We are currently working on the IAM 2022 agenda, check out the highlights from the 2021 agenda in the meantime.
2021 topic highlights
Privileged Access Management
Learn new ways to improve PAM with DevOps. Architect to limit breaches and enhance security and agility.
Identity Governance and Administration
IGA provides compliance and data protection benefits and enables management of the user life cycle across heterogeneous applications.
Security and Privacy
Privacy is shaking up identity and access management. IAM leaders need to be prepared to address issues of compliance and customer confidence.
Hybrid and Multicloud IAM
Update your strategy for hybrid and multicloud environments. Hone the way you support single sign-on and bridge gaps in evolving platforms.
Multifactor Authentication and Fraud Detection
Hear the latest insights on MFA and fraud protection. Use analytics to tighten security without compromising user experience.
IAM Program Management
Establishing and sustaining an IAM program is challenging. A formal program management approach should be adopted to engage business stakeholders, govern IAM activities, address project and program risks, and accomplish desired business outcomes.
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A look back at 2021's agenda
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
State of User Authentication, 2021
Tricia Phillips, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
User authentication is at the heart of account protection for both consumer and workforce use cases. In this session, we will review the most significant trends in user authentication with insights about what is driving investment, which technologies are getting the most interest, and the short and long term impact of the dramatic increase in remote work.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Ask the Expert: Managing External Identities through CIAM
Henrique Teixeira, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) is key to enabling your digital transformation and the foundation of your customers' digital experiences. This session gives you an opportunity to ask questions about CIAM features, vendors and best practices. Attendees should come prepared to ask questions about IAM for external identities (including customers, partners, patients and citizens).
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
IBM: Modernize CIAM with Unified Risk Detection and Privacy Management
Patrik Horemans, Business Developer IAM for GSI and Advis, IBM
Wes Gyure, Director of Strategy and Offering Management - IBM Security, IBM
IAM frameworks for consumers (CIAM) and for workforce may be different but leveraging a shared technology solution enables organizations to leverage unique capabilities and experiences across both. In this session, learn how IBM clients have modernized their CIAM programs by unifying their capabilities for frictionless authentication, risk detection, as well as data privacy and consent management.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
Auth0: Business Customer Identity Simplified
When building software that is used by teams, like SaaS and B2B products, application development teams often need to do a lot of DIY to augment their existing IAM solution. They need to build onboarding flows, customize the login experience, configure access levels, and build out customer-specific requirements. Join this session where Auth0 will discuss a transformative approach that will change the way you manage business customer identity.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM EDT
Roundtable: Creating Your Identity Fabric - Unplugged, moderated by Symantec
Vadim Lander, Vadim Lander, Symantec Identity Management Security Chief Architect and CTO, CA
Join Vadim Lander, Symantec Chief Architect and CTO, as he sits down with Identity leaders from MetLife, Ameriprise, Prudential, UBS, and Chase, to discuss the challenges facing the modern enterprise, specifically with regards to weaving together their own identity fabrics.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 12:55 PM - 01:10 PM EDT
Product Demo by OneTrust: Adding Consent and Preferences to Your CIAM
Zachary Faruque, Offering Analyst, OneTrust
With consent and preference management, you can support the user experiences you customers demand. Integrating your CIAM with OneTrust Consent and Preference Management helps enhance customer profiles, maximize marketing opt-ins, and capture first-party data. In this session, we'll demo how to integrate OneTrust with CIAM, how to setup consent, preference, and data capture, and what this looks like for your customers.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
Best Practices for CIAM
Abhyuday Data, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
What are companies doing for CIAM? What are the primary considerations for a company planning to move from a “build it” to a “buy it” CIAM capability? How can you differentiate yourself from your competitors through a superior CIAM portal that your customers love? What are the main considerations, and how is privacy regulation impacting these decisions? We will discuss best practices around CIAM, what are the main considerations, how to plan for the best user experience to achieve your goals.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM EDT
Roundtable: Navigating CIAM Security vs Business Requirements, moderated by IBM
Martijn Loderus, CIAM Global Leader, IBM
Deepak Kanwar, Sales Leader, IAM
It’s a paradox. Do you maintain current security measures to keep your organization safe or make tradeoffs to please your marketing, line-of-business, and procurement leaders? Are you grappling with this challenge? What are your plans for not only surviving but thriving? Join your peers in discussing what they’ve experienced in their organizations and what’s worked for them.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:25 PM - 02:40 PM EDT
Product Demo by OpenText: Secure Value Chains & Digital Ecosystems at Scale
Dan Knauss, Lead Product Manager, OpenText
See use cases that scale identity and governance across external ecosystems: insurance, manufacturing, distributors, customers
- Solve supply chain security challenges: create visibility and automate lifecycle management
- Increase loyalty and wallet share: multi-enterprise data orchestration
- Create new offerings: PaaS and Partner integrations
Bring your questions and take advantage of our experience in securing global
value chains
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 12:55 PM - 01:10 PM EDT
Product Demo by WSO2: Start Onboarding Your Customers in Less than 15 mins with WSO2 Identity Server
Johann Nallathamby, Associate Director/Solutions Architect, WSO2 Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd.
Start onboarding your customers in less than 15 mins with the leading open source developer-first CIAM solution that is simple, secure and stackable, with a review of 3 of the most common use cases in CIAM:
- BYOID with social login
- Dynamic and adaptive access control
- Self-service account and password management
Join us for this demo and our Product Experts will be on hand for Q&A and follow up with your specific needs after the session.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
Technical Insights: Decentralized Identity and Verifiable Claim Exchange
Homan Farahmand, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Decentralized identity will disrupt identity management by enabling privacy-enhanced, verifiable identity data exchange over the internet. This session provides an overview of these technologies, quick win use cases, key architectural approaches and the state of market.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
Technical Insights: Architecting a Better CIAM User Experience
Mary Ruddy, VP Analyst, Gartner
Improving external user experience is now an imperative. It is no longer a "nice to have." This session will focus on factors you should consider when architecting a better user experience for your customers.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM EDT
Roundtable: The Great Balancing Act - Security, Privacy, and Convenience, moderated by Auth0
Jasmit Sagoo, Head of Solution Engineering, Auth0
Companies that succeed in the next five years will meet the growing expectations for frictionless experiences that do not compromise between security, privacy, and convenience.
In this conversation, discuss how identity must flexibly manage securing information, protecting private data, and ensuring a seamless experience for customers.
Key issues discussed include: CIAM, renovating identity paradigms, building a successful identity strategy.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
Microsoft: Strengthen Your Zero Trust Security for the New Hybrid Work
As cyberattacks get more sophisticated, securing hybrid work environments is more complex—and more critical. Adopting a Zero Trust approach and upgrading your identity infrastructure hardens your defenses now and for the long-term. In this session, we will share how Zero Trust can help you manage the evolving global threat landscape and maximize control while enabling a seamless and secure user experience in the new era of hybrid work.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
What Is CIEM, and How Can It Help to Mitigate Identity Risks in the Cloud?
Henrique Teixeira, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Entitlement management used to be a manageable problem. However, with the explosion of many thousands of permissions per identity in cloud infrastructures, legacy IAM approaches are no longer sufficient. Join this session to learn what cloud infrastructure entitlement management means, and how can it help to mitigate identity risks in the cloud.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
Ask the Expert: Security in the Cloud Is Still a Shared Responsibility
Tom Croll, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Patrick Hevesi, VP Analyst, Gartner
While public cloud providers typically offer strong control attestations, numerous compliance certifications and their security features, CSPs cannot offer complete security. This interactive session will explore those portions of the shared responsibility model which remain in scope for customers — that's you — and how the combination of customer security and provider security offer a strong starting point.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
Outlook for Cloud Security
Tom Croll, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Cloud security remains a top priority. This presentation summarizes the problems, recommended processes, and new product types to address three key issues:
. What are the unique risks associated with public cloud service providers, and how can they be controlled?
. What are the unique security challenges of IaaS and how can they be mitigated?
. What are the unique control challenges of SaaS, and how can they be addressed?
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM EDT
Technical Insights: Guidance for Microsoft Office 365 Identity Management
Paul Rabinovich, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Implementing hybrid identity for Office 365 and protecting employee, administrator and partner access can be daunting. This session will guide you through best practices for Office 365 IAM.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM EDT
Roundtable: How to Unify Privileged Access in Hybrid Cloud, moderated by Microsoft
Mark Wahl, Principal Program Manager (Active Direct, Microsoft
Joseph Dadzie, Principal Group PM Manager, Microsoft
With the proliferation of identities, and the acceleration of cloud adoption, organizations need to secure access to their most sensitive resources. In this facilitated conversation, we will discuss the challenges of securing privileged access across on-premises and multi-cloud environments, what solutions are used today and what technology gaps need to be filled for CISOs and CIOs to have complete visibility and control over privileged access.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
Technical Insights: Managing Privileged Access in Multicloud Infrastructure.
Paul Mezzera, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Protecting cloud infrastructure is crucial, especially with more workloads hosted across cloud service providers. Security and risk management technical professionals must deploy tools that enable effective management of cloud infrastructure entitlements and reduce risks caused by unintended access. In this session we will discuss scope, key requirements, and potential approaches for securing access to cloud infrastructures.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 02:00 PM EDT
Contract Negotiation Clinic: Six Steps to Strategize Software and SaaS Negotiations for Cost Optimization and Risk Mitigation
Christopher Dixon, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
This interactive session illustrates how to use six steps for planning negotiations with major vendors — megavendors and new and emerging software and cloud vendors. These steps can and should be used for any major negotiation to ensure the right questions are asked and the right detail is revealed to analyze proposals from a cost optimization and risk-mitigation standpoint. Clinic attendees will have access to ready-to-use checklists, templates, models and worksheets to execute these six steps effectively in their organizations.
*Session qualifies for Continuing Profession Education credits from ISACA, ISC2
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
Your Next MFA Solution Will Probably Be In the Cloud: How To Pick the Right One
Paul Rabinovich, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Multifactor authentication (MFA) is an effective means to mitigate impersonation attacks, but how do you select an MFA solution? This session will help you to home in on the vendors that can address your organization’s requirements for supported use cases, authentication methods, adaptive access, administration, application integration and UX.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
State of User Authentication, 2021
Tricia Phillips, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
User authentication is at the heart of account protection for both consumer and workforce use cases. In this session, we will review the most significant trends in user authentication with insights about what is driving investment, which technologies are getting the most interest, and the short and long term impact of the dramatic increase in remote work.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
IT Leaders' Guide to IAM Program Management
David Collinson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
IT leaders often struggle to know where to begin and how to initiate a well-run IAM program. This session will help you by taking you through the initial steps, best practice and learnings from organisations that have been through this process before.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM EDT
Omada: Your Zero Trust Strategy Starts with Modern IGA
Rod Simmons, VP of Product Strategy, Omada
Make zero trust your unfair advantage. Organizations have managed remote workers and hybrid IT for years, but global events have magnified the scale and challenges of a mostly remote workforce. Identity is the common element across all security models. This session will address the importance of a modern IGA strategy in your zero-trust program. It will demonstrate how identity automation can enable efficiency, speed, accuracy, and consistent output at scale for today's cloud first remote workforce.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM EDT
Accelerate Your IAM Using DevOps and Agile Approaches
Kevin Kampman, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
IAM adoption has traditionally been seen as a monolithic and waterfall style of deployment activity. These characteristics are changing as the needs of the business preclude extended investment and adoption. Learn how organizations have used DevOps and agile approaches to improve alignment with their business requirements and practices.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Ask the Expert: Access Management Strategies, Risks and Best Practices
Michael Kelley, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session gives you an opportunity to ask questions about Access Management(AM) technology in the broader IAM umbrella. Attendees should come prepared to ask questions about AM tools features, vendors, best practices and AM features convergence with other adjacent IAM markets.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Roundtable: Selecting the Right Professional Services Partner
Kevin Kampman, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session will solicit the experience of organizations that have used professional services firms for their IAM projects. Learn how to select and manage your consulting, integration and managed services partner.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM EDT
Roundtable: The Role of Modern IGA in a Zero Trust Strategy, moderated by Omada
Rod Simmons, VP of Product Strategy, Omada
Strong identity governance is essential to enable a zero trust model. This roundtable of industry peers will discuss how to get the most value from your IGA solution as your organization tackles a Zero-Trust security model. Addressing principles such as tightly scope user roles, implement segregation of duties, regularly review permissions, strong authentication, approval workflows, and continuous monitoring.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM EDT
Entrust: Real Life IAM War Stories
The way we work, run errands, socialize, and even how we see the doctor has all changed. From financial fraud to medical identity theft to
ransomware attacks, the massive transformation has also injected many new threats into our daily lives.
Today’s digital world demands a modern approach to identity and access management (IAM). Hear real life or practical
experiences and current priorities of Entrust’s own customer base.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM EDT
IDMWORKS: Nobody Puts Identity in a Corner
Gray Mitchell, CISO and VP Advisory Services, IDMWORKS
Paul Bedi, CEO, IDMWORKS, LLC.
The events of the past year exposed how critical identity is -- to security, productivity, and customer engagement. We’ve covered a “decade in days” worth of digital adoption, and that puts Identity and Access Management squarely in the spotlight. Learn the top 5 strategies IAM leaders should employ today to ensure their IAM program is ready for whatever comes next, from a vision, technology, resource, and budgetary perspective.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 02:25 PM - 02:40 PM EDT
Product Demo by Integral Partners: IAM Essentials Advisory Workshop
Jason Ellis, Advisory Director, Integral Partners, LLC
Join us to preview our IAM Essentials Advisory workshop. Each workshop provides a practical approach to IAM strategy development, with a clear understanding of how each of the IAM technologies works with best practices to fit into your roadmap. This session will demonstrate each phase of the workshop and the value it delivers, including, IAM "big picture" overview, IAM program components, IAM Maturity Model, the IAM marketplace, and building a roadmap.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 02:25 PM - 02:40 PM EDT
Product Demo by Silverfort: Unified Identity Protection Platform
Hed Kovetz, CEO & Co-Founder, Silverfort
Silverfort's Platform consolidates security controls across corporate networks and cloud environments to block identity-based attacks. Its innovative agentless and proxyless technology seamlessly integrates with IAM solutions like AD, ADFS, Azure AD, Okta, Ping, AWS IAM, etc.), extending coverage to assets that couldn't be protected before, including homegrown/legacy apps, IT infrastructure, command-line tools, machine-to-machine access and more. This session will be a hands on demonstration followed by Q&A for your specific needs.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
IAM Leader's Guide to Privileged Access Management
Felix Gaehtgens, VP Analyst, Gartner
An introduction for privileged access management: Why Is PAM Such a Crucial Piece of Any Security Program? How Should You Leverage PAM? How can you raise your security posture by using a just-in-time PAM and Zero Standing Privileges Approach?
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM EDT
Roundtable: AM+IGA+PAM - Oh, my! A Unified Approach to Identity and Access Management, moderated by Okta
Kelsey Nelson, Product Marketing Manager, Okta
Join us for a conversation about emerging trends, such as remote work, cloud migration, and the rise in credential-based attacks that have increased the demands on identity and access management solutions. Discuss the opportunities to consolidate identity systems and benefits of shared information across access management, governance, and privileged access initiatives. Provide feedback on Okta’s unified approach and product roadmap.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
How to Choose a PAM Solution
Michael Kelley, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Privileged access represents a significant security risk for every organization, but, there is a significant array of features and functionalities in the market. This session will cover five key steps to buying a PAM tool which will give you the confidence you need that you are buying the appropriate tools and technology to mitigate your PAM risk.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM EDT
ForgeRock: Drive to the Cloud with a Hybrid IAM Strategy, A BMW Case Study
Damon Mcdougald, Managing Director, Accenture
BMW supports 25M external IDs and 15K employees and partners. This presentation will demonstrate how BMW delivers a seamless digital experience with the cloud and a hybrid IAM strategy. It will also address how BMW empowers customers, partners and employees to quickly and securely access and manage apps and services, while introducing new features in a cost-efficient manner.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM EDT
Okta: Unifying Your Approach to IAM - Access, Governance, Privilege
Robert Karel, Vice President Product Marketing, Okta
Remote work, cloud migration, and the rise in credential-based attacks have made it more difficult to maintain security, compliance, and productivity. Learn how Okta’s unified identity platform, covering access, governance, and privilege, delivers a faster time to value. Get strategy and implementation best practices from Moody’s, as well as our latest product enhancements and roadmap for identity governance and privileged access
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM EDT
Hitachi ID: The Zero Trust Journey - Stepping Ahead with Identity and Privilege Access Management
Zero Trust and legacy workflows can coexist as you tackle one business process at a time and as your organization evolves to a higher level of operational maturity and greater cybersecurity resilience.
This session will explore the layers of identity and privileged access management. Addressing how a singular security fabric can offer, from square one or integrated with existing solutions, to build a Zero Trust security model that protects your organization from cyberattacks.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM EDT
Omada: Your Zero Trust Strategy Starts with Modern IGA
Rod Simmons, VP of Product Strategy, Omada
Make zero trust your unfair advantage. Organizations have managed remote workers and hybrid IT for years, but global events have magnified the scale and challenges of a mostly remote workforce. Identity is the common element across all security models. This session will address the importance of a modern IGA strategy in your zero-trust program. It will demonstrate how identity automation can enable efficiency, speed, accuracy, and consistent output at scale for today's cloud first remote workforce.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM EDT
SailPoint: 13 Treasures in 81 Minutes - Identity, Security, and the Gardner Heist
Mike Kiser, Global Security Advocate, Office of the, SailPoint Technologies
In the early hours of March 18th, 1990, two men entered the Gardner Museum. They left 81 minutes later with 13 world-class artworks. The heist remains unsolved today and the museum is offering $10 million for the safe return of the pieces. Art is meant to be enjoyed by the public, but it also must be adequately protected. We’ll step through the heist, we’ll explore the current tension between access and security—and see the power of identity.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:25 PM - 02:40 PM EDT
Product Demo by Saviynt: Enabling Zero Trust with the Enterprise Identity Cloud
Jason Gzym, Director, Solutions Engineering, Saviynt
Learn how Saviynt’s converged Enterprise Identity Cloud platform facilitates Zero Trust by making identity your security perimeter and providing time-limited & just-enough access. We will show you how to:
- Automatically discover and onboard assets
- Design access policies that conform to principles of least privilege
- Use identity controls to monitor risk and compliance
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
Managing Machine Identities, Secrets, Keys and Certificates
Erik Wahlstrom, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
An enterprisewide strategy for managing machine identities and credentials such as keys, secrets and certificates requires the usage of multiple tools. In this session we will provide guidance on how to pick the right type of tool and establish a processes that meets modern DevOps as well as security requirements.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
How to Choose an Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) Solution
David Collinson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session will help IAM leaders understand the changes Gartner are seeing in the IGA space and how to evaluate the different types of vendors offering IGA capabilities. This will support organizations who are looking to draw up a short list to compare in more detail.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM EDT
Guidance and Best Practices for Managing Your IGA Platform
Paul Mezzera, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
IGA platforms are complex and have been traditionally difficult to implement, yet the demand is increasing both for new deployments and reimplementations. Organizations can increase their likelihood of success by following a more structured approach to deployment and ongoing management of their IGA platforms. This session provides guidance on best practices and common pitfalls to be avoided when selecting and implementing IGA platforms.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Ask the Expert: How to Avoid Common Pitfalls Deploying an IGA Tool
David Collinson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This is a an Ask the expert session aimed at helping IAM leaders avoid common mistakes
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
HPE: Case Studies on Establishing Trust Within an Infrastructure via Service Identity
Hasibul Haque, Manager, Security Engineering, Uber Engineering
Derek Edwards, VP Engineering at Anthem.ai, Anthem
Enterprise software services are increasingly running across multiple platforms spanning data centers and public clouds. Since these services span various domains, a zero trust model is the most efficient way to secure them. Service identity is a fundamental piece of building zero trust environments.
Join your peers at Anthem, Uber, and HPE to learn how SPIFFE provides a universal service identity control plane for a zero trust security model.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
Radiant Logic: How Comcast Corporation Built a Strategic Identity Infrastructure
Rajnish Bhatia, Executive Director, Comcast
Pankaj Khatri, Director, Comcast
Comcast needed an identity transformation plan to serve both their immediate needs and their long-term strategic goals. The team leveraged identity data virtualization to build an identity metadata hub, acting as the source of truth for anything that needs to consume identity. This session will explore the principles they used to enable the roll-out of a new platform serving 190,000 users, with IGA, federation, & access management components.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM EDT
Roundtable: The Role of Modern IGA in a Zero Trust Strategy, moderated by Omada
Rod Simmons, VP of Product Strategy, Omada
Strong identity governance is essential to enable a zero trust model. This roundtable of industry peers will discuss how to get the most value from your IGA solution as your organization tackles a Zero-Trust security model. Addressing principles such as tightly scope user roles, implement segregation of duties, regularly review permissions, strong authentication, approval workflows, and continuous monitoring.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM EDT
Roundtable: How to Unify Privileged Access in Hybrid Cloud, moderated by Microsoft
Mark Wahl, Principal Program Manager (Active Direct, Microsoft
Joseph Dadzie, Principal Group PM Manager, Microsoft
With the proliferation of identities, and the acceleration of cloud adoption, organizations need to secure access to their most sensitive resources. In this facilitated conversation, we will discuss the challenges of securing privileged access across on-premises and multi-cloud environments, what solutions are used today and what technology gaps need to be filled for CISOs and CIOs to have complete visibility and control over privileged access.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 12:55 PM - 01:10 PM EDT
Product Demo by SecurEnds: Credential Entitlement Management
Austin Baker, Sales and Strategic Partnerships Lead, SecurEnds
Steven Weeks, Sales Representative, SecurEnds
What if we took traditional Identity Governance and reversed it completely? SecurEnds brings a modern ideology for IGA that drastically reduces the time to value, the total cost of ownership, and the economic impact of an Identity Governance Solution. This demonstration will focus on strategic order of operations, how to optimize AI/ML in Identity Governance, and how simplicity expedites the path to stronger compliance and security postures.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
Technical Insights: Managing Privileged Access in Multicloud Infrastructure.
Paul Mezzera, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Protecting cloud infrastructure is crucial, especially with more workloads hosted across cloud service providers. Security and risk management technical professionals must deploy tools that enable effective management of cloud infrastructure entitlements and reduce risks caused by unintended access. In this session we will discuss scope, key requirements, and potential approaches for securing access to cloud infrastructures.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM EDT
One Identity: The Next Step in Secure - Unified Identity Security Platform
Modern threats dictate that identity must be at the core of your security strategy. Protect your identities and you protect your world. Our cloud-first strategy simplifies securing identities, data, and connections to SaaS apps and other cloud-based resources. Join this session to hear how our Unified Identity Security Platform helps CISOs and other IT leaders stay employed, and enables true governance of your enterprise.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM EDT
Roundtable: The Gardner Heist: Identity, Security, and Art, moderated by SailPoint
Mike Kiser, Global Security Advocate, Office of the, SailPoint Technologies
On March 18th, 1990, two men entered the Gardner Museum and left 81 minutes later with 13 world-class artworks. The heist remains unsolved today — and the museum is offering $10 million for the safe return of the pieces.
Come follow the evidence and follow the leads with us as we discuss identity’s role in modern architectures.
Note: If we somehow crack the case together, we'll split the $10 million between us all.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 02:25 PM - 02:40 PM EDT
Product Demo by Herjavec Group: Access Anywhere with Robert Herjavec & Doug Chin
Doug Chin, VP, Identity & Access Management, Herjavec Group
Mike Sims, VP IAM Advisory and Architecture at Herj, Herjavec Group
Before the pandemic, tasks like onboarding new employees & managing user credentials took place on secured, local office networks. Today, the perimeters we relied on are gone. With many companies opting for remote or hybrid work environments, virtual requirements pose the challenge – how do you securely onboard & manage your workforce that could exist anywhere? HG Access Anywhere provides a secure and efficient way to address this IAM challenge.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
Best Practice Guide to Deploying an IGA Tool
David Collinson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This guide will give recommendations on how to deploy a new IGA tool by outlining pitfalls to avoid and how to ensure value is obtained quickly.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM EDT
Ask the Expert: Privileged Access Management
Felix Gaehtgens, VP Analyst, Gartner
Henrique Teixeira, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session gives you an opportunity to ask questions about privileged access management (PAM), successful use cases and requirements needed to make your PAM efforts successful. Attendees should come prepared to ask questions.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM EDT
Modernize Your IGA Solution Architecture
Paul Mezzera, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Identity governance and administration (IGA) systems have existed for several decades, but many IGA deployments are struggling to keep pace with new digital business demands. Organizations need to evaluate and adopt next-generation technologies that support cloud, mobile, DevOps, AI, analytics, and cybersecurity initiatives. This session will explore IGA technology trends and modern IGA architectures.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Gartner Opening Keynote: Adaptive IAM Is The Key to Moving from Disruption to Transformation
Tricia Phillips, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The disruption of digital business on traditional Identity and Access Management has been growing for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need for all businesses to transform. IAM leaders must take their place as the first, and often last, line of defense against the malicious use of user and machine accounts and drive new strategies and technologies for efficient and secure business enablement.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Ask the Expert: Crafting a Compelling Story to Influence Stakeholders.
Leigh McMullen, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Akif Khan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Great stories don't simply roll off "silver tongues"... they're engineered. And as engineers you have the capacity to be great story tellers. In this session you're walking into a storytelling clinic, working with one of Gartner's top "Story Doctors", bring your story, the doctor is in.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
The State of Access Management, 2021
Michael Kelley, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Access Management technologies play a significant role in application access of all kinds, and has especially been a focus for enabling safe and secure remote work. How has access management technology evolved, what is available today, and what kinds of things can you expect to take advantage of in the near future?
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
IAM Leader's Guide to Privileged Access Management
Felix Gaehtgens, VP Analyst, Gartner
An introduction for privileged access management: Why Is PAM Such a Crucial Piece of Any Security Program? How Should You Leverage PAM? How can you raise your security posture by using a just-in-time PAM and Zero Standing Privileges Approach?
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Workshop: Defining Metrics for your IAM Program
Kevin Kampman, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
David Collinson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Knowing what metrics matter to your IAM stakeholders is critical to prioritizing, developing and monitoring IAM features. Metrics identify the success of individual projects and where attention and improvements must take place. To succeed, they must be terms the stakeholder recognizes and understand. They should also align with or influence other initiatives. Learn how to set proper expectations.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
IT Leaders' Guide to IAM Program Management
David Collinson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
IT leaders often struggle to know where to begin and how to initiate a well-run IAM program. This session will help you by taking you through the initial steps, best practice and learnings from organisations that have been through this process before.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:30 PM EDT
Roundtable: How Successful Women Navigate Career Success in Times of Change
Mary Ruddy, VP Analyst, Gartner
Change brings challenges but it can also create new opportunities and open new avenues for achieving your goals. In this session we will talk about recent changes, including the expansion of remote work, and best practice adjustments you can make to keep your career on track and increase your future success. Participants will discuss what they have seen in their organization and share additional ideas that have worked for them.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Halfway to Star Trek: A Professional's Guide to Predicting the Future
Leigh McMullen, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
In this light and entertaining session, Gartner analyst and futurist, Leigh McMullen uses the "Half Way to Star Trek" scenario to illustrate a method for predicting and rapidly responding to the future based on proven concepts from the Military-Effects-Based Operations planning doctrine.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:30 PM EDT
Workshop: Everything I know About Meeting Politics I Learned from a 17th Century Japanese Sword Master
Leigh McMullen, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
In this session you will learn to recognize and counter more than a dozen forms of resistance that commonly occur in meetings, as well as techniques to handle more advanced political situations such as malevolent actors, as well as the essential tools of persuasion. All of this wrapped in a fun and entertaining exploration of the wisdom of one of Japan's greatest swordsmen.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM EDT
What Happens When the Second Half of the Internet Comes Online
Leigh McMullen, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The internet now reaches more than half the world's population. Conventional wisdom suggests that solutions that served the first half will trickle down and serve the second. The Conventional wisdom is dead wrong. People living in the "2nd half" have different problems and seek different solutions. The 2nd half presents the greatest blue ocean market opportunity the world has ever seen. it also will challenge the status quo in unexpected ways.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Cool or Not? Emerging IAM Technologies You Should Know About
David Mahdi, VP Analyst, Gartner
There is no lack of innovation and emerging technology in the red hot IAM space. This presentation will cover some of the exciting and promising technologies in the IAM space. In this session, we will address areas such as passwordless authentication, decentralized identity, machine identity and privacy.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Top Trends in Security and Risk Management
Peter Firstbrook, VP Analyst, Gartner
"Top trends" highlight ongoing strategic shifts in the security ecosystem that aren't yet widely recognized, but are expected to have broad industry impact and significant potential for disruption. This presentation will describe the most significant trends in security and risk management and how leading organizations are taking advantage of these trends.
Key issues explored will include:
- Top technological improvements in the security product landscape
- Trends in creating a top notch security organization
- Long-term trends that will influence security strategy
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
IBM: Modernize CIAM with Unified Risk Detection and Privacy Management
Patrik Horemans, Business Developer IAM for GSI and Advis, IBM
Wes Gyure, Director of Strategy and Offering Management - IBM Security, IBM
IAM frameworks for consumers (CIAM) and for workforce may be different but leveraging a shared technology solution enables organizations to leverage unique capabilities and experiences across both. In this session, learn how IBM clients have modernized their CIAM programs by unifying their capabilities for frictionless authentication, risk detection, as well as data privacy and consent management.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
CyberArk: Anatomy of a Breach with CyberArk Labs-SolarWinds, Supply Chain & Privilege
Andy Thompson, Strategic Advisor, CyberArk Software
Examining revelations from the SolarWinds attack, it’s clear that the compromise of identity and manipulation of privileged access were instrumental in its success. In this session, CyberArk Labs deconstructs the breach to shed light on supply chain risk and the lure of identity compromise by breaking down the key phases of the attack - from initial infection and customer targeting, through privilege escalation to high value assets.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM EDT
Microsoft: Strengthen Your Zero Trust Security for the New Hybrid Work
As cyberattacks get more sophisticated, securing hybrid work environments is more complex—and more critical. Adopting a Zero Trust approach and upgrading your identity infrastructure hardens your defenses now and for the long-term. In this session, we will share how Zero Trust can help you manage the evolving global threat landscape and maximize control while enabling a seamless and secure user experience in the new era of hybrid work.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
Ask the Expert: How Can You Enable Business Access to Data While Mitigating Privacy and Security Risks?
Brian Lowans, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Business projects need access to data but these choices can create risks associated with privacy and data protection requirements. However, applying access controls to data will result in impacts to the performance of business projects. Therefore, there needs to be an approach that achieves a shared responsibility based upon data security governance.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM EDT
Okta: Unifying Your Approach to IAM - Access, Governance, Privilege
Robert Karel, Vice President Product Marketing, Okta
Remote work, cloud migration, and the rise in credential-based attacks have made it more difficult to maintain security, compliance, and productivity. Learn how Okta’s unified identity platform, covering access, governance, and privilege, delivers a faster time to value. Get strategy and implementation best practices from Moody’s, as well as our latest product enhancements and roadmap for identity governance and privileged access
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM EDT
Roundtable: Navigating CIAM Security vs Business Requirements, moderated by IBM
Martijn Loderus, CIAM Global Leader, IBM
Deepak Kanwar, Sales Leader, IAM
It’s a paradox. Do you maintain current security measures to keep your organization safe or make tradeoffs to please your marketing, line-of-business, and procurement leaders? Are you grappling with this challenge? What are your plans for not only surviving but thriving? Join your peers in discussing what they’ve experienced in their organizations and what’s worked for them.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM EDT
Roundtable: Adopting Advanced PAM Use Cases, moderated by BeyondTrust
Morey Haber, CTO & CISO, BeyondTrust
Privileged Access Management (PAM) has evolved significantly. Modern enterprises are going beyond basic account discovery and vaulting to adopt PAM capabilities that help manage administrative activity in a remote world, secure privileged access to cloud environments, and apply a zero standing privileges model. Join BeyondTrust and your peers for a discussion on how companies are successfully evolving their PAM programs to fit the new normal.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 02:45 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
Outlook for Cloud Security
Tom Croll, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Cloud security remains a top priority. This presentation summarizes the problems, recommended processes, and new product types to address three key issues:
. What are the unique risks associated with public cloud service providers, and how can they be controlled?
. What are the unique security challenges of IaaS and how can they be mitigated?
. What are the unique control challenges of SaaS, and how can they be addressed?
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM EDT
Ask the Expert: Consent Management and Data Residency – Two Critical Privacy Priorities for IAM Leaders
Bernard Woo, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Nader Henein, VP Analyst, Gartner
This Ask the Expert session will focus on the two critical focus areas part of the privacy program that will dominate the agenda for IAM leaders through 2022. The first is data residency and the increased number of laws and regulations that tie the location where data can be stored with the identity of the user. The second is consent and preference management, and the need to stretch the meaning of identity to encompass any identifiable piece of information linking it to preferences and other identity fragments.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Science Fiction or Reality: Decentralized and Bring Your Own Identity
David Mahdi, VP Analyst, Gartner
Digital identity is now viewed as a critical infrastructure. Yet, fundamental problems such as privacy, security and convivence remain a challenge. But is it real? What can and should you do? Decentralized and bring your own identity offer new and exciting approaches to solving this problem.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM EDT
Outlook for Privacy, 2022
Bart Willemsen, VP Analyst, Gartner
The future of privacy is now. Amidst an unprecedented set of innovations, driven by a global move to maturing privacy and data protection legislation, consumers' demand for active protection of privacy continues. Looking for minimum compliance leads to risk and opportunity oversight. This session deals with upcoming challenges in privacy, the global state of the landscape, and the tools for a mature, value-creating privacy program.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 12:55 PM - 01:10 PM EDT
Product Demo by BigID: Next-Generation Access Intelligence
The world of data is evolving - is your access management keeping up? The traditional ways of managing access to sensitive data isn’t enough to proactively protect the crown jewels of an organization.
Learn how to reimagine access intelligence to manage and reduce risk for all data and users - not just by traditional security groups, but with actionable ML-based intelligence to analyze and reduce risk on hotspots, users, categories, and more.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 01:15 PM - 01:45 PM EDT
Outlook for Data Security
Ramon Krikken, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
This session covers current trends and emerging topics in the area of data security. From databases to files, threats are rapidly evolving and countermeasures slowly follow. Planning a data-centric roadmap for security governance and security architecture is a critical component of any security and risk management program.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 02:00 PM - 02:20 PM EDT
One Identity: The Next Step in Secure - Unified Identity Security Platform
Modern threats dictate that identity must be at the core of your security strategy. Protect your identities and you protect your world. Our cloud-first strategy simplifies securing identities, data, and connections to SaaS apps and other cloud-based resources. Join this session to hear how our Unified Identity Security Platform helps CISOs and other IT leaders stay employed, and enables true governance of your enterprise.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM EDT
Security Organization Dynamics
Tom Scholtz, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
There is no such thing as a perfect model for security organizations. Every enterprise must develop its own model, taking into consideration basic principles, practical realities and the challenges of digital transformation. This session will address the following:
. What are the trends and challenges in security organization design?
. What are the factors that influence security organization?
. What are the current best practices and conceptual design models for security organization?