Selections from the top news items this week in the world of identity and application security. Identity + the Cloud I followed the CEO of $6 billion Okta around and learned the secrets of a tech conference that landed President Obama as a speaker From Business Insider: Last week, the conference center at the Aria hotel in Las Vegas was abuzz with excitement. Okta, the $6 billion identity management company, had landed a very special guest speaker in the form of President Barack Obama. Okta has a classic Silicon Valley origin story. It was founded by two early employees of Salesforce: Former Salesforce engineering head and current Okta CEO Todd McKinnon, and Freddy Kerrest, who had been a sales exec at Salesforce, and is now COO of Okta. The Australian Business Review: Todd McKinnon says Okta getting around passwords From The Australian Business Review: Much has been made.