Rohit Agnihotri, VP of Identity and Access Management at one of the largest insurance companies in the US and host of the Identity Navigator podcast, joins David Lee for a conversation with no script and no prep. Just two practitioners who have lived through every era of identity, talking about where it goes next.
SOX gave us IGA. The cloud forced us to rethink access. Now AI is making us start from first principles: what is an agent, what is autonomy, what is intent? Rohit and David get into IGA and PAM converging into one platform, why founders are nervous when a hyperscaler's "good enough" is free, and how AI reopens the build-versus-buy debate that CFOs are about to start asking about.
They also cover why information is cheap but expertise isn't, why you have to embrace the chaos, the most common mistake identity leaders make (talking business in the tech room and tech in the business room), and why identity is still the best place to start a career.
"You can be frugal, but you cannot be cheap."
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
7:52 Meet Rohit Agnihotri
10:01 Identity's inflection points: SOX, cloud, and AI
13:46 IGA and PAM converge into a platform
18:16 The founder's dilemma: fast exits and "good enough"
20:44 Build vs. buy in the AI era
28:56 Frugal, not cheap
34:15 Strategy first: cutting through the acronym soup
41:55 Information is cheap, expertise isn't
44:37 Embrace the chaos
53:47 Why identity is the place to build a career
58:20 Closing
Listen to Rohit on Identity Navigator, available on Spotify and all major podcast platforms.
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