Jefferson works as a Zero Trust Architect at Okta and has established himself as a trusted advisor among existing and new Okta customers throughout ANZ and APAC. Jefferson provides consultative solutions on how organisations can secure the different identities that exist within their ecosystem in a frictionless approach. Before Okta, he has worked with multiple technology vendor organisations thus allowing him to use his knowledge breadth on how companies can adopt to a Zero Trust Architecture model.
For many organizations, more and more users, data, and services are located outside the protection of the traditional network perimeter. At the same time, employees are using dozens of applications—including on-premises and software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps—to accomplish their work. Typically, organizations have deployed an array of point products to handle different security requirements for remote workers, such as secure web gateways, application firewalls, secure virtual private network (VPN) access, cloud access security brokers (CASBs), and more. This not only increases administrative costs and complexity, but also makes for inconsistent user experiences. If an organization has not implemented single sign-on (SSO), user experiences become even more complex, and the situation starts to impact remote worker productivity.
In this session, Jefferson will discuss the network security challenges facing organizations with distributed or remote workforces and how you can address them with a centralised Identity management.