Zero Trust Architecture – Baber Amin – ESW #161
Baber Amin is the CTO West at Ping Identity. Security has always been perimeter centric with an "US" vs "THEM" approach. Multiple factors are forcing a change to this design pattern, and exposing it's shortcomings. The concept of "zero trust" is really a concept of "defense in depth" applicable when our perimeters are ephemeral and fluid.
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At Ping Identity, Mr. Amin is currently CTO for West, helping customers with their IAM strategy, zero trust architecture, and modeling for a privacy first approach. At Ping Identity he is guiding product roadmap for Zero Trust, AI/ML strategy, championing privacy by design principals, and evaluating M&A fit. Previously, he was responsible for Ping’s solution offering around OpenBanking, GDPR, Privacy, and Consent, across Ping’s product portfolio; solution centric go-to market and pricing strategy, and for Ping Identity solutions in Employee, and Consumer centric Identity and Access Management. Prior to Ping Identity, Mr. Amin served as Senior Director of product management for IDaaS solutions at Oracle Corp. and CA Technologies. Before that, Mr. Amin served as Director of Cloud Security with Novell Identity and Security. He was responsible for crafting Oracle’s IDaaS strategy and setting direction for the future of Identity Services. At CA Technologies, Mr. Amin’s primary responsibility was for CA Advanced Risk Based and Multifactor Authentication offering and CA IAM product and service strategy in the cloud, including it’s next generation cloud security service offerings. During his time at Novell, he helped position Novell as a thought leader in Identity based services, cloud and enterprise security. His primary role was to lead the overall strategy for Novell Cloud Security and oversee ongoing product direction in the area. Mr. Amin is also an author on several patents in software security, web caching and content distribution, and speaker at various events.