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Join us on Tuesday, April 15, 2025 for our monthly chapter meeting with a special guest speakers:
Modernizing Identity, Credentials and Access Management - The Heart of a Zero Trust Architecture by Ross Ford
Abstract
Covering a wide range of Identity topics. Beginning with “bad practices” and design failures that have been too common for too long. Next will discuss real solutions to these long standing problems.
Adversaries don’t stand still and this necessitates and more dynamic Zero Trust approach for our hybrid environments. Finally we see a vision of a fully realized ZT architecture.
Speaker
Mr. Ross Foard has enjoyed cutting edge engineering experiences including on nuclear-powered submarines, the largest manufacturing facilities, the first mobile social network, and the first application service provider.
For the past 20 years Mr. Foard has been engineering innovative commercial and public sector cybersecurity and identity and access management systems. Most recently Mr. Foard served at DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as a senior engineer in the Architecture and Engineering Center of Excellence. The last two years,, prior from retiring from federal service Mr. Foard was the co-chair of the Federal ICAM subcommittee (ICAMSC), was co-lead on the US Federal CIO Council’s Federal Mobility Group (FMG) Derived PIV Working Group (DPIVWG), served on the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance Government Deployment Working Group. He is a founding IDPro member and Certified IDPro.
Must register if you plan to attend.
