I was invited to speak at the innagural AuthCon, the first Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) conference. During my presentation, I shared real-world insights from my company’s journey to SaaS. I outlined how customer identity and access management needs evolved across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-native environments, and why building or buying the right identity features is critical for security, scalability, and customer satisfaction.

After attending multiple security conferences this year, BlueHat 2024 stood out for all the right reasons: no vendors, no sales pitches, just pure technical content. The dual perspectives from security researchers and Microsoft’s Security Response Center revealed that every security team faces the same fundamental challenges, just at different scales.

SNOWFROC 2010 was well worth it again.