Recent thoughts and media appearances
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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!
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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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2025: The year we free our IAM data
For the last 20 years, the digital identity market has been primarily focused on protocols and what’s transiting the wires; it has not been standardizing interfaces to data at rest. We have not thought about data-at-rest and the schema thereof since our LDAP days and inetOrgPerson1.
Over the last year I have been writing about what I think modern IAM looks like and what are the architectures we need to support it. Although I do not fully understand this moment in the market, I feel strongly that the future of IAM includes a robust data tier and near-real time events.
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How to begin building a modern IAM architecture
Congratulations Reader, you’ve made it to the last of part of my four part blog series on enterprise patterns for modern IAM! The journey started a few weeks ago in which I discussed principles that inform this approach to modern IAM. We then moved on to exploring ways to optimize controls for different kinds of systems that modern IAM needs to protect and enable. Last week we explored a notional architecture for a modern IAM architecture. And this week we end at the beginning or, more accurately, how to begin one’s journey to building a modern IAM architecture in their own organization.
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