Michael Schwartz

Mike Schwartz is the Founder of Gluu, a security software company serving companies, governments and universities around the world.

Schwartz is a domain expert in application security, authentication and API access management. The Gluu Server is one of the leading implementations of OpenID Connect. Schwartz has participated in the development of standards like the User Managed Access (UMA) profile of OAuth2, a new standard for API access management. He also is Co-chair of the Open Trust Taxonomy for OAuth2 (OTTO), a working group at Kantara to create new standards for multiparty federation. Before starting Gluu, Schwartz was a security integrator for many large enterprises. He also was the Founder of a New York ISP in the ’90s. He now resides with his family (and pigeons) in Austin, TX.