Recent thoughts and media appearances
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25 Years
Well… that happened.
The “that” in this case is, as of mid-October, I have been in identity and access management for 25 years. With the recent passing of an industry legend and good friend, I have been a bit more reflective than usual and decided to do some of that reflection in public.
I started in the industry as a sales engineer. I was too dumb to realize that when my Sales VP from my current job at the time got recruited and brought me along to Access360 headquarters, I was being recruited too. (I never claimed to be the most perceptive person…) As IBM acquired us, I transitioned into product management… I think my boss was sick of me complaining about the product and thusly challenged me to fix it. From there I got exposed to the much larger world of both a ginormous company but also the larger industry.
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Talking Continuous Identity Fundamentals with SGNL
I had an absolutely blast kicking off SGNL’s Continuous Identity Sessions by talking about some fundamental topics. Setting the stage for what is to come, Dustin and I talked through what is continuous identity and how people can get started.
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A debt of gratitude
This is not a post I ever wanted to write.
Recently one of the legends in the identity industry, Andrew Nash, passed away. Andrew was many things to me: a friend, a great foil for an argument, and a teacher. Professionally speaking, he was the example of an identity executive; he was both a preposterously big-brained identity expert and a seasoned corporate leader. He was an old school PKI operator, assembled a legendary team at PayPal, ran Google Identity, and so many, many, many more things.
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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!
