Experience the difference. Meet your peers, talk with experts, build your network, and turn insights into action.
Alex Olivier
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Cerbos
Speaker Bio
Alex Olivier is the Co-founder & CPO at Cerbos, an open-source authorization platform, and co-chair of the OpenID AuthZEN working group, which standardizes fine-grained authorization. He specializes in authorization systems, with a recent focus on workload identity and AI security. With over a decade of experience building and scaling authorization systems at Microsoft, Qubit, Zencargo, and multiple startups, Alex has published extensively on securing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and AI agents. A frequent speaker at events on authorization, AI, security, and identity, including KubeCon, Google Cloud NEXT, Identiverse, and EIC, he combines standards development with practical implementation experience, focusing on the future of authorization for traditional applications, distributed workloads, and emerging AI systems.
Show More
Show Less
Session
Tuesday, December 09, 2025 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CST
AuthZEN: The “OpenID Connect” of Authorization
David Brossard,
Chief Technology Officer, Axiomatics
Homan Farahmand,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Alex Olivier,
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Cerbos
Omri Gazitt,
Co-founder/CEO, Aserto and co-chair, OpenID AuthZEN
A year ago, we introduced Gartner attendees to a new standard, OpenID AuthZEN that promised to establish a standard for fine-grained authorization. A year later and two interops later, we're happy to report that the draft is nearing final specification and that we have completed 3 new interops focusing on API gateways, the AuthZEN Search API, and IdP integrations. With AuthZEN, IAM teams can confidently externalize and standardize authorization across their application estate without being locked in to a proprietary API. Gone are the days of incomplete authorization and gaps in access control logic. With OpenID AuthZEN we are closer to enabling the Zero Trust Enterprise. This session will review the progress achieved in the past twelve months, highlight the milestones, and demo the latest integrations.
...
Show More
Show Less