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Mary Ruddy
VP Analyst
Mary Ruddy is a Vice President on the Gartner for Technical Professionals Identity and Access Management (IAM) team. She serves as the Key Initiative Leader for the IAM topic area. Her primary coverage areas are access management including customer IAM, single sign-on, identity protocols and federation, modern IAM architecture and API protection. Other topics she covers include mobile authorization, trust elevation (step-up, dynamic, continuous, risk-based and adaptive authentication), identity analytics, bring your own identity (BYOI), government identity initiatives and identity standards. She was a founding member of the OASIS Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Methods Technical Committee and Chair of Identity Commons. Ms. Ruddy was also a founding member of the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG), which was formed in response to the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).
Previous experience
Ms. Ruddy was a founder of the Eclipse Higgins open-source project. Previously, she chaired an Identity Industry Certification Committee in support of the U.S. Federal Identity Credential and Access Management (FICAM) efforts to promote the adoption of third-party identity credentials. This resulted in the creation of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) Foundation, which is dedicated to certifying trust frameworks.
Professional background
Meristic
Principal
Parity Communications (now Azigo)
VP
Parametric Technology Corp. (PTC)
VP Strategic Marketing, Design-to-Order Solutions
Areas of coverage
Identity and Access Management for Technical Professionals
Education
Master of Science, Management, MIT School of Management
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, Smith College
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
1Implementing single sign-on (SSO), including federated access management in general
2Identity and access management preparations for Microsoft Office 365
3Protecting APIs
4Identity standards including SAML, OAuth, OpenID and OpenID Connect
5Consumer identity and access management including bring your own identity (BYOI)