09/28/2026
🎤 Speaker Spotlight | 23rd Annual IT Summit 2026
We are thrilled to welcome our next speaker, Grant Jones, Senior Solutions Engineer at Palo Alto Networks!
Grant Jones is a Strategic Solutions Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, working with the company's largest strategic accounts on identity security architecture and deployment. He came to the vendor side in 2021 after seven years running CyberArk as a customer — first supporting EPV, AIM, and EPM at CUNA Mutual Group, then as lead SME for the CyberArk program at American Family Insurance. He holds CyberArk Defender and AWS Solutions Architect certifications.
Session: The New Identity Battleground: Securing AI, Machines & Humans
As AI adoption accelerates across the enterprise, identity has officially become the modern battleground. Adversaries no longer breach systems - they simply log in using compromised credentials, stolen session tokens, or exploited service accounts. In this session, Palo Alto Networks introduces Idira, an AI-native identity security platform designed to unify, discover, control, and govern every identity across the organization. Attendees will explore how identity security has evolved in the era of AI, where non-human machine identities and autonomous AI agents now outnumber human employees by 109 to 1.
Key Takeaways:
The AI Paradigm Shift: Protecting machine identities and AI agents alongside human users.
Modern Threat Defense: Why credential attacks are surging and how legacy PAM leaves gaps.
The Idira Advantage: Unifying identity discovery, PAM, and governance into a single control plane.
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