Mike Schwartz - Gluu Founder

In this episode, Aldo and Brad interview Mike Schwartz, the CEO and founder of Gluu, an open-source identity and access management platform. They discuss Mike's background in the identity space and his passion for open source. They also talk about the challenges and innovations in authentication and authorization, the concept of identity journeys, and the importance of reusability in building custom identity flows. Mike also shares insights on the future of authentication and the role of verifiable credentials. In this conversation, Mike Schwartz, CEO of Gluu, discusses the challenges and innovations in eKYC, verifiable credentials, and authorization. He highlights the potential of eKYC with government-issued credentials in digital wallets and the need for enterprises to accept and issue verifiable credentials. Schwartz also emphasizes the importance of continuous real-time tokens and policies in authorization and the need for new infrastructure to enable real-time policy evaluation. He explains the strategies of using JWTs, lazy loading, and aggressive data initialization in the PDPs. Schwartz also mentions the AuthZen working group and the importance of externalized policies in authorization.

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