Sean ONeill is a Senior Director Analyst in the Technology and Service Provider (TSP) division of Gartner, researching emerging technology and trends (ETT) for product leaders (Tech CEO's, General Managers, Chief Product Officers, Product Managers, and Product Marketers). His areas of expertise and research are in Identity Governance, Identity Management, and Access Management. He has experience on both commercial and government (GPS) sectors both on Enterprise and CIAM identity deployments.
Sean has extensive (over 30 years) industry experience in the Identity Governance and Access Management Space. He has both enterprise and start up experience, Commercial and Government experience (background clearance complete), and worked on both the vendor and customer sides. Past employers have included EY, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Persistent Systems, and Deloitte.
Recent focus has been on CIAM identity backbone implementations for state governments as they go online with services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At Deloitte, he also supported several strategic growth opportunities in the Cyber Security space focused on GPS clients as they migrate from brick-and-mortar mainframe services to online cloud-based delivery. This has led to a focus on digital credentialing and citizen self-sovereignty of their PII.
Sean is co-inventor on four US patents on wireless pen-based computer systems for trading floors and has authored several thought leadership pieces around Citizen Identity Management.
Worked mainly on migration of state identity services from on-prem mainframe identity and access management to cloud-based citizen single sign-ons for access to government agencies and services. These websites handle hundreds of billions of dollars for millions of citizens. And with the pandemic, they have become targets of massive identity fraud. While at Deloitte, also contributed to internal strategic identity projects and was a co-developer and facilitator of Deloitte University's Identity Boot Camps. Just prior to the pandemic, acted as interim Identity manager for a client hospital in Philadelphia as it upgraded it hospital systems to more modern digital services.
Deloitte & Touche, LLP Advisory
Specialist Leader - Cyber Risk and Security
Oracle Corporation
Master Principal - Identity and Security
Sun Microsystems
Master Principal - Identity and Security
Identity and Access Management and Fraud Detection
Cyber Risk
Identity and Access Management for Technical Professionals
Emerging Technologies and Trends Impact on Products and Services
Cybersecurity Leadership
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering - Duke University Pratt School of Engineering
Completed coursework for undergraduate MBA from Duke University Trinity School of Arts and Science. Trinity does not award degrees to engineering students. Dean's list.
1Emerging trends and technology mainly around Identity Governance and Access Management
2Government public sector (state focused) identity and access management
3Incorporating Identity Proofing into overall fraud approach
4Focus on credentialing and user self-sovereignty,
5Eliminating passwords with risk/trust security approaches, dynamic user identity journeys