Speaker details

Richard Sand is a veteran IT architect, engineer, and entrepreneur with twenty years of experience in security, identity and access management, and Cloud applications and infrastructure. He is the principal author of the Zero Trust cloud access management product, SSO/Rest. Richard starting his career at IBM, eventually rising to become the e-Business Security Services Competency leader for all of Scandinavia. After spending several years with the pioneering web access management company, Netegrity, he left to found Tripod Technology Group, a consulting company that provided Identity and Access Management expertise to enterprise clients. In 2013, Richard launched IDF Connect, Inc., a security software company focused on enabling enterprises to achieve full, Zero Trust web access management for Cloud-based applications. Richard has worked with corporations, universities, governments, and NGOs on three continents and in numerous countries. Comfortable talking business models with CEOs, architecting enterprise security platforms, or rolling up his sleeves and digging into code, Richard brings a wide range of experience and expertise in all things security to the table.