In my recap of RSAC 2025, I referenced the open letter that Patrick Opet, CISO of JPMorgan Chase, published in which he spoke about how essential security guardrails are being broken down by the lack of secure-by-design thinking in modern integration patterns within the SaaS world. His open letter challenged Cloud and SaaS providers to
Just wrapped up a packed, somewhat frenetic, but mostly enjoyable RSAC 2025 Conference. And if I had to sum it up in a sentence: AI is everywhere, but trust and control are still catching up. The conference opened with a shot fired across the bow of the security and identity industry. Patrick Opet, CISO of
It’s the end of an era: after eight incredible years, it felt like the right time to close the chapter on my story at Uniken. When I joined as CTO, Uniken was an ambitious startup with a unique core technology and a vision to make a global impact. What made the ensuing journey so rewarding
You would have to be living under a rock to have missed all the talk about Agentic AI, and how it is going to revolutionize the way we live and work. AI-powered agents will be anything and everything – from personal shopper to travel concierge, executive assistant to inventory manager, medical diagnostician to customer service
One of the wonderful, yet also daunting, aspects of being in the Identity industry is realizing just how far-reaching and all-encompassing its scope and boundaries are. It’s why we need more than just technologists and standards wonks engaged in driving the future of this industry. I’ve been on stage at Identiverse and other conferences for
Identiverse being the best identity conference around means that it’s always a challenge coming up with a talk proposal, as Andrew Hindle and team raise the bar each year. The process acts as a forcing function for me to think about the topics I want to bring to the community for discussion, topics that I
It was really nice of Elizabeth Garber to acknowledge me in the whitepaper that she co-authored with Mark Haine titled “Human-Centric Digital Identity: for Government Officials”. I recommend everyone read it, even if you aren’t in government, as it is a very strong and considerate effort to try and tackle a broad, complicated, but important
It is a testament to his enduring spirit that we all continue to find ways to cope with the absence of Vittorio from our identity community and from our lives. On the day that I learnt of the news, I poured out my immediate feelings in words. But as Ian put it so eloquently (like
I highly recommend that everyone read the “Human-Centric Digital Identity: for Government Officials” whitepaper that Elizabeth Garber and Mark Haine have written, even if you aren’t in government. Published by the OpenID Foundation and co-branded by twelve non-profit organisations, this paper offers a broad view of the global digital identity landscape, key considerations for government officials, and the path ahead to
Writing this post is hard, because the emotions are still fresh and very raw. In so many ways, I feel like I was only just beginning to know Vittorio Luigi Bertocci. Of course, we all feel like we “know” him, because he has always been a larger-than-life character operating at the very forefront of our
