John Martinez
DAM Evangelist
The Broken State of Least Privilege: Reimagining a New Approach
Traditional least privilege practices have proven inadequate. Enterprises are caught between over-provisioning roles or resort to the blunt instrument of full access removal – both lead to operational inefficiency and increased risk.
What Will Attendees Learn?
- Inefficiencies of all-or-nothing access policies in contemporary enterprise contexts.
- Strategies for implementing a nuanced access model that refines least privilege for practical, everyday use.
- Real-world examples showcasing the limitations of traditional PoLP and the benefits of a revised approach.
- An enriched perspective on achieving true least privilege.
The Panelists
John Martinez
DAM Evangelist
John Martinez has had a long 30+ year career in systems engineering and architecture, but has spent the last 13+ years working on the Cloud, and specifically, Cloud Security. He’s currently the DAM Evangelist at StrongDM, taking the message of Dynamic Access Management to the world. As a practitioner, he architected and created cloud automation, DevOps, and security and compliance solutions at Netflix and Adobe. He worked closely with customers at Evident.io, where he was telling the world about how cloud security should be done at conferences, meetups and customer sessions. Before coming to StrongDM, he lead an innovations and solutions team at Palo Alto Networks, working across many of the company’s security products.
