Semperis Announces Keynotes for Hybrid Identity Protection Conference 2026

Tim Brown, former SolarWinds CISO, and Stuart McClure, veteran cybersecurity industry entrepreneur and investor, join hybrid-identity-first defenders at the award-winning conference, September 8-10 in Nashville.

HOBOKEN, N.J., April 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Semperis, the identity-driven cyber resilience and crisis response company, today announced that Tim Brown, former SolarWinds Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and Stuart McClure, a veteran cybersecurity industry entrepreneur and investor, will keynote the 2026 Hybrid Identity Protection Conference (HIP Conf), which will take place September 8-10 in Nashville. HIP Conf is the world's premiere practitioner-led conference focused exclusively on securing hybrid identity environments.

Tim Brown is a veteran cybersecurity executive and former SolarWinds CISO with decades of experience leading security strategy for global technology organizations. He currently serves as a General Partner and CISO in Residence at Team8.

"At HIP Conference, I am looking forward to sharing many lessons learned from the pressure of defending SolarWinds against nation-state-sponsored cyberattacks, the intense public scrutiny and the personal toll it took on my health," said Brown. "While at SolarWinds and throughout my career, I learned firsthand how relentless this work can be—and how vital it is for defenders to prioritize resilience, transparency and their own well-being." 

As a pioneering cybersecurity entrepreneur, executive, and investor, Stuart McClure has a long track record of building and scaling security companies. He is best known as the founder and former CEO of Cylance, where he helped popularize the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to endpoint security.

"Throughout my career as an entrepreneur and investor, I have focused on how artificial intelligence (AI) can fundamentally transform the way we detect and respond to cyber threats," said McClure. "At HIP Conference, I am excited to share lessons from building and backing AI-driven security companies and how AI can be augmented to help defenders reduce burnout and defend their own hybrid identity environments."

The 2026 program features a robust lineup of technical sessions and strategic insights from dozens of leaders across industry, government, and academia. Longtime HIP Conf advocate Alex Weinert—Semperis Chief Product Officer and former VP of Identity at Microsoft—returns to the stage for his fourth consecutive year. Additional speakers and sessions to be announced.

For more information and to register for HIP Conf 26, visit: https://www.hipconf.com/

About the Hybrid Identity Protection Conference
With the departure of original Active Directory experts and the rise of identity as the primary attack surface, the need for identity threat detection and response (ITDR) talent has never been greater. The Hybrid Identity Protection Conference (HIP Conf) is the premier educational forum for identity-centric practitioners. Whatever the industry sector or job function, HIP strives to provide its community with the insights and relationships needed to enable and protect today's digitally driven organizations. Learn more about HIP Conf 26 via our social media feeds:  X / LinkedIn / Facebook 

About Semperis
Semperis is the identity-driven cyber resilience and crisis management company trusted by the world's largest enterprises and government agencies to protect critical identity systems. Purpose-built for multi-cloud and hybrid identity environments—including Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, and Ping Identity—Semperis helps organizations prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from identity-based cyberattacks.

Modern cyberattacks are won or lost at the identity layer, where failures now escalate into full-scale business crises. Semperis' AI-powered platform unifies identity lifecycle defense and crisis management—hardening identity infrastructure, detecting and containing active threats, enabling rapid, trusted recovery, and supporting secure, out-of-band coordination when core systems are disrupted—all reinforced by a world-class identity forensics and incident response team.

As part of its mission to help organizations achieve true cyber resilience, Semperis supports the broader cyber community through the award-winning Hybrid Identity Protection (HIP) Conference and Podcast, and free identity security tools including Purple Knight and Forest Druid. More than 1,200 organizations—including over 25% of the 100 largest U.S. companies—rely on Semperis. The company is privately held, headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, and serves customers in more than 40 countries.

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