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Erik Wahlstrom
VP Analyst, KI Leader
Erik Wahlstrom is VP Analyst and Key Initiative Leader of the Identity and Access Management team within Gartner for Technical Professionals. Mr. Wahlstrom's primary focus areas are access management, machine identity management, API access control, modern identity protocols, authentication and authorization and public-key infrastructure (PKI). Mr. Wahlstrom also covers IAM architecture and author research on definition of the identity fabric.
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
API access control (part of API security)
Access Management, Federation and Single Sign-On
Machine Identities, Public-Key Infrastructures (PKI), Secrets Management
Modern authentication and authorization protocols (SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SCIM and OPA)
The identity fabric and building identity into apps and services