Recent thoughts and media appearances
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Unpacking Life and Identity & Access Management on Identity Jedi
I had the amazing opportunity to sit down with David Lee, the Identity Jedi, and talk about IDPro, career changes, Identiverse, and more!
Unpacking Life and Identity & Access Management with Ian Glazer on Identity Jedi
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Deep Dark Secrets of IAM... Revealed! with the Cloud Security Podcast by Google
Years ago, I worked Anton Chuvakin at Gartner. He was in the Security team and I was in the Identity and Privacy team. Although we never had an opportunity to write something together, we definitely got to kick ideas around the teams and it was a blast.
Flash forward a few (ok, many) years, and I got to sit down with him and his partner in crime Timothy Peacock on their Cloud Security Podcast. As the name would imply, it’s a podcast about, well, cloud security. And here I come the IAM guy… and the sparks flew. Leaving aside Anton coming in super-hot about identity, it was an absolute blast to be on the show!
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Controls Intelligence in the Greater Whole
I was talking to a long time competitor/colleague/client/friend this week about identity governance and a variety of other identity topics. We were commenting that in some regards access certification and access policies have been stuck in bubble of amber: not a lot of innovation save the addition of some cluster analysis (marketed as AI.) In the course of the conversation I remember that a long time ago I had written a piece on the use of negative policy spaces for access governance. My buddy thought it would be fun to dig it up a repost it. So of I went to find this…
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Lessons on Salesforce's Road to Complete Customer MFA Adoption
What follows is a take on what I learned as Salesforce moved to require all of its customers to use MFA. There’s plenty more left on the cutting room floor but it will definitely give you a flavor for the experience. If you don’t want to read all this you can check out the version I delivered at Identiverse 2022.
Thank you.
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Memories of Kim Cameron
Reification. I learned that word from Kim. In the immediate next breath he said from the stage that he was told not everyone knew what reify meant and that he would use a more approachable word: “thingify.” And therein I learned another lesson from Kim about how to present to an audience.
My memories of Kim come in three phases: Kim as Legend, Kim as Colleague, and Kim as Human, and with each phase came new things to learn.
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