Innovative Identity solutions -- so tantalizing! So much promise! But the reality of ancient Active Directory, legacy PAM, outdated IGA, labor-heavy business processes and a very limited budget seem to keep that promise far out of reach. It's fun to dream about implementing the latest passwordless, post-quantum-enabled shiny thing -- but the reality is your AD is still on a functional level from when Bieber was cool. In this session, we'll do some real talk about the reality of legacy identity system technical debt… and how you can tackle it to make way for new solutions. Even better? We'll share strategies on how to prevent those new solutions from growing into their own tech debt monsters. Future-you would sure like present-you to come learn how!