The enterprise security perimeter didn’t evolve; it dissolved, and what replaced it isn’t a newer, stronger boundary. It’s the absence of one. Today’s environment is dynamic and borderless, defined not by firewalls or network segments, but by identities: human users, service accounts, APIs, bots, workloads, and AI agents. Every access request, every system interaction, every automated workflow begins and ends with a credential. Identity was once the control plane for access. Now it’s the attack surface. The problem is that as identities have multiplied, visibility into them hasn’t. The result, what security practitioners increasingly call “identity sprawl,” is a fragmented…
David Canellos
David Canellos
David has built and led cybersecurity companies through zero-to-one growth, scale-up phases, and three successful exits — all while obsessing over culture. Before joining Axiad, he served as President and CEO of Ericom Software (acquired by Ericsson), Perspecsys (acquired by Blue Coat and later Symantec), and Cloakware Corporation (acquired by Naspers/Irdeto).