On-premise identity resilience without giving up sovereignty: an alternative to Entra ID
Many organisations run their whole identity layer from a single site. Active Directory sits on-premise, a federation layer in front of it authenticates dozens of downstream applications, and remote access rides on the same chain. It works, until the site does not. A power, network …
How a European bank built its PSD2 strong authentication on its own identity foundation
A bank that sets out to add strong customer authentication usually expects the hard part to be the authentication itself: which factors to combine, which app to roll out, how to clear the regulator’s bar. The harder question often sits one step earlier. Where do …
On-Premise MFA and SSO Without Writing to Active Directory
If you run an on-premise Active Directory, a couple of hundred internal applications, and a security team that will not let any new tool write into AD or turn the directory into an application database, most modern identity platforms will gently explain that this is …
How AI Rewrote the Cyber Threat Landscape in Six Months
And why authentication fundamentals have never been more critical On February 20, 2026, Anthropic Shook the Cybersecurity Industry with Claude Code Security On Friday, February 20, 2026, Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI model, unveiled Claude Code Security, a new capability built into Claude Code …
The Illusion of Digital Sovereignty: Why Europe Must Reclaim Control of its Identities
I. The Brutal Awakening Throughout 2025 and into the turbulent opening months of 2026, escalating geopolitical tensions have shattered the illusion of cloud services as “neutral utilities.” The European Commission’s 2025 State of the Digital Decade report, confirmed what industry experts had been warning: Europe …