President Biden's Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity states that agencies must "develop a plan to implement Zero Trust Architecture" and "identify activities that will have the most immediate security impact, and include a schedule to implement them." In a Zero Trust Architecture, automation and orchestration of Federal Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) is the first step to address the most critical securit...

The release of Executive Order (EO) 14028 in May made it clear that identity and security professionals must prepare themselves for fundamental changes in how their programs operate. As we get to the end of 2021, we are getting further clarity on what those changes might look like. Most recently, this has come from new guidance drafted by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA): a F...

Managing identity data for state agencies, localities, and educational institutions is complex. Users must share sensitive personal information and authenticate through multiple identity providers - all of which can access their data, creating an invasive, friction-filled user experience laden with compliance risks. Decentralized identity represents a massive paradigm shift that will protect the privacy of users’ data and let them contro...