Name: Beyond the Buzz: Solving Real-World SSE Deployment Challenges
Start: 2025-08-05T13:48:00Z
End: 2025-08-05T13:48:39.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Welcome to the Xalient BrightTALK channel, your gateway to a world of secure connectivity insights and solutions.

Join us for regular dynamic webcasts tailored for IT leaders and security professionals seeking to secure their networks and identities within a zero-trust framework. Dive into topics such as identity governance, privileged access management, customer identity, software-defined networking, and cybersecurity technologies.

Our expert presenters will deliver actionable insights, best practices, and innovative approaches to tackling modern zero trust, identity and SASE challenges, empowering you to stay ahead in the ever-evolving landscape of secure networking. Whether you're a seasoned professional or a newcomer to the field, our content is designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to enhance your organization's security posture and resilience.

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This isn’t just another tech talk — it’s a front-row seat to the next wave of intelligent defence.
Featuring Special Guest: Ido Halevi, Director of Product Management at partner - Silverfort. 
Joining hosts Dave McGrail and Stephen Amstutz, Ido Halevi brings sharp insights from the frontlines of AI-driven security. Together, this trio unpack how Agentic AI is reshaping threat detection, identity protection, and autonomous response systems.

What You’ll Learn:

What Agentic AI really means for cybersecurity
How identity-based threats are evolving
Real-world applications and emerging trends
Predictions for the next 12–24 months in AI security

Whether you're a CISO, tech strategist, or just curious about the future of digital defence, this episode delivers clarity, foresight, and a few surprises.

Agentic AI: The Next Evolution in Cybersecurity

Dave McGrail and Jaye Tillson cut through the noise on the biggest shifts in security right now. From Black Hat insights to Palo Alto’s CyberArk acquisition, they discuss what it all means for SASE, Zero Trust and the growing importance of identity. Plus, why VPN replacement is more than just a tech swap — and how choosing the right partner makes or breaks SASE transformation.

From Black Hat to Boardrooms: Making Sense of the SASE Market Shift

As manufacturing environments become more interconnected and identity-driven, securing the industrial identity fabric is critical to operational resilience and cyber defense. In this 30-minute session, we explore why identity is now the new perimeter—especially in complex, hybrid OT/IT manufacturing ecosystems.

Join Martin, Dave and Jonathan as they unpack the evolving identity landscape at the industrial edge, covering:

- The convergence of IT and OT and its impact on identity security
- Managing non-human identities like bots, machines, and IoT devices
- Securing third-party and supply chain access with just-in-time controls
- Meeting compliance demands through automated identity governance

Securing the Industrial Identity Fabric: Tackling Identity Risk in Global Manufacturing

During this short webinar clip, we discuss the changes we've seen in role managed services an play in helping organizations build, support, and mature their Identity Security programs.  The topics include: 

o How the MSP market has matured (it's not just ticketing)
o The things you should know (but they don't tell you)
o How to get the most out of a MSP
o Client examples (SailPoint MSP and beyond)

This is taken from the four-part webinar that dives into the top identity trends shaping 2025. It can be found here:  https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/18470/642188

The Changing Role of IAM Managed Services

During this short webinar clip, we discuss the challenges of managing non-employee identities and whether SailPoint's NERM tool might be the right fit for your organization.  The topics include: 

o What's the sweet spot for NERM vs other tools?
o How we're seeing organizations use NERM
o Client examples (our unique use of ID Vetting with NERM)

This is taken from the four-part webinar that dives into the top identity trends shaping 2025. It can be found here:  https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/18470/642188

Is SailPoint's NERM the Right Tool for Managing your Non-Employee Identities?

During this short webinar clip, we discuss the challenges of integrating ServiceNow with SailPoint, best practices for getting it right, and the how to optimize the integration for fast ROI.  The topics include: 

o Understanding ServiceNow IGA capabilities vs SailPoint
o The three different types of integrations (How to know what order to do them in and why)
o The challenges you'll face and how to ease them
o Client examples (lessons learned)

This is taken from the four-part webinar that dives into the top identity trends shaping 2025. It can be found here:  https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/18470/642188

ServiceNow + SailPoint Transformation Done Right

During this short webinar clip, we discuss the challenges of RBAC, best practices for getting it right, and the impact that SailPoints AI-driven access modeling tool can have.  The topics include: 

o Why Roles and RBAC are so challenging
o How we've helped quickly create and implement enterprise roles using best practices and SailPoint's Access Modeling tool
o Guidance for how to prepare, refine, and maintain

This is taken from the four-part webinar that dives into the top identity trends shaping 2025. It can be found here:  https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/18470/642188

SailPoint AI-Driven Identity Governance in Action: Access Modeling

Battle of the Beards! During this conversation, Mike and DJ explore the history of non-human identities in cybersecurity and the current state of NHIs, highlighting trends and emerging risks that are often overlooked. They examine common misconceptions and the unexpected complexities surrounding NHIs, offering real-world insights into how organizations can approach this rapidly evolving issue. 

Attendees will gain practical strategies to manage and secure NHIs, ensuring they remain aligned with corporate policies and regulatory frameworks.

The Rise of Non-Human Identities: Insights and Strategies for Tackling the NHI Takeover

Adopting cloud-native Zero Trust security is no longer optional—it’s essential.

But transitioning from legacy tools to Secure Service Edge (SSE) requires more than just a technology upgrade.
Join us for a live whiteboarding session featuring Stephen Smithers, Director of Cyber Security at Xalient, and Brian Deitch, Global Field CTO at Zscaler. Learn how organizations can maximize the value of their Zscaler investments while delivering a seamless and secure user experience.

With expertise in Secure Service Edge (SSE) solutions, they’ll share insights on:
• Addressing today’s security challenges, including remote access, data loss prevention, and threat defense.
• How to navigate the complexities of ZTNA, CASB, SWG, DLP, and Firewall-as-a-Service in real-world scenarios.
• Best practices for deploying and optimizing Zscaler’s capabilities.

Whether you’re new to Zscaler or looking to refine your strategy, this webinar will provide actionable takeaways to help you drive better outcomes.

Seamlessly transition from legacy systems to Zscaler

In the webinar, Charlie Todd sits down with Stephen Amstutz and John Spiegel to discuss the Global Report findings from Xalient's SASE Report: Why SASE is the Blueprint for Future-Proofing Your Network in 2025 and Beyond.

The SASE Report: Why SASE is the Blueprint for Future-Proofing Your Network in 2025 and Beyond | Global Report

Martin Mascarenhas sits down with Jaye Tillson and Stephen Amstutz to discuss the UK Report findings from Xalient's SASE Report: Why SASE is the Blueprint for Future-Proofing Your Network in 2025 and Beyond.

View the report here:
Global SASE Report: https://xalient.com/global-sase-report/
UK SASE Report: https://xalient.com/uk-sase-report/

The SASE Report: Why SASE is the Blueprint for Future-Proofing Your Network in 2025 and Beyond | UK Report

Revisit David Morimanno's talk from this year's Xalient Summit 2024 as he examines today's cybersecurity landscape, it's challenges and how an integrated strategy across Identity, Cybersecurity and Networking can help tackle them.

How an integrated strategy solves modern cyber challenges and prepares for tomorrow

Identity is a bigger issue than most people think. On top of your users, how many machine identities have access to your network? How much access do they have? In this session, recorded at Cybersec Europe, DJ Morimanno explains why technology should not be the starting point to improve your security posture and shares our vision of a holistic, identity-centric approach to protecting your most valuable assets.

Why a Zero Trust Journey Starts With Identity

Many organizations are interested in establishing a resilient and comprehensive approach to IAM by building an Identity Fabric, but it's not always easy to know where to start and how to do it right. During this discussion, we'll explore how both IGA and Zero Trust principles can play a big part in maturing your Identity Fabric. 

Attendees will gain insights on identity governance, ensuring that access is approved and reviewed on a regular basis, and controls that enforce policy and ensure that they stay relevant and effective.  We'll also discuss how to establish a robust security framework that not only shields against unauthorized access, but also fortifies defenses against phishing, insider threats, and broader cybersecurity vulnerabilities. 

We will spend time on each IAM component to show what each should be delivering, and how they can interact. Finally, an IAM strategy approach is discussed, the often-missed components of an IAM Program. 

The topics covered during this workshop include:

+  Understanding the principles of Zero Trust.
+  Defining an Identity Fabric, including the capabilities and benefits.
+  Clarifying the important role that having an effective IGA strategy plays in maturing your Identity Fabric, and how to build one.
+  Outlining how an Identity Fabric can be effectively leveraged to implement each principle of Zero Trust
+  The role of IGA, PAM, and AM and how they expand with an Identity Fabric 
+  The role of compliance in IAM, and how to improve adherence to controls and audits 
+  The areas of an Identity Fabric that SailPoint addresses 

Bonus #1: Attendees of this IAM workshop will be eligible for a free 1:1 follow-up IGA/IAM Essentials workshop with Integral Partners.  We can also cover the SailPoint platform to help you understand their ecosystem so that you can make informed choices

Bonus #2:  We will be raffling off (4) Apple AirTags to those that attend!

Workshop: Building an IGA Strategy to Mature Your Identity Fabric

As high-profile breaches dominate headlines and decimate share prices, demonstrating your ability to protect client data has become the latest IT imperative getting boardroom attention, along with a host of new analyst and vendor-created labels for the ‘perfect’ solution. 

The people we talk to are still wrestling with cloud governance and shadow IT from a security perspective. 

We want to help those who are short on time and resources cut through the bewildering landscape of buzzwords and gold standards by offering some practical, vendor-agnostic advice on where best to start and how to get the biggest wins in reducing their firms' exposure to risk. 

We’ll be discussing: 

- How/where should you start transforming the way you address these risks 
- Microsoft E5 – can it do everything? 
- Where can you get the biggest bang for your buck in trying to reduce your organisation's exposure to risk?

Why the SSE vs SASE debate misses the point for legal IT leaders

Watch a Brief Technical Demo of Silver Peak SD-WAN

Are you currently researching SD-WAN vendors for your company? Experience a technical demonstration of Silver Peak Unity Orchestrator™ SD-WAN management software along with a bite-sized preview of our 5-hour hands-on certification workshops. As a Certified Deployment Partner, Xalient is expertly placed to help you explore Silver Peak's SD-WAN - get in touch at hello@xalient.com to book a full demo.

See What No-Compromise WAN and Security Looks Like

The "Work from Anywhere" culture has become firmly ingrained in the modern enterprise and is changing the architecture of the enterprise network, from the branch to the datacentre to the cloud. In this session, we will talk about Xalient’s offering built on the foundation of Fortinet’s unique security-driven networking approach to converge enterprise-grade security and networking for all network edges and the role it plays in the overall secure access services edge (SASE) framework. Fortinet recently announced the industry’s most comprehensive cloud-delivered security services enabling the hybrid enterprises to enable consistent security across all the users. Powered by our organic innovations in FOS, our SASE framework is fast to deploy and intuitive to manage, delivering an excellent user experience and better threat protection.

SASE: the key to securing your business transformation

Secure Service Edge (SSE) promises a transformative approach to network security—but many organizations struggle to translate the hype into real-world success. Industry leaders Martin Mascarenhas and Dave McGrail from Xalient join Jaye Tillson from HPE Aruba to unpack the realities of SSE deployment.

This discussion explores:

- Why SSE is often misunderstood—and how to align expectations across business and IT
- Common pitfalls in identity, policy, and application visibility
- Architectural friction in hybrid environments and SD-WAN integration
- Operational missteps that derail rollouts and how to avoid SSE fatigue

Beyond the Buzz: Solving Real-World SSE Deployment Challenges

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