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
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
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
Well, this is a big one for the identity industry. Two stalwarts becoming one. >> Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of ForgeRock; Combines ForgeRock into Ping Identity As someone who was there and in the thick of it during the last big merger of identity players, I wish all my (too many to tag) friends at
With this years Identiverse just over a month away (and the deadline to get the draft of my talk this year swiftly approaching), I was reminded that I never got around to sharing video of the keynote I gave at last years conference. It was very kind and a tremendous vote of confidence in me
Below you can find a version of the talk that I just gave at the European Identity Conference and at Identiverse talking about what I consider to be the missing element in Identity Management. Seems the curse that the A/V gods put on me at last years Cloud Identity Summit survived the conference rebranding, as
No, I’m not declaring another thing in identity management dead. Instead, I’d like you to join me in exploring something that has been bugging me quite a bit lately. Risk-based Authentication can cover a spectrum of capabilities, but most generically it is a passive authentication factor that tries to measure the risk of a particular
