Ed Sawma

Senior Director of Product Marketing

Ed Sawma is Senior Director of Product Marketing for Okta Customer Identity, Okta’s product line for B2B and B2C apps and consumer IAM (CIAM). Ed previously led product marketing for Okta Workforce Identity. After starting his career in IT consulting, with a focus on system integration and security, Ed led product marketing globally for mobile consumer applications at Motorola. Prior to Okta, he worked on Microsoft’s IPTV platform. Ed has a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, both from Northwestern University.

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How Cloud Migration Supports Education

It’s no secret that cloud computing is disrupting the education industry, making learning much more flexible and accessible than ever before. Currently, 39% of higher education applications operate on the cloud, and that’s expected to grow to 62% by 2021. From Office 365 and Google Drive to learning management systems like Canvas and Blackboard,…

GDPR, Privacy and Consent Management: How Okta Can Support Your CIAM Requirements

Beginning on May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became officially enforceable. This new regulation is now top of mind for any organization storing and processing EU citizen data. Consumer-facing apps and sites are of particular sensitivity. The challenge is that while the GDPR provides guidelines for compliance, it is not…

An Experience Developers Love, Enterprises Trust: Okta for Customer Identity

When Stormpath and Okta joined forces earlier this year, it was because we saw an opportunity to do something great. We had similar technology stacks, cultures and visions for the potential of identity APIs. Stormpath brought the developer DNA to the equation, and Okta brought the best in enterprise identity. What we set out to create together was…

Okta’s Vision for Access Management

The future of Identity and Access Management is changing. Where Access Management (AM) was once one of many components of the legacy IT stack, it is shifting to the central role in how companies will modernize and manage IT – using identity to drive transformational change across all aspects of their business. AM has already started to evolve in…

Decoding Customer IAM (CIAM) vs. IAM

The world of Identity and Access Management (IAM) is rarely controversial. But today, there is a battle brewing in how we - as an industry - talk about customer-facing use cases for IAM. Many are starting to refer to this as Customer IAM or Consumer IAM, both abbreviated as CIAM. CIAM does have some unique requirements. But that does not mean that…

How to Communicate the Value of Identity Management Solutions to Key Stakeholders

Today, companies face a challenging world. Big breaches are constantly in the news, but many executives are underinformed about the realities of cybersecurity. Meanwhile, IT admins are overwhelmed with tasks such as conducting password resets. There are solutions for this situation—identity software among them—but effectively explaining their…

5 Thoughts on How Identity Management Can Accelerate Digital Transformation

Enterprises are increasingly turning to digital transformation to make employees more productive and deliver new experiences to customers, however applying legacy technology for these use cases often takes too long. According to our most recent research with IDG, this balancing act can be difficult to scale. In the study, we asked IT leaders to…

Webinar: Join us to learn how organizations can securely collaborate in a global economy

Gone are the days when IT was a back office job and software was an internal productivity tool and business was solely conducted between a business and its customers. Today, software is the core component of company strategy, enabling organizations to work in modern business in which customers, employees, partners and contractors all collaborate…

Okta Embraces OpenID Connect

As new cloud apps and services proliferate the enterprise, interoperability becomes an increasingly critical imperative for workforces to collaborate and increase productivity. At Okta, we’re committed to supporting modern standards that help our customers easily and securely connect people with technology. That’s why we’re excited to share that…

The Foundation for Cloud-first, Mobile-first IT

As the adoption of cloud and mobile increase, with a power boost from the Okta Application Network, Okta is enabling organizations of all sizes to start saying “yes” to its employees a lot more. At Okta, we understand that by enabling IT decision makers to say “yes” means that the number of cloud applications an organization uses increases rapidly…