SecureAuth CEO Geoff Mattson on the coming fraudpocalypse and the death of the password

Geoff Mattson is the CEO of SecureAuth, an identity security company that has raised over $200M and protects more than 50 million identities for enterprises. Before SecureAuth he was CEO of Xage Security. His work now centers on how you prove an AI agent is who it says it is. ---------------------------- 0:00 - Introduction & Passkeys as the Future of Authentication 0:30 - Guest Introduction: Geoff Mattson (CEO of SecureAuth) 1:13 - What it Actually Means to Prove Identity to a Computer 2:32 - How AI Agents Scramble Authorization and Permissions 4:45 - Scoped Delegation: Solving Authority for Agents and Human EAs 6:00 - Managing Complex Cloud Permissions & Policy Spaghetti 8:22 - The Death of the Password & How Passkeys Work 10:55 - Continuous Risk Assessment & Fighting Account Takeover 12:25 - Liability, Cyber Insurance, and When Agents Make Mistakes 14:53 - New Threat Categories: Hallucinating and Rogue AI Agents 17:35 - Executive Vibe Coding as an Emerging Security Threat 20:09 - Rating Agent Risk: Genetic & Epigenetic AI Footprints 23:56 - Democratizing Defense vs. Democratizing Hacking Attacks 25:52 - Deepfakes, Fraudpocalypse, and Defending Against Scams 27:50 - Safe Words, Email Passkeys, and Practical Defense Advice 31:33 - Applying Zero Trust Principles in the AI Era 36:26 - How Geoff Personally Uses AI Day-to-Day 38:52 - Bad Advice: Blaming Humans Instead of Security Controls 39:59 - SecureAuth's Mission & Solving Identity for "Ghost Employees" 43:13 - Leading SecureAuth Through its Next Chapter of Growth ---------------------------- Auren Hoffman is CEO of NQB8, GP at Flex Capital, Chairman of Dialog; former CEO of SafeGraph and LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP). Subscribe to Summation for weekly episodes on technology, business, and innovation. Geoff's socials: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreyamattson/ Auren's socials: X: https://x.com/auren?lang=en Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/auren/ Substack: https://substack.com/@auren