becoming a Helpdesk Punching Bag

The technology side of MFA is solved. The human side is a thousand variations of \"I left my phone at home\". A walkthrough of the three changes that took our enrollment ticket volume from 'apocalyptic' to 'tolerable'.

August 14, 2025 10 min read
From Helpdesk to IAM Analyst: The Roadmap I Wish I'd Had at the Start
Career

From Helpdesk to IAM Analyst: The Roadmap I Wish I'd Had at the Start

Moving from end-user support into IAM is one of the most common upgrade paths in IT — partly because the work is adjacent, partly because hiring managers can pattern-match the resume in 30 seconds. Here's how to make that match easier for them.

June 5, 2025 9 min read
Active Directory Hygiene: The Boring Security Win That Will Save Your Weekend
IAM

Active Directory Hygiene: The Boring Security Win That Will Save Your Weekend

Across five years of post-incident reviews for credential-based breaches, 'the attacker used a dormant account' is in the top three root causes. The fix is unglamorous, cheap, and almost nobody does it on a schedule.

April 18, 2025 6 min read
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