Aaron Parecki

Director of Identity Standards

Aaron Parecki is the Director of Identity Standards at Okta, with over 15 years of experience in the industry. He's active in multiple standards development organizations including IETF, OpenID Foundation, and W3C. Aaron is an editor of OAuth 2.1 along with several other OAuth specifications, and co-chairs the SCIM working group at IETF, and the IPSIE working group at the OpenID Foundation. He has taught the fundamentals of OAuth and online security to thousands of developers worldwide through his book OAuth 2.0 Simplified, as well as video courses and live online training sessions.

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Help reshape Identity security: Join the IPSIE working group

At Oktane this year, we announced that the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) has launched a working group devoted to creating the first unified enterprise Identity security standard. Called Interoperability Profiling for Secure Identity in the Enterprise (IPSIE), the group aims to tackle key challenges that underlie Identity security in today's enterprise…

Okta’s mission to standardize Identity Security

Identity is under attack. Over 80% of data breaches involve compromised Identity,* the main enterprise security entry point for workforce and consumer applications. Lack of standardization is a major reason for this. Without a unifying industry standard for Identity Security that provides full visibility into every part of the technology stack,…

OAuth: When Things Go Wrong

Picture this: you sign up for a new app, and it asks if any of your friends are using it. In order to find out, the app asks for your email address...and your password. While it seems ludicrous now, this was once considered a normal user flow. But many apps still need permissions from third-party programs. And if users can’t do this safely, they…

Aaron Parecki

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Help reshape Identity security: Join the IPSIE working group

Okta’s mission to standardize Identity Security

OAuth: When Things Go Wrong

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