Jarrod Benson, Chief Information Security Officer at Koch Industries. I lead the cyber security
functions for all Koch businesses, develop security strategies, architectures,
support functions, and support services. Koch Industries made a decision years ago to modernize
our application footprint, move to the cloud. We've tied back to four key architectural tenants to
help us make our decisions and their cloud is the data center, any device is a work device,
internet is the network, and identity's the perimeter. Cloud is the data center. What that
means is businesses move infrastructure out of their traditional data centers or server rooms
and leverage the cloud. This allows for scale, disaster recovery, more features,
and better services. Any device is a work device. Our workforce should be able to work anywhere
at any time, moving to allow people, employees, contractors to leverage your services externally
from any device is a key tenant. The internet is the network. What this means is businesses move
away from running complex route switched networks and move to more of an internet cafe model
where users or employees are actually separate from your data center or your cloud and using zero-
trust technologies in order to access systems and services. Identity is the perimeter. What this means
is as companies move to the cloud there's one key tie back to who you are and what you access and
it's your identity so moving away from the brick and mortar firewall protects everything model and
moving to one that's identity centric allows businesses to really track and understand what
people are accessing. Passwordless authentication is really important for a couple reasons.
One it really eliminates user friction, so when you access your applications
you don't have to enter a password anymore. It allows you quick and seamless access. Two, passwords
are a huge security problem in the industry. 90 plus percent of attacks are caused because people
steal passwords and use those to do bad thing. So the bad guys out there will be unable to execute
phishing attacks to steal intellectual property, or social engineering users in order to get wire
transfers and other other nefarious activities so that's a good thing. That's why we want to
move to eliminate passwords. You know what really stood out to me on Beyond Identity was their
strong technical team and their built for purpose architecture. Born in the cloud, built in the cloud,
and set up in a way to really be frictionless for end users to get higher security and eliminate
passwords. They have great integrations with Okta and Ping Identity which are two major providers
of identity services for small, medium, and large businesses to leverage.
I see Beyond Identity changing the identity and security landscape by truly eliminating passwords
by enabling businesses large and small to adopt a security posture that's frictionless for users,
that allows for quick adoption, and a better security footprint.