The need to enable mass work from home has left many organizations looking for new approaches to IAM. Now is the time to assess how identity-centric Zero Trust models offer an effective strategic framework for transforming security schemes and facilitating users’ need for anywhere, anytime access to cloud applications and services. During this session we’ll have an interactive discussion on:

• The constraints posed by perimeter security models
• The alternatives offered by Zero Trust architectures and their benefits
• Understanding what you have, and mapping toward a Zero Trust future

We are the worldwide leader in data protection, providing everything an organization needs to protect and manage its data, identities and intellectual property – through encryption, advanced key management, tokenization, and authentication and access management. Whether it’s securing the cloud, digital payments, blockchain or the Internet of Things, security professionals around the globe rely on Thales to confidently accelerate their organization’s digital transformation. Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing is part of Thales Group.

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Speaker: Asaf Lerner, Director of IAM Solutions, AMER | Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Asaf Lerner brings with him over 20 years of swimming in the high IAM seas, serving in different positions in the industry, from R&D management to PKI and Authentication Product Management and various market-facing roles. Located in Austin, TX, Asaf is in charge of the IAM solutions market for the Americas at Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing (formerly Gemalto/SafeNet).

Under his responsibility is creating market awareness of Thales’s IAM solutions, enhancing market partnerships, and creating healthy channel workstreams. He likes long-distance running and thinks he’s good at Ping Pong.