Analyst Chat #304: Agents, Fabric, and the Unfinished Business of IAM, A Look Back at EIC 2026

Four weeks after EIC 2026 in Berlin, Matthias Reinwarth and Phillip Messerschmidt sit down to reflect on what the European Identity and Cloud Conference revealed about the state of identity and access management and what it means for the year ahead. Spoiler: agentic AI dominated, but it wasn't the only story.

Key Topics:

✅ Agentic AI as a new class of insider threat — autonomous, non-deterministic, and without ethics
✅ Data-centric defense vs. agent discovery: protect the vault, not the crowd
✅ Why dynamic authorization and behavior analytics are the IAM industry's urgent next step
✅ Data sovereignty and geopolitics: eroding trust in non-European SaaS vendors
✅ AuthZEN wins the EIC Award — a standard built before anyone knew the problem it would solve
✅ Martin Kuppinger's closing keynote: "Everything we failed to solve in the past decades bites back now"

"An agent behaves like a human insider threat — but without any sense of right or wrong." If your IAM program isn't ready for that, this episode is required listening.