Stephen McDermid

Stephen McDermid
Regional CSO, EMEA

Stephen has led and been responsible for several enterprise wide transformations ranging from National Government transformation projects to ISO27001 and PCI-DSS accreditation across multiple sites. He's taken his hands on knowledge and expertise and used them to help organizations manage security across a broad range of disciplines and ensure senior stakeholders understand the risks and more importantly the opportunities available to their business. Stephen has worked with some of the largest organizations across Military, Banking, Government and Enterprise sectors such as NATO, UN and the UK Home Office.

Stephen McDermid

Why Cyber-heroes need a Zero Trust CAEP!

In the modern digital landscape, where threats evolve and organizational perimeters extend into the cloud, maintaining a strong security posture requires more than static defense mechanisms. This is where the Continuous Access Evaluation Profile (CAEP) and the Shared Signals Framework (SSF) come into play. At the recent Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit in London , Apoorva Deshpande, Okta Engineering Lead, along with other OpenID Foundation SSF Working Group members, demonstrated...