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Happy 1st, AuthZEN! Time flies when you're forging P*P connections
We’re well into the “second conference season” of the year. Read on for more opportunities to gather with fellow authorization nerds in in meatspace!
But first, let’s take a moment to celebrate the AuthZEN Working Group’s first birthday. 🎂 Co-chair Omri Gazitt of Aserto provides a nice retrospective on the occasion.
🗓️ Events and Things to Do
Serious Cyber: The Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Summit is being held October 25 – that’s this week! — in Santa Clara, CA. You can get in free with our code CSS24-CRA, courtesy of Cyber Risk Alliance, the organizers of Identiverse
IIWXXXIX: No need to count on your fingers. That’s Internet Identity Workshop #39, also affectionately known as “2024b”. It’s coming up next week in Mountain View, CA. Connect with other attendees and enjoy the sessions. You could even convene some yourself – IIW is what you make of it: AuthZEN was conceived there!
We are also holding our (free) AuthZ Subscriber Social there, on Halloween.
Please coordinate by sending in your own plans for submitting IIW talks/
So efficient: Join Indykite on November 6 for a webinar on How to improve the security, scalability and intelligence of your access control.
NTX BBQ: Looking ahead to the Gartner IAM conference in mid-December, denizens of the authz community are gathering on the evening of December 10 nearby, at Barbecue-Based Access Control: an Authorization Community Hangout, sponsored by Venn Factory and Strata Identity. Space is limited, so if you plan to be in or near Grapevine, TX and want to join in, be sure to sign up!
Questions, questions: Curious about the state of the IAM industry? Wondering about the impact of authorization problems and solutions? Now’s your chance to let the IDPro organization know what questions you’d like asked in their next survey!
📚 Explications
David in the Hut: David Brossard of Axiomatics takes his turn being interviewed by Simon Moffatt for The Cyber Hut’s Vendor Introduction series.
BAC again: Confused about whether your Access Control modality is based? Pangea explains in RBAC vs ReBAC vs ABAC: Comparison and Guide on how to get started.
🚨 News
Whole new universe? Dropbox has announced Dash for Business, an intriguing “AI-powered universal search and universal access control” solution. The protect and control feature promises “Granular access control at the document and folder level”.
The access control and authorization technology for safely sharing across Dropbox was acquired from Nira, founded by KissMetrics creator Hiten Shah.
Nira will remain in business to “view and manage thousands of access permissions in one transparent interface” across Google Workspace, Microsoft Office 365, and Slack.
Bold move: Okta announced at Oktane last week that it’s spearheading a new standards effort dubbed IPSIE, or Interoperability Profile for Secure Identity in the Enterprise, to be housed at the OpenID Foundation. Several additional vendors have signed up for the proposition as well. Industry veteran Aaron Parecki is involved, a good sign.
New badge: Pieter Kasselman, another industry veteran, has joined workload identity company SPIRL as Director of Product Engineering. Congratulations on a new human identity for a pioneer of non-human identity!
Go for launch: Authorization company Permit.io is holding a launch week all next week. Check it out for new feature announcements!
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