About


The author of this blog is Abhi Yadav, his professional background is available on his LinkedIn page here.


My love for cybersecurity began during idle and harmless teenage years, at a time when the Internet was starting to come into its own. What a delight it was, to use simple parlor tricks like keyloggers to show my friends that I could “guess” their passwords.

The turning point for me was the American Mars Rover mission in 1997, when I began to understand the power of technology to unite us all in a shared purpose. I vividly remember the scratchy tones of the 92kbps modem that would run through the night as I would down download pictures from Mars. It was then, I think, I fell in love with technology.

For the past decade and a half, I have been fortunate to work with innovators in this space. My first job after college was at an enterprising startup that developed a novel way to solve access control problems. Our success, I believe, can be attributed to not just the quality of product we shipped, but perhaps, if not more, to the close friendships we developed that allowed us to rely on each other and consistently perform. And so it was a matter of time before we were acquired, and I found myself at Sun Microsystems. Looking back that was one of the best things that happened; I have not met a single person who had not loved working at Sun, and it seemed that everybody there was brilliant. Fun place, fun times.

Since then I have been fortunate to work with and work for some of the sharpest minds in this field – clients that I was lucky to work for and learn from, brilliant architects that I collaborated with on developing solutions and standards, and product leaders that have shared their big vision for identity with me.

With this blog, I am attempting to share some of these insights, sprinkled with my personal opinions on the subject. I believe in the Feynman technique, which is to learn by teaching others.

I must also state that views in this blog do not represent views of my employers. And except for sponsored articles, I shall attempt to keep this vendor-neutral.

 

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