We in the identity and security industry have dug for ourselves a hole.  We have defined the concept of "secure" as a monotonically increasing ideal when in fact not every architecture needs every security feature every time.  We need to be able to define authentication and governance architecture best practices as a function of context and risk, not as a one size fits all dial that must spin to 11 every time.  Following up on her 2024 Identiverse keynote presentation, Pamela Dingle will put forward an architectural best practice recommendation that if socialized could begin to help us talk through multiple kinds of best practice for a real world that no longer benefits from a one size fits all mentality...