Understanding Identity Management

John Willis, Founder and Chief Information Security Officer for Turnaround Security based in the United States participate in Risk Roundup to discuss Identity Management. Identity Management As the boundaries of a computing environment for entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia expand beyond geospace to cyberspace and space; and grows from onsite to offsite and nearshore to offshore; the security threat platform, threats, and complexity also expands and brings complex security risks for all the security stakeholders. As a result, managing access privileges for users, including domestic on-site/off-site employees to contractors onshore / nearshore to offshore is getting very complex. Moreover, the emerging converging computing environments and many diverse computing architectures, and even the internet of things (IoT) devices are also getting very complex and adding to the already complex security challenges faced by security professionals. As a result, the traditional strong user name and password commonly used for managing identities across nations are not effective anymore. Understandably, there is a growing need for effective Identity Management solutions that are strong enough to accommodate the growing complexities of not only the organizations across nations but also their complex computing ecosystem. Time is now to understand the trends shaping Identity Management. For more please watch the Risk Roundup Webcast or hear the Risk Roundup Podcast About the Guest John Willis, Founder and Chief Information Security Officer for Turnaround Security participate in Risk Roundup to discuss Identity Management. He has led Identity, Credential, and Access Management programs for various parts of the Department of Homeland Security. John has over forty years of work experience, thirty years of business leadership, management, and Board experience, and over twenty years of experience in cybersecurity and privacy. Disclaimer: Any opinions stated by John Willis are his own and not of the Department of Homeland Security.About the Host of Risk Roundup Jayshree Pandya (née Bhatt), Founder and CEO of Risk Group LLC, is a scientist, a visionary, an expert in disruptive technologies, and a globally recognized thought leader and influencer. She is actively engaged in driving global discussions on existing and emerging technologies, technology transformation, and national preparedness. Her work focuses on the impact of existing and emerging technological innovations on nations, national preparedness, and the very survival, security, and sustainability of humanity. She believes that the reality of the imminent technological and economic singularity necessitates that Darwin’s evolution theory, a theory that has evolved from natural selection to the survival of the fittest to symbiosis to mutualism be translated and scaled from micro to macro level and understood and evaluated from the perspective of the transformative and evolutionary changes seen across nations (largely triggered due to technology transformation and re-defining and re-designing of systems at all levels). Her research in this context evaluates the evolution of intelligence in all forms, researches strategic security risks emerging from disruptive innovations, reviews the diminishing capacities of the risk management infrastructure, points out the changing role of decision-makers, defines dynamic decision-making approaches with machine intelligence, integrates all components of a nation: governments, industries, organizations and academia (NGIOA), and defines strategic security risks so that nations can improve the state of risk-resilience across cyberspace, geospace and space (CGS). As nations make a move from centralization towards decentralization, there-defining, and re-designing of systems at all levels evaluated in Dr. Pandya’s comprehensive research scholarship includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, internet of things, blockchain, cryptocurrency, quantum computing, virtual reality, synthetic biology, big data analytics, drones, nanosatellites, biotechnology, nanotechnology, gene editing, and much more. Her research is much needed for the survival and security of humanity today and in the coming tomorrow. Jayshree’s doctorate work in the 1980s focused on hydrogen production by Halobacterium halobium, for which she received India’s National Young Scientist Award in Biochemistry. Her many publications on this work have been cited in several books, journals, and reports published by governments, including a report from the United States Department of Energy. Her work on anti-cancer drugs also received worldwide attention and, amongst other citations, has been referenced in a report published by the World Health Organization. In 1991, she was invited to come to the United States (under the Scientist Exchange Program) to continue research on hydrogen production and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. After that, she researched atherosclerosis at the University of Chicago Medical School. Next, she took a job at Aurotech, a biotech company based in Wisconsin. As in her Ph.D. research, she used microorganisms to develop natural processes and technologies, and some of the projects she worked on were quite promising. While her doctorate and post-doctorate studies gave her the first taste of the power of interdisciplinary research, it also introduced her to the repressive power of institutional silos and inefficiencies. As a result, her physical location wasn’t the only thing that shifted in the 1990s; her focus did as well. Since Microbiology trained her to see changes in tiny organisms coming from natural selection, she began to see similar forces at work in the evolution of individuals as well as entities across NGIOA and society in general. It’s all the same basic mechanism. Her career took another turn after she was asked to consider risk management as part of a strategic planning effort by one of her employers. She quickly realized that most risk management is all process, with no actual benefit. That was the beginning of Risk Group, the strategic security risk research organization she founded in 2002, from where she is passionately creating and managing cutting-edge security ventures that bring a futurist perspective to nations and all its components to improve innovation capacity and to define and design new ideas, innovations, products, and services for security and sustainability. From the National Science Foundation to organizations from across nations, Jayshree is an invited speaker on emerging technologies, technology transformation, digital disruption, strategic security risks, industry risks, and country risks. She is the author of the book, The Global Age: NGIOA @Risk and has also published many scientific and technical papers.  Jayshree advises decision-makers at all levels on existing and emerging technologies: emerging applications, impact, and solutions. About Risk Roundup Risk Roundup, a global initiative launched by Risk Group, is a security risk reporting for risks emerging from existing and emerging technologies, technology convergence, and transformation happening across cyberspace, geospace and space. Risk Roundup is released in both audio (Podcast) and video (Webcast) format and is available for subscription at (Risk Group Website, iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher Radio, Android, and Risk Group Professional Social Media). 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