Consumers see the world as all digital with no divide. As a result, whether those consumers are young, old, digitally savvy, or technophobes; organizations are going to have to find a way to ‘deliver better customer interactions’ than their competitors if they are to acquire and retain them.
Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) can be defined as “A customer-focused IAM discipline that facilitates leveraging identity data with business data to catalyze business growth”.
CIAM enables organizations to scale and ensure secure, seamless digital experiences for their users while collecting and managing identity data purposefully.
Following a recent report by EMA Consulting on Consumer Identity and Access Management (CIAM): Responsible Solutions for Creating Positive Consumer Experiences
CXOs, CMOs, CDO - Chief Digital Officers (primary) ◆ Senior Managers ◆ CIOs/CTOs
Steve Brasen is a Research Director leading EMA’s practices covering endpoint management, identity management, and access management. Steve’s career at EMA follows 20 years of “in-the-trenches” enterprise experience in IT management, operational support, and engineering for high-technology, telecommunications, and financial institutions, including: MCI Worldcom, Bell Communications Research, UNIX International, Salomon Smith Barney, and Agilent Technologies. He has a B.A. in English from Montclair State University.
Sagara is a Director - Solutions Architect at WSO2 and based in Auckland, NZ. He has over 15 years of experience in the software architecture and programming space specializing in integration, identity and cloud technologies. Sagara was previously involved in architecting and managing the WSO2 Identity Server, the WSO2 Application Server and the WSO2 Governance Registry.
Sagara presented at several international conferences, including European Identity & Cloud Conference, Consumer Identity World Europe, Consumer Identity World APAC, GDPR Summit - London, ApacheCon NA, WSO2 Summit Sydney, WSO2Con USA, EU & Asia events. Sagara is also a PMC member of Apache Axis and Apache Web Services projects such as Rampart, Neethi, and WSS4J. He has also served as the VP of the Apache Web Services project from 2012 to 2018.