Identity Bytes

I came up with this idea related to the Introduction to Identity talk I’ll be performing at Identiverse on Monday at 1:30pm PDT.

Back at Identiverse in 2022, as I completed my final term as a founding member of the Board of Directors at IDPro and my one year as its Chair, my emotions were mixed and fairly intense.

If you’re a member of IDPro, you already know part of this story, at least the professional version.

(note: this is a writeup of a talk that I gave at DerbyCon 2019 and at UNCC’s CyberSecurity Symposium in 2020.

I’ll be the first one to admit that I jumped the gun a little when Twitter announced that their founder, Jack Dorsey, had his account hijacked.

This talk was originally given at RSA, but I was able to do an expanded version recently at IT Hot Topics.

“Think of everything you do in terms of a rheostat, rather than a switch.”

I’m not writing this to shame a company, though I do plan to share this post with them in hopes that they can make some adjustments that will benefit customers in the future.

(Note: this topic is background for a panel that I’m participating on June 20th at the Cloud Identity Summit, in Chicago, Illinois.

(photo credit: Brian Campbell) I think teaching eviscerated my time for blogging.