AuthZEN community to host interoperability session at the Gartner IAM Summit

Published February 3, 2025

 

AuthZEN Co-chairs David Brossard and Omri Gazitt presenting at Gartner IAM in Dallas, December 2024

As part of its return to the Gartner Identity and Access Management (IAM) Summit in London, March 24th-25th 2025, the OpenID Foundation is excited to share that it will also be hosting its latest  interoperability session for the OpenID AuthZEN community. This builds on the momentum that the OpenID Foundation has garnered at two previous Gartner IAM Summits for the Shared Signals Framework community.

The sessions will be led by Omri Gazitt, co-chair of the AuthZEN Working Group and co-founder/CEO of Aserto, who will also be co-presenting a talk on AuthZEN: the "OpenID Connect" of Authorization on Tuesday, 25th March at 11:15am until 11:45am (GMT). 

Omri notes “AuthZEN is gaining momentum as the long-awaited interoperability standard for unifying the fragmented fine-grained authorization space. This is a great opportunity for implementers to showcase their progress, and for the wider industry to see how interoperability is moving forward.” 

OIDF calls for participants to demonstrate their AuthZEN implementations at the global event in London this March

The OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group is inviting participation from implementers.

For this interoperability showcase, the AuthZEN WG is introducing a new interoperability scenario with API gateways as Policy Enforcement Points (PEPs), and is prioritizing their participation.

In addition, the WG has defined an interoperability scenario for Identity Providers that can act as PEPs as part of the authentication process, and can enrich access tokens utilizing the newly introduced AuthZEN Resource Search API.

Demonstration slots will be given to implementations based on their maturity, availability, and membership of the OpenID Foundation. 

Five free registration passes for the Gartner IAM Summit will be awarded to representatives of member organisations demonstrating significant interoperability success. 

To learn more about the event or to register your implementation for testing, please contact Omri Gazitt.

About the OpenID Foundation

The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) is a global open standards body committed to helping people assert their identity wherever they choose. Founded in 2007, we are a community of technical experts leading the creation of open identity standards that are secure, interoperable, and privacy preserving. The Foundation’s OpenID Connect standard is now used by billions of people across millions of applications. In the last five years, the Financial Grade API has become the standard of choice for Open Banking and Open Data implementations, allowing people to access and share data across entities. Today, the OpenID Foundation’s standards are the connective tissue to enable people to assert their identity and access their data at scale, the scale of the internet, enabling “networks of networks” to interoperate globally. Individuals, companies, governments and non-profits are encouraged to join or participate. Find out more at openid.net.

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