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Talking Identity
An Architect’s Quest to make sense of the world of Identity and Access Management
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You Can’t Secure What You Can’t Explain

| | Continuous Identity, IAM Operations Management, identity governance, Identity Observability, Insight IdM, observability
When Ian mentioned the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in his LinkedIn post sharing the news of SGNL getting acquired by Crowdstrike, it led to a funny exchange between us. It also reminded me of ...
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Windows 11 Just Gave Passkeys a Boost

Windows 11 Just Gave Passkeys a Boost

| | Credential Managers, Cross Device Authentication, Insight IdM, Microsoft, Passkeys, passwordless, Passwords Must Die
You may have missed this recent announcement Microsoft made about adding native support for third-party passkey managers (commonly referred to as credential managers) in Windows 11. From the perspective of anyone committed ...
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For Digital Credentials, The FIDO Alliance Has Entered The Chat

| | Digital Identity, digital trust, FIDO Alliance, Identity Wallets, Insight IdM, Passkeys, Verifiable Credentials, Verifiable Digital Credentials
Getting rid of passwords has never been the end goal, not really. The mission has always been to make digital life simpler and safer for everyone, and to give organizations the ability ...
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Why I joined the FIDO Alliance

Why I joined the FIDO Alliance

| | challenges, Digital Identity, FIDO Alliance, Identity for Humans, IdM Standards, musings, Passkeys, Strong Authentication
I’m back from an exhilarating, albeit tiring, week at the FIDO Alliance’s annual Authenticate conference. As you probably already know, I recently joined the Alliance as Chief Technology Officer, which made this ...
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So much universe, and so little time

So much universe, and so little time

| | Andrew Nash, community, Identirati, Identity Family, musings, Personal, Remembrance
[Two of the best people in identity, and the world. And me] I’m on my way to SF to join many, many others in celebrating the life of handsome debonair man about ...
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Secure-by-Design has an Incentive Problem

| | CISO, Compliance, incentives, Insight IdM, secure by design, Security Architecture
In my last blog post, I argued that we don’t need more innovation invention to fix the broken state of SaaS and cloud security that Patrick Opet’s open letter was calling out ...
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The Innovation We Need is Strategic, Not Technical

| | Compliance, IdM Standards, Insight IdM, RSA Conference, secure by design, Security Architecture
In my recap of RSAC 2025, I referenced the open letter that Patrick Opet, CISO of JPMorgan Chase, published in which he spoke about how essential security guardrails are being broken down ...
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RSAC 2025: AI is Everywhere. Trust? Not So Much.

| | Agentic AI, AI, digital trust, Insight IdM, RSA Conference, rsac, RSAC2025, secure by design, security, Trust
Just wrapped up a packed, somewhat frenetic, but mostly enjoyable RSAC 2025 Conference. And if I had to sum it up in a sentence: AI is everywhere, but trust and control are ...
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Signing Off from Uniken: Thank You for the Adventure

| | Insight IdM, Personal, Uniken
It’s the end of an era: after eight incredible years, it felt like the right time to close the chapter on my story at Uniken. When I joined as CTO, Uniken was ...
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The Call Is About To Come From Inside The House

The Call Is About To Come From Inside The House

| | Agentic AI, Automation, Computer-Using Agent, Insight IdM, OpenAI, OpenAI Operator
You would have to be living under a rock to have missed all the talk about Agentic AI, and how it is going to revolutionize the way we live and work. AI-powered ...
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