

Identity at the Center
Identity at the Center
Identity at the Center is a weekly podcast all about identity security in the context of identity and access management (IAM). With decades of real-world IAM experience, hosts Jim McDonald and Jeff Steadman bring you conversations with news, topics, and guests from the identity management industry. Do you know who has access to what?
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Oct 2, 2019 • 38min
Identity At The Center #14: KuppingerCole Consumer Identity World Conference Part 1
In this episode, Jim and Jeff talk about the first day of the KuppingerCole Consumer Identity World conference in Seattle, WA. Part 1 of 2.
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Sep 27, 2019 • 29min
Identity At The Center #13 - Conference Attendance Strategy with Jaime
In this episode, Jim and Jeff talk with special guest Jaime Lewis-Gross, Global Director of Solution Strategy at Saviynt, about how they pick which conferences to attend, how they figure out which sessions to attend, and their personal strategies for conference swag collection.
Top IAM Conferences:
RSA Conference
Identiverse
Gartner IAM Summit
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Sep 20, 2019 • 40min
Identity At The Center #12: Battling the Resistance
For this episode, Jim and Jeff talk about how to identify and battle against resistance to change that can happen when introducing IAM to an organization.
Top 12 Reasons Why People Resist Change:
https://www.torbenrick.eu/blog/change-management/12-reasons-why-people-resist-change/
Top 10 Common Pitfalls Of An IAM Program:
https://www.identropy.com/blog/new-ebook-top-10-common-pitfalls-of-an-iam-program
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Sep 13, 2019 • 37min
Identity At The Center #11: Managing IAM in the Hybrid Cloud
On this episode, Jim and Jeff talk with Morgan McNamara, a member of Identropy's crack engineering team, about a question submitted by listener Neil on approaches to manage identities across multiple cloud environments.
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Sep 6, 2019 • 43min
Identity At The Center #10 - South of the Border with Arturo Cordoba
On this episode, Jim and Jeff talk with Arturo Cordoba, Senior Advisor on the Cyber Security team with Cemex in Mexico, about the differences in IAM in Mexico compared to the United States, building IAM teams, and a hint of blockchain identity use cases.
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Aug 30, 2019 • 36min
Identity At The Center #9: Authentication Talk with Mario from Callsign
On this episode, Jim and Jeff talk with Mario Dusaj, solutions architect at Callsign.com, about his thoughts around creating a good authentication experience.
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Aug 23, 2019 • 39min
Identity At The Center #8: Talking IAM with Ash Motiwala
On this episode, Jim and Jeff talk with Ash Motiwala, Managing Partner at Identropy, about the history of Identropy, current IAM trends, and the future of IAM.
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Aug 16, 2019 • 45min
Identity At The Center #7: How the IAM Value Proposition Has Changed
On this episode, Jim and Jeff talk with Luis Almeida, VP of Business Development at Identropy, about how the value proposition for IAM has changed over the years. You can read his take here.
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Aug 9, 2019 • 33min
Identity At The Center #6: Black Hat 2019
Warshipping, US military CAC's on the way out, and how to identify Deepfakes... all topics of discussion brought to the table by Jeff who has his boots on the ground at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
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Aug 2, 2019 • 29min
Identity At The Center #5: What Just Left Your Wallet?
On this episode, Jim and Jeff talk about the recent news regarding the Capital One data breach and what might have been the motivations behind the incident. They also reference this video when talking about man in the middle attacks against two-factor authentication.
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