For more than a decade, cybersecurity professionals have repeated a now-familiar mantra: identity is the new perimeter. However, in many organisations, identity security remains fragmented, inconsistently governed and poorly understood across increasingly complex environments. As enterprises scale hybrid cloud infrastructure, adopt dozens of SaaS platforms and experiment with AI-driven automation, identity has quietly become the most expansive - and vulnerable - attack surface in the business. Modern enterprises run on a dense mesh of interconnected systems. Traditional directories sit alongside cloud identity providers, SaaS applications, developer platforms, and machine identities embedded in infrastructure...