Episode 124: Authz Signal Jam

In this new 60 minute format, Mike and Gabriel will improvise a conversation prompted by some latest industry news. We are also encouraging audience participation in the episode! Audience questions will trump the agenda!

• Your Questions!!! Post any questions for the identerati on the chat! Today we're taking all questions!

• Axiomatics acquired by Leonardo -- 10 reasons this acquisition makes sense

• MongoDB Adoption of Cedar Watch 30 min video of Jim Scharf. -- 10 reasons this makes sense

• 97% Price Drop in AVP -- 10 things this price drop may signal to the market

• Authlete Cedar JWT Idea -- 10 implications for embedding Cedar policies in JWTs

• Extra Credit: Permit.io McGateway! time allowing...

#Speakers

• Host: Mike Schwartz, Founder/CEO Gluu
• Guest: Gabriel Manor - Liechtman, Developer Community Mgr at Permit.io

#Takeaways

• The Axiomatics acquisition is historic because they were among the first pure play authz startups. Leonoardo announced Axiomatics adds a key component in their Zero Trust offering in their Global Cybersecurity Centre. This deal was the third cybersecurity acquisition in a few months for Leonardo.
• MongoDB adoption of Cedar "for database administration not data"--no document level security. In the demo, MongoDB shows raw input for Cedar Policies. Authoring Cedar schema and policies is still a challenge--even with Cedar's ergonomic syntax. But... Gabriel prefers Cedar syntax to OPA Prolog syntax!
• Amazon 97% price drop + CNCF announcement = Amazon signaling it really wants adoption of Cedar, asserts Mike. Another explanation: perhaps Cedar is so fast, Amazon just totally screwed up their margin calculation? Or another theory: security policy adoption by enterprise customers will make their cloud infrastructure more sticky? All of the above?
• Cedar in JWTs? Didn't have time to discuss it. But hopefully we'll get Taka Kawasaki on to present it at some later date.