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Chris Owen, Director of Product Management at Savyint is to deliver a presentation on Worlds Collide: The Importance of Convergence in IAM on Tuesday, September 14 starting at 8:30 pm at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Chris some questions about his planned presentation. When worlds collide is an interesting subject. What does it actually mean and what is colliding?  Worlds colliding is essentially looking at the different markets that exist within the identity space. So in particular, if we take privileged access management (PAM) and...

Carsten Stöcker, co-founder and CEO at Spherity is to deliver a presentation on How an Entire Industry Adopts Digital Enterprise Identity on Wednesday, September 15 starting at 3:30 pm at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Carsten some questions about his planned presentation. How would you describe the current state of the digital identity sector? The current state is determined by industry players and governments that are realizing the importance of digital identity. It's a part of digital identity for interactions on the internet...

Eric Newcomer, Chief Technology Officer at WSO2 is to deliver a presentation entitled The Rise of the Developer in IAM on Monday, September 13 starting at 6:40 pm at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Eric some questions about his planned presentation. What significant identity projects have you been involved in? Well, long time ago, I did an application for Salomon Ski for their warehouse subsidiaries around the world. And for that application - because there was no solution - I had to create my own identity management service. So, I...

Mike Kiser, Senior Identity Strategist at SailPoint and passionate storyteller, is to deliver a presentation entitled Identity Is the New Blue on Monday, September 13 starting at 6:00 pm. at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Mike some questions about his planned presentation. Why use the history of a color as an analogy for identity?  Great question. I think as I tend to think about identity and other technology and innovation, what fascinates me most is not even how much the technology works, but how it impacts society, how it impacts...

I’ve always been a bit baffled by the enduring popularity of MySQL. I mean, it’s great and we have been using it in many internal projects for years, but what makes it so popular even nowadays, when the competition from other vendors, commercial or open-source, is so strong? And yet, 26 years after the first release, MySQL is still the most popular open-source database in the world, an integral part of every web development stack, the one product you expect to find on every hosting platform, and, of course, in every public cloud. MySQL: a database for all applications?...

Graham Williamson, Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole, is to deliver a presentation entitled Meeting Expectations – 5 pillars for IoT project success on Tuesday, September 14 starting at 7:20 pm. at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Graham some questions about his planned presentation. How would you describe the current state of the IoT industry sector? If there was one word to use to characterize the current state of the IT sector, it would be ‘exciting.’ The current situation we have is over the last few years, there has...

Vittorio Bertocci, Principal Architect at Auth0, is to deliver a presentation entitled Browser Features vs. Identity Protocols: An Arms Race? on Tuesday, September 14 starting at 9:50 am. at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Vittorio some questions about his planned presentation. Why are browser vendors introducing changes in their products that impact how we do identity today? Browser vendors really mean well. What they are doing is looking out for the users and we know that today, one of the big engines of the economy is the ability of...

Peter Busch, Product Owner Distributed Ledger Technologies Mobility at Robert Bosch Group, is to deliver a presentation entitled Trust as the Key Concept in Future Mobility on Tuesday, September 14 starting at 3:30 pm. at EIC 2021 . To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Peter some questions about his planned presentation. What are the problems of the identity's status quo today? Yeah, the identity status quo today. This is a tricky question because what we see these days is we get more and more in this area where we need identity, where you need to...

Microsoft last week announced another acquisition, a few days after announcing the acquisition of RiskIQ . This next acquisition is CloudKnox Security , a vendor offering unified privileged access and cloud entitlement management. These technologies, sometimes also referred to as CIEM (Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management), are essential for getting a grip on entitlements and access to cloud resources in multi-cloud and multi-hybrid environments. Permission Management for hybrid cloud infrastructures The CloudKnox Cloud Permissions Management Platform delivers a range of...

Women in Identity exists to foster new relationships and mentorship between women in technical fields and beyond. At EIC 2021 , Dr. Angelika Steinacker and Dr. Barbara Mandl will hold a pre-conference workshop on Monday, September 13 starting at 9:00 am. To give you sneak preview of what to expect, we asked Angelika and Barbara some questions about their planned workshop. Which audience do you hope to attract for your joint workshop on Women in Identity? We are hoping for a very diverse audience. We are addressing everyone who is currently working or planning to work...