{"product_id":"defensible-identity-architecture-kieran-upadrasta-9798180389169","title":"Defensible Identity Architecture: Nobody Authorised the Machine","description":"Your enterprise is now run by machine identities no board can name. Service accounts, API keys, and autonomous AI agents outnumber your people forty to one - and they act without a human in the loop. When one moves money, exposes data, or breaches a client, the regulator asks a single question: who authorised this? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnder NIS2 and DORA, \"we did not know the system would do that\" is no longer a defence - it is a personal liability that lands on the management body. The human perimeter has fallen, and authority now drains into a Delegation Void: the gap where a machine acts with real-world consequence and no named human can be found to own it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDefensible Identity Architecture is the board-level operating model for governing the non-human enterprise. It puts a named human behind every machine that acts, an architecture that proves it after the fact, and a commercial edge that turns control into won contracts. Built on a coherent, verifiable doctrine - the Machine Accountability Doctrine(TM), Decision Rights Architecture(TM), and the Access Evidence Chain(TM) - it shows you how to: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- WIN regulated, high-value contracts on the strength of your security annexe.\u003cbr\u003e- AVOID director liability under NIS2 Article 20 and the voiding of cyber-insurance cover.\u003cbr\u003e- PROVE every consequential machine action back to a named, accountable owner. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a working manual, not a thesis. Eleven board-ready diagrams, a five-level maturity model, a quantified (FAIR-aligned) risk method, a procurement clause library, a regulatory crosswalk across DORA, NIS2 and the EU AI Act, and a 24-month roadmap make it a reference you will return to every week. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEssential reading for CISOs, identity and AI-governance leaders, security architects, risk-committee chairs, and procurement and supplier-risk teams across financial services and every regulated enterprise preparing for the 2030 regulatory horizon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If it cannot be evidenced, it cannot be defended.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kieran Upadrasta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180389169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Kieran Upadrasta","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665705406719,"sku":"9798180389169","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/defensible-identity-architecture-kieran-upadrasta-9798180389169","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}