Andrew Whelchel

Andrew Whelchel (CISSP-ISSAP, ISSEP, CAP, CCSP) started in information security and IAM in the beginning after graduation from the University of Memphis supporting identity and access management years ago managing Microsoft Identity for US Federal customers and later transitioned to network infrastructure security and later to consumer identity protection most recently in the roles at RSA Security and Okta. At Okta, focus is on both protecting employee/partner as well as citizen consumer identities for public sector customers in order to reduce cyber risk as well as accelerate capabilities for cloud transformation. Contributions include work as a contributor on the NIST 1800-3 ABAC (Attribute Based Access Control) standard and speaking events on identity access management and security.