The Cloudcast

Agents Are Identities Too: Identity Security After CyberArk with Amy Blackshaw

Brandon interviews Amy Blackshaw, Senior Vice President of Identity Marketing at Palo Alto Networks, about identity security in the age of AI agents. Blackshaw, who spent four years leading product marketing at CyberArk before Palo Alto Networks acquired it in February 2026, explains how identity management evolved from an IT operations task into a security discipline, and why identities now need to be protected across their full lifecycle. She walks through the three segments of identity sec...