Recent thoughts and media appearances

  • SaviTalk: Rewriting the Rules of Identity Security

    One of the things I absolutely love about the identity industry is being able to have genuinely fun conversations about hard topics with interesting people, and, wow, did this podcast do all those things. The team at Saviynt were kind enough to ask Richard Bird and me to join them on their 2nd podcast episode. And since it was only their 2nd episode, we thought we’d bring a gift… which you can see in the glassware on the tables. Great people + great mystery drink yields great fun. Thanks again to David, Enrique, and Simon for being such great hosts!

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  • Identity and Privacy with The Data Diva

    Recent I had the profound pleasure to talk to Debbie Reynolds on her The Data Diva podcast. Debbie is a long time privacy professional and to be honest it’s been a while since I hung around one of those. It was awesome to dust off that part of my brain and talk about privacy concerns and identity. You can hear the podcast directly here as well as check out the transcript!

  • Authenticate 2024: Four Components of Modern Identity

    Over the last few months I have had the opportunity to talk about the ideas I’ve been kicking around about what modern IAM really is. I had the opportunity to bring a form of these ideas to the stage in San Diego at Authenticate 2024!

  • Joining SGNL!

    I draw energy from working with customers. From the smallest trying to scale to largest grappling with complexity – the opportunity to help fuels me.

    I didn’t realize until recently just how depleted my battery had become. Nearly a decade at Salesforce working with amazingly talented people had drained me. I 100% cherish the lessons I learned and skills I developed there. But over time, for a variety reasons, I was tapped out… and it took leaving to realize that.

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  • IDAC: Theorycrafting Modern Identity Architecture with Ian Glazer

    Last week I had the amazing opportunity to sit down with Jim and Jeff over at the Identity at the Center podcast and talk about my recent series of posts about modern IAM and an open IAM data model. As always it was an absolute blast! It was the first time I got to talk about both topics together and I am so grateful for the opportunity. You can head over to the IDAC site to have a listen or watch it right here!

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