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Omri Gazitt
Co-founder/CEO, Aserto and co-chair
OpenID AuthZEN
Speaker Bio
Omri is the co-founder/CEO of Aserto, a modern authorization company. He is regarded as an identity pioneer, contributing to the SOAP stack and WS-Federation in the early 2000’s, which eventually gave rise to OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.
In 2023, Omri co-founded OpenID AuthZEN, which is standardizing the authorization space. Omri is a co-chair and co-editor of the AuthZEN Authorization API.
During his 13 years at Microsoft, he was co-founder / GM of Azure AppFabric, Azure Access Control Service, and Azure Active Directory. He also held GM roles responsible for SQL Server, Application Server, and was one of the co-founders of .NET.
A prolific OSS contributor, Omri was heavily involved in OpenStack and Cloud Foundry, where he served as a board member, and has contributed to a few CNCF projects. Aserto is an open core company, and maintains the Topaz and the CNCF Open Policy Containers open source projects.
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In 2023, Omri co-founded OpenID AuthZEN, which is standardizing the authorization space. Omri is a co-chair and co-editor of the AuthZEN Authorization API.
During his 13 years at Microsoft, he was co-founder / GM of Azure AppFabric, Azure Access Control Service, and Azure Active Directory. He also held GM roles responsible for SQL Server, Application Server, and was one of the co-founders of .NET.
A prolific OSS contributor, Omri was heavily involved in OpenStack and Cloud Foundry, where he served as a board member, and has contributed to a few CNCF projects. Aserto is an open core company, and maintains the Topaz and the CNCF Open Policy Containers open source projects.
Session
Tuesday, December 09, 2025 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM CST
Extend Your Identity Providers with OpenID AuthZEN, Achieve Fine-Grained Authorization, and Enable Zero Trust
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.
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