Securing Identity, Together: HYPR and WWT Bring Identity Assurance to the Advanced Technology Center

I’ve been going to RSA for over a decade now. Long enough to spot the cycle.This year the theme was AI — and it was everywhere. Every booth, every pitch, every keynote, some of it meaningful. Most of it is noise.

What stood out wasn’t the issues many are facing, but it was everything being labeled as AI...

Identity Is Still the Easiest Way In

When you strip away the AI narrative and look at what’s actually happening in environments today, identity is still where most attacks land.

What’s changing is how those attacks are executed.

AI is making social engineering more scalable and more believable. It’s easier to impersonate someone, create urgency, and push a real person into making a mistake.

But the success of those attacks still comes down to familiar weaknesses:

• Passwords that can be phished or reused
• OTPs that can be intercepted or socially engineered
• Recovery and helpdesk flows that rely on information someone else can gather

Most organizations have MFA in place, but there’s a growing awareness that not all MFA is equal.

At the same time, there’s real momentum around passwordless—passkeys, FIDO, device-bound credentials. That’s a meaningful step forward. It removes the most obvious target.

But almost every serious conversation gets to the same place:

How do you know the credential was issued to the right person?Not the account, the person. That distinction is where most identity programs have a gap — and where attackers have learned to look.

When something changes—device, location, —how do you verify that it’s still that person?

Identity assurance isn’t a new idea. What’s changed is the cost of getting it wrong.

A Partnership That’s Grown with the Problem

The gap between authentication and assurance is exactly where our work with WWT has evolved.

Early on, the focus was largely on passwordless—helping organizations move away from passwords and improve the login experience and security.

That’s still fundamental. But over time, the scope has expanded.

Now the conversations are just as much about:

• Verifying identity at onboarding
• Securing account recovery without introducing new risk
• Applying stronger verification when it’s actually needed

WWT has been right in the middle of those discussions with customers, which is part of what makes this partnership work.

I was talking with Todd Neilson, Global Head, Identity Security Solutions, recently about this, and he put it well:

“At World Wide Technology’s ATC (Advanced Technology Center), our mission is to bring the most innovative, forward-thinking solutions into a lab and learning environment for our customers, and that’s exactly why we’re so excited to welcome HYPR as a partner into this ecosystem. As identity plays an increasingly critical role in overall security strategy, organizations are looking for approaches that provide stronger assurance across both workforce and consumer use cases. Together, we are giving clients the opportunity to explore how Identity Assurance can help reduce risk while maintaining a streamlined user experience. The WWT / HYPR partnership is a great example of Securing Together.”

That idea—securing together—is really what this comes down to. Figuring out how identity functions across the full lifecycle, not just at the login screen.

The World Wide Technology Advanced Technology Center

One of the things WWT does particularly well is create an environment where you can actually test things—before committing to them.

The ATC isn't a demo environment. It's where organizations bring their actual architectures, their real constraints, and the edge cases that vendor decks never address — and test against all of it before making a call.

That’s especially important in identity, where a lot of solutions can look similar on paper but behave very differently once you start dealing with users, devices, recovery, and edge cases.

And that’s what makes this phase in our partnership meaningful.

Conclusion

RSA tells you where the industry wants to be. Getting back to real environments reminds you where the problems actually live.

Identity is still where things break. And more often than not, it’s not because organizations aren’t doing anything—it’s because the pieces don’t quite connect. Authentication, verification, recovery… they’re handled in isolation, and that’s where gaps show up.

That’s really what makes this next phase of our partnership with WWT meaningful.

Bringing the HYPR platform into the ATC isn’t about adding another solution into a lab. It’s about giving organizations a place to work through these problems the way they actually exist—across the full identity lifecycle, with all the edge cases that come with it.

Because at this point, the question isn’t whether you move beyond passwords. It’s how you make sure access is tied to the right person, every time it matters.

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