In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud-native technologies, the importance of secure and efficient identity and access management cannot be overstated. As businesses and organizations adopt containerized applications and microservices architectures, ensuring proper access controls becomes paramount.

But how do you do that?

Here are a few industry events where you can learn more about authorization for today’s applications, and meet the Aserto team:

Aserto sponsors Identity Week America 2023 in Washington, D.C., October 3-4, 2023

We’re thrilled to share that we are sponsoring Identity Week America, a premier event focused on identity verification, access control, and authentication.

If you’re attending the conference we’d love to meet you. Schedule a time to meet with us, or stop by stand S70 in the start-up city to discuss your access control needs.

“Authorization: the next platform service” session at Devopsdays in Indianapolis, IN, October 5-6, 2023

Meet us at Devopsdays Indianapolis, a community conference that focuses on IT improvement. On October 5 Aserto principal engineer, Ronen Hilewicz, dives into the world of authorization at 12:45pm (ET). Join us to learn about benefits of providing a common authorization layer across microservices, and the open-source tools you can use to get started.

For more about this session, go here.

“Fine-grained authorization” session at API World in Santa Clara, CA, October 24-26, 2023; virtual on Nov 2, 2023

The world’s largest API and microservices event. Aserto CEO, Omri Gazitt, will dive into the world of fine-grained authorization: what it is, why you need it, and how to add it to your applications without all of the heavy lifting.

Join Omri for the in-person session on October 26 at 9am (PT), or virtually on November 2 at 9am (PT) to learn more. For more about the session, go here.

If you can’t make the session, feel free to book some time to meet at API World.

“Fixing broken access controls” session at Global AppSec in Washington, D.C., October 30-31, 2023

The OWASP application security conference. Join Aserto CEO, Omri Gazitt, on October 30th at 10:30am (ET) to learn how to combat the #1 threat on the OWASP top 10 list - Broken Access Controls.

In this session, Omri will cover the principles and patterns of modern access control systems, the two technical approaches that have emerged, and the strengths and weaknesses of each as foundational models for a robust access control system. He will also share a couple open-source projects you can use today to add fine-grained access controls to your applications.

For more about the session, go here.

“A secure software supply chain for OPA policies” session at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 in Chicago, IL, November 6-9, 2023

We are thrilled to announce that we are sponsoring KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America for a second time! Join us at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship event for cloud-native technology and open-source projects.

On November 6 at 5:30pm (CT), Aserto CEO, Omri Gazitt, will share how to secure the software supply chain for OPA policies using the CNCF sandbox project OPCR. If you use OPA policies, this is a must. If you can’t make the talk, be sure to stop by the OPCR kiosk in the Project Pavilion in the mornings to learn more about the project.

For more about this session go here.

If you are attending, we’d love to meet! Stop by booth M29 to chat about open-source, cloud-native authorization. Or, if you are a planner, book time with us in advance.

Conclusion

As organizations increasingly transition to cloud-native environments and adopt microservices architectures, traditional approaches to identity and access management prove insufficient. In this post, we have shared a few upcoming industry events where you can learn more about cloud-native authorization and relevant open-source projects.

If you are attending any of these events - we’d love to meet you. Drop us a line to book time in advance, join the sessions, or connect with us on our community Slack!