Mark Diodati is a Research Vice President in the Gartner for Technical Professionals research team. He provides guidance on a diversity of topics including IoT, IaaS, API protocols (such as OpenID Connect, OAuth and SCIM), identity in the cloud, multifactor authentication, federation, Azure AD and Office 365, and hybrid identity. He has contributed to many media organizations, including The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, NBC News, Forbes Magazine, CIO Magazine and The Boston Globe.