Latest / Identity at the Center / #183 - Oktane 22 - Opening Day Recap
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- 0:09You're listening to the identity of the center podcast.
- 0:12This is a show that talks about identity and access management
- 0:15and making sure you know who has access to what let's get
- 0:18started. Welcome to the identity of the
- 0:24center podcast. I'm Jeff.
- 0:25And that's gem a gem. Hey Jeff.
- 0:27Sorry, I couldn't hear you over there.
- 0:29What do you say? And over this James Brown.
- 0:31Yeah, exactly. So for those who don't know, we
- 0:33are live at the octane 22 conference in San Francisco.
- 0:36We're also joined here by one of the superstars on the RSL of
- 0:39July done. A team.
- 0:40His name is Ben Dowd. Welcome Ben.
- 0:42Thank you. Pleasure to be here.
- 0:44Yeah so before we get you started, you know get started
- 0:46here. I think what I things will get a
- 0:48want to give a shout-out to Steven Strong and April Luhan.
- 0:52And really the entire octave team for hooking us up with.
- 0:55But I can say is our first sort of like official room where we
- 0:59actually have our logo on the door and we have like this
- 1:04temporary white-walled room in the middle of the show for.
- 1:10So there's a lot of background noise.
- 1:11Technically I think we're in the same area as all the gold
- 1:14sponsors. Yeah so so so yeah kind of makes
- 1:18this golden it's not as sweet. Sweet Jim I'm sorry but it's All
- 1:22right. I like this better actually will
- 1:24come up with a name for it. Yeah.
- 1:26So we're going to be an octane all week plan is to bring up a
- 1:30so it's pretty much every day for the next few days.
- 1:32We've got a lot of good things lined up, but if we want to give
- 1:35a shout-out to the octave teamed up, we want to give a shout-out
- 1:36to the RSM team. They're the ones that are
- 1:38funding our travel to be out here.
- 1:40So thank you very much, the RSM side.
- 1:43Why don't we get into sort of like recap a day one.
- 1:45So it is Tuesday night. As we record this, the sounds
- 1:47that you hear behind all of us, is the opening sort of get
- 1:52Heather, what do you call it? Like social bash, the welcome
- 1:56reception, welcome reception, thank you very much.
- 1:57I was looking for, there's a DJ playing lots of people here and
- 2:03yeah, good times. Yeah, I mean, it's really fun.
- 2:07A couple of shout outs that I'd like to give people.
- 2:10I met one was Paul petite and hopefully got it is the class
- 2:16name on it. Yeah, I'm sorry 100% sure, but
- 2:20Paul came up and introduced himself and He's a fan of the
- 2:23show listens as he walks his dog, which I thought was really
- 2:28cool and all the doctors and I'm already on among them.
- 2:31I'm on board with that. I'm a fan of Paul, Paul's a fan
- 2:34of the show, it's symbiotic. How did he recognize you here?
- 2:39He did. You recognize me probably by my
- 2:41crazy hair. Okay, God, I would say, all
- 2:44right, I didn't want to say anything, but yeah, the other
- 2:47person like to give a shout-out to is Tomas.
- 2:51Yes, it's him. Moss is writing haikus for
- 2:54whoever wants a haiku, but you have to give them a little bit
- 2:58of information and it's what's on your mind.
- 3:01And so what was on? My mind is killing the password.
- 3:04As you could imagine Island, you woke up and shows violence.
- 3:07Yes. I went right for the violence
- 3:09and he took that violence and turned it into a call for
- 3:13patriotism around killing the password.
- 3:16So let me read my Haiku is from up on high.
- 3:20The Herald's cry. Passwords are dead o, Let
- 3:25Freedom Ring beautiful. That's how I mean that you could
- 3:30put that into any historical sort of context or fantasy
- 3:37context. I can see that as very much
- 3:38being a Game of Thrones episode, it could be a Game of Thrones.
- 3:42I was thinking of they can take our lives, but they can never
- 3:45take our freedoms, but they can take our passwords.
- 3:48Take our passwords. That was the third, the third.
- 3:52Of that. That most people don't know.
- 3:53They don't teach you that in history books, the support where
- 3:55the video cuts off for most people.
- 3:58So let's talk about the octave conference bent you and I spent
- 4:01some time sort of beginning the day at the kind of the partner
- 4:04side of things. There were a couple things that
- 4:06they announced will get into that.
- 4:08And what s I just realized this is your first time on the show,
- 4:11it is. So we have to find out what your
- 4:13your identity background is. Oh no, it is identity.
- 4:16Something that you chose or did it Choose You?
- 4:19Ah, a prepared question Yeah, so identity about five or six years
- 4:26ago was something that I was told I would be assuming the
- 4:30role in as I rolled off a program and took a the spot of
- 4:35another person who had moved out.
- 4:36So I was kind of put in charge of the identity rains for the
- 4:40company with little to no experience before doing that.
- 4:44And I really discovered both a skill at it and it was it was
- 4:49actually something that I really enjoyed doing and so Really
- 4:52excited to be on a identity. Eccentric team now and really
- 4:58focusing on only identity for the most part.
- 5:01So they're happy to be here. So it shows you for sure.
- 5:04Then sort of you did make the conscious decision to say that
- 5:08I'm going to be an idea. Now I know you have yes but when
- 5:10I first got into it it was it was an assignment that I was
- 5:14given. Got it.
- 5:16All right, so let's talk I guess the the opening part for you and
- 5:19I was the partner stuff, you know probably I'll be honest, a
- 5:22little probably boring for most people who are listening and I
- 5:25met seven areas, but really kind of talking about right?
- 5:27How octal engages with Partners to really kind of help make sure
- 5:30the product of Clements go, well, and they're getting the
- 5:33maximum value of the product. There were a couple things that
- 5:36were of notes. Interested, a, I don't want to
- 5:38steal the Thunder want to give you all the honours.
- 5:39Oh, so, what was I was taking notes?
- 5:42Yeah, I'm sure you were. So I I think the the big one,
- 5:46most visually represented is the new brand.
- 5:50They've tightened up the word. OCTA, the font, put some, put
- 5:54some meaning behind it around. I believe it was stability and
- 5:58consistency, a little bit more trustworthy of a logo.
- 6:01It seemed to be the play, they were making and then the, the
- 6:04actual logo itself that they call the aura, the, the
- 6:08traditional OCTA blue 0 is now more of a, it reminds me in
- 6:14Jeff, you put a very well earlier of piano keys in a
- 6:18concentric Circle. And they what they do in their
- 6:22little animation, as they zoom in on, and actually comes out as
- 6:26a little video, reels that tell the story of someone or multiple
- 6:30people's identity. So it was a very nice Dynamic
- 6:33visual. The I thought it looked like
- 6:37piano keys. I'm no, I'm I'm one hundred and
- 6:39forty seven percent positive that that's not the intention
- 6:42the way they described it is facets.
- 6:45I guess, you know, sort of like I guess to kind of talk about
- 6:47the complexity of identity How to connect, you know, all come
- 6:51together. But either.
- 6:52Anyway, there is a beautiful people than me just like people.
- 6:56Yeah, like there's little heads on the end of them, right?
- 6:59Know you, I think from far away you could, you could think that
- 7:01way, I believe they wanted it to be like the old-fashioned slide
- 7:07inserts or something that are usually photos.
- 7:11But in this case, they were little video reels.
- 7:13But yeah. To the facets that show a person
- 7:16and well we saw April in the hallway.
- 7:18Yeah. After the announcement, Gave a
- 7:20good night. Yeah, she was talking about is
- 7:21like it for, you know, the the old heads out there like myself,
- 7:24right? Member you have a, you have
- 7:26like, the, the photo slides work, like, chunk chunk chunk
- 7:30kind of around the circle, right?
- 7:31That was sort of the thought that I had around it, as well as
- 7:35the in April and each of those things, it's kind of hard to
- 7:38describe on an audio podcast. You have to watch the video but
- 7:40essentially each kind of floats up into some sort of, You Know,
- 7:44video or picture, whatever it may be, I thought it was cool as
- 7:46a really slick. You had to be there animation.
- 7:48Yeah, I had to be there. So, that was kind of the partner
- 7:51stuff. There was also one other thing
- 7:53that they announced you want to talk about the demo platform.
- 7:56Yeah, so the, the new demo dr.com has been released and I
- 8:01think the coolest part about it is it is a it's a fully built
- 8:05out demo platform, very similar to what they had in Octa prize
- 8:08previous to this, but it is available to anyone and everyone
- 8:12you can, you can log in, you can make an account, you can save,
- 8:15you know, anything that you built in the demo platform but
- 8:18that, that big differentiator from what Used to be to what it
- 8:20is. Now, I think is, is the
- 8:22availability along with, you can build, cic, or customer
- 8:27identity, Cloud capabilities, formerly known as auth0.
- 8:32And, and I think that entire demo platform being available to
- 8:36anyone who wants to get in there and even just try it out or demo
- 8:39it for for customers or anything like that.
- 8:41I think is a really huge enabler and is very smart of them to do.
- 8:46Oh, yeah. For sure, I think anytime you
- 8:47can visualize how it works. And see it.
- 8:51Yeah, that's worth so much more than just kind of talking about
- 8:53it. So that was kind of cool
- 8:55anything and I had to ditch out for a couple hours to take some
- 8:57meetings but anything the afternoon it was interesting.
- 9:02Let's see, is he Scrolls through his nose is as I go through my
- 9:05notes, I think the afternoon was a lot more conversation panel
- 9:09based there was, there was a couple of business success
- 9:13stories. So it was much less
- 9:15announcement, heavy and much more.
- 9:18You know what are these? Individual people think about
- 9:21this specific use case. So yeah not as not quite as much
- 9:23announcements, I would say. What is the tagline for the
- 9:27conference to something like identity is personal?
- 9:30There's there's to it. Yeah, it's like your identity as
- 9:34yours or something. Your idea, your identity belongs
- 9:37to you. Yeah.
- 9:38And the other one from the, from the partner Summit is better
- 9:41together like peanut butter and jelly, or fish and chips.
- 9:45Yeah, I mean, the better better together, we hear a lot, you
- 9:49used a lot, the personal identity, peas reminded me of
- 9:55self-serve, self, Sovereign identity.
- 9:57The idea that you could have your identity, T.
- 10:02You own it? It's not something that's issued
- 10:05by an identity provider, baby, digital wallets.
- 10:10And so makes me wonder if that's part of the Future Vision is,
- 10:15you know, you've got, of course, Enterprise IDP, of course you've
- 10:19got commercial IDP, what about identity act?
- 10:26As a IDP another words creating these self Sovereign Knight And
- 10:31he's, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, you know, that's what
- 10:36made me think of, I think our ways out from there.
- 10:38I think the idea is that, you know, actors, the neutral
- 10:41identity partner. So if you're thinking about it
- 10:43strategically from an authentication standpoint, you
- 10:46know, the idea that OCTA is sort of like the glue that kind of
- 10:49holds everything together, connect to any app, connect to
- 10:52any service, They Don't Really Care versus maybe something is
- 10:55more of a platform play where, you know, there are other
- 10:58products that anything occasionally is like, okay,
- 10:59we're very good in what they do and and sort of like their
- 11:02ecosystem. Whereas, I think this is where
- 11:04the position is, but I'm not going to try and sell octaves
- 11:06product. They do it.
- 11:07They do it just find themselves, but that's sort of the intention
- 11:10is to think it'd be that sort of centralized.
- 11:12IDP essentially that connects to everything.
- 11:15I think there's been this idea for a long time about what will
- 11:19be the ultimate identity provider, maybe government
- 11:23Identity or entity and then you start to run into, well, not
- 11:28everyone falls under that government, entities, Said that
- 11:32excludes a lot of people that's not going to work.
- 11:36And then you think of somewhere like a big social identity
- 11:39provider, like Facebook and you know, that's where we were 10
- 11:45years ago, we thought that might be it.
- 11:47I think nobody thinks that these days that that's going to
- 11:51happen. Somebody else.
- 11:53Maybe who's one of the social identity Wars at this point is
- 11:56it? I feel like I use Google for
- 11:58everything. Just I would say by default,
- 12:01it's going. Google Microsoft.
- 12:03I I almost don't want to use Facebook right.
- 12:06Every time I see it, I just I have no good reason.
- 12:11I just I think I use my Google credentials like you're saying
- 12:14much more I think I treat it more seriously.
- 12:18Mmm, right. Yeah, Facebook is for well, he's
- 12:21a my perspective, it's for the Facebook login, but also all
- 12:24the, you know, the dumb apps that you can write your, the
- 12:27game, which Game of Thrones character are you armed?
- 12:29The, you know, what kind of potato would you be right?
- 12:33So now we've transitioned to the evening time and it sounds like
- 12:36it's going to love it. Quieter out there.
- 12:37DJ must to stop for a little bit, but it is the official kind
- 12:40of kick off for the real sort of octane conference that most
- 12:43people are probably interested in it kicked off.
- 12:46It's kind of a cool interview with Serena Williams.
- 12:51Any thoughts from how that went down?
- 12:54She did a good job. I thought she was very
- 12:57authentic. There were there were portions
- 12:59of the, the interview where I think she laughed at her own
- 13:01response or or, you know, gave it gave a very personal response
- 13:08to a lot of things. So it was, It was kind of cool
- 13:10to see that live and being in the audience.
- 13:13Yeah, yeah. I mean, it wasn't.
- 13:16Wasn't something that was staged and not wasn't like her
- 13:19repeating. Some presentation that she's
- 13:22done. 20 times is a an interview.
- 13:26She was speaking from the heart, I really like her.
- 13:29Hmm. Like I didn't know much about
- 13:32her other than what you saw in like ESPN news shows and things
- 13:37like that and I mean you know that you're never getting the
- 13:41real sense of the person. I also thought that kind of a
- 13:46during the interview was like, it's almost like there's the
- 13:50opportunity for her to be a caricature, you know, like hey,
- 13:55you're doing, you're so awesome. Like what's your next awesome
- 13:58thing you're going to do or, you know, you should fit some kind
- 14:04of preconception that exists for you.
- 14:09But I think anybody who watch that interview said, whoa, she's
- 14:13a little bit different than I expected her to be.
- 14:16At least that was the thing. I came away with and she was
- 14:19very thoughtful, you know, there's a whole dialogue around
- 14:23her venture capital and it was like, you know, yeah, she is
- 14:28like bigger goals but at the same time she's doing it because
- 14:31she is an entrepreneur and wants to make money.
- 14:34Yeah. And like that came through to me
- 14:36is like, you know what? That's really genuine like she's
- 14:39not trying to make it sound like she's, you know, the doing some
- 14:44kind of like You know social justice or religious movement or
- 14:49anything like that. It's like hey I'm in Venture
- 14:52Capital because you know now there was the whole angle of
- 14:56like what brought her into it which I think she did want to
- 15:00just have a desire to have some change on society.
- 15:06But she was very clear that like hey I want to I want to be
- 15:10profitable. Yeah and that's a kind of build
- 15:12on that. There was a point where the
- 15:13interviewer had asked her Does she feel that she's an athlete
- 15:18and Advocate or both? And I think she did a good job
- 15:22of focusing in on that Advocate Part.
- 15:25And she kind of detailed how she doesn't see herself as a as a
- 15:31defined Advocate or like that she has to do these things
- 15:34because it's a social justice thing.
- 15:37She very much answered and said, no, I just think this is the
- 15:41right way to behave and when I see something wrong I'm going to
- 15:44say that it's wrong. And Maybe do something to change
- 15:46it, but it was very much because her whole focus with the Venture
- 15:51company is about getting more women and more women of color
- 15:57into these. These fundings and these Venture
- 16:01capitalism situations and it's purely because that's what she
- 16:06wants to do. Not that she's she feels that
- 16:08she needs to be an advocate and I think that's where the genuine
- 16:12part comes in. I think that's the key word was
- 16:14genuine. It was a real interview.
- 16:15You, it was not anything staged, it was it covered.
- 16:18A lot of grounds for ya, for 45 minutes, going to talk about a
- 16:21whole bunch of different stuff, but I thought it was good.
- 16:23It was a good. It was a good opening sort of
- 16:27conversation ahead of like the identity talk, which is really
- 16:31kind of tomorrow. So kind of going through that
- 16:33and making sure that, you know, I think people kind of get off
- 16:37on a little more. Casual footing is probably nice.
- 16:40So so that was good Jim I don't know Ben if you saw this but Jim
- 16:45you and I kind of sat through a talk that Matt blasted glossop
- 16:50velocities church. I'm going to screw that up.
- 16:52He's gonna be on the show tomorrow, I think it is.
- 16:55We'll get a ripe banana tree by then but he's with jam and he
- 16:58talked about some of the new authentication options that are
- 17:01available for Mac OS, between OCTA and some other things that
- 17:04have been worked on to make that, you know, smoother, which
- 17:07I thought was pretty interesting.
- 17:08I'm a Mac person myself and it seemed like it's gotten so much
- 17:12better than, than the old days, but I thought was pretty
- 17:15interesting. And I'm sure we'll get into that
- 17:16with him tomorrow. Yeah, it was like his feet
- 17:18presentation because there's so much going on with
- 17:22authentication options within the Mac OS environment.
- 17:28Look, one thing that I would say listen to that episode because
- 17:34we've kind of come up with some questions and they're they're
- 17:38not like snowball questions and it's questions like alright well
- 17:43you know why would a CIA Want to run Mac notebooks our laptops
- 17:49and the environment know why not just run Windows you know if
- 17:54it's more secure so I think Matt's ready to take on the
- 17:58sides of questions. I did have a chance to chat with
- 18:01them and those are only questions, right?
- 18:03I think the whole Mac versus Windows debate has been around
- 18:06around for a while. I think famously IBM.
- 18:10Switched over to Max as like their primary Enterprise
- 18:14machine. And that crazy is crazy.
- 18:15It was crazy because it was like five or six years ago when it
- 18:18happened, maybe even longer at this point and, you know, their
- 18:21study was that. Yeah, it was cheaper to run with
- 18:24Max because they were more. They were less prone to errors
- 18:28of different sorts whether it's Hardware or just software things
- 18:32that were going on you and I have run into a lot of
- 18:34organizations where both ones that we work for and ones that
- 18:38we've worked, you know, as consultants for that do not
- 18:43allow Mac. In their environment.
- 18:46So I think it's a shame. It is I think so too.
- 18:49I mean, I'm a huge Mac fan. But anyway, Matt will help us
- 18:54articulate. How can be just as secure if it
- 18:58can be. Yeah, let's see.
- 19:01They've turned on the lights in here so I'm wondering if that is
- 19:03something our might be knocking on the doors.
- 19:05Yeah, exactly. So what are some other notes?
- 19:09I know Ben, you had a run-in maybe with the claw machine.
- 19:13The claw machine is not as easy as it appears to be.
- 19:15Bi. I don't think I saw anyone walk
- 19:17away from from the claw machine with a prize, and I had my eyes
- 19:21on a nice OCTA branded yeti in there and the claw is flimsy.
- 19:25In comparison to the claw was unkind.
- 19:28Yes, the claw judged me unworthy.
- 19:31So they had this thing that I saw was called octave for good
- 19:34and they've done this. Now add a few different
- 19:37conferences we've been at but basically it's a Plinko Style
- 19:39game where you take a disk and drop it in the top and it kind
- 19:43of bounces off different pegs and I was down into different
- 19:46dollar amounts and instead of a prize, it's essentially a
- 19:50donation that OCTA makes to some cause or charity.
- 19:54That's listed. I saw someone get the max price
- 19:56which was $100 donation and it's you know, there's only one slots
- 20:00in the middle and I have to be walking by at the right time so
- 20:05lucky I guess that worked. I, you know, we're here
- 20:07recording this podcast. I did not win the Powerball.
- 20:10I'm sad to tell you. So this podcast will continue.
- 20:13Do we have a limited number of tries?
- 20:15At the octave for good Plinko as I won for everyone.
- 20:18I don't know. I think yeah.
- 20:20I'm not sure how they're validating.
- 20:22I'll bet you haven't already done it.
- 20:23Yeah, I think that's probably money.
- 20:25That they're happy to give away. There's also a photo booth.
- 20:30There's a lot of cool stuff here.
- 20:31There's the Haiku station. Yeah I think and Ben looks like
- 20:38you guys seems I'm some I'm stepping away.
- 20:40Drinkware. Yeah.
- 20:42Well that's what send on that lighter note.
- 20:43So what is the best? 18:22 vendor swag so far.
- 20:47Oh yeah. Becky said immediately his eyes
- 20:50like when whoa, he's already got like five or six things over
- 20:53there. I see something that's cool.
- 20:54That wasn't in your Loop piled. I'm gonna try and go get.
- 20:58What's the best thing you've seen so far?
- 20:59Been well so my wife and I are big fans of camping and
- 21:04containers that we can use to hold water and so I got this
- 21:08foldable, it reminds me of an accordion.
- 21:10It's basically this black rubber bottle that will collapse down
- 21:14and has a cap and Everything on it and collapsible our bottles
- 21:19like a some sort of like rubbers comes from Arctic Wolf.
- 21:23Yeah. So congrats Artic wolf.
- 21:24That's a good. That's a good vendor swag item.
- 21:26That's right. Jim, do you see anything out
- 21:28there yet? I got a phone prop, you know.
- 21:32Basically hold your phone in place.
- 21:34Okay. From LexisNexis.
- 21:36All right, and a beer koozie from Piper.
- 21:41I haven't done anything yet. I think great like this.
- 21:44It's good stuff but not I'll wait for you guys to like, find
- 21:47the good stuff. So I'm going to, I'm going to go
- 21:48to article off a water bottle. I'll check out the phone holder.
- 21:51They don't have a lot of these. So yeah.
- 21:54Well, we'll have to get there sooner.
- 21:58So tomorrow is sort of like the official I guess.
- 22:00Kind of opening day of all the different identity talks.
- 22:03So we'll go ahead and wrap it up for this episode is kind of a
- 22:06quick thing to get out there for folks, to listen to as they're
- 22:09getting ready tomorrow morning. Perhaps, we'll have a whole
- 22:12bunch of episodes. Again, coming up the next few
- 22:13days. Again, shout out.
- 22:15To the octave team for helping us out, shoutout to our SM, for
- 22:18funding the travel here. And shout out to all you guys
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