As organisations accelerate cloud adoption and digital transformation, identity systems have quietly become the single point of dependency for accessing critical applications, infrastructure, and data.

At the same time, rising geopolitical tensions, regulatory pressure around digital sovereignty, and increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks are forcing organisations to rethink the resilience of their security architecture.

Many current sovereignty discussions focus on where data is stored or processed. But true cyber resilience goes further: what happens if your identity infrastructure or cloud-based authentication services become unavailable?

If users cannot authenticate, businesses cannot operate.

In this session, Ingo Schubert, Field CTO at RSA, explores why resilient identity security must be designed to operate independently of cloud availability, ensuring organisations can maintain secure access even during outages, disruptions, or targeted attacks on identity infrastructure.

Attendees will learn:

• Why identity and authentication systems have become critical infrastructure for modern organisations

• The growing intersection between geopolitics, digital sovereignty, and identity security

• The risks created by cloud dependency in authentication architectures

• How organisations can design resilient identity security models that maintain secure access even when cloud services are unavailable

Join this session to explore how forward-thinking organisations are evolving their identity strategies to ensure continuous, resilient access to critical systems—regardless of what happens to the cloud.