Cloud Identity Summit

Identiverse, Cloud Identity Summit

Last summer I attended and spoke at the Cloud Identity Summit in Chicago. First big news: it was renamed to Identiverse and 2018 will be in Boston. As a consultant I have limited time to attend conferences and speak. So conferences have to be great. I do love this one, but in the interest of time, I will be skipping it this year in favor of speaking at the European Identity Conference in May 2018 in Munich, Germany.

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Is the Password dead? Gotta eat what you kill!

At last year’s Cloud Identity Summit in Vail I heard a lot about how the password is dead. I expect to hear a lot more this year.

Most of it fit into one of several categories:

  1. Complaints about why passwords should be dead

  2. In other words all of the various problems with passwords – and there are

  3. Schemes to have various applications depend on someone else’s password

  4. While this is helpful it doesn’t kill the password

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