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Erik Wahlstrom
VP Analyst
Erik Wahlstrom is VP Analyst at Gartner for Technical Professionals. Mr. Wahlstrom's primary focus areas are IAM for AI agents, Workload IAM, API access control, and modern identity protocols. Mr. Wahlstrom also covers IAM architecture and leads Gartner's efforts on IAM taxonomy, the Identity Fabric, machine IAM coverage, and now how to secure AI agents.
Previous experience
Before joining Gartner, Mr. Wahlstrom's job responsibilities included product strategy, product management, enterprise architecture and software development. He has deep technical knowledge about standards and wrote several RFC's and have a long software development experiences within identity and access management.
Professional background
Nexus Group, Director of Products, 6 years
PortWise, Development Manager, 4 years
Wahlstroms Tekniska, Founder and Consultant, 3 years
Areas of coverage
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Identity and Access Management for Technical Professionals
Education
Computer Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Mechanical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Top Issues That I Help Clients Address
IAM for AI Agents
Workload IAM (non-human identities, Public-Key Infrastructures (PKI), Secrets Management, workload identities, workload IdPs)
API access control (part of API security)
Modern authentication and authorization protocols (SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SCIM and OPA)
The identity fabric and building identity into apps and services