The Next Step for Identity Professionals: De-weaponizing Identity Systems

As the identity industry has grown it has become more valuable to all stakeholders: our customers, our enterprises, and our employees. With this growth identity professionals have become more valuable as well, and we have recognized this increase in value by starting to professionalize our industry. Attackers, too, have noticed identity’s increased value, specifically the value of identity systems, and have begun turning identity systems meant to deliver value into weapons used to cause harms both large and small. In this talk, you will learn about:

• The state of professionalizing the identity industry
• How attackers weaponize identity management systems
• A maturity model for de-weaponizing those systems
• What you should next to protect your customers, partners, and fellow workers

As identity professionals it is our obligation to protect our systems. Our peers in security have made great strides in data protection, but it is time we take steps specifically designed to protect our identity systems; come learn what those next steps are.